State Of Shock consists of Johnny Philippon on drums, Jesse Wainwright on guitar, Cam Melynk on vocals, Simon "Kadooh" Clow on guitar and Alison Toews on bass. For the band, it has taken a slow and steady approach to its career over the years, but momentum picked up dramatically in 2007 and moves have been made to take the Vancouver band from a Canadian success story to an international one.

Cordova Bay Records released State Of Shock's Life, Love & Lies album in June 2007, and the runaway success of lead single/video "Money Honey" propelled the quintet to new heights. In the past year, they've compiled an impressive list of achievements such as being nominated for a 2008 Juno Award for Best New Group. Their hit single "Money Honey" was a top 10 single at three formats - Rock, CHR and Hot AC - and was nominated for a 2008 Canadian Radio Music Award in each of those three categories and won for CHR and Rock. They also won the 2008 Canadian Independent Music Award for Favourite Single with their single "Money Honey," which beat out other fan favourites such as Feist. It was also #1 on the Canadian All Formats Radio Chart for eight weeks and has spent more than nine months on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 Chart. In terms of digital sales, "Money Honey" surpassed Canadian platinum status with more than 55,000, and it's still going.

Canadian sales of Life, Love & Lies have surpassed more than 25,000, which roughly works out to one for each person who saw State Of Shock open for Aerosmith at a concert in Sarnia, Ontario last year. Nickelback also took the group under its wings as the opening act for its summer tour.

Second single/video "Hearts That Bleed" is already another multi-format smash, and Philippon expects Life, Love & Lies to go five singles deep in Canada. A video has already been shot for the eventual release of "Too Pretty."

State Of Shock recently signed with Cory Brennan of New York-based Sanctuary Artist Management as the first step towards moving into the global arena. "We wanted to go with somebody who already had acts with international success and who had all the people in place who could set us up," explains Philippon.

The quintet obviously has a lot on its plate, with the campaign in Canada continuing and a move into new markets imminent. Getting the most out of Life, Love & Lies is the top priority for the next year, so Philippon says the band hasn't started thinking too much about its follow-up yet.

Everything that's happened to State Of Shock over the past year might have seemed like a long shot after the band had to endure so many hardships up to that point, but Philippon isn't surprised at Life, Love & Lies' positive reception.

Good things are happening for State Of Shock now, and the group's talent, desire and work ethic should insure that continues for years to come. While quick cash is a dominant theme in the band's best-known song, true wealth will come through the group's goal of multiple accomplishments and sustained prosperity.

Few producers could boast as prolific a schedule over the past 12 months as Ronson, putting his own record aside now for just one minute there's also the small matter of producing tracks on forthcoming new albums by Christina Aguilera, Robbie Williams, Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, Domino (the best female fronted dubby indie rock band you haven't heard yet), his Allido protégés Rhymefest & Daniel Merriweather amongst others, whilst previous production credits include scoring the soundtrack to Jay-Z's Fade To Black film, the final ODB studio recordings, high profile remixes of Air and Jiggaman's "99 Problems", plus work with Outkast, De La Soul, & M.O.P to name but a handful.