Connor From Boys Night Out 2.0

Back for a second time, and only on the show a couple months ago, so many incredible things can happen in that short space of time.  Like....

An UNBELIEVABLE headlining sold out show at The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto.  The show was amazing, and we give our pal Connor a massive congratulations on an incredibly successful show! What he shares with us that is next for BNO, is awesome!!!!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, It's Dimitri here from Canadian as Heck. Can you
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, I don't think anybody wants to listen to us
fucking talk though.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
That's a spirit.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
That's so what I'm here for the spirit of Christmas.
Shit on your face, we're living.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
I get him every fucking time. I love it.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I just didn't you hear the count You didn't see
the countdown?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
No, you know you're trying to fucking make the goddamn
post for the anti Queens that I've been trying to
do for fucking half an hour.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
The Anti Queen. Did the anti Queens get their name
from that st TV sketch with the rock band called
the Queen haters.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Them on and ask I hate the bloody quiet?

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah? She makes me go to school?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Do you know? Do you know what the fun part
about the antie Queens is is all day, anytime I
thought about their name, I had abba singing you are
the Antiqueens in my head?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
That's that's bad. That's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Got to go.

Speaker 5 (01:35):
Yeah, hey, hi everyone, this is a program we call
Canadian This Hack. This is episode one zero nine. We
got it figured out because Dimitri did.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
The math for us. No, she did the math. You're
just quiet. It makes us look smarter.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
We are blessed to have a fellow that we all
managed to hang out with on Friday night at the
place called the dan Forth Music Hall. And we've got
a huge fucking show that just happened, and we've got
a massive scene that we've also got to talk about
as well. So welcoming back our dear friend Connor, leader

(02:17):
of Boys Night Out.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Woo Yeah, that's right back.

Speaker 5 (02:24):
Dude, uh two point oh, we appreciate this. You are
now the fourth guest only that is blessed with the
whole two point oh thing. Right, So we're the other
three Johnny Dovercourt Cola from the ob GMS dj SB
and and Mark Gain, Mark Gain from Martha and the Muffins.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
You're the fifth. Thank you, right, you're in really fucking
good company, my friend.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Were they wearing their own merch?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Were they wearing their own marking on? Nor were we
wearing their merch them?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
But when Johnny Dovercourt could have been wearing a wavelength.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Thing could have been of and but did he mention it?

Speaker 5 (03:07):
And Dimitri when we interviewed DJA SB for a second time,
Dmitri showed DJA SB the the signature shower curtain that
they had made and Dimitri has it, and Dija was.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Like, oh my god, you actually fucking have that.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
You were bought.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
And the one the other one was was was was himself.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
Yes, right, So anyway, we are going to get this
thing rolling here. So welcome back, brother, thanks so much
for joining us again and a huge fucking congratulations.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Man.

Speaker 5 (03:48):
That show on Friday Night was so much fucking fun, dude.
It reminded me of a punk show from like literally
the mid nineties. There were clothes flying, like people were clothes.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
I saw clothes flying. It was very odd for me.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
I saw children. Did you see the children flying, Derek, No,
there were children flying, children really safe, safetily safe.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
They were flying, being lifted and hoist safely by adults.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Nice around and responsibilities.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
That's fantastic. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
So anyway, brother, I know that this show was a
long time in the making for you guys. You talked
at length about some of the struggles that you had
on our last podcast. So we are just so literally,
Dimitri and I were standing because Derek was, you know,
choosing with the with the band backstage, and Derek, Dimitri

(04:46):
and I were on the floor with the common folk
having a fucking blast.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
They're called.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Is that what? Okay?

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, they were so.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
I don't know so uh but no, Honestly, Dimitri and
I even looked at each other was like after like
literally because because of your previous podcast, we were both
saying like, this is just what you've gone through and
putting this on fucking congratulations.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
We were so happy for you. Couldn't have happened to
a better guy.

Speaker 6 (05:13):
Honestly, it was amazing and insane and scary and the best.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
What scared you?

Speaker 7 (05:23):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (05:23):
It was well, I mean just because of who I am.

Speaker 6 (05:25):
I'm like, don't fuck it uploaded, Fraser, don't fuck it,
don't you fuck this up? And then you did, damn
it and then I did.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (05:35):
No, it was you know, put a lot of pressure
on myself, but no, it was fucking an outstanding.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
It was amazing.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, I know the boys, I know the boys felt
a lot of pressure as well, like Scotty Scotty Well,
Scotty Scotty and uh and Joey both. I mean, Matt
was just like, I'm gonna hit stuff. That's what I'm
gonna do. That's his approach to drums, that's his He's
He's like, grew up wanting to hit things and now
he does.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
But I know, I like, because you know, talking to
the guys in the green room beforehand, right like, I
know that they were like everybody was like, and.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
You said, you weren't schmoozing with the band, but anyway, I'll.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Just I wasn't. I wasn't. I was setting up cameras,
I was rescuing. I was rescuing Kresty because he his
camera fucking busted. Really yeah, right, So Kresty Michael plays
bass in in Anti Queens, and I was outside with

(06:31):
my buddy Lee solo, and we were talking to their
guitar player, Pink Hair Connor.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Some some would call that schmoozing.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
I can't do names on them.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Okay, okay, sright. Anyway, So speaking to the young lady
that plays guitar for Anti Queens, and she was like, oh, yeah,
Crusty's camera like they broke He broke the lens broke
off inside the camera, like in the body.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
How the fuck does that happen?

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Well, because he was carrying it in his knapsack.

Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yeah, that just doesn't seem very smart. Let's have him
on the podcast.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
So we do that.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, so, uh, don't worry, Linley, We're gonna get to superos.
Don't worry. Uh Ryan Lindley in the Chat Getting Sauce podcast, right.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
No, no, no, that's Scott. Well, that's that's Scott bel
getting No.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
No that we've got we've got Getting Sauced. Is Ryan
Lindley's in there, okay, right right, Sleuth is our dear friend.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Switch handles, okay right, Like everybody's a fucking pirate.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
So so I was. I was talking to her and
she was like, oh, like he busted his He's like
she's like, my buddy busted his camera. And we're like
wondering what we do? What we do gentlemen, and Derek nice,
thanks Scott, and and so I was like, well, I
have another camera, so let's go. And then he came
out and he was like he's like, are you fucking serious.

