January 28, 2025 • 53 mins
We have experienced this with a few of our guests, and certainly with this episode's guest. Lexie from Featurette was like talking to an old friend. What an incredible journey that our friends in this awesome band have experienced so far! Lexie spills the beans on everything from their latest project, to creating a songwriting company, and so much more. Check it out. This convo was tons of fun.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
Like the camera work, the ship we're on there, I'm
making sure, I'm but we have we had that and
I geeked out for like a whole maybe fifteen minutes,
and that's it.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Cool noise, did anyone report? Can I have that record?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You can have that. Craig will send that to you.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
We'll send that to you, and I can.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Do this one too, which nobody's figured out anyway.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
No, Like the lighting stuff is fun and I apparently
have to go over to Dimitri and Craig's house and
do it for them.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
You're dissatisfied with You're dissatisfied. You're clearly here, clearly dissatisfied, Derek.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Derek, you Derek, look at what you did for your
role pal Craig g before Derek Lewis after Derek Lewis.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And you're delightful, right, I've got a gel for you.
It's a it's a.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Delightful like delight right.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Look you see like so much smarter than all.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Three of us.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Lexi is smarter than all three of us put together.
Welcome everybody. This is a podcast called Canadian Assac. My
name is U d J Craig g a k A
d J Seamless thanks to my buddy Dirky mcshirt Cocking
and of course Derek Lewis here and Dimitri Alexi you uh.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
This is a show that we do live.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Nine pm Eastern Standard Time every Monday night and we
love doing it. Tonight, our new bestie, Lexi J is
in the house and from an awesome band called Featurette
And so I'm gonna talk to you about a couple
of things, but just wanted to let you know, Lexi,
we have added four songs from your catalog to Revolution
(02:25):
Radios playlist. So yeah, so you guys are you guys
are on on REV Radio? So yeah, do your thing.
Derek Okay, I don't know what he's doing, but anyway,
he's going.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
To do a lighting gig that's right exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So anyway, we just really, honestly, Alexi, we really wanted
to thank you for this.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
We really were hoping to do this live with you
in studio.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Unfortunately it just didn't work out that way, but we're
so happy.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah next time. Absolutely, we're happy to have you with us.
My friend.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Well, if we're like you got to wonder, Lexi, if
like we're this excited about lighting in our in our
actual homes, imagine what we're like, what if what what
would be we be like together in a studio. We'd
lose our minds got together.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Absolutely, yeah, it would.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Be thrown at me because I'm obnoxious.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
We're so we have Lexi j here from featurette and
you've got a brand and you've got a brand new
album called Panic Pills. Yeah yeah, And and this came
out of and from what we read, this came out
of an anxiety disorder. Can you tell us a little
bit about that?
Speaker 6 (03:49):
I love to because I'm not there anymore, which is
like the most one good?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Yeah, Yeah, that's wonderful.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
I wrote this Actually a lot of this was written
in COVID when I for a few years, it's been
like literally and I kid you not, she'll remain nameless.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
But I've been begging my doctor for help with anxiety.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
It had been like years and years of like, hey,
can you refer me to someone?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Can you prescribe me something?
Speaker 6 (04:12):
I'm actually not good And I'm sitting there like crying
on the table, being like help, And she's like, it's
all in your head.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And I'm like, Okay, I'm getting a new doctor.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Oh isn't that wonderful? LEXI just try smiling.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, I can tried relaxing. I'm like, I'm tried when
I tell you I've tried.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
So basically, I decided that I'm going to write it
out of me because it was the only option that
I had.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Music is therapy.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
If you've ever been your musician or you're a musician,
you obviously know that.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So I just started taking.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
The individual evils in my life and putting them packaged
into a little song capsule where I could just like
have the whole idea encapsulated away from me, separate, outside
of my body.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Gone, so that I could start to heal from those things.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
So that's what I did, and we came up with
nine tracks that supported that and pretty interesting journey of
all different kinds of I guess panic. But it's a
bop though it's not like you listen to it and
you're like, I am full.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Yeah, it really is. It really is like.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
From the anxiety. So yeah, it's a cool thing.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
So you're not there anymore because because of the journey
that the artistic journey that you took.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah it worked, it worked, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, so not copious medications.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
No, actually yeah no.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
The substance I got addicted to in this case was
the art making itself. So now I find myself like
a full time like through the journey of this record. Actually,
I haven't even thought about this yet. I'm now like
a full time singer songwriter. I write for other people.
I'm part of writing a production duo called the Legal
Audio at the studio that was built during the making
of this record as well, like totally took over my life.
(05:51):
And like when I realized that I could take it
seriously for myself, I was like, I'm not going to
take it seriously for everybody else, you know, I'm just actually.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Really going to take this good for you. That's awesome
with headspace, so you're uh, the partner John Pedersen fade
for doorson God Okay, Yeah, just wondering how to say
his last name fedorson Okay. So just wondering if you can,
if you could take us back, because this is an
incredible journey that you've actually been on as far as
(06:22):
influences go, Can you actually start could you let us
know what your influences are, and then if you can
actually just sort of weave those influences into how you
essentially started writing music, Like, how long has it been
actually since.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
You started writing It's been a minute, It's been a minute. Yeah,
John and I started as a duo. We started in
twenty sixteen.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
We came out with an album called Crave, and I
think back then like Fantogram was a really big influence
for us. We really like them a trip hop thing going.
They were also a duo female male with a female singer,
and like they just sort of like were this archetype
where we're like I see us in.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Them and I aspire to like that level of fucking curiosity.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
It was.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
It was so good.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
It was so good what they were doing. I especially
really liked their album three. I think that's a really
cool record. But we had as well, our producer at
the time was.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Mark Kosher, and just like he he had, we.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Give him a song and he'd be like, Okay, here
is the actual thing with like oh damn, Like I
would have never thought of it that way.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
He's a production genius.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
And the more we started working with him, the more
we were like, do you want to be part of.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
The do you want to come with me? Actually with us?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
And so now he's part.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Of the he's part of the project, and we're a trio,
and all these other influences started coming in the more
we sort of involved Mark and then eventually had him
become fully part of the band. But I think in
our in our bio, we talk about how Plum was
a big influence for us and the sounds around that
time from like his last record Palaces.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I think it was that one was big for us.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
And then of course Billy elis all over the place,
but in so many different respects like O G Billy
to now Billy and and everything in between. But for
all of us, the big thing was Radiohead.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
We're like super like it might not come through in the.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Sounds, but in the tension, you know, Okay, we're all
like super obsessed with that. That's like our joint origin
stories radio Do each of.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
You have like a favorite Radiohead period or a favorite
Radiohead album and we should compare.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I think we're all pretty versatile when it comes to that.
