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00:00:46:12 Is home life easy to maintain
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00:00:52:18 Yeah, it's good, it's going better now like I mean I think,
00:00:55:17 there was a few years where we were like... we kind of grew up
00:01:00:28 like with the idea in music where you just,
00:01:03:12 you don't turn down shows.
00:01:04:18 If somebody wants you to play, like you should play
00:01:07:14 and not turn down the chance but Like,
00:01:09:08 there was a couple of years of round turn [inaudible] it's
00:01:13:21 just getting to be too much, like all the creative energy
00:01:17:13 was kind of being sucked out by too much traveling.
00:01:20:16 So we just rethought it over the last couple of years and figured
00:01:24:28 out what we could do helpfully and safely.
00:01:28:28 and around 30-years-old now, we have been a band for ten years
00:01:34:16 and we are pretty comfortable communicating with each other
00:01:38:03 and knowing what like
00:01:40:04 just listening to what each other needs are.
00:01:42:19 Yeah, it's good, where it's the family business thing,
00:01:44:28 we just... we want to maintain the business and keep it going,
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00:01:50:11 Yeah, yeah definitely been on the road with
00:01:51:28 some bands that have... that were like,
00:01:54:22 you can tell like it's strictly business and like yeah they tour
00:01:59:19 ten months out of the year and they kind of hate each other.
00:02:01:28 Then you kind of get on the road with like bands like
00:02:03:28 Attack in Black, you really can kind of feel this like,
00:02:08:10 there's this camaraderie in this lost for travel
00:02:12:28 and all that stuff and
00:02:14:28 There is something to be said for like, yeah,
00:02:18:08 for staying connected to the performance to like...
00:02:21:15 I remember reading about like DC bands,
00:02:24:04 like the [inaudible] kind of era. Yeah.
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00:02:30:19 They would have like [inaudible] played like
00:02:33:12 what seven shows or something or like between seven and ten shows
00:02:37:21 and like all in DC I think, and they didn't want to leave
00:02:41:12 because I think once you start touring
00:02:44:06 you are playing everyday like the ceremony
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00:02:50:09 It's like, it's not as much of a momentous occasion,
00:02:54:00 when the band plays.
00:02:55:08 So I mean I like touring too.
00:02:58:00 I like what happens with the band on stage after like
00:03:02:28 two weeks of playing together you know.
00:03:04:06 Yeah, yeah.
00:03:05:15 But there is something to be said, for making sure that you
00:03:07:06 are not... it's not becoming [inaudible]
00:03:10:18 At Virgin Festival, last summer I believe,
00:03:13:28 you guys got to perform with Gord Downie.
00:03:15:28 Yeah, yeah that was amazing.
00:03:19:07 What was that like?
00:03:20:18 Yeah, like how did that come about; were they playing,
00:03:22:28 like did you guys met them before?
00:03:24:27 Yeah, we have played with them around Ontario,
00:03:28:05 some like big arena shows.
00:03:30:18 Yeah, I like that band a lot and then we ended up doing a tour
00:03:36:13 with them in the States which was really cool because
00:03:38:13 they were playing in smaller places,
00:03:40:16 and that was just a different context to see that band
00:03:43:05 that I see as a huge kind of Canadian thing.
00:03:45:28 So we got to know them fairly well on that trip.
00:03:49:15 They were playing on same festival in Calgary,
00:03:51:08 that Virgin Fest.
00:03:54:02 Dallas, like I am far too shattered to like approach
00:03:58:08 somebody on that kind of thing but Dallas was more confident
00:04:01:06 about it and just decided to ask Gord about it,
00:04:03:21 and he was fully into it.
00:04:06:15 I think what had happened is like when we were mixing
00:04:08:11 Kensington Heights, Gord was in town,
00:04:11:16 singing with The Sadies at the Horseshoe.
00:04:14:05 He came to hear a couple of songs,
00:04:16:07 when they are mixing at Orange
00:04:18:02 and just really liked that song.
00:04:20:26 I was talking talking about it and said he liked it a lot.
00:04:23:23 So when we were there, we asked, while listening on that.
00:04:27:08 Yeah, it was a real sweet deal for us,
00:04:30:05 to kind of practice for it, it was just like him
00:04:33:24 and I sitting in a trailer across a kitchen table,
00:04:37:14 from him like playing electric guitar quietly,
00:04:41:12 and him and I just sort of singing back and forth
00:04:43:15 lines of the song.
00:04:44:28 It's like, how do I get this point right here,
00:04:49:10 it was wonderful.
00:04:50:18 I'll never forget it.
00:04:52:05 I feel like when you guys first started,
00:04:54:06 everybody wanted to like,
00:04:55:21 say like it sounds like kind of like [inaudible]
00:04:57:13 and Bruce Springsteen.
00:04:58:28 But now I feel like, other bands are coming out now,
00:05:01:08 they are saying that
00:05:02:15 they sound like the Constantines kind of thing.
00:05:04:27 Are you aware of like your influence on Southern Ontario
00:05:07:21 and on other bands and stuff like that?
00:05:09:08 That's one of the things I guess maybe just about being a band
00:05:11:16 for ten years is like eventually somebody
00:05:14:03 will relate to what you are doing.
00:05:16:27 And so this like, yeah I mean we have met some folks that have
00:05:21:28 said that they are influenced maybe by what we do and that's,
00:05:26:06 yeah it's an amazing thing.
00:05:27:13 I feel very privileged to hear that kind of thing.
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