(07:52):
I'm like, yes, I'm serious. Let's go, let's like take
the camera run like I've got this other one that
I'm gonna be busy doing ship with, so you go
and do this. And the shots that this guy took
I am so jealous. Ah they are Oh hello, they are.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Fuck.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
I've got the raw files and I'm like, oh these
are these are so like he posted he posted as
black and whites and stuff, but like the raw files
the color versions because I'm I'm a big color person anyway,
but the colored versions of stuff are just like, I'm like,
holy shit, these are gold. There's like there's like three
or four of you, Connor where you're just like big,

(08:36):
like you're just big, right, and it's just they're so
fucking epic and like you got the lights and the
fog and the shit behind you and stuff, and it's
just just amazing. Nice. I am going to put this
conversation on hold really quickly because we're gonna throw to
We're gonna throw to one song, one song really fast,
because we're changing Scott because Craig's got a Google otherwise

(09:00):
known as DJ Seamless. Now that's what I call him.
I don't know why me oh, because you're mixing because
you're mixing, because you were like you mix that, you
mix those two songs, and I honestly didn't know where
one left off and the other one picked up. So
I decided to call.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
You, Dje this thing you've ever said to me, Derek Lewis,
I'm glad we're recording as something.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
I'm actually going to put that on my tombstone.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
You should. This is the last time it happens.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
As someone who's part of this show. I am just
so curious as to what's going to happen now.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Oh, we're gonna we're gonna throw to a really quick
song and then Derek, we do that. We do that
so that like we can introduce you to the musician
that we have, right, Yeah, we have that. So we're
gonna play one quick song. Then we're gonna come back.
We're gonna have more of a chat about the experience

(09:58):
at Danforth Music Hall.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
Million people can't be wrong or broken Bone Switch version.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
The EP one, Yeah, the one that's the EP one,
the exactly.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
I have like six versions right now.

Speaker 6 (10:11):
So it's a demo version, yes, demo next to it. Yeah,
I got it seamless Derek throaway.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
No, I'm gonna let connor if if if you, if
you could introduce this.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
Will absolutely introduced this. This is one of the first
two songs we ever recorded. This is the demo where
I am playing drums and singing and Jeff is playing
guitar and bass. That's what's the two of us before
we even had the band members. Uh, and it's a
sketch artist composite.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
First two songs we recorded.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Right here Revolution Radio Canada Canadian as hack.

Speaker 8 (11:10):
And I can't believe that's what to fish you are.

Speaker 7 (11:22):
Dot as that.

Speaker 9 (11:23):
I saw you tumble, that I was.

Speaker 10 (11:30):
Bad bad on web that your last one she under
that you said? And I don't that one passing?

Speaker 7 (11:45):
No that song? And do right?

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Are you gonna make you pay?

Speaker 11 (11:53):
Ask God?

Speaker 7 (11:55):
Die? Did?

Speaker 11 (12:00):
I said?

Speaker 8 (12:01):
God help you?

Speaker 7 (12:03):
That you go with.

Speaker 11 (12:07):
Stun m with you.

Speaker 7 (12:14):
God? No?

Speaker 8 (12:16):
God, Yeah, I definitely are yes that you.

Speaker 11 (12:23):
Do ships Sun onward m h m, my your doll.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
Do WI so love?

Speaker 8 (13:01):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (13:03):
Go A?

Speaker 11 (13:10):
Why God, Dad?

Speaker 7 (13:12):
God?

Speaker 11 (13:13):
Why that's up?

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Why not?

Speaker 7 (13:18):
Jup?

Speaker 11 (13:33):
I'd God, God, I know you're not younger.

Speaker 7 (13:41):
That's a.

Speaker 12 (13:43):
You know.

Speaker 7 (13:45):
That's the sun. Oh we're not out?

Speaker 11 (13:55):
Yeah, it's I d y.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
That's it is too fucking cool. That you played drums

(14:23):
on that dude, that is awesome. Okay, so I'm a drummer.
I got to ask you, do you remember what kit
you played on that song? What drums you played?

Speaker 4 (14:33):
I don't remember the exact kit, but I do know
that it was it belonged to Scott Comer. What kit
was it?

Speaker 5 (14:39):
I think, oh, Scottie Pearl yet because we were sessions,
Pearl Sessions.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
I believe you're correct.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
I believe that's what Scotty's told me, that he's got
to set up Pearl Sessions. Those are beautiful drums, kind
of like an upper mid level kit. I used to
sell drums as well, right, worked with just drums, worked
at Steve's Music, so, like you know, and those were
actually really good.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Door with drums.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
He would it's hard to go with a full set
of drums.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Didn't really the thing I've done it it's great. Did
you have the straight Cats?

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Did you have like Slim Jim phantoms set up?

Speaker 3 (15:14):
That's right, yes, exactly.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
You don't know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
You think I don't know what you're or I don't
know what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Are you actually either of you know what I'm talking are.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
You talking about his stand up drums set by?

Speaker 4 (15:29):
Yes, we have no idea.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
What was unique about Slim Jim's stand up drum kit?

Speaker 5 (15:38):
Oh, I would say there's probably a bass drum that
was turned upside down because it was a cocktail style kit.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Possibly, not the most unique thing about that kit, and
how few pieces there are. Not the most unique thing
about that.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Okay, let's hear it. Let's hear it, let's go.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
His kit was tied to a structure. You could literally
hang this thing from the ceiling and play it.

Speaker 11 (16:02):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
It was so sturdy because as a sing as a
as a as a stand up kit, the kit would
continuously move from him and they would have to reset
during songs. So he rigged it so that they're whole.
They're held together with like different different boat ties and stuff.
Are you connor?

Speaker 4 (16:24):
Fuck you? Fuck you? Are you like a hundred serious? Yes?

Speaker 3 (16:30):
I get him on the show.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Yeah, get the fuck out of it.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Really, why do you tell the audience what you're talking about?

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Yeah, so Derek is currently swearing at our guests and
no one knows.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yes, So, Slim Jim and I have spent a great
deal of time together.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
God damn it.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
As he is, as he is the husband of Julia's sister.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Wow, that's free and awesome.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Man, I want to I want to cry right now. Okay,
So I met I met Brian. I met Brian Brian
Setzer from the Stray Cats a bunch of years ago,
and he said the weirdest thing to me. Uh he looked,
he looked at me and went, Jesus, I've never seen
one that big. And he was referring to, uh, the

(17:23):
terry I have tattooed on my Connor's fucking gone.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Connor's gone.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
It was at an orgy in La No No. I
was at I was at much Music and and he
was like, he was like, He's like, wow, that's He's like,
I've never seen one. He's like, that's even bigger than mine.
And I'm like, I know, it's big, giant, fucking terry.
I've got straight cats loo tattooed on my arm. Anyway,
I'm happy.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
Now, Okay, cool. So we'll definitely talk about that. But
at the end of the day, I think Derek is
still in shocks.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
Totally. Fine.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
So brother, let's let's talk about let's talk about your
show the other night.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Now, let me jump in let me jump into this. Okay,
hold on one second, because we're going to talk about.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
The show for those talk about.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Of course, for those counting sketch artists. Composite was track
eight on the set list, Track eight, This track eight,
I counted, well, yes, that's all I got. So during

(18:35):
the process of putting together the show for dan Forth
Music Hall, this this Boys' Night Out reunion show. I
know we already had the show at Furnace Fest, but
this was I want to say hometown, but I don't
want to say hometown. It tracks, it tracks. What was
your process? One for set list and two.

Speaker 4 (18:59):
For port That is an easy question. Set list first,
I wanted to make it a mix of.

Speaker 6 (19:12):
The whole, the whole smorgas board of songs, like a
little something off every album, including some of the the
old old songs, because I knew we would have so
many like hometown people that were there from day one.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
I have a story for you about that in just
a second when you.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
So that was easy enough, and.

