Websites :
www.therealdealhatesyou.com - www.myspace.com/therealdeal

When you think Montreal, what comes to mind? Bars and booze? Sex and strippers? Drugs and dorms? Hailing from the land of poutine, The Real Deal is all that wrapped into one! Well…not quite…

Coming together in 2003, The Real Deal has since put out a couple records; the most recent “Waiting for the Wave EP” can be purchased in most Canadian record stores and on www.interpunk.com for you international folk.

They’ve rocked stages across the country numerous times and have had the chance to play with some incredible bands (Bigwig, Set Your Goals, Belvedere, Ill Scarlet, All Star Assassins, Runt, Fifty Stars Anger and Youthinasia just to name a few). They’ve played some bigger festivals like the Victoria’s Annual Ska Fest and the 2005 Warped Tour. They’ve put out videos. They’ve been on the radio. They’ve been on TV. They’ve been broke. They’ve been less broke. They’ve always had a good time and they don’t plan to stop anytime soon…

What really gives these punk kids their edge is their DIY ethic. We’re not talking, “we put up a flyer…once…for a show…a local show…2 years ago”; we’re talking taking it to the country, booking their own tours, being their own publicist, managing their own funds, filing their own paper work, writing their own bio!

With the oldest member quickly aging (Nico's going on 23!) The Real Deal are proud to have accomplished, by their early twenties, what many bands fail to do throughout their entire careers. Sky’s the limit! Plans to visit the UK and Japan have been in the works for some time and with the release of the next record, they hope to make the trip!

New record? What? Tell you more? OK! Following the 2006 release of the well received “Waiting for the Wave EP”, The Real Deal will be back in the studio this fall to record a full-length album. They’ve gained the aid of badass engineer Steve Foote (that big Boston thug who plays with Big D and The Kids Table) and are in the midst of confirming a producer…well more of an idol… Stoked!

In the mmediate future, The Real Deal will be hitting the road again come May through August, traveling from their homeland’s coast to coast and visiting their neighbors to the south.

See you then and there!

-The Real Deal