At the Feet of the Moon - Parachute Club

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Parachute Club was a Canadian band formed in Toronto in 1982. The band consisted of Lorraine Segato on vocals and guitar, Lauri Conger on keyboards and vocals, Billy Bryans on drums, Margo Davidson on saxophone and vocals, Julie Masi on percussion and vocals, Steve Webster on bass and Dave Gray on guitar. Their first album was produced by Daniel Lanois. The song "Rise Up" from that album won a Canadian Juno Award for Single of the Year. Steve Webster left to perform with Billy Idol and Keir Brownstone replaced Webster on their second album At the Feet of the Moon in 1985, produced by Michael Beinhorn. They received a Juno Award for Group of the Year the same year. In 1986, they released their third album, Small Victories. The album included the song "Love is Fire" featuring Segato singing a duet with John Oates of Hall & Oates. Oates produced the single, as well as several other Small Victories tracks; The Parachute Club and Mike Jones were credited as producers on the reminder of the album. In 1987, they composed and performed four songs for the Canadian and U.S. versions of the anime series, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. After a final non-album single in 1987 ("Big Big World"), the band members went their separate ways in 1989. In 2005, critic Greg Quill wrote in the Toronto Star that "No musical collective bespoke this city during a specific period as powerfully as Parachute Club did in the 1980s. Their infectious, inclusive, soca-soaked dance music carried important messages about the social changes Toronto was experiencing at the time, about sexual and personal politics, about the need for hope and courage in an age of confusing, impersonal rhetoric from local policymakers and world leaders."

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Video Comments:
somewhatlongdong (Thursday 28th of August 2008 12:29:57 AM)
this video is horrible. however, the parachute club led me to explore a wonderfully fulfilling world of gay sex
GSTcheque (Thursday 21st of August 2008 08:45:42 PM)
Ohhhhhh, yes. This video takes me back, alright. Samantha Taylor and CBC's VIDEO HITS played this one a lot. But... As for this song, Feet of the Moon, well I loved it...until the 90's when I realized that it is VERY VERY VERY similar to 'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath. Only with a dance beat. Anyone agree?
alda (Friday 15th of August 2008 12:22:38 PM)
Goodness gracious, I've been trying to get this one for ages - today utube brought it up, alleluja!!! This brings back memories, I loved this song then and now...thank you for posting this one...it's a jewel find and a keeper!!
Rokit58 (Saturday 26th of July 2008 04:42:51 PM)
I was in TO back in the 90's ... at a local club checking out a few shows... and who taps me on the shoulder asking if she could sit up on the back of our bench was none other than Lorraine Segato... Carole Pope was also in the crowd that night too... ooooooooh what a night :D
morestuff75 (Thursday 17th of July 2008 03:29:26 AM)
interesting ostumes, I've always liked reading posts. the CD that is the easiest to find seems to be the essential parachute club.
hopefulever (Saturday 21st of June 2008 12:56:24 PM)
This is fantastik!!! I was at Harbourfront one night back in the early 80's and saw the Club there that night and loved them ever since. They played Rise Up and everybody went nuts!!
housecalls2002 (Sunday 8th of June 2008 08:44:36 AM)
WOW - I just looked for some current info on the band and found that Margo Davidson passed away only a couple of weeks ago. RIP.
housecalls2002 (Sunday 8th of June 2008 08:35:08 AM)
Somewhere in my Dad's attic, is the autographed poster signed by the band from this album. I won it in the trivia contest from Terry David Mulligan's "Good Rockin' Tonight". (The trivia question was '"Who played the mime in the 'Rise Up' video"?)
robb59 (Tuesday 17th of June 2008 05:02:12 PM)
Watched the video, looks like Lorraine.
robb59 (Sunday 18th of May 2008 05:12:26 PM)
When Queen West was truly alive. Great time to be in Toronto in the 80's.