December 3, 2024 • 46 mins
Bassist, songwriter, singer, and craft beer enthusiast Lauren from Deer Fang sits down with the CAH crew, and fills us in on everything going on in their world, from upcoming shows, new music just released and produced by our dear friend Scotty Komer, to being in Niagra and the difficulties of finding live venues in the west end of Ontario. The latest tune that we spin on this show, is one of our favourites by this awesome Canadian band!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:21):
to Revolution Radio Canada and enjoy this podcast. Did you
see that countdown that just happened, Derek?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I did?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I did sell that question?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Good?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Ques? Did you say question or countdown? Welcome? Everybody?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Have the weirdest openings.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We do have strange, the weirdest on the internet. We do. Yeah, no, yeah,
don't say that that will get us canceled.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Okay, this is.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
A program called Canadians Hacked, formally formally called We're gonna
ask our brand new bestie here, Lauren, of course from
deer Fang. We're gonna ask her which she actually appreciates more.
I probably already know what your answer is gonna be,
but that's okay. But anyway, this program is called Canadian
as Heck right here on Revolution Radio Canada. My name
is Craig Ge alongside Dimetrilexiu and Dirky mcshirt cockin Jesus. Okay,
(01:24):
I love how you.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I love how you You kind of like segue to
Lauren from Deer Fang and said like like weed, like
like everybody fucking knew who we were talking to, like
you you didn't like give give like this great like
oh and this from blah blah blah. It's just like, oh,
you know Lauren from fucking deer Fang.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Boh b whatever what I said our new bestie though,
Like Derek, why do you got to make shit awkward?
I'm just wondering, why do you have to do that? Anyway,
I'm thinking of a reason. Her name is Lauren. You
are the lead singer, right, yes? And bass players player. Yeah. Okay,
(02:06):
we got to talk because I'm starting an eighties and
nineties cover band and I'm I'm I'm literally dying for
for a woman and a multi instrumentalist, So like, can
you back interesting seconds? Can you can you.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Know just I'm dying to have a a female musician
join us in the group as part of a band.
Don't just say I'm dying for a woman?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Did I say that? Actually? Yes? Okay, sorry, I'm a little.
My wires are cross because I'm excited to talk to Lauren.
So that's what we're gonna do right now, by the
voice of reason, don't fucking know, because normally you're not.
So once again, this is Canadian is Act. So okay,
So Lauren, we do have to ask you this question.
This show for one hundred episodes was called Canadian as Fuck.
(02:58):
What do you think of that name?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Oh? I dig it?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Do you like it better than Canadian as Heck?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I do?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Why are you.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Having Are you having second thoughts about.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Kind of a little bit, kind of a little bit
of money?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Would you like answership or would you like to be
funding this out of driving goobers?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, you're right, you're right, You're absolutely right. That's right there,
that's right to me, tre absolutely Anyways, listen, let's get
to the Lauren.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I do apologize that this is your first introduction to me.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
You've hung out with Comber, so.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, oh comb If Colmer was here right now, he'd
be in So it's it's all good. So anyway, I.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Did I get to ask I did ask Homer if
he had any inside dirt on you guys. And and
he gave me. He gave me some things, and I
was like, is that it nothing else? He's like not
not really. I'm like, like, nobody's got leparsy or anything.
And he's like, ask them. And I was like, somebody has,
like it sneaks up on you, like your death.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Yep, that's true, your death.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Leprosy just swims into your swims like swims into your swimsuit.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
That you're done, Derek.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Derek, I'd like to point out now that you're going
somewhere else. So let's let's how about we actually get
into the into the interview, and uh, folks, this is
the lead center slash bass player from a wonderful band
called Deer Fang. Now I got to be straight up
honest with my friend. I've been listening to you guys
for a minute and you're fucking awesome. So congratulations on
(04:38):
the new projects. Our good friend Scotti Komer, of course,
is the Yeah, thank you, Derek, God good idea. Well
that's Painter's tape. It won't hurt uh so wonderful, wonderful stuff.
I was wondering if you just let him do his
thing in the background. Okay, Uh, Lauren, did you do
us a huge favor and just kind of how let's
(05:00):
let's start with Let's start with you, and let's start
with you. How did you get into this whole thing.
We're going to talk about where you work in a
few minutes, but let's let's get into deer thing first,
shall we.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yeah, So the project is essentially myself and the rhythm guitarist,
jay e'donnell. We've had multiple other projects together as well.
We were actually in a folk kind of rock Americana
old country project together and from that, Yeah, we moved
into a like eighties sort of inspired synth pop band
(05:38):
called Years of the Modern, which is still active, and
then we've started this one. So it's it's been really fun.
We kind of had an itch to do something a
little grungy, kind of just you know, a little bit
more rock, a little bit heavier, So we started writing
the songs together probably probably about a year ago, and
then we started tracking with Scotty in January, and then
(06:02):
we just played our first live show in April, so
we've only been playing live since then. But it's really
successful so far, so we're pretty.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Stoked, fantastic. So as far as this project goes the tunes.
You guys write fucking wickedly, wickedly super intense stuff and
I love it. So let's let's talk about how do
you all end up essentially coming up with your tunes?
How do you how do you come up with essentially
(06:30):
how do you come up with tunes for deer Fame?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Yeah, so Jay usually writes the main like progressions, and
then we also write our drum tracks as well. He
has a kind of program where he designs the loops
for the drum tracks, so we usually puts that together
and then I'll take that ad my base and then
I'll add the melody as well. And the fun part
(06:53):
too is that we actually both share the responsibility of
the lyric writing, so it's pretty much about half and half.
So I'll write half the lyrics the ones where he
writes the lyrics, I'll like give him the melody, and
then it's kind of challenge sometimes because like in a
fun way, because he'll be trying to sort of fit
words to match my melody, and then all kind of
(07:14):
comes together from there, and then from that we bring
the track to Scotty and he's been putting his touch
and flare on it and that's been really great too,
so nice.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
So I've got to ask I have to ask you
if you if you're talking about like an eighties synth
pop band Americana like Folk Root, you know music, and
then of course now deer Fang. Normally I saved this
question for a little bit later in the interview, but
my god, who are your influences? Because we kind of talk,
(07:47):
let's go back to kind of your early days of
just getting into music and the the people that inspired
you to essentially do what you're doing now, because you
literally are are You're literally, aside from our good friend
Mark Gain, who is of course one of the principal
songwriters of Martha and the Muffins, you're literally one of
(08:10):
the only like three sided coins that I've ever met.
Like you've you literally got like three amazingly different music
styles checked off at exactly the same time. So can
we go back and first talk about how you got
into music, when you got into music, and your influences.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Oh gosh, yeah, the influences are everywhere. I started music
when I was just a kid. I was really lucky
to have a very musical family. My mom plays piano,
my dad plays bass in a bunch of bands, of
a sister that plays every instrument, she writes songs and sings,
and I was really lucky to be surrounded by that.
So for myself kind of growing up, my influences were
(08:53):
very eclectic, bray all over the place. My parents listened
to a whole Mexico, all kinds of stuff. And I
know Jay had a bunch of different influences as well.
He grew up with a lot of Like he started
out in a lot of punk bands as well, he
played punk forever and then kind of from that led
into some of the like more alt country Americana sort
(09:14):
of stuff from there, and now we're kind of going
back more to the punk side with your thing. Tons
of influences for this project, Oh my gosh, kind of
mix of nineties and newer stuff as well, bands like
Basement Balance and Composure, Oh my gosh, Soft Cult. There's
(09:37):
tons that are kind of got this like nineties influence currently. Yeah,
those have been a really big inspiration for us. There's
tons We love music so much, Like we're going to
concerts all the time, so we have a list of
like bands we're seeing all the time, and it's just
so much fun to see our inspirations live and.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Nice ye where a bunch of us are going to
see Boys Night Out? Actually hell yes in December, So
that's going to be.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
A sick show.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Are you going?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
No, we wanted to go, We're not able to make it,
but we were hoping next time they come around we'll
be there.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, I'll kick coma and for you perfect.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Now you're from now do your things from Saint Catharines?
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Now?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Is uh?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
How would you describe the music scene in Saint Catharines.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
It's interesting, like it's it's very very supportive musical community here.
