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Mission District
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David: I’m David, the lead singer.
Rob: And I’m Rob and I play the guitar.
Travis: I’m Travis and I play guitar.
Antoine: I’m Antoine and I play bass and
keyboards.
Patrick: Hey. I’m Patrick, and I play
drums.
David: We are in the Mission District.
We’re the Mission District.
Patrick: The Mission District.
Travis: We can edit that in, right?
[Video clip]
David: We’re a rock band.
Some bands get carried, carried
away in their sort of labeling of
their music and this and that.
Well, I think we play rock and
roll.
A lot of the songs I’ve been
writing lately lyrically are deal-
ing with generational issues.
We’re the first generation that
has unlimited resources. I like
writing about, you know, soci-
ety and where it’s going, but at the same
time a lot of the songs are, you know,
personal.
In terms of music, it depends on the song
sometimes. You know, I’ll bring in some-
thing sometimes, he’ll bring in something
sometimes, he’ll bring in something
sometimes, he’ll bring in something, and
sometimes we write all together.
Rob: Yeah, sometimes a song will just
sort of happen.
It’s very rare that someone comes to a
practice with a song that’s totally written.
Patrick: We get our inspiration from
many different things.
Rob: I personally, when we’re doing writ-
ing, I receive a lot of inspiration from the
guys in the band. We really play off each
other a lot, especially at practices where
things are really tense and uncomfortable
and we’re all mad at each other, that’s
usually when the best songs happen.
David: We practice about three to four
times a week.
Rob: Everyone’s got pretty eclectic
schedules. It can get pretty difficult
sometimes to lock everyone down for
an evening.
David: Four out of five of us have cell
phones, so it makes it a little easier.
Patrick: No, no, no. My cell phone was
taken away ’cause I got fired.
Travis: I really can’t live without my
cell phone. I’m never in one place for
very long.
I’m a big fan of text messages. Five hun-
dred messages goes fast if you use text
messaging like as often as I do.
Antoine: So you definitely need to be
ritual all the time.
David: It’s generational too, because like
our parents’ generation, it was a differ-
ent deal. They had one job, they’d go
home and they’d check their messages,
and they have like a schedule. We’re
just not at home as much. We don’t go
home to check our messages, so the cell
phone, we need it because it’s a different
lifestyle. And in terms of the band com-
municating, outside of the band it’s
really e-mail.
Patrick: I didn’t like realize how addicted
I was checking my e-mails …
Rob: Yeah.
Patrick: … until I don’t have a computer.
Rob: The Internet can sort of be like that.
You don’t really realize how much you’re
using it. Your Internet goes down, it’s like
this cataclysmic …
Unidentified: It’s the end of your world.
Unidentified: Panic.
Rob: It’s just, “Well, what am I going
to do?”
David: If my Internet goes
down, I’ll go to someone else’s
place and use it or I’ll go to
an Internet café pretty much
instantaneously.
Patrick: My Internet provider
sucks. There’s always a
problem. It’s always slow;
it’s crashing.
Travis: I’ve had nothing but
problems with my Internet
connection. I used to call the
tech support all the time, until
I was told that there was nothing that
could be done about it. Sometimes I can’t
connect to the Internet at all. It’s always
slow. It’ll cut out for no reason at all. It’s
just frustrating.
David: In the States, it’s way better. I
think it’s just ’cause there’s more op-
tions in the States, but Canada only has a
couple of companies.
Travis: Paying less for a service like
doesn’t really mean anything if it’s no
good. My service provider sold me some-
thing that they couldn’t deliver. They
can’t provide the service that I bought, so
I’m definitely paying too much.
David: When we play, it depends on the
month. Sometimes we’ll do like three or
four shows in a month, sometimes we’ll
do one. If we’re just playing in Montreal,
we try not to overplay.

Rob: We don’t want to wear out our
welcome.
David: Yeah, exactly. There was almost
more networking between band and pro-
moters, I think. I don’t know what they
did, you know, like before the Internet. I
mean, now you can book a tour online.
Antoine: It’s fun to play small venues.
Patrick: Well, big venues are fun too.
David: We first met MC when she came
to a tiny, tiny show that we did.
MC: My name is Marie-Chantal Tur-
geon. Sorry. Yeah, that’s why people call
me MC. I’m a blogger, podcaster, video
blogger, and I also run my own business.
