#Sons of Rick

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From The Basement To the Skies: Sons of Rick launch debut EP at Broom Factory show

There is an air of festivity at the Broom Factory tonight, the evening of Friday, 4 April. As I step into the venue, I run into Nathan Graham and Ryleigh Stringer at the doors, two-fourths of the Kingston alternative rock band Sons of Rick, grinning from ear to ear.

Sons of Rick have been on the Kingston music scene for almost two and a half years now. In that time, they’ve gone from rehearsing in members’ basements to playing late nighters at the Toucan pub; they were the first band I had in the CFRC Radio studios, Queen’s University’s campus radio station, to record a live session, and are the reason for the existence of the CFRC Live Sessions show. They had also in this time started the short-lived St. Larry’s pub open-mic nights at St. Lawrence College, where they formed as students. All this while, they were workshopping their music and live act, becoming more confident performers, interacting more with the crowd and writing originals that showcased a range of influences: a love for 90s alt rock, metal, punk and indie, with different members each bringing their own touch to their originals.

Two years of work have finally amounted to their debut EP, called The Basement that came out on 4 April, named in honour of the hours spent in Nathan’s dad’s basement (the eponymous Rick) writing and rehearsing. The show tonight is in celebration of its release, and Sons of Rick are raring to go out and play it for people. They even plan to throw in newer songs, having kept busy writing beyond this EP.

The Basement EP.

Before them though, the stage is set by the support acts for tonight, two student bands who couldn’t be more different on the surface: Paper Bag Princes and Blunt Force Llama.

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[o-w-l-h-e-art]

THIS MADE ME GIGGLE SO HARD I HAD TO DRAW IT RAGGZGDGG

[ilovepjo]

percy getting INTENSE annabeth flashbacks like he’s in the middle of a damn war 😭😭😭

[wickedweasly]

DID RICK JUST CALL JASON THE SON OF JUNO?!?!

Oh my poor heart-

They way this ties perfectly with the fact that it was Hera/Juno who mourned him and not his own father….

He really was her boy🥹

[imafuckinstar]

do you think thalia ever lies awake at night feeling guilty about zeus choosing to save her life while he let jason just die with no regret or sympathy

[helpallthenamesaretaken]

can't believe the same man who wrote wottg percy also wrote THIS

people literally drowning out him out with applause when he tried to downplay himself?? making him walk around the mess hall because they wanted to be his friend?? "I want to be percy jackson when I'm older"??

take me back to when percy was characterised like this I beg of you rick

[rise-deepseamonster]

Love how Percy just casually drops lore all throughout the Son of Neptune. Frank and Hazel are getting the encyclopedia knowledge on every monster they encounter plus some extra side stories from how he fought them in gym classes and "oh yea, I had a fist fight with Kronos in Manhatten."

And then they meet Annabeth and realize that behind every goofy looking powerful guy, there's an incredibly smart, capable and even more powerful woman who makes sure he doesn't die on a daily basis and are like, "oh. thats why he's still alive."

[lilislegacy]

i feel like we gloss over the first few pages of SoN FAR too much. i mean, take percy’s name out and i would think it’s all about hercules. the book opens by dropping banger after banger regarding percy’s recent escapades, as if this is some epic greek myth.

like how did rick just casually slip in that percy strangled a sea monster with his bare hands (no biggie) and we as the readers were just like “sounds right, anyway—”

[arbiter-of-truth]

i think we should normalize demigods growing up to be average people. bc rick really went out there and said george washington and harriet tubman were demigods but just think about this for a second-

"ah yes that gas station attendant is a son of hermes, god of travelers"

there's simultaneously so much and so little potential here

[faithluvsfilms]

i love doing these and i also love this art style of nico

[miroana]

Percy asked the Moose Pass Gas attendant to take this picture as proof of life for Sally

[soundslivemagazine]

Sons of Rick at their EP launch show at the Broom Factory, Friday, 4 April 2025.

[mooniism]

percabeth in another life

[hazelnut-u-out]

[the-martians-are-gay]

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[imafuckinstar]

i could never be a demigod because quests are literally only for morning people. like why do i have to wake up at the ass crack of dawn just to head to my imminent death with a side of eternal damnation. waking up that early is already punishment enough for paying the debt of my half-godly existence.