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Becky: The Chipettes too. Britney.
Bruce: They never even did any punk covers.
M: You’re a band that claims you’ll play anytime, anywhere.
Krista: No, no.
M: You don’t like this policy?
Krista: We used to.
Steve: When Derek joined the band he coined this phrase for us. Because
at that time, we were playing anywhere, anytime, anything. But
then, this guy interviewed us and said: “So would you play at Hitler’s
birthday party?” That’s it. We were done. But we definitely like to play
all kinds of gigs, all ages.
Becky: Like playing kids’ birthday parties and basement shows.
M: Any really strange shows?
Steve: We’ve played a lot of birthdays. One all the way out in Hope
once.
Bruce: We played a show in Abbotsford with Joey, these forty-year-olds
who played Tom Petty covers.
M: These birthday shows, how would you book something
like that?
Krista: Well, we played an all ages show at the Ukrainian hall in Vancouver
and this kid just asked us jokingly to play his birthday. But we were
like, ‘Yeah, we’ll do it.’
Steve: Our attitude is just ask us and we’ll probably do it.
M (Carmen and Elliott in unison): So, yeah, we’re having a
release party for the next magazine.
Steve: Time and place?
M: October 19th at the Marine Club.
Steve: Aw, we’re probably on tour. We’ll be playing with Thunderbirds
Are Now!
M: That’s about when you’re releasing the Fall EP, right?
Becky: Yeah. Bummer.
M: In terms of promoting, how have you found things here
in Europe? We’ve found that people handing out flyers here
are a lot more aggressive. There just seems to be a lot more
music, a lot more artists that wouldn’t get the time of day
back home.
S: You walk down Granville on any given night? They’re always handing
out stuff.
M: Granville Street, for sure. But, promotions are everywhere
here.
Steve: Yeah, the infrastructure here in the UK and Europe is impressive.
Becky: They have a totally different advertising system.
Steve: We played Berlin and we were told that they weren’t able to
put up posters, because it costs $400 dollars just to put one up in one
subway station. So it’s all internet and word-of-mouth.
M: And yet you guys have had such a good response over
here. We were at your show in London.
Steve: Yeah. It’s so refreshing here because people are so excited about
music. Of course, soccer...football comes first. But music is second. I
find music takes such a back seat in Vancouver. There are a lot of other
things that hold a higher priority.
M: Like what?
Steve (laughing): Multiculturalism.
M: Damn that multiculturalism.
Bruce (speaking directly into the iPod): For the record, we are totally