Rob Benvie is a Canadian musician and writer who has performed with alternative rock acts Thrush Hermit, Bankruptcy, Camouflage Nights, The Tennis Injury, and The Dears. He also records and occasionally performs live as Tigre Benvie. Benvie first gained notoriety as the guitarist, singer and songwriter in Halifax rock band Thrush Hermit. Thrush Hermit also included Joel Plaskett, Ian McGettigan and Cliff Gibb. Touring extensively throughout North America, Thrush Hermit released two EPs on Murderecords: Smart Bomb and The Great Pacific Ocean. Their first full-length Sweet Homewrecker was released on the American label Elektra Records. In 1999, Thrush Hermit released Clayton Park on Sonic Unyon Records. In 2010, Thrush Hermit briefly reunited for a successful reunion tour. Prior to the Thrush Hermit era, Benvie distributed numerous home recordings under such names as The Tennis Injury, Yammer, and Day Pass. After Thrush Hermit's 1999 break-up, Benvie wrote and produced two solo albums as Tigre Benvie: Year of the Mutt and Bankruptcy. He has also intermittently released music under the pseudonym Drug Dog. In 2001, he joined The Dears as bass/guitar player, and in years following continued to perform and record with the band in various faculties, most actively for 2008's Missiles and 2011's Degeneration Street. Benvie and McGettigan have recorded and performed as Camouflage Nights. After a string of tour dates and limited editionaudio and video releases, the band's long-delayed debut LP was released in April 2012 by Sonic Unyon Records. Camouflage Nights has remixed artists such as Stars, Every Move a Picture, Pony Da Look, along with scoring numerous film and television projects. In May 2001 literature and humour website McSweeney's Internet Tendency featured an essay by Benvie titled "The Porn I Like". Benvie's first novel, Safety of War, was published by Coach House Books. In 2011, Benvie published a second novel, titled Maintenance, along with a full-length instrumental 'audio companion' available via download through Coach House. In 2012, a third Tigre Benvie full-length appeared: Mistiness, a limited-edition vinyl release alongside a digital version available via iTunes, Bandcamp and other digital avenues. This album, like other Tigre Benvie releases, was produced and mainly performed by Benvie, featuring contributions from friends including Murray Lightburn, Matt Murphy, Ian McGettigan, and others. Another self-released Tigre Benvie album, Stuplimity, or The Nova ScotiaBook of The Dead, was released in early 2013, followed by the instrumental How to Write a Romance Novel in 2015. His first solo album after shedding the Tigre Benvie moniker, You Will Not Enter The Valley, described as a "collection of corporate/secular hymns," was released in 2017. In 2015, Benvie founded the rock band Bankruptcy. Their debut LP For The Future was released in April 2016. Bankruptcy's follow-up album, Computers Make the Drinks, was released in 2019.
