Mr Loopy Pants is arguably one of the best solo-bass-comedy-loop-rock acts performing today. Admittedly, he’s also almost certainly the only solo-bass-comedy-loop-rock act performing today, but that doesn’t stop him from giving everything he’s got! 🙂
The whole thing is a brand new project by Winnipeg comedian and musician J.Williamez, who refuses to shut up aboout it: “Mr Loopy Pants is the best thing I’ve ever done. I’ve never worked this hard at anything in my life before and I’ve never been prouder”, said Williamez to himself just now, as he was writing this, (while referring to himself in the third person for some reason).
Along with his trusty best friend/loop pedal, “Peater”, Mr Loopy Pants offers his audience more than just songs and jokes. He offers something new; something that keeps people trying to scratch their heads while bopping them at the same time. It genuinely is like nothing you’ve ever seen.
His shows are a mix of theatre, comedy, social commentary, and psych-out gags with crazy twists—all set to huge hip-hop drum beats, massive distorted bass lines, screaming solos and more! This may sound like a lot, but this doesn’t even begin to describe it; you really have to see for yourself to get it.
Mr Loopy Pants started performing in late 2025 and performed his first festival show at last year’s Rockin’ the Fields of Minnedosa Festival (where he’s slated to appear again this year). Additionally, he’ll be performing at Gentle Fest, Cosmic Cat, and Neighbour x Neighbour, as well as writing, producing and performing an hour-long multimedia show at this year’s Winnipeg Fringe Festival called “Mr Loopy Pants: The Art of F@cking Up”.
Recording for Mr Loopy Pants’ debut album (provisionally titled “Like the Responsible Adults That We Are”) is already well underway, and the first single “Dustpan” will be released on June 1 of this year on all streaming services.
Mr Loopy Pants plans to tour Canada over the next year and then internationally. He currently has no plans to do any touring in outer space, but who knows? Like he always says: “If you believe in yourself, you can do anything. (wink.)”
Name:
Mr Loopy Pants (J.Williamez / Jeremy Williams)
Genre:
Solo-bass-comedy-loop-rock
Founded:
2025
# of Albums:
My debut album, provisionally titled “Like the Responsible Adults that We Are,” is currently well underway and is set to be released later this year. The first single, “Dustpan,” dropped June 1, 2026.
Latest Single:
Dustpan (all streaming services)
Latest Video:
Favourite musician growing up:
Ani Difranco/Failure/Tool
Favourite musician now:
21 Pilots/Aesop Rock/Tool
Guilty pleasure song:
I firmly believe that a proper guilty pleasure song should ACTUALLY fill you with shame, and not just be some cop-out, slightly older song that everyone else loves too. Those types of guilty pleasure songs are for cowards. That being said, my guilty pleasure song is “Hit Me Up” by Danny Fernandez. (I hate that I told you that.)
Live show ritual:
So this one is interesting. I performed musical comedy for years under the name “J.Williamez,” where it was usually just me and an acoustic guitar. My live show ritual was to get drunk and high pretty much every time I played, and often WHILE I played. People at shows would buy me shots, and things often got sloppy, but it was always a ton of fun. With Mr Loopy Pants, however, I’ve made all my songs so complicated, in terms of what they require from me in controlling the loop pedal, that I can’t drink or get high AT ALL before I perform. Even sober, the songs are super challenging to play without messing up. So I guess my new live show ritual is NOT getting drunk and high? So far I’ve been really digging it, tho I have to admit, I sometimes ask to be earlier on the bill so I can enjoy a drink or two after my set before last call. 🙂
Favourite local musician:
My favourite local act is called ROBOJOM. They’re a theatre-glam-punk band from Winnipeg. They’re a ton of fun and completely insane, and I love each one of them a bunch.
EP or LP?
Insofar as either is relevant to how people release music these days or even a thing at all anymore, I’m on Team LP all the way. I like an album to be an epic journey. With my upcoming album (which will be 10 songs plus little extras between songs, and which will run over an hour), I’m expecting to test and push the limits of people’s withered little attention spans. 🙂 These days, anything longer than 30 seconds, and you’re gonna lose a few goldfish, and there’s not much you can do about it, but I’m cool with that. 🙂
Early bird or night owl?
I honestly stay up so late that there’s considerable overlap for me here. I often see my neighbours leave for work before I’m really even feeling sleepy. Just one of the many benefits of not having a day job, I guess. 🙂
Road or studio?
Recording in studio and performing live are such completely different things that it’s hard to pick a favourite. I have the kind of ADHD that makes me hyper-fixate obsessively on a thing for a couple weeks and then lose interest completely and move seamlessly on to the next thing. I do this pretty compulsively, so I constantly need to switch things up if I have any hope of getting anything done. I feel very lucky to have recording and performing live to sort of alternate between. I’d also include the writing and arranging processes (especially with a loop pedal), as the other things I alternate between. I think, ultimately, the only reason I can actually make something like Mr Loopy Pants work is that I have enough different creative activities within the project, which are different enough from one another that I can trick myself into constantly thinking the next one in line is new and interesting. I’ve essentially found a way to use my ADHD as a superpower, instead of the disability it’s always seemed to be in the past. I’m pretty happy about that. 🙂
Any shows or albums coming up?
Oh man, so much to promote! 🙂
Fringe Festival (This is the main one I’d like to promote, I think) July 15-26; show title: “Mr Loopy Pants: the Art of F@cking Up”. Every night of Fringe at Shannon’s Irish Pub.
Festival appearances: Dauphin Country Fest (June 27) (I CAN’T believe I’m playing Country Fest. ha!, Cosmic Cat Festival (Aug 8), Gentle Fest (Aug 20), Rocking the Fields in Minnedosa (Aug 1st), Neighbour x Neighbour Street (Fest Sept 10)
Debut Album: “Like the Responsible Adults that We Are” to be released late this year.
Where can we follow you?
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Rapid Fire Local Questions:
What is your favourite local restaurant?
Banh Mi King (on Portage) Their Charbroiled Pork Banh Mi is maybe more delicious than food should be allowed to be? Not that I’m complaining.
What is your favourite street in your city and why?
McMicken, because when I was in high school, I made a hash pipe out of a chicken-shaped teapot I found at a thrift store and named it McMicken. One day, my dad found it and made me crush it with a hammer in the back lane like it was Old Yeller or something, and that story still really makes me laugh, and therefore so does that street, which is why it’s my favourite. 🙂
What is your favourite park in your city and why?
Assiniboine Park because it has a lot of really great hammock spots and it’s a really beautiful scooter ride down Wellington Crescent from where I live in the “Stabbing District” in West Broadway.
What is your favourite music venue in your city?
Probably the Park Theatre, though I’ve always found that the venue itself is less important than the people who are in it. Some of my best shows lately have been at basement parties! I call those ones “bassment shows” because I’m really into dad jokes.
What is your favourite music store in your city?
Long & McQuade, I guess, although it gives me a mild panic attack to think of how much money I’ve spent there over the last 5 years.
