Ill Scarlett - History

History

Initially meeting in high school, Iona Catholic Secondary School, Swavek Piorkowski and Alex Norman had played in several bands while teenagers. Alex, who was working at a skateboarding shop at the local mall, befriended Daniel Krolikowski at work one day and two months later, the three had begun jamming as a trio. IllScarlett was born after the guys named the band after a local street in Mississauga, named Will Scarlett Drive, which the band later edited to ill Scarlett Drive as a prank. Later, Alex, Daniel, and Swavek began to seek members and found guitarist Will Marr and disc jockey Pat Kennedy. The first show the band did was at the Horseshoe Tavern with John Doherty, son of singer Denny Doherty, on the guitar (he later replaced Daniel Krolikowski on bass) in Toronto.T After many performances at small venues, illScarlett went into the studio to record their first demo called the Five Dollar Demo. In 2004, the band released a full-length CD titled iLLP. Shortly after the release of ILLP, the band performed in the parking lot for the 2004 Vans Warped Tour in Barrie, Ontario. They weren't actually scheduled to play inside the venue, but they set up their equipment beside the line where people were waiting to get into Park Place for the concert. IllScarlett played an hour and a half set for the concertgoers.

Within three songs, they got word from one of their friends that Sublime's old roadie who worked as tour security radioed the organizer of the Warped Tour, Kevin Lyman, telling him that there was a band sounding like Sublime playing in the parking lot powered by generators. Kevin Lynman, asked the band to play at his barbecue later that night and the band accepted his offer. After the band's performance at the barbecue, Lyman extended an invitation for the band to perform a few dates on the 2005 Vans Warped Tour.

In September 2006, the band played at the inaugural Virgin Festival in Toronto.

The band finished recording their first major-label album (All Day with It) in Los Angeles, California under the production of Matthew Wilder, producer of No Doubt's diamond Tragic Kingdom album. The new album was released on July 10, 2007 across North America. The album includes such hit songs such as "Who's Got It?", "Paradise Burning", and "Life of a Soldier". Also on the album are redone versions of the songs "Nothing Special", "NTF" (Next Time Forever), "Clearer Now", and Pacino. IllScarlett toured Canada, Japan, Germany, the United States, and throughout Europe, promoting the album All Day with It.

On September 29, 2009 the band released their follow-up album to All Day with It titled 1UP!. This album featured singles such as, Take it for Granted and Milkshakes & Razorblades.

On January 27, 2012 the band appeared in a YouTube video with MattG124, this video was titled: Dare MattG : 16 (Chubby Bunny With iLLscarlett). In this video they played chubby bunny.

Currently the band performs live shows accompanied by Fatlabs session musician, Anthony Carone. They are planning to release a new EP August 21st.