“Welcome to this week’s blog live from The Rocket Club. Hit it,” proclaims Sloan’s Chris Murphy. And so begins the next installment of the “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World” vlog.
This week’s focus is the ‘battle of the bands’ contest involving Pilgrim’s Sex Bob-Omb and rivals Crash And The Boys as the blog finds itself on location for our first look at the band in action. The band line up is, of course, Michael Cera’s Scott Pilgrim, Marc Webber’s Stephen Still and Alison Pill’s Kim Pine.
We then meet rival band Clash And The Boys whose music is described as “epic” with “alot of punch” (it’s really just 3-4 second noise blasts) by lead singer Luke ‘Crash’ Wilson (Erik Kundsen, who will appear later this year in “Youth In Revolt”) who introduces us to his bass player Joel MacMillan and eight year old drummer Trisha ‘Trasha’ Ha (Abigail Chu).
Finally, Wright also confirms the involvement of Sloan’s Murphy who is officially on board as a music coach and a “general Mr. rock vibes.” We figured as much and pretty much presumed so after Murphy was spotted jamming with Cera and Johnny Simmons on Wright’s photo blog.
The venue is supposed to be the old Rocket Club in Toronto, but it might be standing in for the more famous and still existing Lee’s Palace, as recent photos from director Edgar Wright’s blog, show a Lee’s Palace neon sign in a similar-looking location, but it’s entirely possible they shot in both locations. Wright has also posted a wall of LPs on his blog which might be soundtrack hints? Though the musical inclusion of Canadian bands like Sloan and The New Pornographers feels like a given (Wright talks about the many references to Sloan in the original books), other bands on this wall include Calexio, Four Tet and Sonic Youth. But we probably shouldn’t read into it too much, as it might just be appropriate set decoration.
Posters for ‘Scott Pilgrim’ say the film is aiming for a summer 2010 release.