Cease and Desist
McLEAN & McLEAN, THREE DOG NIGHT, DAVID LEE ROTH, THE BEACH BOYS, ALABAMA, MICHELLE WRIGHT and the list goes on and on...
Television appearances include video projects for Much Music, CBC, CTV, CMT, YTV, GLOBAL and CHEK TV.
CEASE & DESIST Are sure to make your party a great one. They present themselves as the consummate professionals that they are and are always happy to do your special requests. Most jobs they have done in the past have rewarded them with return engagements.
The band's song list is extensive. They take great pride in their versatility. To hear them play an “Andrews Sisters” song to a “Garth Brooks” song to a “Joni Mitchell” song to an “AC/DC” song back to back, verbatim, (if that’s what the request is) is not uncommon and highly entertaining.
Their song list covers a SIXTY-YEAR SPAN of top music hits!
Now a little about the band...
drummer/vocalist - Marc LaFrance
has been involved in the music industry for over 4 decades and is a well-known and highly regarded industry professional. He has performed as a drummer or singer on over 100 albums, has done countless recording sessions and live performances. Some of his present and past accomplishments include:
Drummer for Randy Bachman and Bachman & Turner and has recorded with a vast array of prominent recording artists including Bachman & Turner, Crowcuss, Chilliwack, Payolas, Loverboy, Glass Tiger, Alice Cooper, Mötley Crüe, Bon Jovi, Cher, Carly Simon, Poison, The Cult, David Lee Roth, Scorpions and many others.
Marc is the producer of Polish rock act “Chemia”.
Marc’s Kidsongz project has written and produced over 100 tracks for Scholastic Books, one of the largest book publishers in North America. The music is part of a kindergarten through grade 6 educational book/CD that is used nation wide in Canada, as well as having written several articles for another renowned book publisher McGraw- Hill Ryerson for Canadian High Schools
Marc voice was featured on several tracks for the internationally renowned Guitar Hero video game.
Music Supervisor for the animation project, Cackleberries
Marc formed Delinquent Records in 1994 with the release of his first solo album, “Out Of Nowhere”, produced by Paul Dean of Loverboy.
Marc has been a found member of C&D and continues to perform with Cease & Desist and Atlantic Crossing.
bass/guitar/piano/vocalist - Mick Dalla-Vee
taught himself to first play the guitar at age 10 after losing his mother to cancer. In an enviable career, the Cease & Desist front man, bassist and guitarist has also become a very busy studio producer, musician, arranger and vocalist. Mick attained Gold and Platinum status for his work with Bachman & Turner (Live in New York City 2010) amongst other musical awards (3 gold awards, one independent album award) and co-written or written everything from country to smooth jazz. Mick has played bass and been lead singer for Canadian rock legend Randy Bachman (The Guess Who, Bachman Turner Overdrive) for 17 years, played upright bass at the prestigious Montreal Jazz Festival and keyboards for Grammy Award-winning R&B diva Melanie Fiona and as well, he contributed vocals to projects by Mötley Crüe and Trooper, and created soundscapes for TV programs such as HGTV’s popular Holmes Makes Right series since 2012
Mick is also the founder of the Down Syndrome Research Foundation’s Music in Motion Workshop, a project that develops musical camaraderie with children, youth and young adults diagnosed with Down syndrome and other developmental disabilities.
guitar/bass/vocalist - Brent Howard
released an album 1996 of mostly self-written country music. The album was produced by award-winning producer Tony Rudner and enlisted the work of some well-known Nashville musicians. To date, Brent has released the fourth of four singles from his self-titled album and has had three charted videos on C.M.T., Canada’s Country music Channel. The first single, “What is and Isn’t Mine” climbed to #15 across Canada on the radio charts. His fourth single with accompanying video, “The Wrangler” reached the “Top 20” on radio in Western Canada. The video for “What is and Isn’t Mine” (Brent’s first single) was “Pick of the Week” on N.C.N. in the summer of 1996. Immediate plans are for Brent’s new album.
