Pandora Topp

Chris ‘Pepper’ Peplinski began playing music at a very young age. His first choice of instrument was the drums after his grandfather had given him a pair of drumsticks left over from his days in the Second World War. Chris tried guitar when he reached high school, but soon decided to take up the bass. His first band was franco-ontarien group Pleins Feux, who took musical cues from rockers Brasse-Camarade, as well as folkies like Robert Paquette. He then joined another French band called Les Chaizes Muzikales led by Stef Paquette. With this group, Chris travelled the province playing for thousands of receptive fans and experienced the thrill of doing both live and pre-recorded TV and radio. In the mid -90’s, Chris joined a local rock band by the name of Melanie’s Loveseat. They went on to enjoy a regional radio hit “Something’s Missing” which was produced by Richard Chycki who would go on to produce and engineer the likes of Aerosmith, Mick Jagger and Rush. The group was eventually picked up by Coalition Entertainment (Our Lady Peace, Finger Eleven) for a management deal. The group was fortunate enough to be able to support The Guess Who, on one date of their Runnin’ Back Through Canada tour in 2000. After the dissolution of this group, Chris became somewhat of a session bassist – playing in as many as five different local groups at one time, as well as doing recording sessions at many of the city’s top studios. Chris has also auditioned for many larger scale acts including former Ani DiFranco drummer Andy Stochansky, and has played bass for some international High Holy Days shows. Chris resides in Sudbury with his basses and record collection.

Sean Perras spent the last fifteen years doing what he's always wanted to -playing every cool gig there is to play with the best musicians around. The next best thing to playing is mixing and recording audio so under the business name Ctrl-Z he keeps very busy with a project studio, music for theatre and doing live sound.

Pat Rhéal Therrien spent many years toiling in the bars of Sudbury in various Country and Rock bands. Always playing with his brother Vince as bassist and accompanying vocalist. They found their soul mate in a drummer from Iroquois Falls and recorded their first CD of original compositions. Elephant Band’s “Autobus” was released in 1998 and received much praise and sold well. They’ve since released “The London E.P.” (2000), “Lessons in Songwriting” (2002) and “The Vince E.P.” (2004). with the latter winning a Northern Ontario Music Award for best songwriter for “You Say you’re Lonely (But I’m Lonely Too)” Elephant Band still plays and records but alas, we all live in different cities, making gigging and recording more sporadic.

John Newlands