But I don't know. I think In.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Rainbow's is a really controversial one where people it was like,
it's very divisive.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I found around that.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Time it's divisive. I'm sorry. I could talk all month
about Radiohead.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, you really can. In Rainbow's was definitely divisive for us.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I don't know. I didn't know that. I didn't I
thought it was to me. In Rainbow's is one of
the best things they ever did, you know, I agree
with you.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
I just think some of the more hardcore fans were like,
what is this bullshit? And like that that was a
real like oh.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
They've been taught. They've been saying that about eight Radiohead
albums in a row, and that's.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Why they're so cool.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
It's the same as Billy It's like it's not one thing.
It's like, oh I love the sound of Billie Eilish.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
What do you mean that's like twenty.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
None of those things go together, don't even on the
same record unless you.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Follow the voice and the through lines and like the
motifs and like all that.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Anyway, the three of Finn is a genius finn is it.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Both are And I think I think the three of
us are really we're really creative, Like we're creators. Actually
we all went to like music school and like did
the thing and like got way too.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Nerdy about it.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
So I think this is a product of not just
the influences but also like our joint venture of like
way too much nerding out on a particular topic.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
So what did you go? Where'd you go to school?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I went to UFT. I was in the opera program.
IWI what? And then I was like, you know what,
Actually I don't belong here. I have blue hair. I
have to leave.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Actually an opera singer with blue hair. I want to
see a show like that.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I've seen some stuff out of out of New York
recently where And I hate using the term alternative because
alternative is such a mainstream right now, but like but literally,
but like it has been since like ninety six. But
there's a there's a divergence from the pseudo bunny rabbiteer's
(10:30):
norm or or normative of of like if we're doing
if like if we're doing Othello, or we're doing Hamlet,
or we're doing you know whatever, Shakespearean running through my head.
That's all I have right now. There can be, uh,
there can be again alternative aspects to it. This story
(10:56):
can be told differently. Yeah, right, Like you don't you
don't have to, like nobody has to have their hair
all cranked up and wear nineteen petticoats and go on
stage in.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Modern modern productions, modern stage makeup, Modern takes on things
all the time.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
When they do things, it's crazy. They do maximalist things.
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
It's like it's an interesting art form because it's like
it's preserving history. It's not really like moving the art
forward necessarily. It's more of like a time capsule and
they're like, look at this now again, and people are
making modern operas. But it's like it's just a different
it's a different vibe. I think we're looking to comment
more on the right now with our goal.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So that's why there's a class a classical singer and
she's done a whole whack of of awesome alternative kind
of gothic stuff. Diamanda Galas Galass do you know who
that is a chance.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Oh so yeah, we'll put she is yeahful So anyway,
I will put this in the in the chat here.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
For it's like a poppy situation or.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
No, no, she's not pop.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
No she's not pop. No. No, very alternatively, very.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Very avant garde does crazy things with their voice, you know,
to the point where like, yeah, that's that's kind of
what's scary about her.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
We did we did some classical singing, are like stacks
of choirs that were a little more more than just
like pop or alternative singing, modern sing I don't know
even what you would call that, but we did. Weave
it into the first song on the record and fires
we have like a bunch of operatic stuff that's buried
in the background there. We made our own sort of
sample stacks out of that. It was very very interesting
(12:38):
process to do.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
So you'd basically just get in a vocal booth and
sing a bunch of stuff and then sample and resample
and all that sort of.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Yeah, it was like a technical stack building too. It
wasn't just like oh, we'll take this moment. It was like, Okay,
here's the vision and here's the first layer and the
second third and then you just like make them this jointure.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
It's so cool.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
There's an interesting Question's an interesting question. How do you
feel about vocal booths?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Well, I almost never use them. Yeah, yeah, I think
I think that I have a lot of thoughts on
this topic. How the brope can then.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Be no great, no do to the engineer.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
It's up to the mic, it's up to the comfort
of the artist.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
I think your best performance doesn't necessarily happen in an
isolated space. For me in any way, it doesn't if I'm
just alone with my own shit in a tiny room,
I'm like, oh, it's claustrophobic in here.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Like I need to spread out more.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
I want to communicate faster too, with the recording engineer
or whoever I'm working with, because sometimes it's like we
want to move on the fly. Like we've had whole
songs that there's a song called interrogation on this it's
the second last track where the whole hook changed, like
in on the mic. I was like, actually, I'm gonna
throw all of the writing away, and this is the
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book now, and here's what I wanted to be, Like,
here's how we're going to catch it and it's like
way better than what it was before. And that song
we'd had written, that's the oldest song on the record.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
We wrote that one in like twenty sixteen and we've
been performing.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
It since then, and like finally now, like a couple
months ago, it got completed because I finally had the
meat in the way that I wanted now on the
other side of the healing journey, which was interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
The reason I asked that is because so I recently
came across an interview, well conversation with Brian Eno, and
he was disgusting. So the three of us are kind
of YouTube fans, and it was it was just Brianino
talking about Bono is it's like they put Bono A
A in a vocal booth and he was like, it
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wasn't him, right, So Brian's like, well, come out here
and come out into the in the main room of
the studio, and he's like because when we were listening
to playback, you know, he like Bob gets excited and
he's like, oh yeah, I'm going to sing this and
he starts singing and doing all that kind of stuff.
So it's it's kind of of like it kind of
stuck in my head, and I was like, I'm going
to ask no.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Yeah, capturing the capturing the energy over the like highest
quality fidelity vocal, Like you're gonna puck that shit up
later anyway, depending on the track. Like we aren't actually
recording classical vocals where the fidelity matters.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
We're recording like the energy. So like what is that?
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Like, how do you get that? How do you get
that out of an artist? I think that's like even
more interesting than how do you record it? Like how
do you energetically pull that out of somebody? Yeah, that's
such a conversation.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, well I still sorry. Sorry, Dmitri, just really quickly
and then you can get to your point. But I
think we have to do. You know, we're talking about
doing live events, uh this year LEXI with with Revolution Radio,
And I think you just actually gave us a really
really great idea myself and Derek, myself and Dimitri are
going to be able to just sit on stage with
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the artists and interview them, and Dirky will put him
in a vocal booth off to the side.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
That's where I should be.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
That's where I should be, and there should be there
should be a mute. There should be a button where
I'm allowed to talk and I'm allowed to.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Just and now and now over to you, Derek.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, I'm sorry, sorry to go ahead.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Just like well, you're talking about like a lot of
the studio creation that was involved in Panic Pills, and
I was wondering, like, since how is it, how is
the how has it been replicating that on stage? Like
replicating it live.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
The I'll boomer the studio.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
We definitely do the songs because like you're talking about
like how like in fires had how you had that
and everything.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
So from the production in the studio, how do we
take that into our live show? Yeah, well, actually that's
a that's a great question because it's evolved so much
for us. I think when we started playing this music,
we were like, Okay, it's going to be girl with
a drum machine. It's going to be like a bunch
of tracks. And then just like John hitting a drum
kit live and me singing, and I'm like this is
It got better when we added Mark on the guitar
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and there was like a little more like live.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Energy on stage.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
And then the more we started doing that, and like
depending on the different bands we were touring with the
more we're like are we a punk band live? Because
the energy is and like we're changing all the parts,
and like do we actually need the live presentation of
our so specifically like made for headphone sort of a
sound or like made for vinyl or made for like
paying tad down.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Like do you need that? Because it's not music you
like put on it at dinner party. I mean, it
depends on your dinner party.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I was going to say, you should come to my
place for dinner because.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
That's what you're eating.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Maybe, but if you're if we're doing it live, like
are we not free the rich make it?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Are we not free to just like go ham with
it and like go like balls the wall and see
what happens?