Speaker 6 (19:39):
But in choosing the bands, Anti Queens are first of
all fucking awesome and.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
Are damn they were good man.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
They were really good, always flawless.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Really good, very tight, they were great.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
They command the stage. It's insane really good.

Speaker 13 (20:01):
And they.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
Scary Loud.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
They they let Scary Loud or had us play a
show with them that they were headlining at Access not
long ago, earlier in the year, and.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
It's like I was like, I know, this show is
gonna be fucking amazing. It's gonna be so much fun.

Speaker 6 (20:25):
So I wanted to thank them and have them on
because I am also a fan and I thought it
would be an awesome show for them to play.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
And Full Blasts are the motherfucking full blast.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
Yeah, I mean when Boys Night Out started, I mean
Full Blast impetted projects were basically you know, joined at
the hit and you know with Boys Night Out as well,
back in the early two thousands, you know, ninety nine,
two thousand and two thousand and one, we played together

(20:59):
a lot. So yeah, that was And when I found
out that there was the possibility of them coming out
of retirement to play this show, I mean there there
was no question.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, they hadn't played in how long it had been
quite a while, like as a unit, yeah, like they
haven't played in like a fair a fair amount of time. Yeah,
And that was one of the fucking tightest sets I've
ever seen from them. Yeah, like ridiculously tight.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
Yeah. And Jess was captivated by Darren. Oh yeah, positively
captivated by Malcolm.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Wow, there you go.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
It's he is.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
He is kind of he's a handsome lad.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
Oh you don't have to tell me.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, I know, I know, you know.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
I mean, you just outed, you.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Just spent time. Oh it's just there, high sweetheart. How's
your trans stamp?

Speaker 3 (21:58):
You can.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
For those who don't know that the Saturday, the next
day after the concert follow up.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
Yeah, letting the audience in on the inside joke in
other words, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
There was a there was a tattoo event at at
Lewis Family tattoott company Company you.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
I like impouring, but anyway, company, I'll change it just
for you.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
I will literally, I won't do after this.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
After this show, I am going down the street, I'm
going to rip it off the fucking windows and I'm
going to put new stuff up.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
That's ridiculous. Company is better than sorry, Dimitri, I know,
but company is better. Okay.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
So it was like it was a boison out.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
It was a boy hosted by by Turkey, famous Canadian musician,
band singer.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
Connor Owen.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yes, I love Gowan, I loved I love go God
damn I would have loved if he had been there.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
Well listen, so I want to I want to uh,
I'd really like to go backwards here. So what happened
to uh me on just a real quick I'm going
to try and tell the story. Shut up, Derek. I'm
going to try and tell the story as quickly as
I possibly can. I met a fellow by the name

(23:31):
of Nick who came from Stony Creek. He told me
a story of the fact that he and his friends,
there was five of them, were at the very first
boys' night out show in the mid nineties, and he
was literally like really emotional. He's like, we've all come
fucking full circle. We're all still here where with the guys,

(23:53):
and this is an incredible fucking night.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
And I just I introduced myself.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
He introduced himself and I said I used to work
at the Edge and blah blah blah blah, and he said,
do you buy any chance no Martin Streak And I
was like, yeah, I was his DJ for four years.
And he's like he literally literally looked at me and
gave me a big Hug and he's like, you know
Barry Taylor and you know John Davies from Punkorama and like,

(24:19):
so he started asking me with all the people that
I worked with, and you know, it's just it was
an amazing conversation. I talked to him and gave him
our card for Revolution Radio. So hopefully Nick, hopefully you're
hanging out with us tonight, brother. But anyway, it it
was an incredible conversation.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
For me.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
It came full circle because unfortunately, like I was telling
you off air, I just I was I was just
so wrapped up in my own world as far as
the edge went, and I didn't, you know, unfortunately latch
onto the whole Burlington scene. But I was, in a
small way a part of it because I was the
DJ at the Kingdom for four and a half years.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Right.

Speaker 5 (25:00):
So, right, so it's it's one of those things like
I remember playing Boys Night Out, I remember playing Monine,
I remember playing you know, all of these great bands.
I just never got it. And then at the end
of it, my daughter was with us because Derek wonderfully
got us tickets through.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
You know her Connor got it.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, I know, I know.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
I'm just saying I'm just saying, Okay, I'm just saying
at the end of the whole thing, my daughter looked
at me and very I got really emotional when she
asked me this question as we were driving home, and
she just said, you know that interaction that you had
with that fellow tonight at the concert, that really She's like,

(25:41):
I'm fourteen years old.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
I wasn't alive when.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
You were djaying for the Edge, and I didn't know
this scene, but the place was sold out tonight, it
was packed, and was Martin Streak that important? And that
really fucking got me, man, And I was like, you
have no idea like what we were, what Boys' Night
Out was to these scenes, and all of these scenes

(26:05):
were kind of independently working at the same time, but
they were all part of a massive collective. And I
was just wondering if you could take us back to
those early days, because man, I'm telling you, when I like,
I literally got emotional when I saw fucking clothes flying
in the air, I was like, this reminds me of
a fucking show from ninety four. This is incredible, you know.

Speaker 6 (26:27):
Yeah, it was, Yeah, it was nuts. I mean those
earlier shows, I mean those were floor shows. That's I
mean everybody set up on the floor. Everybody, you know,
people stepping all over your pedals and knocking over the

(26:47):
mic and like get it, you could get right up.

Speaker 5 (26:50):
Fuck, that's everybody you see, like you see like pictures
like videos back in the day of like through gauzy
of like I am a patient boy, oh way to
and like fucking everybody is on the floor with the
band that much.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Just old Burlington y m c A. Yep, right, like
the was it Pine Room or oak Room?

Speaker 4 (27:09):
I can't Pine Room that was where our first show was.

Speaker 5 (27:13):
Yeah, wow and could you could you mention could you
bring up I know Scotti Kmer has mentioned a bunch
of the clubs back in the day, but like some
of the clubs that you guys like frequented and kind of.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Oh god like that with that scene that got.

Speaker 6 (27:27):
There would have been okay. So we had in Burlington
there shows at a little place, the Iron Duke. You
had the Music Center, you had of course the Oakville
y m c A. And the Oakville Pine Room.

Speaker 8 (27:45):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
There was a church in Mississauga, uh that always had
shows in the basement.

Speaker 6 (27:56):
And that was that was that one was seminal. There
was Saint Mary's Church in Burlington. It also had shows
in the basement, which was amazing. Uh where else were
we playing a ton of the Legion Black Bowl?

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (28:15):
Yeah, oh man, and ultimately even shows a Kingdom and such.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
I remember train Wreck there was the train Wreck release
was something about train Wreck was at Kingdom because you
brought You were like, Derek show up for this and
I was like, fuck, yeah, I remember. And then I
was like, who's that chick because that's when you had
uh huh Cara.

Speaker 6 (28:42):
Yes, absolutely, but yeah, it was all I mean, we
weren't Oh the Yellow Sub in Burlington.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
That was awesome, but fewer venues, more halls and church basements,
mh like that that was where the shows were.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
And roughly how many bands would you say that there.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Were that as many as possible?

