BIO

Paper Lions (formally known as Chucky Danger) is composed of ten time East Coast Music award nominated artists John MacPhee, Rob MacPhee, Colin Buchanan, and David Cyrus MacDonald. They have performed for tens of thousands of people, earning critical acclaim and regional and national awards including Touring Artist of the Year from the Canadian Arts Presenters Organization (2007) and Pop Recording of the Year from the East Coast Music Awards (2005). Paper Lions self-titled 2007 album was produced by Danny Blume of Grammy award winning team Good and Evil. With tracks incorporating classic rock, pop, folk, blues, the eleven song record spans eras of influence, evoking the work of the band’s musical mentors; The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Police, Queen, Michael Jackson, The Shins, Sufjan Stevens. The album was launched in August 2007 and received 4 ECMA nominations.

Paper Lions performed over 250 shows in 2007 alone. Their live show has been compared to ``...the Police on speed.`` A turn at The Warped Tour in the summer of 2007 spawned this review from Vancouver’s premiere arts magazine, the Georgia Strait; "... the lucky few that wandered over to the unenviable Hot Topic stage, at the other end of the T-Bird field, were treated to a performance by Prince Edward Island's Chucky Danger (now Paper Lions) a dapper suit-sporting quartet playing its first Warped gig. Sounding like Franz Ferdinand and moving like the Talking Heads, this group put on a real show, complete with fantastic tunes and stage presence, and enough charisma to draw more than 300 fans by the end of its too-short time on stage... you couldn't help but feel that their kind of magic was the true reason to go to Warped - the off chance that
you might discover something great."

2008 has already been a huge year of growth for the band, who will continue touring major markets this spring, including NXNE in Toronto and a cross Canada tour in the fall. They have signed with the Agency Group, and have begun working a new single off the album. In addition, they have begun recording new material. As Chart Attack Magazine stated in March 2008 after their killer performance at Canadian Music Week, “Paper Lions are cracking musicians marrying catchy, shout along pop with madcap showmanship…; it’s only a matter of time before the rest of the country starts to notice.”

PRESS

"... the lucky few that wandered over to the unenviable Hot Topic stage, at the other end of the T-Bird field, were treated to a performance by Prince Edward Island's Chucky Danger (now Paper Lions) a dapper suit-sporting quartet playing its first Warped gig. Sounding like Franz Ferdinand and moving like the Talking Heads, this group put on a real show, complete with fantastic tunes and stage presence, and enough charisma to draw more than 300 fans by the end of its too-short time on stage... you couldn't help but feel that their kind of magic was the true reason to go to Warped - the off chance that you might discover something great."
- The Georgia Strait