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Right?
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Like, So so we started doing that and like now
live like John's got hybrid drum kits, right, so it's
got still like the full like live kit effect and
like the the energy of like what it is to
have an actual drum kit in the room. But he's
got all his triggers on it and they're dialed in
so that all those parts and then his little octopad
above it so that all his parts are there. We
can trigger everything, and now we're owning so much more
of the live space because we've blended it with what
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it is to be a live like rock band, punk band, whatever,
and then the electronic project we are because when it's
just electronic, it mays will be a DJ set and
then there's like not enough like energy.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Again, it's all energetic. I really think that that's like
the bottom.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
How do you feel about being a punk band? About
the idea of love it?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
I fucking love it because like it's a totally different
presentation of the music and it's a reason to go
see it live. Like if I want to get I'm
not the biggest this is so controversial.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Oh my god, I'm.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Digging another controversy.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Yes, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I'm just not. I think that, like I'm a little
on the spectrum.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
I think that live can be really difficult to interpret
if you don't fully know then artist. And I really
like to experience an artist live and like just be
taken away by it. But then again, and there's so
many venues where it's like I can't hear what's going on.
So unless you're like you know, playing at the Horseshoe
and you're a rock band, and I know what that is,
and I can hear it. If it's something like off
the beaten trail a little bit as we are, it's
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difficult to like get the full picture. And then I'm like,
I could be so easily turned off because I was
standing in the wrong part of the room or beside
a guy like drinking too loud, Like I don't know, right.
So I think being a punk band live or like
having a different energy to it live, that's a little
more like ah, like it's it's just easier to get
people's attention and like give a different presentation to the art.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I'm one hundred percent with you on the seeing music live.
So the last thing and the three of us were
at this thing, the last thing that we went to
is we went and saw Boys' Night Out did their
first their first show, their first logo show back as
a band in fifteen years at the Danforth, And I
ran around with my buddy Lee filming the thing, and
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I hated my life because what it's out as fuck.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Two.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I'm on stage, you know, and you know what you
hear on stage? Fucking nothing you hear. Not All you
hear is the guy hitting stuff behind you and he's
just slamming and that's that's all I hear. And I'm
just like, this is no fun.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
You should have been out, well, you should have heard
it where we were sitting I negot.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Running around. So the thing is, so I like, I
like good live recordings because I like the energy of live,
like live, I love the energy of live music, but
I hate being there.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
So I have this, So he's going to be So
if it is going to be live, then you got
to present it in a way where it's like easy
to understand, right, because that's why.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
So much going on.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yes, So I have the stems from the show at
dan Forth Music Hall of Boys n Out and they're spectacular.
And I'll listen to that. From where I was standing,
I was like, this is gonna be garbage. So no,
it's it's wonderful. It's so good.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
So one, is there a possibility then that FEATURETTE may
do a live gig very soon and record a live record.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
That's an interesting thing.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
I will take it under advisement that that could be
a thing about.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
So there's a great thing. Three people love that, and you.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Know what I mean, I honestly I think it'd be
fantastic because again, like if you're saying you're presenting your
product in an entirely different way, it would be awesome
to have that that, you know, those two things right
side by side on Spotify or or in a record
store what have you.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Right, So I think when we get the following and
the demand for that, that's something I would consider. But
before that, it's kind of like I want you to
have to see it live because it's.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Like, Okay, the band name is Featurette, right.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Like we do visuals as well music videos, like crazy
we do, like we travel with the Light Show, despite
like us.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Not having the most viewers in the world.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Like we care so much about the visual presentation of
this thing because not only because it's called that because
Mark used to work in photography, Like we direct all
our own music videos, like they're all self directed, and
it matters to us what that like presentation is. So
just to have the audio, I feel would be a
disservice to the like thing we're presenting when we're like
in your face and like like I kick the whole show,
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like it's like high knees.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yes, So then so then you have so then instead
of just a live recording its.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
Percent.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I will do that. I would percent.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I would do that.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
It's probably gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Well, I would stand everywhere. I get one of the
I get one of those, like go everywhere all accesses,
and I can run all over.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
The like you were running around with a gimbal at
the Boys' Night Out show was yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So both of us were, me and Me and Lee
were both running around with.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
That's right, two gimbals.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
So a couple of weirdos with gimbals. Nothing better than that.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You wouldn't believe how how fast people move out of
your way though, when you're carrying gear.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Sure, that's my favorite part is just like excuse me,
and they're like, oh sorry, dude, best, it's the best.
I'm like, I need to wash room. I'm gonna go
this way.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
So let's see. You mentioned a songwriting collective earlier, right, like,
what is the name of the songwriting collective?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Oh, it's called the Legal Audio. It's just a duo.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
It's a writing and production duo that Mark from the
band and myself have.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Is that that's the totality of the collective.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I didn't say collective, and I'll say.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Well, okay, can we can play it back? I had
it maybe maybe maybe I built it up in my
head too much.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
You know, No, it's just it's it right, Well, I
mean it's worth building up. It's a writing and production
duo and we write and produce for a bunch of
variety of artists at this point.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Carlie red Jepson.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
No, but we did write with Carlie red Jepson's basis
for this.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Record Tavish Grow Yeah, and then and then the other
and then the other. Big co write on the album
was a Ryan Gildemond from Mother Mother.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Indeed, what a cool guy.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Terrifying, right, How was he terrifying? Tell us about how
he's terrified?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
He is quite large one.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
He looks like he looks like somebody, whereas like we would,
oh my gosh, do you want to hear a funny story?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, all right, no, no, something else.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
So we had a writing session booked with him in Vancouver.
This is for Next Life, which I don't know if
you've seen the music video, but that's that's Joe. But
we had a writing session booked with him and I
had this song that I was bringing to him that
was like really like sensitive subject matter's got my grandma
and her journey with Alzheimer's.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And it was like a whole there was a whole thing.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
But we were like, you know, gearing up to go.
