Chairman is NR92’s favourite band
By Bronson Kashino on March 19, 2025
The second annual Bandmania wrapped up last Thursday at Blues on Whyte. It’s a classic battle of the bands: Edmonton’s best local acts perform and the winner goes home with $10,000 and a spot at this year’s North Country Fair. Stonegate won it all this year.
Chairman was my pick to win. They have an electric live show. Costumes, acrobatics, you name it—you’ll get it at a Chairman show. They’ve been releasing music and touring Canada since 2019 and they rip.
For making it to the Bandmania finals, they were awarded $1000 dollars. That’s a pretty good consolation prize. It was presented as a giant cheque, of course. Their drummer and I got a selfie with it when I interviewed them for NR92’s New Music Nooner.
They said they always wanted to receive a giant cheque.
Maybe I’m biased because the time-travelling new wave punk band has been helping me with my homework for a year. I came to NR92 in January of 2024. We shot a mini-documentary with Chairman in April of that year. Less than a year later, Chairman featured on NR92’s New Music Nooner. Let’s look back at those two moments with NR92’s favourite band.
New Music Nooner
Every weekday at 12:20, NR92 features a new local artist on the New Music Nooner. You can hear an interview and a song by an unsigned artist from right here in Edmonton. Chairman was the obvious choice when I was putting mine together.
Drummer Triple H preached about what they call “The Church of Chairman” and what the uninitiated can expect at one of their shows. They even gave me an advance copy of their upcoming single Chip In My Head. Listen to the interview and the track below.
Mini-documentary
NR92’s Ben Thomson interviewed two members of Chairman: frontman Alton Upbeat and drummer Triple H. They gave us a dire warning about a dystopian future in which corporate jazz dominates the airwaves and rock music is outlawed.
NR92 pledges never to become a corporate jazz station.
We at NR92 love Chairman. It’s because we play a little bit of everything: country, pop, and a little bit of punk rock from the future. As long as it’s Something Worth Sharing, you can hear about it on NR92.