We have sort of a limit on our number of
venues that we can play, so we found it a
little bit of a struggle in that way because we
are trying to kind of branch out and start to
play other cities around us, you know, Hamilton, Toronto, London, well, anything.
(10:57):
So we like we like the idea of like doing
show trade with bands, where you can sort of host
a band and then they can sort of host you
in their city, So in that way it can be
a little bit interesting. So we don't have to too
many venues, but the ones that we do have are
really great kind of all different vibes, and we have
(11:19):
a really neat mix of styles of music around us
as well. There's there's lot, like so many talented musicians
in Magara. We're very lucky.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, you got your your concert, your upcoming hometown show
at the Warehouse. Tell what how would you is there?
What is the size of the warehouse? How big of
a venue? How many people can that hold? Do you think?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I believe it's around a two hundred person cap. Yeah, yeah,
so it's a great size. They've done an incredible job.
They've got a great stage, awesome sound. We're like super
stoked anytime that we get to play there.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Yeah, and they have they host bands all the time.
Like we are very lucky. We get to go to
a lot of different local shows and check all the
different local bands that are super talented. Warehouse does shows
all the time as well, so there's always something going
on there.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, So you start you started what was the name
of this eighty synth pop band game?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
So it's it's still active. It's called Years of the Modern.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Years of the Modern.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Okay, great name.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So how come you how come that was the sound
that you guys started with eighty synth pop. Why do
you think that was?
Speaker 5 (12:48):
I mean, we listened. We've been listening to a whole
mix of different genres, and throughout the Lockdowns we got
listening to a lot of kind of dark wave and
synthpiece based stuff and post punk, and a lot of
the post punk kind of ties into a lot of
the punk and grunge as well, So there is a
(13:09):
lot of tie over there as well. But then we also, like,
I mean, I just love everything so much. I can't
decide what I like the most, and I find it
hard to concentrate on only one genre. So we find
ourselves Jay and I both with kind of variable projects,
and we write different songs that sort of fit into
(13:29):
the different projects. So it's kind of fun. Yeah, it
keeps it fresh and interesting and we love it all.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Now, you've been working a lot with Scotty Comber. Yeah,
and you mentioned that. You mentioned that this is somebody
that everybody in Deer Fang loves. So what is a
story or some dirt that you may know about Scotty
Comber that nobody else does?
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Oh geez, I don't know. I'd have to think about
that one. He's got a great dog. You know that's
not really dirt, but yeah, he's pretty great. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So as far as the recording that you guys have done,
have you done any stuff at his new studio, the
latest one that he's got out in, Uh, I guess
it's Burlington.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Yeah, we visited the space in Burlington. Oh my god,
it's amazing. It's gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I know, like it's really going to be something.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Yeah, right on the water, beautiful space, beautiful home, indoor garden.
What's not to love, giant windows, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
It's nice for us to coming from Niagara because before
we were going all the way up Toronto. Now we
don't have to go quite as far, just to Burlington,
so that's nice. And yeah, we're looking forward to seeing
it when it's all complete. It's coming together very nicely.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
So now, speaking of seeing it when it's all complete,
are you going to see it when it's all complete?
Because you have new music coming out?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Correct, really do.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
So we have out right now. Our first four track
EP is complete, that's out. Low Tide is the first
single off the coming EP. So single number two is
called Gone and that is coming out on Friday, actually
December sixth, and then we have another track after that.
(15:28):
I just was up there with Scotty recently two weeks
ago tracking the one to come after that, and then
there's two more as well, and that'll wrap up that EP.
So that's gonna be a five track EP.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Beyond that, we do have more material. We're always writing
new songs, so as soon as we can, we're going
to try to get working on the new ones too.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
When that EP comes out, are you guys gonna do
like CD release party or anything like that, any sort
of any P release party?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Maybe perhaps? Yeah, we hadn't really planned on anything specific yet.
We have a couple shows in the work for the
new year, so you might have to work something like that.
I would into it for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah. Nice. Yeah, Oh ship? What was I just gonna
ask you?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
What kind of bass do you play?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Question banks. It's a Fender Mustang. Yeah, I love it.
It's super nice. It's I Yeah. I chose a short
scale because it was nice and light, easy to throw around.
I've been thinking about getting a second one just for ships.
It's not like I need one, but I'm always looking.
(16:37):
But I love mine. It's it's really great.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I had.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
A Mustang as well. Oh they're great to play, they're
great to great.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah bass, Eric, Yeah, a Mustang bass. Oh cool. I
didn't know that. I figured I figured you would have
had a Mustang guitar, but I wouldn't have known I
had one of those.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
But I like the Mustang bas because I just got
rid of it. I just got rid of it. I
don't play it.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I thought it was like in some er disaster or something.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Uh no, it got leprosy.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Oh no, And it's so prominent with with fenders as well,
like they just get leprosy and that's the.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
End of them.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
No, No, I got I.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Got rid of it because I didn't play it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I had.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I had a six sixty eight is sixty eight P
bass as well, and I got rid of that too,
just because why would you get rid of a sixty
because I moment I didn't play it.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It was at that moment that Craig and Derek started fighting.
Oh that's basically like James Jamerson's base. Why would you
give away sixty eight P bass?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Do we want to talk about your drum kit? You
want to get back, you want to get Don Dixon?
Do you want to talk about that drum kit? Do
you want to get that on that in the air
on the air, like right now? Do you remember do
you remember when you sold your drum kit to my
other drummer?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Did I?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Years ago? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Forgot I?
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Did I?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I was a kit? Oh right that one. Yeah, let's
not talk about that anyway with shit. Okay, So my daughter,
here we go, Lauren, my daughter. I tried to talk
her out of this. My daughter has an epiphone SG
(18:33):
style long scale base. She wanted it because of were red.
She wanted it because she was it was red. And
she also wanted it because she wanted an epiphone.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Right right, I hate.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
This fucking thing. I fuck it's Does she like it?
Kind of not really? So anyway, we have our so
we have our eye on trading it in. I actually
happened to work at a place called Cosmo Music in
Richmond Hill.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Oh so.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Right, so I'm lucky, right, so.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I can I can basically as at that Cosmo right
where I.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Got my Yeah, That's where I got my musty h
nic nice.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah. So I I worked there and as a drum teacher. Yeah,
And I basically said to my my boss there. You know,
I've got this. I'm going to trade this in. Is
that cool? And he looked at me and he went, fine,
not really now, but he's gonna help me. He's gonna
(19:39):
help me out. So it's like, don't worry about it.
I'll probably sell it on consignment for you. Somebody will
want it. I'll so top heavy.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
He's gonna hold the thing up. For God's sakes.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
They're fucking terrible. And I'm literally we're literally walking. Okay,
this is before I started working at Cosmo. We're literally walking.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
From the way this interviews about laur No, No, she appreciates it.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Bass player, the bass player, she gets it, totally gets
it nice.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
So what if somebody who their feelings hurt right now.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
They're just saying to send them to a urate.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
So they can get nice.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
So anyway, we're walking from the base section Lauren, and
I'm literally saying, are you sure? Are you sure there's
a beautiful black Yamaha five string for exactly the same price?
Are you sure? She's like, she's baby five string bases anyway,
(20:36):
I love them so but literally, so anyway, Lauren, it's
like we get to the cash register and I'm literally
handing over the gift card and handing over this money
and stuff, right because she wanted it for her her birthday. Right.
And as I'm handing over the money, I'm literally going,
are you absolutely sure? Like literally, and the guy behind
(20:57):
the counter is like, I'm not gonna say anything. Then,
you know, finally we get it home. It's we've got
it for two weeks, and she's like, yeah, I don't know. Oh,
I'm like, are you.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
You should who wants to be a millionaire at it?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
And like phone to friend, I should have been I'm right,
I should. Here's Derek and Derek do your favorite. She's
about to buy an SG long scale and Derek would
be like, are you I'd come through the phone like
like seriously. Right. So anyway, we're in the process of
unloading it. But it ain't no Mustang base. But I
gotta tell you, Lauren right now, Cosmo has this gorgeous
(21:37):
like tobacco sunburst Mustang four string bass. Oh it is
just I literally walked past it and I kind of
did like the double take, and I was like, oh no,
that's nice, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
So yeah, anyway, oh man, we're actually away camping and
happened to come through Cosmo on the way back. We
were up at Kilberar Park and oh Mac and yeah,
that's when I bought the base. I'm like, oh, just
I'll just look and went home with it.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Nice, because that's what you do after camping.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Yeah, I always gets Cosmo muscall and you're fish and
what else?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
And then it's like you know what, you know what
I need?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah, I need.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
To drop six hundred dollars after I've just pretended that
I was home right for six weeks.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I just that's right. We finished camping, and now I
have to go by the instrument. I'm going to use
my professional career.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
I've panned for the for for the money to afford
this base, and you're paying for it and loonies and ties.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Hey, whatever works, bud rolling dimes exactly. All right, my friend,
that was awesome. Now, but Derek, I don't even know
what you were getting out. But anyway, I'm very tired, Lauren.
