Big House was a Canadian punk-influenced rock band, based in Edmonton, Alberta, and active in the early 1990s.
[1] The band began in 1982, when singer and guitarist Jan Ek and drummer Sjor Throndson moved to Edmonton from their hometown of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, where they had grown up together.
In Edmonton, they joined the punk band Down Syndrome, which had been founded by Tim Balash, Laurie Bulback and Bob Kropotkin.
[2] In 1986, Balash, Bulback and Kropotkin left the band; Ek and Throndson found replacements in guitarist Kevin 'K.
Of all of the musicians involved in Big House, the only one to stay in the music world was Jan Ek, who returned to Manitoba, where he performs and records as a solo artist and is an activist in the LGBTQ community.