The Double Feature Creatures were formed by Christine in the late summer of 1994 and the band played their last show in the late of 1996. During that time, she released two 7 inch singles for the band (one on her own label), plus got them featured on 2 CD compilations. In 2005, The Double Feature Creatures were snatched from Christine's Music Vault when she released a full length, 20-track CD collection of studio curios and raw recordings and 12 page colour insert, on Teen Sound Records in Rome, Italy!
Feel the Gnostic beat as Gaven crash, boom, thumps the pagan skins! Join in song as Christine and Rosemary sing like buzzing butterbees on bashful branches. Feel the fuzz from Julia's feisty leads! Jig to the jangle of Christine's guitar bo-dangle! Let loose to the lovely Lesia laying the bass, yeah! Ride the Rosy posie crazy organ showzee. Swirly sing sang sung to silky charmouse sassafrass with secret saffron sailors swinging and swaying to the band playing! ....Say Suzette, my solitudes have stirred up some surly sensations! Do you see the saucer sailing soundly? Yes right in sight of the flower full of fuzz petal power...Swank!
REVIEWS:
File under Incredibly Weird Garage Music. Up in the mid 90's The Double Feature Creatures, a deranged and totally obscure/underrated combo hailing From Hamilton, Canada shocked local audiences with their unique blend of distorted fuzzy guitars,(deliciously outta tune) vocals and basic riffs with a taste of garage punk combos of the 60's. Add enough crazy psychness, stomping drums and screams and you nearly get an idea what we're talking about. BEWARE this is sick, in a positive way, ehehehe. Forget the Pandoras and the Brood clean retro garage thang, this is a wild buncha teen gals with one outta site guy thrown in going crazy all the way, and we dare you to drink their homemade cup of Double Feature Creature Tea!
- Massimo del Pozzo - Misty Lane Records, Rome Italy
In the mid 90's with just a 7 inch (getting rare now!), and lotsa unreleased stuff under their belts, The Double Feature Creatures hailing from Toronto, Canada, put out an insane disc full of pretty weird garage-punk and psychedelia, chaotic in some point...fueled with fuzzzy-distorted guitars, stomping drums and screams!! Some absolute psych-multicolored-pop insane tracks such as "T.V. Isis Odyssey", "Superstars", "Feline Fandango", "Jeloh", "Slowing Up and Speeding Down", "In The Basement", "Sourdough", "Right On Hot Pants", "Subconscious Superhero" is the ticket... Powered by a craziness rhythm section. A bunch of gals and Gaven Dianda on drums, and file under incredibly-weird-garage-dimentia-music! The ticket for your next trip to LSD-Land is here!
- Spiros Pelekis - Rumble Skunk Magazine, Greece, Issue 2 2007
The thing that sets The Double Feature Creatures apart from your average '60's inspired garage band is the full sound. Each of the five members makes an important contribution from every little organ moan to each guitar note. The go-man-go drumming (from the group's only male) is solidly wild, and the thumping bass is essential to the eerie sound. In the Basement is a haunting tale, complete with screams and monster noises. Great song. SLowing Up and Speeding Down, is a chaotic ride, hitting both ends of the speed spectrum along the way. You know the movie they were stranded at (creepily depicted on the great cover art) had to have been a horror flick.
- Scott Ingram - Exclaim! Magazine, November, 1996
Like all those born out of due time, The Double Feature Creatures just did not fit into the mid-90's southern Ontario rock scene. In a world gone flannel mad...the DFC's must have looked like aliens. With hats constructed from lamp shades, silver face paint, and a papier-mache Saturn circling around at least one of the members heads, it certainly would've been a reasonable assumption for the casual observer. Granted, the group's sound was based on the most primal and primordial garage-rock impulses, but it aspired to celestial things. They were troglodytes in training for NASA, cave girls on a Sputnik joy ride, or better yet - Betty & Wilma jamming with Judy Jetson.
- Spin Turlock, Man of the World (aka Bruce Mowatt, The Mole)
Great Canadian psychaedelic garage came from the freak wizards known as The Double Feature Creatures. On stage they were a riot of colour and musical free-fall. They were Girl Power a la deep woods mystics and downtown grooviness. I had the supreme pleasure of designing a 7 inch cover for this Hammer gem!
- Fiona Smyth - www.fionasmyth.com
Bursting the bubble of pop music, The Double Feature Creatures mixed slinky with satire, lounge with loonity, shrieks with shindig and mellow with drama!
- Dan Zen - www.danzen.com
The Double Feature Creatures are the kind of girls that would never ask for advice from a man with egg on his face!
- Mickey DeSadist - The Forgotten Rebels