SONG LIST
Ocean Pearl
One Day in Your Life
54-40
Girls Got Rhythm
Shook Me (all night long)
Shot Down in Flames
TNT
AC/DC
Same Old Song & Dance
Sweet Emotion
Aerosmith
Let’s Stay Together
Al Green
Horse with No Name
Sister Golden Hair
America
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Co. “B”
Andrews Sisters
House of the Rising Sun
Animals
Coulda Been a Lady
April Wine
Hold Your Head Up
Argent
City of New Orleans
Arlo Guthrie
Can’t Get Enough
Feel Like Makin’ Love
Bad Company
No Matter What
Badfinger
The Weight
Up On Cripple Creek
Band
Fun Fun Fun
Surfin’ USA
Beach Boys
All My Lovin’
Can’t Buy Me Love
Come Together
Dear Prudence
Eight Days a Week
Hard Days Night
Help
Here Comes the Sun
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
I Saw Her Standing There
I Should Have Known Better
I’ll Be Back
Love Me Do
No Reply
Norwegian Wood
Nowhere Man
Please Please Me
Revolution
Rocky Raccoon
She Loves You
Tell Me Why
Ticket to Ride
Twist & Shout
With a Little Help from my Friends
You’ve Got to hide your Love Away
The Ballad of John & Yoko
Beatles
Stand By Me
Ben E. King
Rock Around the Clock
Bill Haley & the Comets
White Wedding
Billy Idol
Only The Good Die Young
Piano Man
Billy Joel
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
Mack the Knife
Bobby Darin
This Cat’s on a Hot Tin Roof
Brian Setzer Orchestra
Summer of ‘69
Bryan Adams
Rainin’ in My Heart
Buddy Holly
Hot, Hot, Hot
Buster Poindexter
Bad Moon Risin’
Down on the Corner
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Hey Tonight
Lookin’ Out My Back Door
Proud Mary
Who’ll Stop the Rain
C.C.R.
It’s Too Late
Carole King
Another Saturday Night
Wild World
Cat Stevens
Fly By Night
Chilliwack
Wicked Game
*Chris Isaac
You Never Can Tell
Chuck Berry
Should I Stay or Should I Go
Clash
Youngblood
Coasters
Sunshine of your Love
Cream
Ohio
Teach Your Children
Crosby, Stills, Nash&Young
I Hear Ya Knockin’
Dave Edmonds
Space Oddity
David Bowie
Runaway
Del Shannon
Misser Lou
Dick Dale
Runaround Sue
The Wanderer
Dion and The Belmonts
American Pie
Don McLean
Black Water
Doobie Bros.
Love Me Two Times
Road House Blues
Doors
The Cover of the Rolling Stone
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
Guitars, Cadillacs
Dwight Yoakam
Desperado
Lyin’ Eyes
Take it Easy
Tequila Sunrise
Hotel California
Eagles
Summertime Blues
Eddie Cochrane
All Shook Up
Can’t Help Falling in Love
Don’t Be Cruel
Hound Dog
Jailhouse Rock
Burnin’ Love
Elvis Presley
Wonderful Tonite
Layla
Tears in Heaven
Eric Clapton
Bye Bye Love
Dream
Wake Up Little Suzy
Walk Right Back
Everly Brothers
Hole Hearted
Extreme
Ain’t That A Shame
Blueberry Hill
Fats Domino
Signs
Five Man Electrical Band
New York, New York
Frank Sinatra
Alright Now
Free
Friend’s in Low Places
Garth Brooks
Rock ‘n Roll Pt. 2
Gary Glitter
Little Green Bag
George Baker Selection
Radar Love
Golden Earring
Bad Time (to be in Love)
Some Kind o’ Wonderful
Grand Funk
The Breakup Song
Greg Kihn Band
American Woman
No Sugar Tonight
Guess Who
Cat’s in the Cradle
Harry Chapin
Without You
Harry Nilsson
Busstop
Long Cool Woman
The Air That I Breathe
Hollies
New Sensation
INXS
White Rabbit
Jefferson Airplane
Do Ya Love Me
The Dave Clark Five
Great Balls of Fire
Jerry Lee Lewis
Right Here, Right Now
Jesus Jones
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
Don’t Mess Around with Jim
Jim Croce
Oh, Girl
The Chi-Lites
Land Down Under
Men At Work
Changes in Latitudes
Why Don’t We Get Drunk
Margaritaville
Jimmy Buffet
Country Roads
Thank God I’m a Country Boy
John Denver
Cherry Bomb
Check It Out
Hurts So Good
