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00:00:34:03 This [inaudible] fictional DV about the recording,
00:00:35:28 is that coming out anytime soon or is that like...
00:00:38:28 It's not in our hands, like the people who made it,
00:00:41:26 we just kind of signed off, like that's your thing,
00:00:44:05 the album is our thing.
00:00:45:21 Okay.
00:00:47:01 The trailer looks awesome.
00:00:48:18 I haven't seen it,
00:00:49:28 I watched it once.
00:00:51:08 I didn't get through it, but...
00:00:53:06 It's just hard to watch yourself.
00:00:54:28 Yeah, I know people ask about it all the time,
00:00:56:14 and I have no idea really if it's...
00:00:58:20 if anything is going to happen.
00:00:59:28 I think they should just put it out on...
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00:01:03:28 Yeah, they want to...
00:01:05:07 For the five people that are interested in seeing.
00:01:06:29 Yeah, they wanted to pitch it to festivals and stuff, but I mean
00:01:12:28 ...any interest, start making it, and it's kind of a bummer
00:01:15:24 because it's like not really going to... no one carry off.
00:01:21:02 But it's, you know, it's there and it looks,
00:01:23:07 I don't know, for like, you know,
00:01:25:20 if you're a fan, like I am super interested to see it.
00:01:27:28 There is brief cameo of Jon-Rae in there,
00:01:29:28 you're slapping him in the face, I'm like, well...
00:01:33:20 The promoter called Jon-Rae's the next day.
00:01:39:00 It's like Jon-Rae was too drunk to play at that show.
00:01:41:06 Have you seen Jon-Rae since he is like come out?
00:01:43:26 Oh yeah, he was there.
00:01:45:03 I saw him play when he...
00:01:47:28 he came through Hamilton a while ago
00:01:49:28 with like a different band...
00:01:51:28 Yeah, it was great, did a bunch of Annie Lennox covers.
00:01:55:00 -Yeah, random. -We just...
00:01:56:16 I just recorded an album with him and Catherine from
00:01:58:18 The New Pornographers & Immaculate Machine
00:02:01:02 a couple of other people in September.
00:02:02:20 Wow!
00:02:03:28 3 hours, 10 songs.
00:02:05:22 3 hours, 10 songs.
00:02:08:10 -It sounds really good. -It sounds really good, actually.
00:02:09:18 -When is that coming out? -It's a hotshot, trombone.
00:02:11:23 Doesn't have a label or anything.
00:02:14:04 Well, there you go.
00:02:16:06 If anybody...
00:02:19:24 If anybody out there owns a record label,
00:02:22:27 there is a fantastic record,
00:02:24:28 it's just in limbo, that's incredible.
00:02:26:28 Jon-Rae has a band,
00:02:28:06 and I think it comes up like around you guys,
00:02:30:04 again, like bands like The Constantines,
00:02:31:28 name like some of these more important bands
00:02:33:18 that have been in your life in the last few years?
00:02:35:18 Magnolia Electric Co., Canadian Record.
00:02:38:18 Secretly Canadian Records.
00:02:40:10 Honorary.
00:02:41:27 But definitely like Black Mountain
00:02:43:16 and Attack in Black and the Cons
00:02:45:24 have been the funnest to tour with for sure,
00:02:49:08 because we all get along really well, and they have fans.
00:02:56:12 I get the feeling that there is,
00:02:57:28 yeah, a very, very similar, like kind of kindred spirit vibe
00:03:00:18 between you guys and Attack in Black,
00:03:02:18 there is like something about these hardworking like
00:03:05:08 Canadian bands, this like-minded groups of like pirates.
00:03:08:06 They're kind of trying to live out this like pure wacky end,
00:03:11:11 like I don't know, everybody is drinking and just appreciating
00:03:14:14 where they're at, kind of thing.
00:03:16:19 Yeah, it's great.
00:03:17:28 And Canada is the funnest to tour.
00:03:19:23 I mean, the drives are long for half of the country,
00:03:24:05 but it's just like, I don't know,
00:03:25:23 it just seems like there is a real sort of
00:03:27:18 spirit of the road with Canadian bands,
00:03:29:28 because everybody has done that, 14 hour drives between like
00:03:34:08 Sudbury and Winnipeg or whatever.
00:03:37:23 Well, I guess it's probably longer than 14 hours.
00:03:41:19 22 hours or something.
00:03:43:11 And how does that differ from some of your European ventures
00:03:46:09 and stuff like that, how is it like,
00:03:48:00 some more memorable moments from your tours in Europe?
00:03:51:01 Well, we've only toured there once.
00:03:56:26 But it was great.
00:03:58:09 I mean, we played in the Netherlands and Belgium
00:04:01:28 and stuff, and places I've never been before,
00:04:04:27 and it was just really cool to actually meet people over there
00:04:08:02 that had somehow heard of us, and...
00:04:10:28 I mean, there wasn't tons of people at the shows, but...
00:04:13:20 But it was better than America.
00:04:15:07 Yeah, better than America, we've toured there like eight times.
00:04:19:05 Well, America is a tough... is a fucking harsh mistress.
00:04:22:24 Yeah.
00:04:24:08 It's difficult down there,
00:04:25:28 and it's very caddy and they're spoiled people.
00:04:29:18 There's just so many more bands there, I think that it's just...
00:04:34:26 Like even in the cities like
00:04:36:10 I never heard of until like touring, it was like
00:04:39:18 Rad bands play in those cities every night of the week,
00:04:42:28 and it's like,
00:04:44:06 why would anyone care about some Canadian band passing through.
00:04:46:22 Exactly
00:04:48:22 It's difficult, and the attention span is just like,
00:04:53:03 it's like 30 seconds.
00:04:54:22 These people are just like into what's cool,
00:04:56:18 and then like three weeks later, they're over it,
00:04:59:06 because there is something new, you know.
00:05:01:03 The UK is like that too.
00:05:02:13 But it's different because they actually search it out.
00:05:05:10 I find in the States they just sort of like
00:05:07:28 take what's kind of handed to them,
00:05:11:05 I think they're not like so much searching for good music.
00:05:15:27 Yeah, if anything, I would say that the UK,
00:05:17:28 like with the amount of like press there is over there,
00:05:20:18 and just like how much like...
00:05:21:28 like you get NME at the grocery store,
00:05:24:17 it's like an impulse purchase
00:05:25:28 on the way out of the grocery store,
00:05:27:28 and there is nothing like that here or...
00:05:29:08 -That's like a tabloid. -Yeah, exactly, exactly.
00:05:31:21 It's weird.
00:05:32:28 Yeah, I mean it's like tabloid culture, everyone is like
00:05:34:28 constantly focusing on the bands, and like
00:05:37:28 some of those bands like come up like instantly, right?
00:05:40:05 Yeah, they get like a record contract after the first show
00:05:43:05 or something like that.
00:05:45:18 They record an album and its massive,
00:05:47:28 and then they're gone forever or something, it's weird.
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00:05:54:02 From the ashes of the old, I am George Pettit,
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