The Points North
The Points North is an expression of spirits found in the eastern seaboard's northernmost major city- home to beauty, kindness, love, isolation, and longing.
Chris North Alspach is a former small-city photojournalist and has attended many house fires, camera in hand. Regina Peterson grew up playing flute in her family's church, and began collaborating with Alspach in summer 2006 under the name Saint Joe Hazelwood. A year later the pair met Dylan Clark at a show in a Pennsylvania cornfield while Clark was in the midst of a two-month U.S. tour drumming for Tigersaw. The trio quickly bonded over reminiscence of their shared childhood home of rural Central Massachusetts.
The Points North performed their first show in Cambridge in February 2008 and went on to perform 40 shows and release a split cassette before the end of the year.
In 2009 The Points North played 70 shows throughout the northeast and released the 12" LP I Saw Across The Sound, which has since received dozens of reviews and was recently named a top local release of 2009 by The Boston Globe. In November The Points North gained bassist Evan Foudray, whom they had met a year earlier while playing at a campfire in the woods of Maine.
In January and February 2010 The Points North temporarily relocated to Victoria, Australia to record their yet-to-be-released sophomore album with Adam Casey of The Boy Who Spoke Clouds.
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Discography
I Saw Across the Sound (2009)
Freedom or Decomposition Songs (2008)
S Joe Hazelwood (2007)
Summer 2007 Tour EP (2007)
Moth & Wool EP (2006)
Upcoming Shows
Wednesday, Sep 15 2010, 8:00 PM
Gay Gardens
Allston, MA
Friday, Sep 24 2010, 8:00 PM
Umbrella Gallery
Fitchburg, MA
Saturday, Sep 25 2010, 8:00 PM
MEATGUM
Northampton, MA
Sunday, Oct 10 2010, 2:00 PM
Passim Stage @ Harvard Sq Oktoberfest
Cambridge, MA
Friday, Oct 15 2010, 8:30 PM
The Whitehaus
Jamaica Plain, MA