We're like we're nervous. It's just John and I were babies. Still,
We're like, oh my god, like we're gonna meet this
guy and he's gonna be so like terrifying because he's
done so much and he's such a big deal on
And we walk into this coffee shop to get like prepped,
and he's like he's yeah, in the coffee shop and
we're like, oh shit, this is not this is not
(25:00):
the intro that we had planned. Like I have to
pete like we're not. So we like literally like duck
and run to the bathroom and like hide until he's gone.
And then we like show up at a studio lady and
be like hey, man, like how's it going, Like all
cool just for.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
And now he knows because you just said it.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Now he knows.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Well, he's we're going to see this. I doubt if
he does.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Thanks, we're done today, No one sees, don't worry about it.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
It's all good. That's all good.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
He's busy he's busy.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I'm sending it to him.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Oh my god, please, I'll send it to him.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Awesome, Right, he took the song from like something like
just for me to like something for everybody. It was Honestly,
we built the whole campaign around Next Life, which was
like the ground jewel of everything.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
So I actually have the video for Next Life where
is it?
Speaker 8 (25:50):
Do it?
Speaker 5 (25:51):
But but before we do that? When all right? Tell
I just want to know when you when you and
John write for a different artist, do you like or
do you just write a whole bunch of songs in
the say? Okay, this isn't a featurette one. This is
(26:12):
a feature real, No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
No, Yeah, it's mostly it's mostly me and Mark.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Actually, John and I used to write with some other artists,
but the illegal adio thing is me and Mark the guitarist.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Okay, and.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Uh, when we write for other people, they're in the
room with us and they are going on their own
journey and we're there to like I'm sitting in the
room with my laptop open, pen and paper whatever it
is on the day, and we're like trying to like
we basically therapize them. We're basically going and ro what
are you feeling? And then Mark kind of underscores the
conversation and he's making all these gorgeous production sounds, and
(26:46):
he's driving the console and like just guiding us to
whatever they're leading toward.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
And then we you know, find the trucks, We find.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
The hook of whatever, like the meat of the song
is that they need to get out, and we like
do this for the next hour and a half and
pull it out of them and then if they want
to cut it, we'll finish it with them later. But
it's a beautiful process because I think part of the
reason feature it was difficult for me at the beginning
of our career was that I didn't understand that I
was a songwriter and that that extended beyond my project,
(27:15):
so I would have songs on our records. In particular,
Dream Right was definitely this way for me our second record,
where they were just they're just songs, but.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
They weren't necessarily my songs, you know, and there's nothing
wrong with.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
That, but it wasn't meant for my voice, or it
could have been better pictured like here here or here,
or I was just writing because I was like, yeah,
this is this is what people want to hear. It's
a song, it's a well crafted song, but it wasn't
my truth and it wasn't my well crafted song. So
now I can do that for myself, knowing that the
creativity that I have can find a home elsewhere, and
(27:48):
that not all those things are meant for me.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Oh that's a neat step of you. Yeah, but that's
I think that that's an important step as an artist,
you know.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yeah, Oh yeah, it changed my life.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
My publisher, Jordan Howard of Day Tripper, he really like
showed me that it was possible to take something like
the art that we've made and just like understand that
not all of it needs to come out like.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
That, but that like you are free to have all.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
These things transmute, just not necessarily through my own version
of myself, you know. And that really helped me like
become this character too. Like I had brown hair before,
who was she? I didn't have any tattoos, I didn't know.
I didn't know who I was yet, And I think
because I was trying to be this thing that people wanted,
and now I've decided that, like I need to be
something I want.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Yes, And then the music.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Really changed just so you know Derek is a tattoo artist.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Okay, do me, Okay, okay done?
Speaker 9 (28:47):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Wow, what the fuck is that?
Speaker 5 (28:49):
What?
Speaker 4 (28:50):
How did this not happen? That happened when you said
do me?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Why can't I do this?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
She said?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
She just thumbs up?
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Come, I don't get that.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I that's what I was not looking but interesting.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I'm so I'm I am so bummed that that doesn't
happen when I do.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It on an iPhone. I feel like that's like part
of what this is.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
You're on an iPhone. Okay, look fucking lasers, Craig. I'm
so excited right now.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
I've got an iPhone too. I'm going to have to
figure this out.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
This is your iPhone is probably an iPhone two?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Really was there even an iPhone too? I feel like.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I think it didn't have a roundback.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
As a matter of fact, I will have you know
I got the very first iPhone three G in Markham
because my store opened a half an hour before all
the other stores in Markham did and I was the
first in line.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
So I was the first person to get an iPhone
three G in York region. Good pretty when we when
we look at it, when we look at your Wikipedia article, Craig,
that isn't it.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
That the owner of the first apple.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
That's what's happening with my lights? Lexi's got lasers. I've
got to like that I can turn on and off.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
There you your iPhone was used by Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
On fire today.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Unbelievable. Oh, Dmitri's on fire. You know he's he's got
gas or something like that.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
The wow.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Okay, I just want to let you know that we
are at a half hour, and that's usually what we
ask of our guests.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
So if you've got to you know, fly or whatever,
we we We're just letting you know. That's all.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
If you want to hang out.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Doing anything whatever you need next, perfect good stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Okay, So uh, let's go back to you growing up
as a kid. Like obviously you've got your influences as
far as featurette goes. What are some of the sounds,
artists and things that you listen to growing up as
a kid.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Let where do hold on? Hold on, hold on?
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Greg?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Where did you grow up?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Guess?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, I can say to those are different places.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I was in Esa, you know, I went to Fame
high school. It was fun. So did John, so did
Mark at different times.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
But yeah, yeah, I as far as listening to again, like,
I've had a really weird journey with music in my life.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
We could get into that another podcast, but it's a
little more intimate.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
I had a really work journey with music. It's always
been part of my life. It wasn't always like listening
to other things.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
I had like a interesting childhood with some like dark
twisty twists and turns, which if you've watched some of
our music videos you'd have a little bit of insight
into from the past record. But yeah, I think I
was always like really involved in the like tactile aspect
of music.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
So it was like there was like violin growing up,
and there was piano.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
And then I went to ESA and I learned music
theater stuff, and then I went to UFT and I
learned opera stuff, and it was very like music was
in the doing of like I was like the vessel
for music more so.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Than just like the listening side of things. But I
did have a few friends.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
That brought me into the music world and listening to
things a long way.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
My friend Andrew Brennan showed out who ran CP twenty four.
