#PROFESSOR JULIUS SUMNER MILLER FULL#
#PROFESSOR JULIUS SUMNER MILLER TV#

#PROFESSOR JULIUS SUMNER MILLER FULL#

We wrote and released our full length “Try it Out”, made 5 music videos, found a new bass player, played live a few times… and we just finished in the studio on another new record. JSM took the Covid stop down and really ran with it. How’s the Covid-19 Pandemic of the past 2 years affected JSM? Has it been a help or a hindrance in terms of motivation and energy? Have you found that having more “free” time has helped you musically? Or has it been life as usual? For ‘Leave The Key’ in particular, I had a law suit that I was named in finally get settled after 8 years… and this was pretty much my swan song to a shitty situation. I find it a healthy way to get things off my chest, without causing any real-life issues. I’m not really an angry fellow, but I do seem to always write a couple of “pissed off” songs on each album. What’s the source of your rage, and do you feel putting it into your music is cathartic? Your song, ‘Leave The Key’, was released last month, an incendiary punk piece that is as ferocious as Professor Sumner Miller was grumpy. That definitely wouldn’t have happened if we had some standard punk handle like “Putrid Oi-Hawks”. That’s also how we realized he was bigger than Jesus in Australia… once our first album “Why is It So?” was released. We kept getting tagged, mentioned and played over there. Years later, it’s really paid off, because a lot of people, who don’t live in a punk rock world, check out our band because of the name and end up digging it. A couple of us were just hanging out at our old studio watching YouTube clips and laughing our asses off at his “eccentricity” and thought it would be a cool/funny/unique band name. There’s no real good story as to why we decided to name the band after him. The show was on in syndication forever here, so anyone who’s seen HHoF knows exactly who he is. He was basically the Mad Professor…and would do a physics demo segment on every episode. In Canada, we only know the good Professor from an amazing kid’s show from the early 70’s called “Hilarious House of Frightenstein”. How on earth then does a band from Calgary, Canada, know about the man? What is the story behind you naming the band after this legend? Why is it so?

#PROFESSOR JULIUS SUMNER MILLER TV#

Hi there, thank you for agreeing to talk to us!įirst off, I grew up in Australia in the 70s and 80s, and Professor Julius Sumner Miller was an absolute fixture on tv in that country back then, with his gruffly delivered shows about the wonders of science winning us all over. We reviewed their single, ‘Leave The Key’, from their fourth album, ‘Try It Out’, and now we introduce you to Darren Ollinger, frontman of Julius Sumner Miller – or as we like to call them, JSM. Back in February we were amazed to discover that there was a band from Canada who had named themselves after Professor Julius Sumner Miller, a science educator who made his name on tv in the 60s and 70s, primarily in Australia but also in North America.

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