“…once listeners become accustomed to [Q’s] complex compositions, they won’t want to go back to verse-chorus-verse monotony.” - Andrew Miller, Pitch Weekly

Q is:
Brendon Glad - vocals, bass
Mark Cuthbertson – guitar, vocals
Doug Stormont - drums

Music Description Q's unique brand of “math rock” is rhythmically complex with heavily textured guitar chords and odd time signatures. Songs written since the release of “Heads” are more melodic and dynamic. Influences include Giantschair, Helmet, Hum, Molly McGuire, Shiner, and Traindodge. MP3 clips Anonymous, Ice 9, Addie Bundren Blues

History
While teaching Language Arts at South Middle School in Liberal, KS during the 1995-1996 school year, Brendon Glad and Mark Cuthbertson became friends and realized a common love of music. In June of 1997, Brendon moved to Lawrence and Mark moved to Emporia to start forming Q and writing music.

In the summer of 1998, drummer Mark Axmann responded to an ad in the Pitch Weekly and recommended his former Mommymaker bandmate, Cody Brown to play bass. From October of 1998 to March of 2000, Q played over 20 shows in Kansas City, Lawrence, and Warrensburg with a wide variety of bands, including Aerialuxe, Avondale, Canvas, The Electrophonic Foundation, Gunfighter, Hollis, Honeyspoon, Kindir (the band formerly known as Starsky), Mustard Couch, Proudentall, Saturn 138, Shudderbug, Space Is Kind, Takedown, Thulium, Two Player Option, The Velvet Freeze, and Unified One.

Songs from “Heads” also received radio airplay on the old Lazer (KLZR 105.9 FM), V-100 (KDVV 100.3), null set net radio, and other stations in Kansas. Unfortunately, “Anonymous” was just starting to receive regular airplay on KLZR immediately before the dreaded format change.

Early in 2000, Q was nominated for a Klammie in the Best New Band category with Aerialuxe, the Hillary Step, Resident Clark, and the award winners, the Cross Country Felons. Unfortunately, creative and personal differences had been building throughout most of this otherwise prosperous time for the band, and the rewards simply weren’t enough to justify staying together after their March 24th Hurricane show with hometown heroes Gunfighter (a re-vamped version of Molly McGuire) and Hollis (most of the members from Sacrifice Isaac).

By another huge stroke of good fortune, current drummer Doug Stormont (formerly of The Switch) joined the band almost immediately afterward. A fresh, new outlook and the new, more melodic, and more dynamic material gave Q exciting potential again.

Future Plans
Q is looking forward to playing as many shows as possible locally and sharing the sounds and experiences which are Q with groovemongers and loveshakers outside the KC Area. A second album will likely be released sometime in 2000. An IUMA website, stickers, and merchandise will soon be available, too.

Contact
tel: Mark Cuthbertson (913) 631-4015 or Brendon Glad (785) 841-6229
e-mail: mark@thezone.org
website: http://mathroq.iuma.com

This page was last updated on 12.24.2000.