He's like their anger now, which is so weird to
say because we're just bros.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
But like now he's like an anger and like that's
so funny, Like will be the nail slant and be like, oh,
it's my boot.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
But yeah, he he used to show me some some
cool stuff.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Back in the day, we were like, I don't know,
nine inch nails, LCD sound system, like so just it's
like all just.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Stuff, stuff and things. I never really got into.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
The emo scene, but I would have had ide aesthetic.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
To support my actual depression. I just did. I was
doing emo. I R not just for show. It was
just like, yeah, they just devastating.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Was really expensive. I should do that right now.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Now Now, now, now I can have the darkest But
then I was just like a regular kid who wanted
to die.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
I didn't need a soundtrack to that. I made my own.
But I was always writing music.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
I was literally like even to this day, like I
really prefer the quiet so that I can hear like
the stupid noises in my head and go get them,
because otherwise it's like it's hard to think your own
thoughts when you're so wrapped up in other people's you know.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
So yeah, absolutely good call. Good for you. That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
So do you have so what do you have? What
live gigs do you have coming up?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
We have a.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Gig on the last gig of our tour with Kris,
who was at one point watching this podcast Lave because
she was texting me, She's like, who are these people?
Speaker 8 (33:50):
Like?
Speaker 3 (33:50):
These are?
Speaker 6 (33:52):
I text you back, I'm in the podcastbody.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Everybody asked that question of who the fuck are these people?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
These are great times, having a great time.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Three old white dude, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (34:04):
But she and I had a little tour. It was
called Till Death to Us Party Tour.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
I proposed to her with the Ring Pop and then
we put out the single ring Pop and we went
on tour together and that song is fantastic. It is
not on this record, it's just a standalone single, but
like check it out.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
That's like quite quite the piece. But yeah, we have
a show coming up at rum Runners and she's still watching.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
Hi, Aviva, we have a show coming up at rum
Runners in London on the thirty first with Bella Rosa
and Aviva.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Text me the name of the other person right now,
because I can't remember it. I needed to come on
the screen, but.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
Yeah, it's it's going to be a great kig. It
is the last in the series of this tour, so we're.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Very much looking forward to that. It also happens to
be on Panic Pills release.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Day, so I'm very excited about that.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Nice And are you going to do Panic Pills CD release?
Speaker 6 (34:58):
We kind of kind of did, so if you're in London, Ontario,
come to that and that'll be our CD release party,
I guess.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
But we had just the other day.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
At the studio, we had like a pre album like
friends and Oh Taylor Holden, thank you, Viva Taylor Holden
and Belarussa are opening up for that gig with Kris,
said myself. And the other day in the studio we
had the band hosted like friends and family, you know,
seventy of our closest friends and family and industry humans,
(35:29):
and we gave everybody a record and we did like
a screening of all the music videos.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Because futurette right, so we did like that. We put
on our little show and it was so special and
so intimate and like we performed the last.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Song, Golden Hour, is the focus track for the album
and that comes out with the music video on the
On the thirtieth is when the music video comes out
the day before. And yeah, we had the pleasure, the
absolute pleasure of like playing at top to bottom sonically.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
For our right.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Like I said, I was like, okay, live show, I
have questionable thoughts about that, and we've been touring it
so people have seen it live now for like a
little while. But to actually be able to be like
listen was so special.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
And we cued up. We had the lighting show playing
for the songs that didn't have.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Visuals, and then of course music videos for the majority
of the album that we've got to have on this
like giant giant screen behind us that was just like
a lighting backdrop paper you know that they can roll
out to have like a photo studio thing. But we
had that like from Florida sixteen foot ceiling and it
was like a whole the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
It was really special. We had popcorn, got a popcorn
maker for it. We really did the do It's very amazing.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
Yeah, so that was that we actually have another one,
but for now that was sort of the like for
those who needed to know, here you go.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
You know, Yeah, I think it's really cool that you've
that you've got this visual focus that you spend that
you spend almost as much time on as the audio.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Or we went to Iceland more.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
Okay, you went to where Iceland? Oh god, yeah, wow yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
The last music video.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
We've gone all over the world to make this record,
but the last music video golden.
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Now are we.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
It's it's about my It's again about my grandmother. And
the whole record is not this way, but the ones
that were like kind of were. She had dementia at
the end of her life, like I mentioned, and we
were in a really awful car accident.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
We didn't know that she had it, and we were
driving and we got t boned and all the damage
was on my side. She was totally fine. She's not
with us anymore, but not because of that day. And
this song was just.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
About like the most beautiful moments of your life flashing
on like a highlight reel before you die, like right, So.
Speaker 6 (37:46):
In order to do that, it was like all the
warmths and like all this like beauty wrapped up and
like because time slows down, time slows down when you're
a car flipping upside down.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
I don't know if you've been there.
Speaker 8 (37:54):
But it's really real, So trying to keep the pacing
of the song in that like you know, clinging to
life moment and.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Then like the song starts to unravel and fall apart
and fall apart and fall apart, and.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Then like everything I was like rushing back to life
when you're adrenaline kicks in and you realize that you're alive.
So in order to film that, we wanted some like liminal.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
Space to evaporate this beautiful like familiar set out into
and we decided Iceland has feords and black sand beaches
with icebergs and ice caves that you can have a
raven at the end. And we're like, yes, this is
the perfect place to take reality and build part of
a living room on a beach and then like have
that just like fizzle out and become complete like Heaven
(38:34):
on Earth by the end of it.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
So yeah, it was it was.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
Quite the journey. We did like ten hour twelve hour
day drives while we were out there. It was really wild.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
Wow, amazing.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Yeah, I want to commend you on your language, by
the way, just the words that just came out of
your head.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
What did I say? I have no idea when.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
You were describing the landscape of Iceland. I'm just I
don't remember exactly the Craig play it back. I'm sitting.
I'm sitting and I'm listening to the words and just
listening to you talk, and you're so very eloquently spoken.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Don't be nice to me. I'll cry. Go get out
of here.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
Okay, I'll just go.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
It's my show. It's the Derek Show.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Just go, Derek, go to your vocal booth. I'll go.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Right, hold on, hold on. I'm just going to put
this up because you know I should, because it's.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
The Derek Show.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
It is not no, it's just you. You had you
had some really good like this.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Whole well pen Light pin Light ninety seven space. Yeah,
that probably blew Derek's mind.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
I was like, you don't hear people say stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
It's like David.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
It's like David Bowie saying, you know, uh, sway through
the crowd to elliptic space and let's dance.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
It's like you're like, sorry, what.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
I loves guys, I love.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Where's very with David Bowie?
Speaker 4 (40:03):
What is that? Jen?
