Portico became a band in summer 2004. We recorded our first album at the Hive and released it in late 2005 on Hinge Records and distributed by Scratch. We’ve played shows at most of Vancouver’s live venues and toured extensively across Canada. In fall and winter 2006/2007 we recorded our upcoming second album at Mushroom Studios. We are Greg Murray (drums), Trent Hopton (guitars and keyboards), Mimi Mahovlich (bass), and Lyn Heinemann (guitar and voice).
Here are some random and very interesting facts about Portico:
· Portico’s conception originated in Victoria, in a genetics laboratory where Greg taught Lyn to do PCR (“polymerase chain reaction”, a molecular biology technique for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment of DNA, via enzymatic replication, without using a living organism)
· the band played its first show in July 2004, and recorded its first full-length album Shape To Form in November-December 2004 with Jesse Gander at The Hive
· Shape To Form was released in November 2005 and chosen as one of 2005’s best records by Vancouver’s entertainment weekly, The Georgia Straight
· Portico has a rehearsal space in Canada’s poorest neighborhood, Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, where people frequently smoke crack outside the front door and throw televisions out of third storey windows
· the band’s second album, Progeny Blues, was recorded in November 2006 at Vancouver’s Mushroom Studios with Shawn Penner and Aaron Nordean (Hot Hot Heat, Matthew Good) and mastered by Alan Douches (Sufjan Stevens, Mastadon, Ben Folds Five) of WestWestSide Music in New York City
· their tour van is affectionately named Step-Dad and, unlike many before him, has proven to be dependable, most recently from Vancouver to Montreal and back in the summer of 2007
· Progeny Blues released in September 2007, so far earning Portico a place “among the best Canadian bands working today” by Calgary’s entertainment weekly, FFWD, and real-life verbal approval from our nation’s favourite full-frontal radio host, the CBC’s Sook-Yin Lee
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