Era Banner, October 8, 1998
Serial Joe can't be called a bar band. That's because it's members are too young to play in bars.
But that didn't stop the grade 9 students from winning an award - best independent music video - at Much Music's annual video awards last week.
And it won't keep them from sharing the stage of Copps Coliseum in Hamilton later this month with Ashley MacIsaac.
"They're the youngest ever to win a Much Music video award," said Debbie dennis, mother of band member Ryan Dennis, "They are also nominated for a YTV award."
The band, made up of Dennis, Jon Davidson, Ryan Stever and Dan Stadnicki, was formed last year, when the foursome were 12-year-old students at Armitage Public School in Newmarket. Dennis is now attending the arts program at Unionville High School, while Davidson, Stever and Stadnicki are at Newmarket High School.
The award was for thier song Skid Row. "It's a song about needing a place to skateboard," said Debbie Dennis. "They received a grant from Video Fact, a Much Music foundation, to do the video. It was recorded at Blackwater Productions."
The rock/rap band, she said, has already recorded a second video called Obsession.
And Serial Joe is a likely participant at the International Childeren's Festival in Vancouver next Spring.