We do this literally every single show. Revolution Radio and
its affiliates do not condone anything that comes out of Derek.
(23:05):
Make sure it cawk In's mouth. But anyway, we have
to we have to do the disclaimer. Uh so listen.
Now we've got to talk about where do you work?
Where are you right now?
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Yeah? Right now, I'm in the upstairs office at my work.
It's a brewery. It's called Silversmith. It's in Virgil, Ontario.
It's pretty great. We made pretty good beer Virgil, very
good beer.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah, we do like beer.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Where is Virgil in real St? Catherines.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
It's between Saint Catherines and Niagrona Lake. I think of
I think of the whole area as you're in the lake,
but it's kind of.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Other way, other way.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Yeah, Nigro in the lake is like, yeah, kind of
other direction from Lincoln, Okay, more towards the falls.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I actually looked this place up recently because I was
looking around, like Niagara on the Lake and stuff, and
I was saying to my beautiful wife, we should go
to the Shaw Festival sometimes, right, just we'd love to
do that, right And I saw this Silversmith Brewing Company.
This fucking website hang on everybody screen and do not
(24:19):
need to share audio. Fucking check this out. Look at this.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
It's located in an old church, so I don't know
if you can frick from the ceiling at all. It's like, yeah,
pretty cool. I was I was going to do this downstairs,
but my laptop wasn't working, so I'm up on our
computer up time upstairs.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
But oh you have not brown Ale all.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Way more interested.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
You have an esb. Oh my god, you have an esb.
Oh God, bless you people. Honestly, no, So one thing
I will say is listen, I'm an IPA fanatic. I
love my IPAs, right, They're great, But I gotta be
straight up honest with you. I've been drinking IPAs like
since the beginning, like Dogfish had ninety minute IPA out
of you know, Delaware and rhyme and reason from collective
(25:12):
arts like since that, since those days, right, yeah, yeah, Now,
I'm kind of people need to understand out there. So
what we should do, Lauren is we should have you
back and literally just do a beer podcast, because like
literally it is the greatest time in human history right
now to be a beer drinker ever, Like legitimately, it's
literally the greatest time in human history. But I'm kind
(25:35):
of a little bored of IPAs. So every time I'm
actually drinking right now, I'm drinking Fuller's Extra Special Bidder,
so I just saw this, and I'm like, ooh, I've
got to get me some of that.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
This is the greatest time in history for being a
beer drinker.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Hunter.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
What about when they invented beer? I think that would
be the greatest time.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
You know, it would have been awesome. It would have
been awesome. But there was like literally one your buddy.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, well, well depending on where you had to But
then it was a dice roll too, and you had.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
To go to Formosa to get it. It's true.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
So you're a Formosa check out our story. Here here
we go. Oh look at this.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Yeah, there we are.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Look at that.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Pretty Murch buildings from eighteen ninety four. It's pretty cool.
It was reclaimed a few times. It was an antique
shop throughout the nineties, so I remember. I remember coming
and visiting the buildings as a kid, doing antique shopping
with my parents. Then I actually lived in Toronto at
the time when I found the job listing online and
(26:42):
I was coming back to Niagara and I ended up
picking up a job here thinking I was only going
to work here for a little bit and I've been
here for nine years now. Good oh yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Good for you. It's pretty cool, wonderful. Yeah, what a wicked,
wicked place to work all that, right, yea. And just
the smell of like those cooking hops and malts and
all the what a wonderful smell. There's a there's a
great little brewery and Scarborough called Common Good. I'm not
sure if you've heard of that before. And as soon
as you walk in, like literally that just that smell
(27:17):
of like brewing barley, you know, it smells like tea almost.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, I'm drinking uh something from Niagara Niagara Brewering Company beer.
I picked up a six pack a couple of months ago. Yeah,
when they were when they were closing down the karaoke
patio on Clifton. Oh yeah, it's like I got it.
(27:46):
I got it in a karaoke session of like just
in the nick of time.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Me a little lug light because I'm sitting down and
I don't need to drink a loaf of bread, right.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
So, Lauren, just wondering in regards to deer Fag a website.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Yes, so we don't have a website right now, but
we have We're on Instagram, Facebook, band camp, band camp.
We're hoping to get our merch available on vand camp
as well. Pretty soon we have our like you can
buy the EP. We don't have our t shirts on
there yet, but we will. There is our Instagram m. Yeah,
(28:29):
do you.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Have a do you have a sneaky teaser for the
for the video that you guys just did with with
Mercedes from Oh Yeah, we just.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Put it so.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
We have done two videos with her now, yes. One
for the song called Suffocating. We filmed that, Yeah, that
was released in July, and then Low Tide she shared
it as well, and we just released that in October.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
That was fun to watch, like yes, thank you through
like the little like makings of kind of thing thank you.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
It was kind of we had a blast doing it.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Yeah, and she's from Mercedes is from Soft Called right.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Yes, sar Ban is called Soft Call. Big big fan
of there been. Oh my gosh. They're incredible, everything that
they stand for, the music itself, just everything about them.
They're just so fantastic. They're a huge inspiration for us.
So getting to work with her personally it was just
a really truly an honor. She's a blast to work when.
(29:31):
She's such a sweetie and yeah, super talented, Oh my gosh.
Not only is she like incredible songwriter singer, but can
also do incredible videography as well. So nice, Yeah, very cool,
very lucky to work with her.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Listen, my friend, we're wondering about because you guys, like
I say, I've been listening to you here and fucking
your tunes are so fucking good. So what are your
what are your next steps? Like, what does the next
say six months to a year look like you think?
Speaker 5 (30:00):
For Deer Thing, Well, we're going to get these next
few songs out. As long as we can get those released,
that'll wrap up our two like full EPs, then we'd
like to start tracking the new ones. I just don't
know what the timeline is going to be like for that.
We just want to play as much as possible as well. Yeah,
(30:21):
we do have a few shows kind of lined up
for like February March, that kind of area past that.
We don't have anything specific plan, but we're just hoping
to get out there and play as much as we
can and break into kind of new cities. Like I
was saying as well, we'd love to do some kind
of a tour if it's possible. Just kind of getting
that into the works and getting the planning and everything
(30:43):
done for that. Yeah, just as amazing playing as much
as we can.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Good for you. Well, one of the things i'd love
to that we've we've talked about now for a while.
One of the things I really want to start exploring
in twenty twenty five and getting actually happening would be
essentially live to airs with ends. If you guys would
be interested, Fuck, we'd love to have you. I'm gonna
definitely want to talk to our good friends, the obgms.
(31:08):
I want to have them and have a few other people.
But honestly, I just I fucking every time I hear
something of yours on Insta it's usually a story. I'm
just like, fuck, that sounds so good, Like every single
song that I've heard, it's just properly awesome. Oh and
I added I added Reflections. So yeah, so Reflections is
(31:31):
actually so the So the logo that's behind me here,
that's actually our online radio station. So essentially what we
are is kind of like, as far as I'm concerned,
we're kind of a perfect cross between like Q and
O seven D eighty eight and C F and Y,
you know what I mean. That's essentially what we do.
