Timmins band will attempt to unseat Sudbury group with new world record in underground mine

It was just days before the COVID-19 pandemic shut the world down when the Shaft Bottom Boys of Sudbury broke a world record for 'Deepest Concert Underground.'

Now, more than four years later, a Timmins band is looking to take the title.

Miners & Sons is attempting to break the world record Nov. 15 at Glencore's Kidd Mine in Timmins.

According to the Guinness World Records, the Shaft Bottom Boys various tunes at 1,893.8 metres (6,213 feet 3.05 inches) below sea level in Vale's Creighton Mine on March 7, 2020.

In addition to Neil Young, Johnny Cash and Bruce Springsteen covers, the Sudbury rock band also performed an original song they wrote for the attempt called 'Creighton Deep.'

Kidd Mine in Timmins is the "world's deepest base-metal mine below sea level," Glencore said on its website.

The shaft bottom reaches 9,889 feet with mining at 9,800 feet (2,987.04 metres).

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Norm Dwyer is one of five members in the Miners & Sons band.

He told CTVNewsNorthernOntario.ca in a social media message three of them are long-time members of another local band called Dopamine.

"The attempt came about as a partnership between Northern College (3 band members are alumni) and the City of Timmins to really shine light on our rich music and mining community," Dwyer said.

"We'll, be covering about a 25-year gap of all different types of rock music."