Speaker 6 (29:09):
Oh my god, so many, and all of us were
in several at the same time. There were bills that
we would play that I would be in three of.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
The bands that were playing, and usually usually they started
like early too, right, like like four PM, six.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
O'clock four, sometimes as early as four. But so I'd
been playing drums in gym class. Joke, I would be.

Speaker 6 (29:34):
Singing in this this was pre Boys Night Out, but
like singing in GANGI five Robots and then also screaming
in Two Shades of Pain, and it would all just
be almost the same.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
Bill.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
You were very tired at the end of it.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
I'm a tired man always, but then more so.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yes, yes, do you think that there was some sort
of intangible force winding its way up and down the
QWI W and those I do? Yeah, Like, all right,
tell us about this intangible force.

Speaker 6 (30:04):
Then I will tell you about the intangible force because
it was giving rise to so many bands that would
make a name for themselves, like in that era. So
I mean you had Rainbow Butt Monkeys, Oh yeah, yeah,
your Finger eleven in Burlington, you had Grade obviously as

(30:27):
well from Burlington, you had Jersey, you had Silverstein, you had.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
Oh my god, I'm gonna forget every band I ever loved.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Well speaking here, speaking of Silverstein, they just they just
presented uh comer with a with a gold record, the
gold record.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Yes they did, they absolutely did.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
I was hoping to jog your memory on other bands,
thank you, but it didn't work. I didn't work, Okay, yeah,
pettit project. But I mean and that's really just the
Burlington area from there. You had, you know, the whole
Sonic Onion scene coming out of him. Absolutely, yeah, you know, Tristan.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
Psionic and you know.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
It was thirteen Engines.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
Sonic say creep show, I will say, and creep show,
of course, I say, Billy Talent Engines was uh Onion?
I don't.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
I must have been mixing it up, you know. But yeah,
sometimes I'm sometimes I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
I doubt that's Dimetripedia in fact, but no, it was.

Speaker 6 (31:39):
I think it was just something was happening in that area,
and the intangible force was probably Jesus.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
So awesome more than likely it was. For me, it
really was.

Speaker 5 (31:54):
I'm not going to say that's the first proper show
from the scene that I've I've actually seen Monine and
fucking fantastic, but it's just it like for me, it
was really it just it made me kind of like
a bit nostalgic.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Because I was like, fuck, like, how did I how
did I miss this? You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (32:15):
And I don't know because I was talking about it
the whole goddamn time.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
Yeah, well you were. Nobody would listen to me then
why I usually don't listen.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
But I wasn't an authority at that point.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
No, I just it was it was it was cool,
like I straight up honest.

Speaker 5 (32:29):
I mean, I literally looked at my daughter and I said,
everybody in this room, or three quarters of the people
in this room right now, look like an old pal
of mine, John Davies, who used to work for Sony Music,
used to work for The Edge back in the day. Tattoos,
glasses just like me and Derek, baseball cap, you know,

(32:51):
kind of like windbreaker jacket. Like if everybody just kind
of has this look that was absolutely a part of
this punk scene and it's unmistakable exactly. It was just
it's it's it's fucking beautiful. It was wonderful, and I'm
just looking around. I looked at at I just basically

(33:11):
looked at my daughter and I said, like you need
to understand, like you know, Derek has been friends with
these guys for forever, Dimitri has been a part of
this scene. This is the tough Basically everybody's standing in
this room right now. I used to DJ too, and
I think for my daughter, it kind of just really
like when you know, this guy brought up streak because
I've talked about Streak for her, you know, for like

(33:32):
the last ten years that she can understand Martin Streak
the name. That night your show really made her understand
just how important her being an alternative kid is because
I told her, I said, you have to understand somebody
like Martin Streak, and bands like Boys Night Out and
all of these wonderful acts and DJs.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
We all kind of made it cool to be an
alternative kid.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Can I Can I make a point here? I just Craig,
when you were talking about how how Blake was was
was saying, I think I not. I was very sure
impacted by the by the point of her bringing up
Martin Streak, more impacted by the by the wording that
she used when you were talking to that fellow?

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Yeah, yeah, you're right.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Were those the words that she used? Did she say, Dad,
you were talking to that fellow, not fella, that guy,
that guy, that dude. Okay, because I wanted to applaud
Blake on the use of fellow, I'll join.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
I don't know if she Julie, We're fucking applauded it.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Shut out.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Accolades given, accolades given. Now, there were there were a
multiple multitude. Sorry, there were a multitude of of really
high point at Danforth mm hmm, one of which was
the beginning of that show, Oh yes, yes, when you're

(35:11):
when your we last came out with little Marlowe came
and introduced us. Dude, Holy, that was I do you
know what I loved most about that? Not her speaking,
and I will say that outright. What I loved most
about that was the applause when you came out and

(35:32):
she was in tow and then everybody shut the fuck up. Yes, yeah,
you could hear a fucking nail drop in that building.
It was epic. And then she was like and she
there was and I've got it. I've got it on

(35:54):
film yea, And she she kind of like side eyes
you and You're like, yep, go ahead, and the mic
comes up and then she says a thing. And that
was high point of the freaking evening. Was that that
little moment of silence between you guys coming out and
her speaking.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
Yeah, that was awesome.

Speaker 9 (36:16):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (36:17):
And that that was so I mean obviously huge for me.
I mean, so we'll put this out on the tattoo
day on the Saturday. We're there and people are getting tattooed.
I'm sitting there and that clip came up. Actually I
think Jess was getting tattooed the tramp stamp and and
when I saw that clip, and I fully teared up

(36:39):
and yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, I know, I know you got quiet you got
because we were we were all chatting for a little
bit and then Connor just kind of disappeared for like
a good a good fifteen seconds or so.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
No, that was really good. So aside from that wonderful
postage stamp in time, and I love I love that,
there are so many, so many little viewpoints of that. Yeah, right,
Like that's just it's it's it's I mean, the Internet
is forever, so that's gonna be there. She's gonna watch that,

(37:15):
she's gonna be twenty five, and that'll that'll pull up. Hopefully,
that'll like the Internet will still be there and that'll
pull up. Aside from that spectacular moment and uh and
everything else that went on with the night, what was
what was your definitive high point, definitive.

Speaker 6 (37:36):
High point of the night. And I can't use that one.
I couldn't pick one, man, I straight up.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Cool, yeah, because I and I think that like for me,
is standing backwards.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Your muted Craig.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Sorry, I can and as a matter of fact, but.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Dimitri was talking, so you fucking hold on.

Speaker 5 (38:00):
Yeah, because like okay, because I'm back now, whoa, I'll
be over here when you need.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
Me, yeah talking.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
So for me, I just thought just like like just
like the like the people in the pit washing crowdsurfing
and everything, and just thought like like they looked it
looked like it meant like all the all the souls
that the soul bearing that you did when you recorded

(38:33):
these songs originally, it meant as much to them now
as it did back then. It's like it's still it's
still the music still holds.

