We’re you worried after the break that it wasn’t going to click again, or that it might click too easily? Hug of Thunder sounds like a record from a band that was channeling. I adored playing with them, and I adored that scene, and I adored that time, so I’d go and hang out with them while they were making a record.Īnd then Andy Kim, I wanted to spend time with, so I said, ‘let’s make a record together’.Īnd then I met Gord, and I said, ‘let’s make a record together’, and then he kind of kidnapped me, and I was into it. There’s a band called The Beauties that played at The Dakota tavern, they bring me joy. So, I thought, ‘let’s go cut this record in five days.’ I did some stuff with Still Life Still because these kids at the time, they’re adults now of course, but they came into my life and they brought me joy. I just kind of fell into because I wanted to hang out with people. I would say that I don’t have the greatest discipline when it comes to work, and music for me, went around discipline. The feeling is immediate, the result is immediate, the emotion is immediate, but in writing it takes a lot of work. At the same time, when you’re in a place like that you’re just constantly looking for excuses for why you haven’t done something that is a dream.ĭid the same thing happen with producing, and writing the play…was it hard to get into those different things? I think it was just realizing that life goes on that got me out of it, but the whole streaming and the digital world for a while there really freaked me out. I was kind of plagued by it - that sort of “missed the boat” syndrome. It kind of shut me down there for a while. I kinda said, ‘I’m gonna just go around the world and party with the locals’, and then I didn’t do the thing that I wanted to do, and certain aspects of that started to haunt me. She said, ‘You gotta start with a short, and then you go off and do your feature’, and I sort of went off into the world’s bar instead. And Feist who I did the video for, and who is obviously very close to me, she set that up for me. So, you wrote and starred in a play last year…Īlong with that you’ve directed videos, done solo projects, produced…what tangent haven’t you explored yet that freaks you out, or still excites you? It’s a wonderful thing in today’s day and age. KD: Bigger every year, and the fact that it’s free. Supercrawl is still going strong and getting bigger every year! I still think the integrity of it is intact. I think it’s changed a bit with the influx of people, and rising prices, and what was a big artist movement in 2012…it’s a little harder for artists to live here now. Everyone I know that’s in Hamilton is pro-Hamilton. It’s got kind of a Portland aspect to it, and how it just keeps changing. He made a great point how everyone just unites – hippies, punks, everyone’s here just kind of doing their things. Hamilton to me…it’s interesting because we were just talking about it at dinner with Brandon Reid, a lovely gentleman who lives here that we met through The National. KD: No, but we’re close! I grew up in Etobicoke. So, do you have a close connection to Hamilton? † Follow the rest of this response from Kevin Drew later in the interview. Then he ends his response with, “…and that’s what I think the power of music does.” Just like that, he secures the stitches, and everything is held together.īut before we go too far down these tangents, perhaps it’s best to take Drew’s advice and find our way back to the beginning. I follow him, only to lose the end in the fabric. I struggle to keep up with Drew’s threaded answers. It’s just…how lost do you want to get before you try to get back? It’s all about getting back to you.” “It’s through living that we turn to, ‘Where’s my guru, where’s my shaman?’, when really, it’s in you. We lost sight of it, of course.”† He continues, swaying through a list of women he thanks god for, the comparison of the band to a community, how they wanted to create a soundtrack to get through, and finally this. “When I go to shows, and still to this day, and when I was young, I just wanted to feel something and be overpowered by the joy of being in that moment with everyone around me.
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