So we broadcast twenty four seven.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
So yeah, which cabbage are you?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah? Exactly, Yeah, if you were a cookie flavor, which
flavor would you be? No, we don't. Yeah, we have
better Okay, we have better content than that. But no listen,
no disrespect, right.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
You don't have any I still have better content.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I still have have lots of friends in the radio industry,
so no disrespect. But anyway, so, yeah, so I want
to just let you know that we've added that and
you know, part of our Canadian content playlist as far
as it goes. So yeah, so we're just you know,
you know, like I say, everything I hear from you guys,
I just I fucking love. So I think we're gonna
(32:28):
stay in touch with you and please as soon as
you get new material, we'll probably hear about it from
Scotty comer. But if you can just stay in touch
with us and say, hey, Craig, you know what here
it's out boom, you know, as soon as you guys
have some new material you know, ready to release, let
us know and we'd love to have you back.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Definitely. It's been really fun the way we've done it
with Scotty, like because we tracked our instrumental parts back
in January. So now every time that I release a song,
I just have to sort of go up on the
vocals and then it's ready to go. So he's the best, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Scott, He's pretty awesome.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
We love them.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Yeah, great, So there's a warehouse this Friday, Yes, right
in Saint Catharine's.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
How do people get tickets?
Speaker 5 (33:18):
So there's a link online through Dice. Dice is a
ticket purchasing app, so there's you can buy them online.
There will have them at the door as well. If
anyone's local or anywhere near us as well, we can
we have physical tickets. We can get to them also.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yeah, okay, so what times that start?
Speaker 5 (33:42):
So the doors are at eight pm and then there's
four bands all together, so Moonlight Circus is number one,
White Rabbit Check Hotel, and then ourselves as well. Nice.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I love I love how you. I love how you
said punk. At the beginning, when we were describing like
influences and whatnot and like you got you, you were saying, oh,
we're getting back into punk music, and everything I've read
online everything points to shoegaze.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Yeah, so we're kind of a neat mix of we
are punk influenced, and we have punk in our backgrounds,
but we're kind of walking a line between shoegaze, grunge,
kind of alternative. We're influenced by a lot of shoegaze,
kind of an we're discovering some subgenres as well we
(34:35):
didn't even know existed. Grunge gaze is probably the best
way to describe us personally. We definitely have punk influence,
but I wouldn't really call us punk, I'd call us
more yes, shoegazy, crunch crunch gazy, kind of alt grunge.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
You're really mixing up the terms there.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
Yeah, Yeah, it's sort of a because it's sort of
a mix of all these things. There's definitely elements of shoegaze,
but there's elements of crunge.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
And yeah, you're Mike Steining.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Like music, there's no rules. You don't have to put
them in a box, Dmitri. You don't have to put
them in the box. They can be they can be
footloose and fancy free and just just play whatever they want.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Good for you, Derek, I haven't heard footloose and fancy
free since I was fifteens, right, that's good for you.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Comer Comer sent me. Comer sent me a snip of
deer Fang when it was when when it was done mixed,
and I'd sent it to you guys and whatever, and
I believe my response was what the fuck was that?
And sorry that was loud?
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (35:51):
And then he was like, yeah, deer Fang blah blah
blah whatever, and I was like, holy shit, that sounds amazing,
thank you. And then he said, do you see what
it happens when you don't add thirty seven instruments to
a track?
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Oh oh so you know about me?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Okay, great, that's good.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
Yeah, I'm putting it together.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Why do you have nine drummers?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Derek?
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Why are there nine drummers?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
And I was one of them, was one of them,
and I was like, hey, Derek, I think I hear
another three drummers there. But anyway, that's cool, it's all good. Yeah,
that's right. Derek is going for the uh what's his name,
the Wall of Sound guy, Phil Spector, Phil Spector. He's
going for spilt Phil Spector times eight.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
But yeah, you know Phil Spector.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
But then like, don't kill people.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Yeah, that's where it's going with that.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Okay, yeah, so all right, you're saying Friday, December the sixth,
eight pm at of course the Warehouse Concert Hall. And
where is the where the next shows after that?
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Yeah, we have a few there yet to be confirmed,
but I believe we have some coming up in Toronto,
kind of some out of town once we have a
possible one kind of February, February March. We've got a
few in the works. Yeah, some of them are kind
of under wraps at the moment, so we haven't we
(37:22):
haven't announced them all yet, but we're really excited.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
That's why we're being vague.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yeah, that's right, being there with you.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
There will be some coming for sure.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Good, excellent, that's great to hear.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Stay tuned, Yes, stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Awesome. So listen, we're just about to play a low
tide here. In a couple of minutes, we'll weet in
the video the show the video, and oh.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
Play the video.
Speaker 8 (37:47):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Thank you were such.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
I know we're supposed to the only reason at the end,
but Craig good and I'm saying that. I say that,
I'm saying I like something. This should meet. This is monumental.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
Oh thank you. That means even more than yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
You're very welcome.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Okay, Derek, I found it, are you. We're actually gonna
play this song just a couple of seconds here. Is
there anything that you wanted to say about it, Lauren?
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Oh? Yeah, I mean just we had such a blast
filming it. It was really really fun kind of coming
up with the idea of it for a little bit
of context as well. I don't know if it's clear,
but the theme of the song is a little bit heavy.
The monster that we're truly depicting is depression, and so
(38:44):
the lyrics are kind of sort of bringing that to
life in the form of a real monster with arms
like snakes and you know, reaching out to pull you
out to see. But it's kind of depicting that battle
that many of us do face that does feel like
a never ending cycle of being pulled underneath water and
(39:05):
kind of grounding and film like you can't get out.
So that being said, though, we we did have a
really nice time filming it, and it was really kind
of a fun way to sort of bring the concept
to life with the with the literal monster there, and
it was just a hoote to shoot the whole thing,
(39:26):
put the put the we got to put the outfit
together and uh, Jay's the rare than guitarist. Jay, his
cousin was actually the one that did the monster part.
We felt very bad for him because it was it
was a little bit chilly and and he had to
go into the water at nighttime. Yeah, but you know,
all these things aside, we we had a really good time.
(39:47):
Merces was just an absolute gem to work with. So
we're very very happy with the way it came together.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Very cool. Oh, good for you. Well, listen, congratulations on everything.
Speaker 5 (39:58):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
You guys really are just properly awesome.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
So to more of your success, that's exactly We're more.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
We're fans much and knock your neighbors dead on Friday.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
Thank you. Yeah, we're excited.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Everybody goes home with tonight, is yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Exactly, all righty, So listen, let's uh, let's spin this,
shall we? This is uh, this looks very very cool.
I'm looking forward to hearing this. So again, Lauren from
deer Fang, thank you so much, my friend, for for
joining us tonight. And of course you're at work late,
so we appreciate you sticking around and chatting with us,
(40:40):
but honestly, all the best to you. And a friend.
We really appreciate you, and definitely as soon as you
got new music, just let let us know and we'd
love to have you back.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
Okay, absolutely, thank you so much to meet you all.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
All right, dear fang low Tide. Here's the video for
Derek on Revolution Radio Canada's Canadian As Heck. I have
to do this, I have to do this. I have
to do this. I have to do this and then
it echoes like crazy because no one likes it, and
here we go again, thanks so much, Here we.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Go like thanks.
Speaker 8 (41:49):
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Speaker 8 (42:08):
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Speaker 4 (42:15):
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think my a shot, I'll do mons to camp. Let's fallow.
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it's talk not agat just kiy G's got me and hurt.
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own friend I know you tim s.
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Speaker 5 (44:01):
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Speaker 8 (44:06):
I left the seton struggle to my feet and runs.
Speaker 7 (44:14):
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Speaker 8 (44:20):
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trig me to.
Speaker 7 (44:31):
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for every new out.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
So I think I.
Speaker 8 (44:42):
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Speaker 7 (44:46):
Monster, my old friend anoying time and fancy before.
Speaker 8 (44:53):
Every out, so do myself.
Speaker 4 (44:57):
So I was.
Speaker 8 (44:58):
At a short.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Damn it, that was cool. Man ship, that was cool,
awesome stuff. Man, Oh dear fang was gonna come up next?
Did you see that?
Speaker 5 (45:24):
Yeah? The other video that we actually shot at Silversmith.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
Oh the brewery.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (45:33):
Yeah, get a chance to watch that one. That's a
film here.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Yeah, done and done, Lauren, Thank you so much again,
my friend. We really appreciate you awesome. You were just
fantastic and we can't wait to have you back.
