The Last Supper Plan To Rock Around The World For TV Show
Thursday March 20, 2008 @ 05:30 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff

The Last Supper

Smiths Falls is a sleepy town southwest of Ottawa, but four of its 10,000 residents have big dreams: to set a world record for the most countries ever played by a band.

Singer Dan Shwetz, guitarist Peter Walker, bassist Scot Herndon and drummer Frankie Biggz comprise The Last Supper, a rock band whose latest independently released album is Zero Degrees — Order Into Chaos. The group have thus far performed in 10 countries and plan on hitting 100 more over the next three years. They'll be documenting their travels for a proposed reality television series called Band Without Borders.

The quintet and a private investor are using their own money in the development phase of the show and are in negotiations with a couple of distribution companies. They've been filming on and off since 1999 and have footage from Turkey, Egypt, Israel and much of western Europe.

The Last Supper plan to be on the road from June through the end of October, with a month off in the middle. They've been booked to play the U.K.'s Download Festival and the Bestfestival in Bucharest, Romania, and are apparently close to confirming an appearance at Denmark's Roskilde Festival. Their European agents will fill in the rest of the tour after their festival schedule is settled, and the band will be in South Africa in September.

After returning home, the guys will edit and produce the first season of 13 one-hour episodes of Band Without Borders in anticipation of it hitting TV screens next spring. They plan for the show to last three seasons to cover all of their international adventures.

The Last Supper want to make their travels as environmentally friendly as possible and claim that they and their crew will be carbon-neutral during their tour to set an example for others. They're looking to partner with sponsors to help out and would like to highlight innovative green products and means of travel.

"We're not hippies, but like a '60s band we want to bring a heightened awareness to global issues," says Shwetz. "We've traveled all over the world, and everywhere there are similarities in people. It is one world."

Zero Degrees — Order In Chaos took almost four years to complete and portions were recorded in Los Angeles, Ottawa, Montreal, Cairo, Egypt and London, Ont. It includes contributions from a number of middle eastern musicians.

"We actually developed it in 13 studios," says Shwetz.