Pink Houses
The Authority Song
Jack & Diane
John Mellencamp
You’re Sixteen
Johnny Burnett
Folsom Prison Blues
Ring of Fire
Johnny Cash
I Can See Clearly Now
Stir It Up
Johnny Nash
Big Yellow Taxi
Joni Mitchell
Dust in the Wind
Kansas
Walkin’ on Sunshine
Katrina & The Waves
The Gambler
Kenny Rogers
Louie, Louie
Kingsman
Lazin’ on a Sunny Afternoon
Lola
Kinks
I Wanna Rock & Roll All Night
Kiss
Me & Bobby Magee
Kris Kristopherson
What is & What Should Never Be
Whole Lotta Love
Heartbreaker/Livin’ Lovin’ Maid
Thank You
Led Zeppelin
Long Tall Sally
Little Richard
Daydream
Do You Believe in Magic
Lovin Spoonful
Sweet Home Alabama
Lynyrd Skynyrd
California Dreamin’
Mama’s & the Papa’s
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye
Those Were the Days
Mary Hopkins
Somebody Bring Me Some Water
Melissa Ethridge
Enter Sandman
Metallica
Wild Fire
Michael Murphy
I’m A Believer
Monkees
These Boots (are made for walkin’)
Nancy Sinatra
Hair of the Dog
This Flight Tonight
Nazareth
Cracklin’ Rosie
Girl - You’ll Be a Woman Soon
I Am - I Said
Sweet Caroline
Neil Diamond
Cinnamon Girl
Harvest Moon
Old Man
Neil Young
Fishin’ in the Dark
Mr. Bo-Jangles
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Spirit in the Sky
Norman Greenbaum
Dock of the Bay
Otis Redding
I Don’t Wanna Lose You’re Love
Outfield
Crazy
Walkin’ After Midnight
Patsy Cline
Wish You Were Here
Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd
Every Breath You Take
Message in a Bottle
Roxanne
Can’t Stand Losin’ You
Police
Middle of the Road
Pretenders
Crazy Little thing Called Love
Fat Bottomed Girls
Queen
The One I Love
R.E.M.
Sedated
Ramones
Good Lovin’
Rascals
Jessie’s Girl
Rick Springfield
La Bamba
Ritchie Valens
Maggie May
Reason to Believe
Tonight’s the Night
Twistin’ the Night Away
You’re in my Heart
Sailing
I Don't Wanna Talk About It
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?
Rod Stewart
King of the Road
Roger Miller
Brown Sugar
Get Off My Cloud
Gimme Shelter
Honky Tonk Woman
Let’s Spend the Night Together
Ruby Tuesday
Satisfaction
Under My Thumb
Wild Horses
Miss You
Rolling Stones
What I Like About You
Romantics
Blue Bayou
Crying
Pretty Woman
Roy Orbison
Little Red Riding Hood
Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
Venus
Shocking Blue
Cecelia
Mrs. Robinson
Simon & Garfunkel
Stuck in the Middle with You
Steeler’s Wheel
Keep On Rockin’ Me
The Joker
Steve Miller
Higher Ground
Stevie Wonder
Stray Cat Strut
Rock This Town
Stray Cats
Roxy Roller
Sweeney Todd
My Girl
Temptations
I’d Love to Change the World
Ten Years After
My Sharona
The Knack
The Zoo
The Scorpions
Gloria
Them
Shambala
Three Dog Night
It’s Not Unusual
Tom Jones
Mary Jane’s Last Dance
Won’t Back Down
You’re So Bad
Tom Petty
Draggin’ the Line
Crimson and Clover
Tommy James
(Jenny, Jenny)
Tommy Tutone
Blow at High Dough
Courage
Little Bones
New Orleans is Sinking
Tragically Hip
Boys in the Bright White Sports Car
We’re Here for a Good Time
Trooper
Eleanor
Happy Together
Turtles
Pride (in the Name of Love)
With or Without You
One
U2
Brown Eyed Girl
Into The Mystic
Moondance
Van Morrison
Surf Music Medley
Ventures
Last Kiss
Wednesday
Behind Blue Eyes
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Who
Play That Funky Music
Wild Cherry
Land of 1000 Dances
Mustang Sally
Wilson Pickett
I Believe in Miracles
Hot Chocolate
Does Your Mother Know
ABBA
Livin’ on a Prayer
Bon Jovi
If You Don’t Know Me By Now
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
I Will Survive
Gloria Gaynor
Memphis
Johnny Rivers
You Can’t Hurry Love
The Supremes