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unusual facts about Lightning Bolt



Conestoga High School

Brian Chippendale, drummer and vocalist in influential noise rock bands Lightning Bolt, and Mindflayer, as well as an underground comic book artist.

Copycat Building

Bands that have played the warehouse include: Grimes, Fat Day, Lightning Bolt (Rhode Island), Black Forest/Black Sea (Rhode Island), Japanther (Brooklyn, NY), Wolf Eyes (Ann Arbor), Gravenhurst (England), Robotnicka (France), The Death Set, Matt + Kim, Nautical Almanac, Long Live Death, The USAISAMONSTER, Need New Body, Landed, Rapdragons, Dan Deacon, Dead Mellotron, Yukon, Muscle Brain.

Gavin Russom

Expressing a profound interest in music from an early age, Russom spent his teenage years exploring drone and feedback using tape loops and mixers and playing in psychedelic noise bands with Michael Kelley (Kelley Polar) and with Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt, Mindflayer).

Steve Gleason

In 2013 Gleason was given the opportunity to interview American rock band Pearl Jam regarding their tenth studio album, Lightning Bolt.

Trunk Space

Some notable acts that have come through include; Matt and Kim, Nobunny, Japanther, Mark Sultan (of The King Khan and BBQ Show fame), Julian Koster, Kimya Dawson, Quintron and Lightning Bolt.


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Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

The new badge was an oval in shape, had a wreath of 10 maple leaves, which represented Canada's ten provinces, and on a blue field, which represented the Air Force, were a lightning bolt, superimposed on two crossed cannons, superimposed on a Wankel-type piston (the symbol the Society of Automotive Engineers) and surmounted by St. Edward's Crown.

Icy Demons

Other similar acts include Aksak Maboul, Pit er Pat, Pop-off Tuesday, Lightning Bolt, and Cheer Accident.