I was kind of plagued by it - that sort of “missed the boat” syndrome. It kind of shut me down there for a while. I kinda said, ‘I’m gonna just go around the world and party with the locals’, and then I didn’t do the thing that I wanted to do, and certain aspects of that started to haunt me. She said, ‘You gotta start with a short, and then you go off and do your feature’, and I sort of went off into the world’s bar instead. And Feist who I did the video for, and who is obviously very close to me, she set that up for me. So, you wrote and starred in a play last year…Īlong with that you’ve directed videos, done solo projects, produced…what tangent haven’t you explored yet that freaks you out, or still excites you? It’s a wonderful thing in today’s day and age. KD: Bigger every year, and the fact that it’s free. Supercrawl is still going strong and getting bigger every year! I still think the integrity of it is intact. I think it’s changed a bit with the influx of people, and rising prices, and what was a big artist movement in 2012…it’s a little harder for artists to live here now. Everyone I know that’s in Hamilton is pro-Hamilton. It’s got kind of a Portland aspect to it, and how it just keeps changing. He made a great point how everyone just unites – hippies, punks, everyone’s here just kind of doing their things. Hamilton to me…it’s interesting because we were just talking about it at dinner with Brandon Reid, a lovely gentleman who lives here that we met through The National. KD: No, but we’re close! I grew up in Etobicoke. So, do you have a close connection to Hamilton? † Follow the rest of this response from Kevin Drew later in the interview. Then he ends his response with, “…and that’s what I think the power of music does.” Just like that, he secures the stitches, and everything is held together.īut before we go too far down these tangents, perhaps it’s best to take Drew’s advice and find our way back to the beginning. I follow him, only to lose the end in the fabric. I struggle to keep up with Drew’s threaded answers. It’s just…how lost do you want to get before you try to get back? It’s all about getting back to you.” “It’s through living that we turn to, ‘Where’s my guru, where’s my shaman?’, when really, it’s in you. We lost sight of it, of course.”† He continues, swaying through a list of women he thanks god for, the comparison of the band to a community, how they wanted to create a soundtrack to get through, and finally this. In between their second and third albums, the band cranked out a less inspired sounding compilation of B-sides entitled Bee Hives before releasing their self-titled and heavily orchestrated 2005 album with contributions from members of the Dears and Raising the Fawn.“When I go to shows, and still to this day, and when I was young, I just wanted to feel something and be overpowered by the joy of being in that moment with everyone around me. That's right, Broken Social Scene was an 11-person ensemble before they recorded and unveiled You Forgot It In People, which worked because of the singular-yet-eccentric vision of all the people involved, creating a work of sheer beauty with their tight pop structures and lush sonic textures. Leslie Feist (who now makes beautiful music under the Feist moniker) also joined, along with Toronto local luminaries Andrew Whiteman, Justin Peroff and Jason Collett.
They added Charles Spearing from Do Make Say Think, Evan Cranley from Stars and Emily Haines and James Shaw from Metric to round out the sound. Accidental and By Divine Right's Brendan Canning. Canada's Broken Social Scene is an amalgam of Toronto indie musicians initially comprised of Kevin Drew of K.C.
If you think California indie rock bands are overflowing and incestuous in their lineups, take a trip up to the Great White North.
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