Speaker 5 (45:49):
Thank you so much. I can't wait to be.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Back all the best on Friday. Okay, thank you, take care,
thank you, take care. Thanks
Hey, it's Craig from Revolution Radio Canada and the Canadian
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(00:21):
to Revolution Radio Canada and enjoy this podcast. Did you
see that countdown that just happened, Derek?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I did?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I did sell that question?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Good?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Ques? Did you say question or countdown? Welcome? Everybody?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Have the weirdest openings.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We do have strange, the weirdest on the internet. We do. Yeah, no, yeah,
don't say that that will get us canceled.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Okay, this is.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
A program called Canadians Hacked, formally formally called We're gonna
ask our brand new bestie here, Lauren, of course from
deer Fang. We're gonna ask her which she actually appreciates more.
I probably already know what your answer is gonna be,
but that's okay. But anyway, this program is called Canadian
as Heck right here on Revolution Radio Canada. My name
is Craig Ge alongside Dimetrilexiu and Dirky mcshirt cockin Jesus. Okay,
(01:24):
I love how you.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I love how you You kind of like segue to
Lauren from Deer Fang and said like like weed, like
like everybody fucking knew who we were talking to, like
you you didn't like give give like this great like
oh and this from blah blah blah. It's just like, oh,
you know Lauren from fucking deer Fang.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Boh b whatever what I said our new bestie though,
Like Derek, why do you got to make shit awkward?
I'm just wondering, why do you have to do that? Anyway,
I'm thinking of a reason. Her name is Lauren. You
are the lead singer, right, yes? And bass players player. Yeah. Okay,
(02:06):
we got to talk because I'm starting an eighties and
nineties cover band and I'm I'm I'm literally dying for
for a woman and a multi instrumentalist, So like, can
you back interesting seconds? Can you can you.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Know just I'm dying to have a a female musician
join us in the group as part of a band.
Don't just say I'm dying for a woman?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Did I say that? Actually? Yes? Okay, sorry, I'm a little.
My wires are cross because I'm excited to talk to Lauren.
So that's what we're gonna do right now, by the
voice of reason, don't fucking know, because normally you're not.
So once again, this is Canadian is Act. So okay,
So Lauren, we do have to ask you this question.
This show for one hundred episodes was called Canadian as Fuck.
(02:58):
What do you think of that name?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Oh? I dig it?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Do you like it better than Canadian as Heck?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I do?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Why are you.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Having Are you having second thoughts about.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Kind of a little bit, kind of a little bit
of money?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Would you like answership or would you like to be
funding this out of driving goobers?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, you're right, you're right, You're absolutely right. That's right there,
that's right to me, tre absolutely Anyways, listen, let's get
to the Lauren.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I do apologize that this is your first introduction to me.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
You've hung out with Comber, so.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, oh comb If Colmer was here right now, he'd
be in So it's it's all good. So anyway, I.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Did I get to ask I did ask Homer if
he had any inside dirt on you guys. And and
he gave me. He gave me some things, and I
was like, is that it nothing else? He's like not
not really. I'm like, like, nobody's got leparsy or anything.
And he's like, ask them. And I was like, somebody has,
like it sneaks up on you, like your death.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Yep, that's true, your death.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Leprosy just swims into your swims like swims into your swimsuit.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
That you're done, Derek.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Derek, I'd like to point out now that you're going
somewhere else. So let's let's how about we actually get
into the into the interview, and uh, folks, this is
the lead center slash bass player from a wonderful band
called Deer Fang. Now I got to be straight up
honest with my friend. I've been listening to you guys
for a minute and you're fucking awesome. So congratulations on
(04:38):
the new projects. Our good friend Scotti Komer, of course,
is the Yeah, thank you, Derek, God good idea. Well
that's Painter's tape. It won't hurt uh so wonderful, wonderful stuff.
I was wondering if you just let him do his
thing in the background. Okay, Uh, Lauren, did you do
us a huge favor and just kind of how let's
(05:00):
let's start with Let's start with you, and let's start
with you. How did you get into this whole thing.
We're going to talk about where you work in a
few minutes, but let's let's get into deer thing first,
shall we.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yeah, So the project is essentially myself and the rhythm guitarist,
jay e'donnell. We've had multiple other projects together as well.
We were actually in a folk kind of rock Americana
old country project together and from that, Yeah, we moved
into a like eighties sort of inspired synth pop band
(05:38):
called Years of the Modern, which is still active, and
then we've started this one. So it's it's been really fun.
We kind of had an itch to do something a
little grungy, kind of just you know, a little bit
more rock, a little bit heavier, So we started writing
the songs together probably probably about a year ago, and
then we started tracking with Scotty in January, and then
(06:02):
we just played our first live show in April, so
we've only been playing live since then. But it's really
successful so far, so we're pretty.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Stoked, fantastic. So as far as this project goes the tunes.
You guys write fucking wickedly, wickedly super intense stuff and
I love it. So let's let's talk about how do
you all end up essentially coming up with your tunes?
How do you how do you come up with essentially
(06:30):
how do you come up with tunes for deer Fame?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Yeah, so Jay usually writes the main like progressions, and
then we also write our drum tracks as well. He
has a kind of program where he designs the loops
for the drum tracks, so we usually puts that together
and then I'll take that ad my base and then
I'll add the melody as well. And the fun part
(06:53):
too is that we actually both share the responsibility of
the lyric writing, so it's pretty much about half and half.
So I'll write half the lyrics the ones where he
writes the lyrics, I'll like give him the melody, and
then it's kind of challenge sometimes because like in a
fun way, because he'll be trying to sort of fit
words to match my melody, and then all kind of
(07:14):
comes together from there, and then from that we bring
the track to Scotty and he's been putting his touch
and flare on it and that's been really great too,
so nice.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
So I've got to ask I have to ask you
if you if you're talking about like an eighties synth
pop band Americana like Folk Root, you know music, and
then of course now deer Fang. Normally I saved this
question for a little bit later in the interview, but
my god, who are your influences? Because we kind of talk,
(07:47):
let's go back to kind of your early days of
just getting into music and the the people that inspired
you to essentially do what you're doing now, because you
literally are are You're literally, aside from our good friend
Mark Gain, who is of course one of the principal
songwriters of Martha and the Muffins, you're literally one of
(08:10):
the only like three sided coins that I've ever met.
Like you've you literally got like three amazingly different music
styles checked off at exactly the same time. So can
we go back and first talk about how you got
into music, when you got into music, and your influences.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Oh gosh, yeah, the influences are everywhere. I started music
when I was just a kid. I was really lucky
to have a very musical family. My mom plays piano,
my dad plays bass in a bunch of bands, of
a sister that plays every instrument, she writes songs and sings,
and I was really lucky to be surrounded by that.
So for myself kind of growing up, my influences were
(08:53):
very eclectic, bray all over the place. My parents listened
to a whole Mexico, all kinds of stuff. And I
know Jay had a bunch of different influences as well.
He grew up with a lot of Like he started
out in a lot of punk bands as well, he
played punk forever and then kind of from that led
into some of the like more alt country Americana sort
(09:14):
of stuff from there, and now we're kind of going
back more to the punk side with your thing. Tons
of influences for this project, Oh my gosh, kind of
mix of nineties and newer stuff as well, bands like
Basement Balance and Composure, Oh my gosh, Soft Cult. There's
(09:37):
tons that are kind of got this like nineties influence currently. Yeah,
those have been a really big inspiration for us. There's
tons We love music so much, Like we're going to
concerts all the time, so we have a list of
like bands we're seeing all the time, and it's just
so much fun to see our inspirations live and.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Nice ye where a bunch of us are going to
see Boys Night Out? Actually hell yes in December, So
that's going to be.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
A sick show.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Are you going?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
No, we wanted to go, We're not able to make it,
but we were hoping next time they come around we'll
be there.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, I'll kick coma and for you perfect.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Now you're from now do your things from Saint Catharines?
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Now?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Is uh?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
How would you describe the music scene in Saint Catharines.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
It's interesting, like it's it's very very supportive musical community here.
We have sort of a limit on our number of
venues that we can play, so we found it a
little bit of a struggle in that way because we
are trying to kind of branch out and start to
play other cities around us, you know, Hamilton, Toronto, London, well, anything.
(10:57):
So we like we like the idea of like doing
show trade with bands, where you can sort of host
a band and then they can sort of host you
in their city, So in that way it can be
a little bit interesting. So we don't have to too
many venues, but the ones that we do have are
really great kind of all different vibes, and we have
(11:19):
a really neat mix of styles of music around us
as well. There's there's lot, like so many talented musicians
in Magara. We're very lucky.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, you got your your concert, your upcoming hometown show
at the Warehouse. Tell what how would you is there?