Speaker 8 (40:04):
What is.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
How is that logo file?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
That's what yours? A lago file of the building. Lexi,
you'r Lexi. You're a logo file. That's what you are.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
You're a lover of woes insight and sounds slightly insulting.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
Logo fhile what sounds a little bit like you.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Don't need to see it to matrix, you don't need
to say it.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
And she week's words.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Yeah, okay, looks.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
You know, it's beautiful about words.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
As soon as you choose one, you've destroyed all the
other ones. It's like you paint with one color and
like that's that's the.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Land now, you know. So, I think it's very important
to be specific with your.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Pin Light ninety seven says it was poetic and the
description of the pacing of pacing the song in a
slowed down way, I loved it and I couldn't agree
more absolutely.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Okay, well, listen, we really appreciate your time tonight, my friend.
We really sincerely do. We're gonna have to have you
guys back when you are ready to do uh, you know, gig,
new record, anything that you want to you know, jump
on and uh and promote and have a chat with us.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
We'd be more than happy to have you.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
Yeah. Well, and it'll be exciting to see where in
which direction featurette evolves. You know, I'm too.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Because honestly, like since so since the announcement. And by
the way, you're totally forgiven for forgetting the name of
the other person on your on your show in London,
because on my show last Friday, I was like, Hey,
we're doing this interview with somebody I can't remember the
name of. Right, I was like, ah, I got nothing.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Tell me introduce yourself.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
And then I was like and then I was like
I went, I went, and I like check my email
and I was like, yeah, not in there. And I
was like, chat, I was having the worst day.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
And then and then and then Derek went back to
his vocal booth.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
I went to my vocal booth because that's where it
was vocal. That's fine. He's not letting that go.
Speaker 4 (42:16):
Nope, not letting it go.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
So like I called him DJ sugar tits the entire.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
I did last week. Yep, you sure so much.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
It's nice.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Listen, I own it. It's all good.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
I own it.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
I was wondering if you could do us a favor.
We're going to spin your video for Next Life. Now
I believe this song has been out for a while now, yeah, okay,
and so you essentially decided to, uh, you wanted to
do a video for this guy and then kind of
almost give it like sort of a quote unquote re
release sort of thing. I was wondering if you could
(42:52):
actually talk about the video before we spin it.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
And this is pretty suctake too. I won't keep you forever,
but have do you know what the animated I?
Speaker 8 (43:00):
Yes, yeah, so I saw when I was a kid,
like little little kid.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
I saw this episode at the Animaniacci.
Speaker 6 (43:07):
And it was on this gold piece of wrapping paper, okay,
and it's basically her fall from grace. So there's this
perfect piece of wrapping paper sitting in like the reatman's
or whatever, right, and they picked her out. They're like
that one, and they wrap the present with it, and
then she fulfills her destiny as like a Christmas wrapping
paper and she gets like ripped up by the kid
thrown away, and suddenly it's like this most violent of things,
(43:27):
and like the paper is like journeying through the earth
and like going onto like a garbage barge, and like,
oh my god, like I don't even recall if that's right,
but that's what it was for me and my memory
now and my heart was breaking. And a kid you
not like, ask anybody in my life who's close to me.
I am so maybe it was my grandma who grew
up in the war. I'm so triggered about waste. It's nuts,
Like I can't even stand it. And I don't mean
like I mean like like human error about like how
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much you should have versus like how how much you
actually have to take and what you need that kind
of thing. So anyway that is to say, I was like,
I want to make that. I want a piece of
trash to miss.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
The trash and then live its own destiny.
Speaker 6 (44:03):
And we animated it and it became this thing where
it was like half if you can't see this, and
it's a podcast to you, I'm holding a coffee cup
with two giant giggly eyes on it, and it is spectacular.
His name is Regular Joke because he's a cup of Joke.
And make a feature and we're gonna do like a
old like sitcom style intro with the like starring Regular
(44:26):
Show and it starts in live action, and we like
had to use a leaf blower to get him to
move appropriately and like throw him down a set of
stairs and like go on this violent journey after he.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
Misses the trash. But then he sees this mural by
a Toronto artis. Actually he sees this.
Speaker 6 (44:41):
Mural and he's enchanted by it, and she's enchanted by him.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
And she reaches out of her out of the wall.
Speaker 6 (44:49):
And picks up the cup and like drinks it and
he goes to space. He becomes animated now and he
like comes into her world and he meets all these friends.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Along the way. And I won't give away the ending,
but that is all to say. He makes all different kinds.
Speaker 6 (45:02):
Of friends with all these characters, some of which may
or may not be my cats in the form of planets.
And uh yeah, he has he has a wonderful life
and he ends up in a two D animation space.
Speaker 5 (45:12):
So and this is the song that was co written
with Ryan for Mother Mother, Yes.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Exactly this next Life with Ryan Gildeman.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
The production aspects of this video just have me reeling.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
Because such an undertaking.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
That's because it all because you're like and then this
and then this, and then this happens and we have
both from here and go to and I'm just like,
that is that's a lot.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
You did this with our front Yeah, you did this with.
Speaker 6 (45:40):
Our friends like three separate times, like it's not sorry,
live live action, like three separate times. He doesn't even
stay animated. We were like, we're going to reintegrate him
actually because we're idiots and we just are stupid.
Speaker 5 (45:52):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
But no, but it's it's it's it's really great because
you're you're like, because it's well won. It shows that
you're you're actually like invested in what you're doing. It's
not just like, Okay, we'll make a video.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
You're like, listen, nobody's going to care.
Speaker 6 (46:09):
At the end of the day, nobody's going to give
a shit about a band called Future atte unless.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
Nobody nobody gave a shit about the band.
Speaker 10 (46:16):
Okay, go right, unless they do, And then when they do,
it's because you built the lore, and you built the world,
and you lived in it and you've lived and breathed
it and then one day something clicks or doesn't.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
It doesn't matter to me. It's clicking for me and
it's helping me live my own journey as trash coming
back to life.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
You remind me very much of a young lights. I'm
going to see.
Speaker 3 (46:37):
Thank you. She's such an icon, so I appreciated.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
That she and she's she's one of my best friends and.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Oh my god, introduced me.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
I would die a hundred percent. We will do that, Yes,
one hundred percent, we will do that. She I love
her and I've loved her journey and like she would,
she just got like super invested in making music videos
for her like by herself, and she did it.
Speaker 6 (47:00):
I saw the lore right, she's got, like her tattoos
line up with the like art that's coming for her
next album, and like the machine, the vending machine as
the buttons that line up with the it's crazy. It's
crazy the world that she's built. And I see that,
I see how that takes. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
Yeah. Great, So I can commend you in your undertaking
of creating the world that you you exist and.
Speaker 5 (47:24):
Your yeah, your multimedia thing, but also just the also
just the the introspection that you have done with with
your internal issues and how you've used your art to
tackle that you know and and give it and given
your audience something that they can relate to. You know,
(47:45):
and they maybe helped them through their journey with a
similar journey.
Speaker 3 (47:49):
So it helped me. I'm not the only one, right Like,
who who am I to say? I'm like different?