Speaker 4 (38:46):
That importance in their lives still.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
And I and I uh, and so I couldn't really
pick out one moment Craig is going to I will
allow him to.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
So thank you, Dimitri. I greatly appreciate on you all.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Speaking of that and tying in tying in the the
love that we have for our our friend and fallen
comrade Martin Streak. There was uh, and I don't know
if it still is because I haven't been there in
a very long time. I know Ivy's worked there a
couple of nights, uh in the past a little while.
But there used to be a quote from Martin that

(39:37):
was put on the wall at the Phoenix Concert Theater.
And I'm going to bastardize the ship out of it
because I don't remember it exactly. I know it's and
I know, Craig, if you google like five seconds, you'll
pull it up. But it's it's it's along the lines

(39:58):
of music. Music is one of the most powerful things
on the planet. It has it has the ability to
transport us back in time to little bits and points
in our in our lives where where those emotions were
uh at the surface. See, I'm fucking shitting all over it.

(40:20):
And and I like, I remember that, I remember that,
I remember seeing that. And when you said, when you said, like,
you know, it's it's as poignant for them as now
as it was then, I would argue that I would
say it is more so, it is more so impactful

(40:42):
now than than it was then. Right because because we've
gone through so much, we've been through so much, we
grew up, we kicking and screaming, became fucking adults and
here we are, right but yet we still have we
still have that we still have those those aspects of

(41:02):
of like young kids, uh, pushing and fighting for for
our spot in the world. And and and that's what
it meant. That's what it meant. That's what it meant
at the dan Forth mm hmmm.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Well, I can imagine, like an album like train Wreck
for a lot of the people there was life life
altering because like before, before they heard the album, they
were they were walking along this trajectory and then train
Wreck just sort of like maybe move them a little

(41:36):
bit this way and they wouldn't be the people they
are now.

Speaker 5 (41:40):
Totally agree, it makes yourself sick as fucking brilliant. You
don't you don't have to say anything to it. I
think like we're giving you, We're just essentially giving you
the love basically. Brother, That's what it is.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
You know.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
And it's just like it's just like something that thinking
about since Friday, like just watching like the reactions that
people I had in that room, you know, Like so
like our friend, our friend Scott was talking about like
a like a friend, a friend who flew from Edmonton
to Toronto for that show.

Speaker 4 (42:15):
Yeah, yeah, Amanda Adams, Mandolin Adams.

Speaker 5 (42:19):
Yeah, So if I may, We're just going to play.
I'd really love to play did you have to fly?

Speaker 3 (42:27):
Connor? Are you like mand?

Speaker 4 (42:30):
A couple of weeks ago, and I'm just chilling at
our place now.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
So our our new place, our new place in the Hamilton's.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
In the Hamilton's.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
I've let it out now people are gonna be at
your fucking door. Sorry, we've gotten.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
Yeah, no, don't see the microphones.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
On tattoos, Connor, how's yours?

Speaker 4 (42:50):
Mine feels great, it feels lovely. I forgot what it
felt like to get tattooed in a hot minute. Yeah,
it sucks.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
It absolutely fucking sucks.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
Thank you for your pressuring me into it.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
You're very, very welcome here.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Derek is not only an artist, he's also covered in them.
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Yeah, okay, we're going back not only the owner, also
the client.

Speaker 5 (43:12):
We're going back to an album that was Scotti Comer
produced back in two thousand and three. This fucking album
is so good. This for me, I believe, is one
of the highlights of the show. It's Dylan, you know
the drill. Fucking Yeah, super brilliant dude. We're playing it
right now, right here, Canadian as heck. Revolution Radio Canada

(43:32):
refresher beverages boys three minutes and thirty six seconds.

Speaker 7 (44:04):
So we mother fuck.

Speaker 9 (44:20):
My dot taters and waiting since sat trying not I
playing my job adds playing death and then safter my
bracket ball give me for taking I don't by days
balls dot back john doctor.

Speaker 11 (44:43):
Don't tell the jolly sold for.

Speaker 9 (44:45):
A supplication cuts my loss? Why cho guy dot line
waiting said time?

Speaker 8 (44:58):
Wholly dead that fly?

Speaker 11 (45:02):
Why wave it do?

Speaker 7 (45:05):
Said time?

Speaker 9 (45:13):
That's name strip d ta don't play dona fine, but
don't get done that but jo my dina don't take
sday I not that my wings up fighting not that well.

Speaker 11 (45:35):
And we're got go down with something.

Speaker 9 (45:36):
Stop phone when I'm.

Speaker 7 (45:38):
Talking like that sad excite?

Speaker 9 (45:42):
Where wa din that fly?

Speaker 11 (45:46):
Why do you wait?

Speaker 7 (45:49):
Said time? When want and din that fly?

Speaker 9 (45:55):
Why the way you turn?

Speaker 13 (45:57):
I said, black dot stella, don't tell me up? Jobbing

(46:29):
up and babycided to lock it up?

Speaker 7 (46:32):
Lock you up a favorite Lisa burning out, burning.

Speaker 9 (46:36):
Up, I bad shot inside it up.

Speaker 11 (46:40):
Timon up and tell.

Speaker 9 (46:42):
Me sup Joe now attempt to shut you upside you up,
so now will have.

Speaker 7 (46:49):
To stop you up.

Speaker 9 (46:50):
Job you up and got us ware.

Speaker 7 (46:56):
Can don.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
Fuck yeah now that for me, was one of the moments.

Speaker 5 (47:08):
So I talk about you know, is it is it
called fuck I can't remember, is it called I Am
a patient boy Fugazi?

Speaker 3 (47:15):
It's it's the one.

Speaker 5 (47:16):
It's waiting room, thank you, thank you so much. That
for me was your waiting room the other night, Like
when you guys threw that down the fucking crowd every
single time.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
You kind of went like this, you were just fucking
freaking out.

Speaker 5 (47:34):
And both my daughter and I looked at each other
and were like, that's there for Gauzy, Like it was
just anyway.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
So I just id so that's that's. I will say
this flat out. If there is something that Boys Night
Out is fucking known for across the board, it is
goddamn gang vocals that everyone in the room can and
will participate with at any goddamn time, every goddamn time.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
Yeah, there was always.

Speaker 6 (48:08):
Crowd participation, gang vocals, everything all in answer all that
child man.

Speaker 5 (48:13):
Yeah, So I questioned Connor as far as we were
talking earlier about streak and and everything and just all
of the wonderful programming that kind of surrounded you guys,
like you know, there's of course the late great Dave Bookman.
That was, you know, a huge, a huge influence on everything.
Our good friend Johnny dover Court with Wavelength, and of

(48:35):
course you know Barry Taylor and John Davies on Punkorama.
For you, could you point to either a year or
a gig or a band or something that made you realize,
holy fuck, this is happening.

Speaker 6 (48:57):
What is well, let's pinpoint what is happening like there
that there is a scene out there, that there is
just this thing.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
Well, I think I think a scene is it?