What is the size of the warehouse? How big of
a venue? How many people can that hold? Do you think?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I believe it's around a two hundred person cap. Yeah, yeah,
so it's a great size. They've done an incredible job.
They've got a great stage, awesome sound. We're like super
stoked anytime that we get to play there.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Yeah, and they have they host bands all the time.
Like we are very lucky. We get to go to
a lot of different local shows and check all the
different local bands that are super talented. Warehouse does shows
all the time as well, so there's always something going
on there.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, So you start you started what was the name
of this eighty synth pop band game?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
So it's it's still active. It's called Years of the Modern.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Years of the Modern.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Okay, great name.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So how come you how come that was the sound
that you guys started with eighty synth pop. Why do
you think that was?
Speaker 5 (12:48):
I mean, we listened. We've been listening to a whole
mix of different genres, and throughout the Lockdowns we got
listening to a lot of kind of dark wave and
synthpiece based stuff and post punk, and a lot of
the post punk kind of ties into a lot of
the punk and grunge as well, So there is a
(13:09):
lot of tie over there as well. But then we also, like,
I mean, I just love everything so much. I can't
decide what I like the most, and I find it
hard to concentrate on only one genre. So we find
ourselves Jay and I both with kind of variable projects,
and we write different songs that sort of fit into
(13:29):
the different projects. So it's kind of fun. Yeah, it
keeps it fresh and interesting and we love it all.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Now, you've been working a lot with Scotty Comber. Yeah,
and you mentioned that. You mentioned that this is somebody
that everybody in Deer Fang loves. So what is a
story or some dirt that you may know about Scotty
Comber that nobody else does?
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Oh geez, I don't know. I'd have to think about
that one. He's got a great dog. You know that's
not really dirt, but yeah, he's pretty great. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So as far as the recording that you guys have done,
have you done any stuff at his new studio, the
latest one that he's got out in, Uh, I guess
it's Burlington.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Yeah, we visited the space in Burlington. Oh my god,
it's amazing. It's gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I know, like it's really going to be something.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Yeah, right on the water, beautiful space, beautiful home, indoor garden.
What's not to love, giant windows, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
It's nice for us to coming from Niagara because before
we were going all the way up Toronto. Now we
don't have to go quite as far, just to Burlington,
so that's nice. And yeah, we're looking forward to seeing
it when it's all complete. It's coming together very nicely.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
So now, speaking of seeing it when it's all complete,
are you going to see it when it's all complete?
Because you have new music coming out?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Correct, really do.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
So we have out right now. Our first four track
EP is complete, that's out. Low Tide is the first
single off the coming EP. So single number two is
called Gone and that is coming out on Friday, actually
December sixth, and then we have another track after that.
(15:28):
I just was up there with Scotty recently two weeks
ago tracking the one to come after that, and then
there's two more as well, and that'll wrap up that EP.
So that's gonna be a five track EP.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Beyond that, we do have more material. We're always writing
new songs, so as soon as we can, we're going
to try to get working on the new ones too.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
When that EP comes out, are you guys gonna do
like CD release party or anything like that, any sort
of any P release party?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Maybe perhaps? Yeah, we hadn't really planned on anything specific yet.
We have a couple shows in the work for the
new year, so you might have to work something like that.
I would into it for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah. Nice. Yeah, Oh ship? What was I just gonna
ask you?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
What kind of bass do you play?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Question banks. It's a Fender Mustang. Yeah, I love it.
It's super nice. It's I Yeah. I chose a short
scale because it was nice and light, easy to throw around.
I've been thinking about getting a second one just for ships.
It's not like I need one, but I'm always looking.
(16:37):
But I love mine. It's it's really great.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I had.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
A Mustang as well. Oh they're great to play, they're
great to great.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah bass, Eric, Yeah, a Mustang bass. Oh cool. I
didn't know that. I figured I figured you would have
had a Mustang guitar, but I wouldn't have known I
had one of those.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
But I like the Mustang bas because I just got
rid of it. I just got rid of it. I
don't play it.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I thought it was like in some er disaster or something.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Uh no, it got leprosy.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Oh no, And it's so prominent with with fenders as well,
like they just get leprosy and that's the.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
End of them.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
No, No, I got I.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Got rid of it because I didn't play it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I had.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I had a six sixty eight is sixty eight P
bass as well, and I got rid of that too,
just because why would you get rid of a sixty
because I moment I didn't play it.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It was at that moment that Craig and Derek started fighting.
Oh that's basically like James Jamerson's base. Why would you
give away sixty eight P bass?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Do we want to talk about your drum kit? You
want to get back, you want to get Don Dixon?
Do you want to talk about that drum kit? Do
you want to get that on that in the air
on the air, like right now? Do you remember do
you remember when you sold your drum kit to my
other drummer?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Did I?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Years ago? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Forgot I?
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Did I?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I was a kit? Oh right that one. Yeah, let's
not talk about that anyway with shit. Okay, So my daughter,
here we go, Lauren, my daughter. I tried to talk
her out of this. My daughter has an epiphone SG
(18:33):
style long scale base. She wanted it because of were red.
She wanted it because she was it was red. And
she also wanted it because she wanted an epiphone.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Right right, I hate.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
This fucking thing. I fuck it's Does she like it?
Kind of not really? So anyway, we have our so
we have our eye on trading it in. I actually
happened to work at a place called Cosmo Music in
Richmond Hill.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Oh so.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Right, so I'm lucky, right, so.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I can I can basically as at that Cosmo right
where I.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Got my Yeah, That's where I got my musty h
nic nice.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah. So I I worked there and as a drum teacher. Yeah,
And I basically said to my my boss there. You know,
I've got this. I'm going to trade this in. Is
that cool? And he looked at me and he went, fine,
not really now, but he's gonna help me. He's gonna
(19:39):
help me out. So it's like, don't worry about it.
I'll probably sell it on consignment for you. Somebody will
want it. I'll so top heavy.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
He's gonna hold the thing up. For God's sakes.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
They're fucking terrible. And I'm literally we're literally walking. Okay,
this is before I started working at Cosmo. We're literally walking.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
From the way this interviews about laur No, No, she appreciates it.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Bass player, the bass player, she gets it, totally gets
it nice.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
So what if somebody who their feelings hurt right now.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
They're just saying to send them to a urate.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
So they can get nice.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
So anyway, we're walking from the base section Lauren, and
I'm literally saying, are you sure? Are you sure there's
a beautiful black Yamaha five string for exactly the same price?
Are you sure? She's like, she's baby five string bases anyway,
(20:36):
I love them so but literally, so anyway, Lauren, it's
like we get to the cash register and I'm literally
handing over the gift card and handing over this money
and stuff, right because she wanted it for her her birthday. Right.
And as I'm handing over the money, I'm literally going,
are you absolutely sure? Like literally, and the guy behind
(20:57):
the counter is like, I'm not gonna say anything. Then,
you know, finally we get it home. It's we've got
it for two weeks, and she's like, yeah, I don't know. Oh,
I'm like, are you.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
You should who wants to be a millionaire at it?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
And like phone to friend, I should have been I'm right,
I should. Here's Derek and Derek do your favorite. She's
about to buy an SG long scale and Derek would
be like, are you I'd come through the phone like
like seriously. Right. So anyway, we're in the process of
unloading it. But it ain't no Mustang base. But I
gotta tell you, Lauren right now, Cosmo has this gorgeous
(21:37):
like tobacco sunburst Mustang four string bass. Oh it is
just I literally walked past it and I kind of
did like the double take, and I was like, oh no,
that's nice, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
So yeah, anyway, oh man, we're actually away camping and
happened to come through Cosmo on the way back. We
were up at Kilberar Park and oh Mac and yeah,
that's when I bought the base. I'm like, oh, just
I'll just look and went home with it.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Nice, because that's what you do after camping.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Yeah, I always gets Cosmo muscall and you're fish and
what else?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
And then it's like you know what, you know what
I need?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah, I need.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
To drop six hundred dollars after I've just pretended that
I was home right for six weeks.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I just that's right. We finished camping, and now I
have to go by the instrument. I'm going to use
my professional career.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
I've panned for the for for the money to afford
this base, and you're paying for it and loonies and ties.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Hey, whatever works, bud rolling dimes exactly. All right, my friend,
that was awesome. Now, but Derek, I don't even know
what you were getting out. But anyway, I'm very tired, Lauren.