Speaker 6 (47:55):
Right?
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Like if I'm different, so with somebody else, and then
that's what it's for.
Speaker 6 (48:00):
It's this connection thing and you can only do that
when you're authentic to yourself.
Speaker 4 (48:04):
So I'm on.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Thank you. Thanks for Guy's is huge.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
Well listen again, thank you so much for being here.
We greatly appreciate it. We are now going to spend
next life by featurette this incredible video.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
Again. Can you just give us your your socials and
everything like that. Let everyone know where they can reach
you please.
Speaker 6 (48:23):
It's at feature at music basically everywhere we're in Canada.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
So TikTok is still real. But yeah, underrated is our.
Speaker 6 (48:31):
Is our YouTube channel because all these videos live there
and we put so much effort into music videos. You're
dead right, That's where I live now. I live in
the grave.
Speaker 4 (48:40):
That's awesome. I'm glad you're I'm glad you're doing music videos.
It's fantastic because they really they should be brought back.
Speaker 5 (48:46):
I love them. I love that's what we're old.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
We're old. So we like love music videos.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
That I'm whatever and I just think it's I think
it's a trip. It's like we got to make that.
That's crazy what it is.
Speaker 2 (48:58):
Really, they're really a lot of fun make it's it's been.
It's been a it's been a nice adventure. By the way,
Broken is my favorite music video from you guys.
Speaker 3 (49:07):
Oh cool, just you know love.
Speaker 4 (49:12):
Alrighty folks, here we go.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
Thank you again so much to our new best e
Alexei from Featurette. Thanks so much for hanging out with
us tonight. We greatly appreciate it. We're gonna spin your video.
You can hang out till the end. You can do
whatever you like, you can bounce and do whatever you
gotta do. It's all cool. We greatly appreciate your time,
honestly being here. You've been awesome. This is a great conversation.
So we'll definitely have to have you back.
Speaker 5 (49:31):
Okay, thanks, thank you.
Speaker 4 (49:33):
Here it is next Life.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Featurette is right here on Canadian as Heck episode Dimitri
one third twelve, one twelfth, one twelfth. Thank you very
much right here Revolution Radio Canada. And we do that,
and we do this, and we play.
Speaker 7 (49:54):
I'm Not in the mind of here all the time
I'm running on dam I'm trying to drive it out
of my life. Maybe there's another place from my head's
not way up in space. Maybe I got away, and
(50:14):
maybe in my.
Speaker 11 (50:15):
Next life because I am madic, total statle static. Maybe
in my next life I could live my best life.
Speaker 3 (50:27):
But I'm a fuck up on using it on my dog.
Speaker 12 (50:32):
I know it doesn't look right.
Speaker 13 (50:35):
Some baby in my next life, my next life than
(51:01):
sig americ control. I'm on a by roll and the
door the door too.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
I'm using the cool what are you gross?
Speaker 13 (51:11):
Because Mama say you what to do?
Speaker 7 (51:14):
Maybe thousand dollar place holding my head's not way up
in spaces. Maybe I got away and maybe in my
next life.
Speaker 11 (51:24):
Because I am back in a total statos panic.
Speaker 13 (51:30):
Maybe in my next life I could live my best life.
Speaker 12 (51:36):
But I'm a fuck up on using it on my docog.
Speaker 9 (51:40):
I know it does you look.
Speaker 12 (51:43):
Write somebody in my next life, my next.
Speaker 9 (51:47):
Like okay, cannot can tame get back get back sign.
Speaker 7 (52:16):
Maybe there's a lot of place from.
Speaker 13 (52:18):
My head's not way up in space. Maybe in my next.
Speaker 11 (52:25):
Line is are ematic in a total statle s paanic.
Speaker 13 (52:31):
Maybe in my next life. I could live my best life, but.
Speaker 3 (52:37):
I'm a fucking i'm I'm using all my love.
Speaker 12 (52:42):
I know it doesn't look write somebody in my next.
Speaker 9 (52:48):
Slide came back, Get back. Sat cant cannot simans se
Hey, it's Craig from Revolution Radio Canada and the Canadian
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
Like the camera work, the ship we're on there, I'm
making sure, I'm but we have we had that and
I geeked out for like a whole maybe fifteen minutes,
and that's it.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Cool noise, did anyone report? Can I have that record?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You can have that. Craig will send that to you.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
We'll send that to you, and I can.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Do this one too, which nobody's figured out anyway.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
No, Like the lighting stuff is fun and I apparently
have to go over to Dimitri and Craig's house and
do it for them.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
You're dissatisfied with You're dissatisfied. You're clearly here, clearly dissatisfied, Derek.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Derek, you Derek, look at what you did for your
role pal Craig g before Derek Lewis after Derek Lewis.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And you're delightful, right, I've got a gel for you.
It's a it's a.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Delightful like delight right.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Look you see like so much smarter than all.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Three of us.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Lexi is smarter than all three of us put together.
Welcome everybody. This is a podcast called Canadian Assac. My
name is U d J Craig g a k A
d J Seamless thanks to my buddy Dirky mcshirt Cocking
and of course Derek Lewis here and Dimitri Alexi you uh.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
This is a show that we do live.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Nine pm Eastern Standard Time every Monday night and we
love doing it. Tonight, our new bestie, Lexi J is
in the house and from an awesome band called Featurette
And so I'm gonna talk to you about a couple
of things, but just wanted to let you know, Lexi,
we have added four songs from your catalog to Revolution
(02:25):
Radios playlist. So yeah, so you guys are you guys
are on on REV Radio? So yeah, do your thing.
Derek Okay, I don't know what he's doing, but anyway,
he's going.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
To do a lighting gig that's right exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So anyway, we just really, honestly, Alexi, we really wanted
to thank you for this.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
We really were hoping to do this live with you
in studio.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Unfortunately it just didn't work out that way, but we're
so happy.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah next time. Absolutely, we're happy to have you with us.
My friend.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Well, if we're like you got to wonder, Lexi, if
like we're this excited about lighting in our in our
actual homes, imagine what we're like, what if what what
would be we be like together in a studio. We'd
lose our minds got together.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Absolutely, yeah, it would.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Be thrown at me because I'm obnoxious.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
We're so we have Lexi j here from featurette and
you've got a brand and you've got a brand new
album called Panic Pills. Yeah yeah, And and this came
out of and from what we read, this came out
of an anxiety disorder. Can you tell us a little
bit about that?
Speaker 6 (03:49):
I love to because I'm not there anymore, which is
like the most one good?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Yeah, Yeah, that's wonderful.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
I wrote this Actually a lot of this was written
in COVID when I for a few years, it's been
like literally and I kid you not, she'll remain nameless.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
But I've been begging my doctor for help with anxiety.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
It had been like years and years of like, hey,
can you refer me to someone?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Can you prescribe me something?