I’m just talking, writing and showing
people things that matter to me and
experimenting with all these new media.
I started podcasting last year.
Rob: I had no idea what podcasting was.
Patrick: We were all like, “What’s a
podcast?”
Rob: Until I heard about MC promoting
the band, but that’s just, it’s helped
us so much, being involved with that
whole thing.
MC: I was in this bar like to see a friend,
and they were there playing.
David: And she saw us at that show and
she liked our stuff.
MC: Not even the day after, the night
after the show I came back home and I
talked about them on my web blog, and
then people heard them in my podcast
and then people saw a picture of them,
and then I coproduced a show, and the
news started to be spread.
Antoine: MC really has a lot of, I would
call it indie cred.
Rob: She has got such a big listenership
and she turns people on to our website
and our MySpace profile.
David: MC’s really in fact helped the
band. The last show that we headlined at
Main Hall was a success in part due to
the fact that she really played our stuff
on her podcast and she announced the
show a lot.
MC: We have an expression, the music
scene in Montreal, I like to say that it’s on
fire. There is this strong creative energy
right now. For me, it’s really important to
promote these good bands that have no
other window.
Patrick: I think you could be the best
band in the world, but if you don’t have
the means and the machine behind you,
then probably nothing will happen.
Rob: When you’re just starting a band,
it’s not like people are throwing shows at
you. You really just have to get up there
yourself and go get a venue, book it just
kind of hope people start to show up.
Bobby Skafish: There are the traditional
routes, slugging it out on the road, taping
up flyers at the record store, having a
demo. Now there are higher-tech routes
on these things. Nowadays you can’t
even see a band without them asking you
to get on their e-mail list.
Patrick: This thing MySpace is really
helping bands out a lot. There are so
many people on it, so it’s getting so many
hits, and it’s worldwide, so everyone has
access to it, and it’s free.
Rob: With MySpace, you’ve got a friends
list of all the people that are friends with
your band. There’s much more of a con-
nection between the band and the fan
base. Like we can actually physically see
who the people are that are listening to
our music.
MC: I think people crave this direct
contact with their artists. As a fan, as a
blogger, I get something that would not
have been possible 20 years ago.
Amy Schroeder: MySpace and the In-
ternet is probably the most powerful tool
right now for musicians. A lot of bands,
unsigned bands, are able to do exactly
what they want to do as far as making
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their music the way they want to make it.
MC: With the Internet, there are no
borders.
Bobby Skafish: That musician with the
great song could be living in Guam.
Through technology, they could get
people in Chicago listening to it.
Amy Schroeder: Fifteen years ago it was
more difficult for, you know, somebody in
a remote location to discover an under-
ground band in another city.
MC: This is a fact, that the planet is just
getting smaller. If you put your stuff on
the web, the world is there waiting.
Rob: It’s cost-effective and it’s remark-
ably easy.
Amy Schroeder: If a fan discovers a band
themselves online, they’ll tell 10 of their
friends, and then those 10 people will tell
30 other people, and it just keeps blow-
ing up that way. And it doesn’t really cost
anything, whereas I think a lot of major
record labels are just dumping so much
money into trying to market bands.
Bobby Skafish: I think record companies
changed over the years from signing a
band maybe based on what they could
do at a club or a demo tape to having the
luxury of seeing how a band does once
they put out their own music.
David: And we’ve had labels like write us
through MySpace.
Bobby Skafish: The record company in a
way feels like they don’t have to take as
much of a chance, because the chance
has already been taken and they’re
already able to see results.
Amy Schroeder: Is there a need for a lot
of these huge record labels when on the
other hand there are so many unsigned
bands who are really becoming success-
ful in their own rights through
the Internet?
David: I think eventually the record com-
panies will come around to realize that
the Internet is the way to go.
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You know, if things are changing, then The album itself is, we’re starting work Let me think. It’s just a question of evolv-
they have to adapt or they’re going to on it as soon as possible. We’re all really ing as far as we can with this band, with
lose out. chomping at the bit to get to work on it. those four other people that I love.
Check, check 1-2. 1, 2 … Antoine: We kind of hope we’ll get big
one day, because I would be able to just
Rob: The first step is really to get signed.
focus on the creative stuff, which keeps
We want to go further.
me alive.

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