Speaker 5 (49:08):
I think, okay, so a scene could maybe be a
little bit too broad, but I think what I'm wondering
is is like, is there a point where the Monins
and the Finger E elevens and the Billy Talons and
and you guys and everything, you know, everybody kind of
got together.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
Was like, holy shit, this is you know, this is
really starting to take take shape. Now take you know,
we're moving forward.

Speaker 13 (49:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (49:28):
I mean Grade was always huge for for me specifically,
but for us as a band, uh and uh and
you know Grade trunk like and just seeing the sort
of thing that watching them them get this trajectory and

(49:51):
then people noticing and everything like that was when I
realized that there was this awesome sort of thing happening
this genre, and you can point to bands like the
Get Up Kids and everything in.

Speaker 4 (50:05):
That era as well.

Speaker 6 (50:07):
But for for me, especially hitting home like local, local, local,
local was was great. Okay, and a year I would
say probably ninety seven, ninety eight was probably right around there.
I graduated high school in ninety seven, so like it

(50:28):
would you know, high school was was really the time?

Speaker 3 (50:35):
Nice, fucking nice dude, Yeah.

Speaker 12 (50:38):
Ninety even, Yeah, I graduated in ninety seven. No, No,
I'm just I'm just what's your problem? I'm just why
do you hate me graduating in ninety seven so much?
Anytime we're together, it's the graduating, graduating, and really the
graduating I have a fucking issue with. It's not the
time you did it, it's when it's it's doing it.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
So I imagined that that Friday show provided a lot
of emotional Catharsis for you, and I was wondering if
you could speak a little bit about that.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
Yeah, good call Dmitri.

Speaker 4 (51:12):
Yeah, a lot of it, I mean, and you know,
Furnacefest as well.

Speaker 6 (51:18):
But this this to a whole other kind of degree
because it was more of that hometown show and it
was more of the people, yes, uh, and just because
of how insane the whole year has been.

Speaker 4 (51:36):
For myriad reasons, but.

Speaker 6 (51:43):
It was yeah, the chance two to get up and
really throw it the fuck down.

Speaker 4 (51:53):
Like it really was.

Speaker 6 (51:56):
An expression of everything that that this year has culminated.
It ah and you know, for good or for ill,
everything that this year has brought, and especially knowing how
hard Scott, Joe, Matt Jet, how.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
Hard they worked and you know, had to learn a
band learning another band's full catalog.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Yeah, is not in style and style dark and style.
It's one thing to learn another thing for distinction. And
Joe has done an amazing job of U of pulling
up like Jeff like, Yeah, has done an amazing, amazing,

(52:52):
amazing job of I mean he's got a little he's
got a little back history, right, but he's done. He's
done a fucking bang up job. And Jet are really
this is going to be bad. It's going to go
over bed.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
Jet has done a fucking amazing job with Booth. You're right,
that doesn't communicate as well as you hope that doesn't communicate.
Really well, he's done a very good job of channeling.

Speaker 4 (53:17):
Rob there it is, Yeah, and Matt.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
So Matt not only has to channel, he's got three
drummers and yeah that's four story four.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
You yeah, that's right, and me yeah, I mean those
guys are something else.

Speaker 6 (53:38):
I and I if it's not going to be the
original members, honestly, I can't fathom doing it with with
anybody else like the three obviously Scott, Matt and Joe
Scary loud no brainer. But Jet brings the wild card
factor to the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
He's certainly does.

Speaker 4 (54:02):
That was that was my first meeting.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
I never I haven't interacted with Jet before, and I
was like, when I got there, I'm like, who the
fuck is this guy?

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (54:14):
And then and then and then uh and then subsequently
throughout the night, I was like this, this dude, this
cat that's all right.

Speaker 4 (54:23):
I like, you make it fun.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
He completely makes sense. We just got him get We
got to get him to jump and free, get to
come down. That's what we gotta get. So this, this
show at the dan Forth has and I'm not going
to say that it okay, I'm not gonna say it
has done the thing, but this is to something else.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Okay, Starting in February. Starting February March yep, March. I'm
just gonna read him off real quick. Hold on, give
me two seconds. March March sixth, Boston, Manachusetts, Massachusetts.

Speaker 5 (55:00):
Man, we're talking about seven mac sure cock and we
have no fucking clue. But anyway, keep going, buddy, Good
luck to you.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
God.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
I am not wearing pants.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
Godspeak.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
March March seventh in Phillip, Pha Helphia. March eighth, March ninth, Pittsburgh,
March eleventh, Cleveland, twelfth, Columbus, thirteenth, Chicago, fourteenth, Detroit, Slis seventeenth,
Des Moines, Idaho, nineteeenth, Denver, twentieth, Salt Lake, Seattle, twenty third, Portland,

(55:40):
twenty fifth, Roseville, twenty sixth, Anaheim, twenty seventh, May ninth, Dallas,
the thirtieth, San Antonio, Texas, April, Atlanta, Georgia April first, Sorry, Atlanta, Georgia,
the second, Orlando, the fourth, Baltimore, the fifth, Montclair, and

(56:08):
the sixth.

Speaker 3 (56:10):
There These are just towns with dates. What's going you want?

Speaker 4 (56:14):
The fucking venues?

Speaker 3 (56:16):
What's no?

Speaker 2 (56:17):
What's going on on? Armor for sleep? What to Do
when You're Dead? Twenty three tour with special guests, Boys
Night Out and hello goodbye.

Speaker 4 (56:30):
Yes, sir, that is correct.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
It's a goddamn thing.

Speaker 4 (56:35):
We're going on tour. We're going on the tour.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (56:40):
So there's been so so I I I.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
We we and I'm not gonna say me I fuck
that because it wasn't my idea. You know whose idea?

Speaker 8 (56:52):
It was.

Speaker 4 (56:54):
Your correct.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Idea, Jen Blackwood. Ah, it was Jen Blackwood's idea.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
And so.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
There's been a lot of call on the internet. I've
been I've been going back through the and the and
the and the the stories and the streams and the whatnot.
And everybody's uh, since we did the tattoo day at
my joint, everybody's like to be on like this has
to be on the tour. That's going to be exhausting

(57:29):
for you.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
I I but.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
Yeah, okay, I don't feel sure. No, okay, So, how
how stoked are you feeling? Nobody does? Nobody does. We're
all past that age where where nerve endings exist, you know. Yeah,
so how stoked? Like back on tour, I mean Furnace

(57:56):
Fest Wash was it was a huge that it was.
It was really great to watch you guys play that
show and then to be by which I would thank
you for giving me that opportunity to be that man
on stage for you. Thank you along with my buddy

(58:18):
Li Sol and and shoot that for you.

Speaker 3 (58:20):
I was.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
I really appreciate that much.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
I love you.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
I wouldn't have it any other way.

Speaker 4 (58:30):
Just in terms of going on tour again, and what's
that going to be like?

Speaker 6 (58:35):
Uh, We're going to find out what it's like to
live in a vehicle with with other individuals again. And
I'm here for it, man. I Uh, there's never been
a better time to do it. I think it's going
to be absolutely insane. Shows are the one side of that.
The show's super stoked. Goodna be awesome. The close quarters

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with other humans.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
All right, Yeah, let's let's get comfy.

