Walk Off The Earth — PICS

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November 7, 2019 11:21AM EST

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Walk Off The Earth — Pics

Walk Off The Earth — Pics — There is no band quite like Walk Off The Earth. Formed in Ontario, Canada, in 2006, the group — Gianni “Luminati” Nicassio, Ryan Marshall, Joel Cassady, Sarah Blackwood – is known for their inventive indie pop, their energetic live shows, and their ingenious renditions of pop/rock classics. They blew up in 2012 after a ive cover of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” on YouTube gathered over 175 million views in a mere four months. However, their original music is just as infectious – and just as critically acclaimed. They have won numerous Canadrian Radio Music Awards, and have racked up a handful of Juno Award nominations. In 2016, they won the Juno for Group of the Year.

Sadly, the band suffered a tragedy in 2018 when Mike “Beard Guy” Taylor passed away suddenly in his sleep from natural causes. After celebrating his legacy with a massive memorial concert in Burlington, Ont., Canada, the band released Here We Go! in 2019. On this album, their first since 2015, the band included “Mike’s Song,” an ode to their beloved friend.

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Walk Off The Earth Get Lit In Concert

Walk Off The Earth Get Lit In Concert — ‘We’ve always have just been such advocates for a really mind-blowing live show,” Sarah Blackwood tells HollywoodLife. “Because we’ve seen tons of bands, who you can go there and listen to the record and not really be excited. So it’s been our goal over the last 10 years to create stuff that people want to watch while they’re listening to it.”

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Walk Off The Earth In Their Natural Habitat

Walk Off The Earth In Their Natural Habitat — “I don’t think consciously, when we’re working on music, we’re like trying to be any genre,” Gianni Luminati tells HollywoodLife. “And it sounds cliche to say, but it’s pretty true.”

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Walk Off The Earth Pose Against Such A Breathtaking Sight

Walk Off The Earth Pose Against Such A Breathtaking Sight — “And at the end of the day, we’ve gone through all this stuff over the last year, and we’re all about positivity and ass-kickery,” Gianni Luminati said to HollywoodLife. “And we want to motivate ourselves, motivate our fans to take those experiences and use it to get jacked and just go forward. Do your thing.”

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Walk Off The Earth’s Album, ‘Here We Go!’

Walk Off The Earth’s Album, ‘Here We Go!’ — “Our shows are all about crazy movements and explosions and confetti and just people smiling and having a good time and singing along,” Sarah Blackwood told HollywoodLife. “And a lot of our songs have that element. Even Here we Go, we’re on the bus, we’re all singing, ‘Here we go! Here we go.’ Everybody is jumping up and down, and we’re like, this is what the audience will be doing.

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