I've been working with Great Lake Swimmers for a while now, since 2005 I guess, when I made a video for 'To Leave it Behind'. We made that video for a couple hundred bucks and shot it on a beach in Pickering. It was one of my first videos really, and to get to do it with them was really exciting for me because I'd been a big fan for at least a year prior to that. I'm still super thankful that they gave me that opportunity because I'd really not done much work at that point to prove myself.

For this Camera Music, I met up with Tony Dekker just after the band had finished playing an early morning album release show for a bunch of kids at the CBC building in Toronto. Great Lake Swimmers had a song called "I'll See You on the Moon" on a record called "I'll See You on the Moon" which was a song on a special album of children's songs performend by musicians who don't typically make music for children. Subsequently they appeared on a CBC program for kids, playing that song, and then an album soundtrack to that show. Accompanying them during this performance at the CBC were some big puppets, but I didn't get to film any of that (unfortunately)

Instead, we got in a van and drove out to the Niagara region to go back to the grain silo where Tony recorded the very first Swimmers' record. He hadn't been back there since recording the record, and amongst indie-folk nerds, it's kind of a legendary story that he recorded the album there, so it was exciting for me to be there with my camera. He played "Moving Pictures, Silent Films" which is the first song on that first record. The acoustics in that silo are incredible and immediately you understand why he would have lugged all that gear in there to record...hearing a singing voice in there was like nothing I'd ever heard before. Huge.

From there we drove to a rocky beach nearby and then back to Toronto to the Intersteer Tavern (a bar in the west end that I used to spend a lot of time in and have wanted to shoot for ages) to have a beer and one more song in the city.