Speaker 4 (59:04):
Because I'm I'm older, I'm smellier, I'm order.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
And that was great. Owner what the dictionary one? I
just say, I can't.

Speaker 6 (59:22):
Write and yeah, but it's it's just like, it's such
an insane thing to me to be when ty years
removed from from touring. Really it's been about twenty years
since I've toured pretty close to that fifteen twenty years.

Speaker 4 (59:41):
And it's gonna be wild.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
It's a whole different animal now.

Speaker 4 (59:46):
I know.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
Now you're like, we got to make sure there's water.
I need that tools. Yes, bathroom has to fucking work.

Speaker 4 (59:54):
It doesn't have to, that's not my problem.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
Well I remember I remember Warped tour and and you
and Jeff going yeah, don't go outside, yeah, don't use
that one.

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 6 (01:00:08):
I was like, okay, thank you, yeah, yeah, no, I
think it's uh, it's gonna be pretty amazing, especially with
I mean Armor for Sleep, who we we toured with
with them and Chiotos in My God it was probably

(01:00:28):
oh five five or oh six, I think, Okay. And
to be able to do that because Machine produced What
to Do When You Were Dead, right, I believe that
was the album he did right before train Wreck. Yeah, yeah,
I think that was the album he produced right before

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he produced train Wreck.

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
So Armor and us have always had this kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
And then.

Speaker 6 (01:00:57):
Because because it's next year is the twenty year of
train Wreck as well, it is, so you know, that's
its own mind fuck to me. But yeah, to be
able to go out with them, it's gonna be sensational.
And Hello Goodbye is one of those bands that has
like such a sweeping band base that is far more

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varied than ours, and touring with them is gonna be
fucking amazing too, because I toured with them in the past.

Speaker 4 (01:01:28):
Yeah, because I think Scotty knows a few.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
Yes, I think I think Scotty was saying that he
did no since it's it's you know, it's it's weird.
So like because I'm constantly on my phone because I
don't sleep ever, uh, but I have, I've had like
all these posts and streams come up and like Facebook, Instagram, X,

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whatever the fuck it's called, and it's it's really interesting
to see. Since you decided to put Boys' Night Out
back on back on the pavement, there's like a whole
bunch of other people that are coming out. Oh really

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like a whole bunch of old older like not old,
I'm not gonna say the oldest bad sorry, fuck, A
bunch of a bunch of nineties like late nineties, early
two thousands, punk, emo, scream, oh.

Speaker 7 (01:02:33):
What have you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
There's a lot of the a lot of these bands
And don't ask me to name them because I can't
remember them right now because I have a brain that's
a sieve. But I've just been noticing that there's there's
like all these different bands that are coming back out
and doing this like little resurgence thing. I want to
credit you for it. I'm gonna give you. I'm going

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to give you that title and you're gonna fucking take
it is absurd. No, it's it just seems like it
just seems like a good time for it. Really, it
is a good time for it.

Speaker 4 (01:03:07):
But look at that. I mean, you look at that.
You think of when.

Speaker 6 (01:03:13):
You know, when we were younger, and think of the
bands that our parents listen to, and when you know,
after that twenty year sort of thing of like you know,
whatever the seminal album is, which is classic rock, that's
when you start seeing the bands go back out again

(01:03:35):
and take another stab at it, you know, try to
try to, you know, recapture that magic if you will. Yea.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
So, how do you feel being considered classic rock?

Speaker 3 (01:03:48):
Dude?

Speaker 6 (01:03:48):
And that's exactly what I was just about to say,
Like I remember ten fifteen years ago, maybe ten years ago,
when Nirvana started being played on Classic Rocks stations.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Yep, yeah, I will, Craig, you remember that when Q
and O seven switched they switched over, they got fucking
death threats.

Speaker 5 (01:04:10):
I remember when I would, we would be djaying the
retro shows and it's like we're playing you know, retro
retro and this is two thousand and two, two thousand
and three, and we're playing Personal Jesus by depeche Mode,
and people are like, this is so old. I'm like,
this is fucking twelve years old old. What are you

(01:04:33):
talking about? This isn't retro.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
But it was absolutely yeah, it was like twenty two,
twenty three years old.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah it was.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
It was fucking now it's now, it's now. It's not
even classic rock now, it's classical.

Speaker 3 (01:04:47):
Yeah, you know, so listen.

Speaker 7 (01:04:51):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
If anybody has any more questions I think they need
to be asked right back for quick sc absolutely.

Speaker 4 (01:05:00):
Hey do dang it, Derek.

Speaker 6 (01:05:02):
When you starting and you were saying it wasn't my idea,
it was Jenny Blackwood's idea. Here's all these tour dates,
people keep asking for right news and their things.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
I was hoping that what you were gonna say was
that we're gonna go on tour with you guys one
hundred percent do tattoos at every show. You fucking I will,
I will, I will one hundred, one hundred percent clear
my fucking schedule and we'll do that. I'm sorry, what
I will one hundred percent? That would be my fucking

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schedule and we will do that. Okay, but you're also
gonna pay me.

Speaker 4 (01:05:42):
I didn't hear that last part. But I'm really breaking
up on right here. Let me call you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:47):
We're gonna call you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
Hold on, let me don't let me just you don't
know service right now. I'm sorry. I'm sure you don't
have really Yeah, okay, that's that's too bad. Hold on,
hold on, hold.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
On, hold on.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
I'm gonna just gonna.

Speaker 5 (01:06:02):
Our dear friend. Scott asked just Connor. When you go
on tour, do you have those moments when you always say, yeah, Derek, Derek,
hang out.

Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:06:12):
This is the moment of peace, happiness, or accomplishment that
fuels me on until the end. When I was in
basic training for the military and I thought there was
no uh, sorry, I'll say.

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
And I thought when I thought I was not going
to make the cut, I had that moment, sometimes unexpectedly
and sometimes because the platoon mat said the right thing
to encourage me. I've always wondered with artist musicians that
they have the same experience on tour.

Speaker 6 (01:06:41):
But yeah, I mean for me, that experience is always
when you actually take that first step out onto the stage.

Speaker 4 (01:06:53):
Yeah, and you're like, yes, I'm where I should be. Yeah,
this is the everything like this is. I mean, I've
been masquerading as a as a corporate.

Speaker 6 (01:07:09):
Working in the word is a shill is to say,
for the last how many and being able to get
back and be a musician full time.

Speaker 4 (01:07:22):
This is what I can do. This is what I'm
good at, this is what I love.

Speaker 6 (01:07:29):
I don't know what the fuck I was doing previously,
but it was nothing that was making me even remotely
feel any amount of joy.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
Peace.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
I'm totally there with you.

Speaker 5 (01:07:41):
I found a job recently that it's like, Jesus, why
wasn't I doing this ten years ago?

Speaker 3 (01:07:46):
You know what I mean? I get you, I hear
you straight.

