Gran Fenwick Release “Rarin 2 Go” Music Video
Gran Fenwick’s experimentation with covering other people’s songs—first an album of Canadian classics and then two singles remaking songs by lesser known Ontario artists—is now at an end. February 13th is the dawning of “Rarin 2 Go”, featuring Alexandra Hopkinson and Erika Christou of Tarantula Tapes artist, Jerkoff Diary. The song is a flesh-tearing rocker to go alongside anarchic contemporary Toronto punks like Shiv & The Carvers and Feura, with a pulsating synth organ backdrop worthy of The Who. Ian delivers the lead vocal in a hushed sneer reminiscent of Liam Gallagher mixed with Ian Brown, with the lyrics featuring the biblical irreverence of Oasis, The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays.
With the dynamic, raw energy of “Rarin 2 Go,” Gran Fenwick writes himself into Toronto’s punk underground with enough tongue-in-cheek electrifying aggressive arrogance to get aging hipsters to uncross their arms and distracted youths to pocket their phones and jump in the pit together to have a cathartic human experience.
About Gran Fenwick
Ian Strung is a songwriter, indie artist, encyclopedic music historian and syndicated radio host based in Ontario, Canada.
Post-pandemic, Toronto rock music lifer Ian Strung came back onto the scene as a radio host. The P.O. Box Radio Show with Postman Dan is syndicated to markets across Canada and is heard around the world. Ian hosts the “Cancon Classics” spot, where every week a guest artist covers a Canadian song. The spot has been going for four years, getting the wider Canadian music scene in on the fun. But back in 2022 when it started, Ian was recording the songs himself. Those 18 tracks debuted on the air and were introduced by the original artists, who all gave enthusiastic praise for Ian’s interpretations (including Barenaked Ladies, Prozzak, Sloan, By Divine Right, and Klaatu, among others). This was Gran Fenwick’s “Cancon Classics” album, a passionate tribute to Canada’s rich alternative rock history.
A year after its release, “Sucks To Be You” featuring Morgan Thompson-Reid topped the New Music Top 40 for four weeks on Peterborough, Ontario’s Pet Rock Radio. The song also charted in the top 10 on Only Rock Radio in Spain for five weeks.
Ian’s next move was to reinterpret Dan Hick’s song about Peterborough’s lookout (and makeout) point, “Armour Hill.” A duet with Neon Bloom’s Jen Simpson, Gran Fenwick’s version is a full colour painting to the original’s beautiful line drawing. While waiting for the track to be completed, Gran Fenwick issued “Forever,” a cover of lesser known North Bay artist Jess Roveda. This enabled him to come back to life musically and log some experience on camera in preparation for the “Armour Hill” video. “Forever” went top 20 on Only Rock Radio for six weeks, even longer than “Sucks To Be You.”
The video and single for “Armour Hill” have been a success. More than ever before, Gran Fenwick is being played worldwide, in places like the U.S., Sweden, Australia, Austria, the UK and Ireland. Ian even did a live interview on a South African college radio station. At Pet Rock Radio in Peterborough where Armour Hill is really situated, the song has made it to #2 on the New Music Top 40 right now in January 2026 after 18 weeks on the chart and was #61 on their year-end list for 2025. The video clip, starring Shorty Bryenton of Toronto’s Super Not Okay as the alien, is an ambitious step forward from “Forever” and serves as Gran Fenwick’s first classic music video.
