Coldstream writer helps pen song about getting through the pandemic

The ups and downs of the COVID-19 pandemic are captured in a new song released this week by Phunk and Wangles.

The two-member group is comprised of Joseph Pinheiro of Coldstream and Odds bassist Doug Elliott, and the song Getting Ready was their first collaboration.

“We had just hung out together in Vancouver, after I had fled the Okanagan to get away from the smoke and fires,” said Pinheiro, who is the Phunk in the group. “Once I got back home to Coldstream, I started sharing some lyrics I had written. We started texting back and forth until Getting Ready was born. I think it was less than a week later when Wangles [Elliott] had the rough outline of the music and we were both kinda surprised how good it sounded. Also how quickly it came together.”

Elliott said they just wanted to write a hopeful song about getting through the pandemic.

“The song has that same kind of feel that we were feeling going through the pandemic. There’s these build ups in the song leading to a crescendo that never happens which felt the same as each time a mandate came down. The up and down of the pandemic and then finally by the end of the song the “getting ready to live again” finale of having a good time.

Elliott said they delayed releasing the song a few times, and even now as it is released, there is talk about the next wave of COVID.

You can find out more about the duo, and their song, on their website www.phunkandwangles.com