We do this literally every single show. Revolution Radio and
its affiliates do not condone anything that comes out of Derek.
(23:05):
Make sure it cawk In's mouth. But anyway, we have
to we have to do the disclaimer. Uh so listen.
Now we've got to talk about where do you work?
Where are you right now?
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Yeah? Right now, I'm in the upstairs office at my work.
It's a brewery. It's called Silversmith. It's in Virgil, Ontario.
It's pretty great. We made pretty good beer Virgil, very
good beer.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah, we do like beer.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Where is Virgil in real St? Catherines.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
It's between Saint Catherines and Niagrona Lake. I think of
I think of the whole area as you're in the lake,
but it's kind of.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Other way, other way.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Yeah, Nigro in the lake is like, yeah, kind of
other direction from Lincoln, Okay, more towards the falls.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I actually looked this place up recently because I was
looking around, like Niagara on the Lake and stuff, and
I was saying to my beautiful wife, we should go
to the Shaw Festival sometimes, right, just we'd love to
do that, right And I saw this Silversmith Brewing Company.
This fucking website hang on everybody screen and do not
(24:19):
need to share audio. Fucking check this out. Look at this.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
It's located in an old church, so I don't know
if you can frick from the ceiling at all. It's like, yeah,
pretty cool. I was I was going to do this downstairs,
but my laptop wasn't working, so I'm up on our
computer up time upstairs.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
But oh you have not brown Ale all.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Way more interested.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
You have an esb. Oh my god, you have an esb.
Oh God, bless you people. Honestly, no, So one thing
I will say is listen, I'm an IPA fanatic. I
love my IPAs, right, They're great, But I gotta be
straight up honest with you. I've been drinking IPAs like
since the beginning, like Dogfish had ninety minute IPA out
of you know, Delaware and rhyme and reason from collective
(25:12):
arts like since that, since those days, right, yeah, yeah, Now,
I'm kind of people need to understand out there. So
what we should do, Lauren is we should have you
back and literally just do a beer podcast, because like
literally it is the greatest time in human history right
now to be a beer drinker ever, Like legitimately, it's
literally the greatest time in human history. But I'm kind
(25:35):
of a little bored of IPAs. So every time I'm
actually drinking right now, I'm drinking Fuller's Extra Special Bidder,
so I just saw this, and I'm like, ooh, I've
got to get me some of that.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
This is the greatest time in history for being a
beer drinker.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Hunter.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
What about when they invented beer? I think that would
be the greatest time.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
You know, it would have been awesome. It would have
been awesome. But there was like literally one your buddy.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, well, well depending on where you had to But
then it was a dice roll too, and you had.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
To go to Formosa to get it. It's true.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
So you're a Formosa check out our story. Here here
we go. Oh look at this.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Yeah, there we are.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Look at that.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Pretty Murch buildings from eighteen ninety four. It's pretty cool.
It was reclaimed a few times. It was an antique
shop throughout the nineties, so I remember. I remember coming
and visiting the buildings as a kid, doing antique shopping
with my parents. Then I actually lived in Toronto at
the time when I found the job listing online and
(26:42):
I was coming back to Niagara and I ended up
picking up a job here thinking I was only going
to work here for a little bit and I've been
here for nine years now. Good oh yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Good for you. It's pretty cool, wonderful. Yeah, what a wicked,
wicked place to work all that, right, yea. And just
the smell of like those cooking hops and malts and
all the what a wonderful smell. There's a there's a
great little brewery and Scarborough called Common Good. I'm not
sure if you've heard of that before. And as soon
as you walk in, like literally that just that smell
(27:17):
of like brewing barley, you know, it smells like tea almost.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, I'm drinking uh something from Niagara Niagara Brewering Company beer.
I picked up a six pack a couple of months ago. Yeah,
when they were when they were closing down the karaoke
patio on Clifton. Oh yeah, it's like I got it.
(27:46):
I got it in a karaoke session of like just
in the nick of time.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Me a little lug light because I'm sitting down and
I don't need to drink a loaf of bread, right.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
So, Lauren, just wondering in regards to deer Fag a website.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Yes, so we don't have a website right now, but
we have We're on Instagram, Facebook, band camp, band camp.
We're hoping to get our merch available on vand camp
as well. Pretty soon we have our like you can
buy the EP. We don't have our t shirts on
there yet, but we will. There is our Instagram m. Yeah,
(28:29):
do you.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Have a do you have a sneaky teaser for the
for the video that you guys just did with with
Mercedes from Oh Yeah, we just.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Put it so.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
We have done two videos with her now, yes. One
for the song called Suffocating. We filmed that, Yeah, that
was released in July, and then Low Tide she shared
it as well, and we just released that in October.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
That was fun to watch, like yes, thank you through
like the little like makings of kind of thing thank you.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
It was kind of we had a blast doing it.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Yeah, and she's from Mercedes is from Soft Called right.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Yes, sar Ban is called Soft Call. Big big fan
of there been. Oh my gosh. They're incredible, everything that
they stand for, the music itself, just everything about them.
They're just so fantastic. They're a huge inspiration for us.
So getting to work with her personally it was just
a really truly an honor. She's a blast to work when.
(29:31):
She's such a sweetie and yeah, super talented, Oh my gosh.
Not only is she like incredible songwriter singer, but can
also do incredible videography as well. So nice, Yeah, very cool,
very lucky to work with her.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Listen, my friend, we're wondering about because you guys, like
I say, I've been listening to you here and fucking
your tunes are so fucking good. So what are your
what are your next steps? Like, what does the next
say six months to a year look like you think?
Speaker 5 (30:00):
For Deer Thing, Well, we're going to get these next
few songs out. As long as we can get those released,
that'll wrap up our two like full EPs, then we'd
like to start tracking the new ones. I just don't
know what the timeline is going to be like for that.
We just want to play as much as possible as well. Yeah,
(30:21):
we do have a few shows kind of lined up
for like February March, that kind of area past that.
We don't have anything specific plan, but we're just hoping
to get out there and play as much as we
can and break into kind of new cities. Like I
was saying as well, we'd love to do some kind
of a tour if it's possible. Just kind of getting
that into the works and getting the planning and everything
(30:43):
done for that. Yeah, just as amazing playing as much
as we can.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Good for you. Well, one of the things i'd love
to that we've we've talked about now for a while.
One of the things I really want to start exploring
in twenty twenty five and getting actually happening would be
essentially live to airs with ends. If you guys would
be interested, Fuck, we'd love to have you. I'm gonna
definitely want to talk to our good friends, the obgms.
(31:08):
I want to have them and have a few other people.
But honestly, I just I fucking every time I hear
something of yours on Insta it's usually a story. I'm
just like, fuck, that sounds so good, Like every single
song that I've heard, it's just properly awesome. Oh and
I added I added Reflections. So yeah, so Reflections is
(31:31):
actually so the So the logo that's behind me here,
that's actually our online radio station. So essentially what we
are is kind of like, as far as I'm concerned,
we're kind of a perfect cross between like Q and
O seven D eighty eight and C F and Y,
you know what I mean. That's essentially what we do.
So we broadcast twenty four seven.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
So yeah, which cabbage are you?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah? Exactly, Yeah, if you were a cookie flavor, which
flavor would you be? No, we don't. Yeah, we have
better Okay, we have better content than that. But no listen,
no disrespect, right.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
You don't have any I still have better content.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I still have have lots of friends in the radio industry,
so no disrespect. But anyway, so, yeah, so I want
to just let you know that we've added that and
you know, part of our Canadian content playlist as far
as it goes. So yeah, so we're just you know,
you know, like I say, everything I hear from you guys,
I just I fucking love. So I think we're gonna
(32:28):
stay in touch with you and please as soon as
you get new material, we'll probably hear about it from
Scotty comer. But if you can just stay in touch
with us and say, hey, Craig, you know what here
it's out boom, you know, as soon as you guys
have some new material you know, ready to release, let
us know and we'd love to have you back.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Definitely. It's been really fun the way we've done it
with Scotty, like because we tracked our instrumental parts back
in January. So now every time that I release a song,
I just have to sort of go up on the
vocals and then it's ready to go. So he's the best, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Scott, He's pretty awesome.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
We love them.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Yeah, great, So there's a warehouse this Friday, Yes, right
in Saint Catharine's.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
How do people get tickets?
