They are definitely a Canadian phenom... but with lots of history behind them. They were a bar band at Queen's university back when I was just finishing up there (Kingston Ontario, also the town of origin for Bryan Adams, Bedouin Soundclash, and just half an hour down the highway from Avril Lavign's hometown of Napanee).
One of my fav two liners (besides the previously commented lines that have been in my sig for years now) is:
Looking for a place to happen
making stops along the way
This is from the song
Looking for a Place to Happen, on the album
Fully Completely. It's about the famous explorer Jacques Cartier who 1) accompanied Verrazzano in his voyage of discovery of the North American cost in 1524, and then 2) went on his own voyage to discover and claim the St Lawrence area for France in 1534. He's the one that adopted the Iroquois word for larger settlements to describe the area as Canada or the Canadas. (hey who invited the history professor??)