Speaker 4 (01:07:49):
Yeah, it's uh yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:07:51):
I've been playing this little game to to to put
on some silly ass mask for a long time, and
it's it's nice to actually feel like myself again.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
There is a there's a Japanese phrase and it is
ekey guy, which means this is my purpose, living for
my purpose, this is this is why, this is why
I put socks on in the morning. This is why
I get up, This is this is what I live for.
There is a group of like blue zones throughout the world,

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but there's a blue zone in Okinawa and they there's
there's people that are living till like and like physically
living until like not just like sitting in a chair, no,
physically living and doing what they do, doing what they
do because they love it. And eke guy is the phrase,

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and they're they're living till like one hundred and eight
hundred and nine hundred and ten hundred and fifteen hundred
and twenty right, because because what they do is so
fulfilling to them, because what they do has so much purpose,
so much meaning for them in their lives. And regardless
what excuse me, whether it's whether it's pottery, whether it's singing,
whether it's whether it's they're great, great, great great. There

(01:09:10):
was just that there was a Ted talk recently. I
can't remember the guy's name, but there was a Ted
talk on it recently and I was listening to it
on talk radio the other night where he went around
and he interviewed all these different people in these different
blue zones, and Okinaw was one of them, and there
was one one lady who was she was one hundred
and nine, I want to say. And her reason, her reason,

(01:09:36):
her ekey guy was her great great great great granddaughter.
And he asked her, says, what is it what's it
like when you hold your granddaughter? And she said, it's
it's like taking a piece of heaven, right, so like,
and that's that's something I've always I've always kind of

(01:09:58):
kind of ran to with like like purpose, right, like,
what's what is it? What is it that fills you
with absolute joy?

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:10:06):
Hmm?

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
Well, for Connor, it's music, that's what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
And you can do the corporate shill stuff as long
as you still get your chance to do the thing
that you love, the thing that you enjoy, right, you
do the thing that you have to do to be
able to do the thing that you want to do.

Speaker 3 (01:10:26):
Fucking one hundred percent, dude, Derek.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
That was I surprising, wasn't it surprising?

Speaker 5 (01:10:33):
My hair is the hairs on my arm are actually
kind of standing up right now. That was really fucking smart, dude.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
Suck my gut.

Speaker 5 (01:10:38):
And there is then, and there's Derek Lewis back one
hundred fucking percent with a bullet, fucking weirdo.

Speaker 3 (01:10:46):
Anyway, that no, seriously, that was that was great, Derek, seriously,
no joke.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
So yes, if you want to come, if you want
me to fucking boot out on tour, I one hundred
percent fucking will we shall talk.

Speaker 4 (01:10:57):
We shall talk.

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:11:00):
So I think this is going to be great because
Dimitri and I are going to have Connor and Derek
on the road for like two months.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
This is fantastic to get so much content. It's going
to be great.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
Okay, So here we go. Even the right the right
sleuth is like, fuck, Derek, way to destroy the mood.
That was a great mood. That was so funny. It
was a mood it was.

Speaker 5 (01:11:21):
But yeah, the thing is what's brilliant about it is
it's a mood that you actually created and then you
destroyed it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:26):
But anyway, it's all good. So okay, So.

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
Connor, everything I said about okay now it is one
hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
Thank you so much for being here with us tonight. Brother.

Speaker 5 (01:11:36):
We just want to kind of We're going to give
you the floor here just for the next thirty seconds, minute,
two minutes, whatever the fuck you need to. Basically, just
if you don't mind, you know, sharing your thoughts and
and all the wonderfulness that way to put the man
on the spot.

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
Don't put chat or anything.

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
We're going to do this, you got, Yeah, you got
to be profoundest ekey guy, Well I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
Two bastards would let me talk.

Speaker 4 (01:12:10):
What Dirky said. And that's that's how I'll wrap it up.

Speaker 6 (01:12:15):
I mean, what else do you say? I mean, this
is this is uh what it's all about. This is
doing what you love and finding the people to do
it with. So a lot to be said other than that,
it's just I am in an awesome place and this
is the best way to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
Fucking awesome, dude.

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
And just and just seeing how much how much the
band means to the people, to the people on the
floor and the people crowdsurfing and everything.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
It's like seeing what comes back.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
It's like, yeah, like they're feeding you. You've always fed them.
It's a beautiful it's a beautiful relationship.

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
Yeah, we were so many, so many, so many gang vocals,
so many shoes, like so many shoes in the crowd
right like just like, oh, somebody's floating, that's the shoe.
It was a it was a really good time. It
was a really good time.

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
Yeah, and now and now yeah, like and it's great
that and it's great that you're going to go out
and have a lot more of that.

Speaker 4 (01:13:23):
Yeah, it's very exciting.

Speaker 6 (01:13:25):
Like we've like a lot of crazy positive feedback from people,
uh that were a shocked that we were announced as
being support and be shocked that we would be on
the road at all. So yeah, it's it's gonna be
something else to be able to be a part of this.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
Nice buddy, dude, listen, could you do us a favor?

Speaker 5 (01:13:51):
Could you do, as we say in radio speak, could
you do a front cell of a beautiful track Hole
of Waves.

Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:13:59):
So of Waves was the first track that when that
kind of Jeff Davis kind of threw my way when
we started getting back together and playing twenty sixteen to
record what would ultimately become Black Dogs. In the beginning,
we didn't even know if what we were recording and

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writing was going to be Boys Night Out or if
it was going to be a whole other band completely,
but ended up being Boys Night Out and of Waves
is one of the first songs that came from that,
And this song sort of encapsulates I think the book
end if Sketch Artists is the beginning. I think of
Waves really shows where the band ended up as Boys

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Night Out. I think it's a perfect track to showcase
that awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:14:49):
Thank you brother. We are going to sign off this show.
Derek will do the official sign off on the other side.

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
Here's of Waves. Boys Night Out is right here, Canadian
that's not going. Thanks a lot going.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
Yeah, Thanks Budy Corner, You're.

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
Awesome, dude. Thanks brother, silent.

Speaker 7 (01:15:36):
Rass the show and the water. It's my n n snsen.

Speaker 3 (01:15:47):
Also, let's say.

Speaker 11 (01:16:05):
Young man leave the.

Speaker 10 (01:16:09):
St bag in ligon amn.

Speaker 7 (01:16:20):
W ll me a fly.

Speaker 11 (01:16:41):
Just says.

Speaker 7 (01:17:04):
Love to parents.

Speaker 9 (01:17:07):
Outside realizes all by another.

Speaker 7 (01:17:14):
Wish at my side. She shi bang in li in ament.

Speaker 10 (01:18:27):
We are where.

Speaker 11 (01:18:30):
You work?

Speaker 7 (01:18:32):
Say we are where until it as why wait?

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
Si fuck I was doing something and didn't get to

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my mic. What a fucking epic, mature, fucking transitional trajectory
from the EP to this. We were talking to Connor
from Boys' Night Out. Thank you so much for listening.
We have been Revolution Radio Canada. This has been Canadian
as heck episode. I have no fucking idea. One O

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nine one O nine one or nine one o nine
good God, bless thanks for hanging out.