Speaker 5 (33:18):
So there's a link online through Dice. Dice is a
ticket purchasing app, so there's you can buy them online.
There will have them at the door as well. If
anyone's local or anywhere near us as well, we can
we have physical tickets. We can get to them also.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yeah, okay, so what times that start?
Speaker 5 (33:42):
So the doors are at eight pm and then there's
four bands all together, so Moonlight Circus is number one,
White Rabbit Check Hotel, and then ourselves as well. Nice.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I love I love how you. I love how you
said punk. At the beginning, when we were describing like
influences and whatnot and like you got you, you were saying, oh,
we're getting back into punk music, and everything I've read
online everything points to shoegaze.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Yeah, so we're kind of a neat mix of we
are punk influenced, and we have punk in our backgrounds,
but we're kind of walking a line between shoegaze, grunge,
kind of alternative. We're influenced by a lot of shoegaze,
kind of an we're discovering some subgenres as well we
(34:35):
didn't even know existed. Grunge gaze is probably the best
way to describe us personally. We definitely have punk influence,
but I wouldn't really call us punk, I'd call us
more yes, shoegazy, crunch crunch gazy, kind of alt grunge.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
You're really mixing up the terms there.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
Yeah, Yeah, it's sort of a because it's sort of
a mix of all these things. There's definitely elements of shoegaze,
but there's elements of crunge.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
And yeah, you're Mike Steining.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Like music, there's no rules. You don't have to put
them in a box, Dmitri. You don't have to put
them in the box. They can be they can be
footloose and fancy free and just just play whatever they want.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Good for you, Derek, I haven't heard footloose and fancy
free since I was fifteens, right, that's good for you.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Comer Comer sent me. Comer sent me a snip of
deer Fang when it was when when it was done mixed,
and I'd sent it to you guys and whatever, and
I believe my response was what the fuck was that?
And sorry that was loud?
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (35:51):
And then he was like, yeah, deer Fang blah blah
blah whatever, and I was like, holy shit, that sounds amazing,
thank you. And then he said, do you see what
it happens when you don't add thirty seven instruments to
a track?
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Oh oh so you know about me?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Okay, great, that's good.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
Yeah, I'm putting it together.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Why do you have nine drummers?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Derek?
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Why are there nine drummers?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
And I was one of them, was one of them,
and I was like, hey, Derek, I think I hear
another three drummers there. But anyway, that's cool, it's all good. Yeah,
that's right. Derek is going for the uh what's his name,
the Wall of Sound guy, Phil Spector, Phil Spector. He's
going for spilt Phil Spector times eight.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
But yeah, you know Phil Spector.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
But then like, don't kill people.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Yeah, that's where it's going with that.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Okay, yeah, so all right, you're saying Friday, December the sixth,
eight pm at of course the Warehouse Concert Hall. And
where is the where the next shows after that?
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Yeah, we have a few there yet to be confirmed,
but I believe we have some coming up in Toronto,
kind of some out of town once we have a
possible one kind of February, February March. We've got a
few in the works. Yeah, some of them are kind
of under wraps at the moment, so we haven't we
(37:22):
haven't announced them all yet, but we're really excited.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
That's why we're being vague.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yeah, that's right, being there with you.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
There will be some coming for sure.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Good, excellent, that's great to hear.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Stay tuned, Yes, stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Awesome. So listen, we're just about to play a low
tide here. In a couple of minutes, we'll weet in
the video the show the video, and oh.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
Play the video.
Speaker 8 (37:47):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Thank you were such.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
I know we're supposed to the only reason at the end,
but Craig good and I'm saying that. I say that,
I'm saying I like something. This should meet. This is monumental.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
Oh thank you. That means even more than yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
You're very welcome.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Okay, Derek, I found it, are you. We're actually gonna
play this song just a couple of seconds here. Is
there anything that you wanted to say about it, Lauren?
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Oh? Yeah, I mean just we had such a blast
filming it. It was really really fun kind of coming
up with the idea of it for a little bit
of context as well. I don't know if it's clear,
but the theme of the song is a little bit heavy.
The monster that we're truly depicting is depression, and so
(38:44):
the lyrics are kind of sort of bringing that to
life in the form of a real monster with arms
like snakes and you know, reaching out to pull you
out to see. But it's kind of depicting that battle
that many of us do face that does feel like
a never ending cycle of being pulled underneath water and
(39:05):
kind of grounding and film like you can't get out.
So that being said, though, we we did have a
really nice time filming it, and it was really kind
of a fun way to sort of bring the concept
to life with the with the literal monster there, and
it was just a hoote to shoot the whole thing,
(39:26):
put the put the we got to put the outfit
together and uh, Jay's the rare than guitarist. Jay, his
cousin was actually the one that did the monster part.
We felt very bad for him because it was it
was a little bit chilly and and he had to
go into the water at nighttime. Yeah, but you know,
all these things aside, we we had a really good time.
(39:47):
Merces was just an absolute gem to work with. So
we're very very happy with the way it came together.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Very cool. Oh, good for you. Well, listen, congratulations on everything.
Speaker 5 (39:58):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
You guys really are just properly awesome.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
So to more of your success, that's exactly We're more.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
We're fans much and knock your neighbors dead on Friday.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
Thank you. Yeah, we're excited.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Everybody goes home with tonight, is yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Exactly, all righty, So listen, let's uh, let's spin this,
shall we? This is uh, this looks very very cool.
I'm looking forward to hearing this. So again, Lauren from
deer Fang, thank you so much, my friend, for for
joining us tonight. And of course you're at work late,
so we appreciate you sticking around and chatting with us,
(40:40):
but honestly, all the best to you. And a friend.
We really appreciate you, and definitely as soon as you
got new music, just let let us know and we'd
love to have you back.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
Okay, absolutely, thank you so much to meet you all.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
All right, dear fang low Tide. Here's the video for
Derek on Revolution Radio Canada's Canadian As Heck. I have
to do this, I have to do this. I have
to do this. I have to do this and then
it echoes like crazy because no one likes it, and
here we go again, thanks so much, Here we.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Go like thanks.
Speaker 8 (41:49):
Jag jas, I save my Handgin.
Speaker 6 (41:54):
Said please, I not, I can't askin geez got me
in hurting when the whens.
Speaker 8 (42:08):
Become feb thankful being.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
To my own.
Speaker 8 (42:17):
Friends, I annoying time and since before every well, I
think my a shot, I'll do mons to camp. Let's fallow.
(42:51):
I do my best to say yeah, so fight takes
it's talk not agat just kiy G's got me and hurt.
It's so hard to see my tim lots of my
(43:15):
own friend I know you tim s.
Speaker 7 (43:19):
Before every I think myself I was gost joys of
my own friends. I know what you times safore every
day so I think my l.
Speaker 8 (43:39):
I was my father a choice.
Speaker 5 (44:01):
O time my scaty.
Speaker 8 (44:06):
I left the seton struggle to my feet and runs.
Speaker 7 (44:14):
Food I know, moves be out.
Speaker 8 (44:20):
She comes back to me, to me by stuffing and
trig me to.
Speaker 7 (44:31):
Co mons to my old friends, knowing time and nanty
for every new out.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
So I think I.
Speaker 8 (44:42):
To my march a short.
Speaker 7 (44:46):
Monster, my old friend anoying time and fancy before.
Speaker 8 (44:53):
Every out, so do myself.
Speaker 4 (44:57):
So I was.
Speaker 8 (44:58):
At a short.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Damn it, that was cool. Man ship, that was cool,
awesome stuff. Man, Oh dear fang was gonna come up next?
Did you see that?
Speaker 5 (45:24):
Yeah? The other video that we actually shot at Silversmith.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
Oh the brewery.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (45:33):
Yeah, get a chance to watch that one. That's a
film here.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Yeah, done and done, Lauren, Thank you so much again,
my friend. We really appreciate you awesome. You were just
fantastic and we can't wait to have you back.
Speaker 5 (45:49):
Thank you so much. I can't wait to be.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Back all the best on Friday. Okay, thank you, take care,
thank you, take care. Thanks
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