Why are Cut Cult? 

Because lugging heavy gear around the world to produce music and play concerts is a 

cathartic and religious experience. 

Who are Cut Cult? 

Brian Borcherdt, Loel Campbell, and Matt McQuaid are three of the forming, former, and 

current members of Holy Fuck (XL Records, Kobalt), who live in Nova Scotia and really enjoy 

making sounds together. Brian and Loel met while Brian was a record store employee and Loel 

was a fifteen year old aspiring drummer. Both were from ‘the sticks’ and both wanted to find 

some kind of community. They made the first Holy Fuck records together and were later joined 

by Matt ‘punchy’ McQuaid on bass. Once scattered and no longer playing together 

professionally, they convened as friends in Montreal to make late night noisy confessions. Now, 

back in their home province, they are Cut Cult. 

Their resume includes: producing music for other artists, like their own Dusted (Polyvinyl), and 

co-remixing Radiohead, MIA, etc, warping records into the viral Chipmunks on 16 Speed, 

playing drums in Wintersleep subbing in for Broken Social Scene and Billy Talent, as well as 

co-founding (finding?) the Nowadays festival in Dartmouth. 

A midwinter celebration of songwriting and storytelling, and flagship partner of Fredericton FROSTival, Shivering Songs hosts internationally renowned artists in historic and intimate spaces throughout Downtown Fredericton, on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik people.