Speaker 6 (04:12):
I'm actually not good And I'm sitting there like crying
on the table, being like help, And she's like, it's
all in your head.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And I'm like, Okay, I'm getting a new doctor.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Oh isn't that wonderful? LEXI just try smiling.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, I can tried relaxing. I'm like, I'm tried when
I tell you I've tried.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
So basically, I decided that I'm going to write it
out of me because it was the only option that
I had.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Music is therapy.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
If you've ever been your musician or you're a musician,
you obviously know that.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So I just started taking.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
The individual evils in my life and putting them packaged
into a little song capsule where I could just like
have the whole idea encapsulated away from me, separate, outside
of my body.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Gone, so that I could start to heal from those things.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
So that's what I did, and we came up with
nine tracks that supported that and pretty interesting journey of
all different kinds of I guess panic. But it's a
bop though it's not like you listen to it and
you're like, I am full.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Yeah, it really is. It really is like.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
From the anxiety. So yeah, it's a cool thing.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
So you're not there anymore because because of the journey
that the artistic journey that you took.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah it worked, it worked, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, so not copious medications.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
No, actually yeah no.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
The substance I got addicted to in this case was
the art making itself. So now I find myself like
a full time like through the journey of this record. Actually,
I haven't even thought about this yet. I'm now like
a full time singer songwriter. I write for other people.
I'm part of writing a production duo called the Legal
Audio at the studio that was built during the making
of this record as well, like totally took over my life.
(05:51):
And like when I realized that I could take it
seriously for myself, I was like, I'm not going to
take it seriously for everybody else, you know, I'm just actually.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Really going to take this good for you. That's awesome
with headspace, so you're uh, the partner John Pedersen fade
for doorson God Okay, Yeah, just wondering how to say
his last name fedorson Okay. So just wondering if you can,
if you could take us back, because this is an
incredible journey that you've actually been on as far as
(06:22):
influences go, Can you actually start could you let us
know what your influences are, and then if you can
actually just sort of weave those influences into how you
essentially started writing music, Like, how long has it been
actually since.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
You started writing It's been a minute, It's been a minute. Yeah,
John and I started as a duo. We started in
twenty sixteen.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
We came out with an album called Crave, and I
think back then like Fantogram was a really big influence
for us. We really like them a trip hop thing going.
They were also a duo female male with a female singer,
and like they just sort of like were this archetype
where we're like I see us in.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Them and I aspire to like that level of fucking curiosity.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
It was.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
It was so good.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
It was so good what they were doing. I especially
really liked their album three. I think that's a really
cool record. But we had as well, our producer at
the time was.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Mark Kosher, and just like he he had, we.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Give him a song and he'd be like, Okay, here
is the actual thing with like oh damn, Like I
would have never thought of it that way.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
He's a production genius.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
And the more we started working with him, the more
we were like, do you want to be part of.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
The do you want to come with me? Actually with us?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
And so now he's part.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Of the he's part of the project, and we're a trio,
and all these other influences started coming in the more
we sort of involved Mark and then eventually had him
become fully part of the band. But I think in
our in our bio, we talk about how Plum was
a big influence for us and the sounds around that
time from like his last record Palaces.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I think it was that one was big for us.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
And then of course Billy elis all over the place,
but in so many different respects like O G Billy
to now Billy and and everything in between. But for
all of us, the big thing was Radiohead.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
We're like super like it might not come through in the.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Sounds, but in the tension, you know, Okay, we're all
like super obsessed with that. That's like our joint origin
stories radio Do each of.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
You have like a favorite Radiohead period or a favorite
Radiohead album and we should compare.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I think we're all pretty versatile when it comes to that.
But I don't know. I think In.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Rainbow's is a really controversial one where people it was like,
it's very divisive.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I found around that.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Time it's divisive. I'm sorry. I could talk all month
about Radiohead.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, you really can. In Rainbow's was definitely divisive for us.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I don't know. I didn't know that. I didn't I
thought it was to me. In Rainbow's is one of
the best things they ever did, you know, I agree
with you.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
I just think some of the more hardcore fans were like,
what is this bullshit? And like that that was a
real like oh.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
They've been taught. They've been saying that about eight Radiohead
albums in a row, and that's.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Why they're so cool.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
It's the same as Billy It's like it's not one thing.
It's like, oh I love the sound of Billie Eilish.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
What do you mean that's like twenty.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
None of those things go together, don't even on the
same record unless you.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Follow the voice and the through lines and like the
motifs and like all that.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Anyway, the three of Finn is a genius finn is it.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Both are And I think I think the three of
us are really we're really creative, Like we're creators. Actually
we all went to like music school and like did
the thing and like got way too.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Nerdy about it.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
So I think this is a product of not just
the influences but also like our joint venture of like
way too much nerding out on a particular topic.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
So what did you go? Where'd you go to school?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I went to UFT. I was in the opera program.
IWI what? And then I was like, you know what,
Actually I don't belong here. I have blue hair. I
have to leave.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Actually an opera singer with blue hair. I want to
see a show like that.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I've seen some stuff out of out of New York
recently where And I hate using the term alternative because
alternative is such a mainstream right now, but like but literally,
but like it has been since like ninety six. But
there's a there's a divergence from the pseudo bunny rabbiteer's
(10:30):
norm or or normative of of like if we're doing
if like if we're doing Othello, or we're doing Hamlet,
or we're doing you know whatever, Shakespearean running through my head.
That's all I have right now. There can be, uh,
there can be again alternative aspects to it. This story
(10:56):
can be told differently. Yeah, right, Like you don't you
don't have to, like nobody has to have their hair
all cranked up and wear nineteen petticoats and go on
stage in.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Modern modern productions, modern stage makeup, Modern takes on things
all the time.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
When they do things, it's crazy. They do maximalist things.
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
It's like it's an interesting art form because it's like
it's preserving history. It's not really like moving the art
forward necessarily. It's more of like a time capsule and
they're like, look at this now again, and people are
making modern operas. But it's like it's just a different
it's a different vibe. I think we're looking to comment
more on the right now with our goal.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So that's why there's a class a classical singer and
she's done a whole whack of of awesome alternative kind
of gothic stuff. Diamanda Galas Galass do you know who
that is a chance.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Oh so yeah, we'll put she is yeahful So anyway,
I will put this in the in the chat here.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
For it's like a poppy situation or.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
No, no, she's not pop.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
No she's not pop. No. No, very alternatively, very.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Very avant garde does crazy things with their voice, you know,
to the point where like, yeah, that's that's kind of
what's scary about her.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
We did we did some classical singing, are like stacks
of choirs that were a little more more than just
like pop or alternative singing, modern sing I don't know
even what you would call that, but we did. Weave
it into the first song on the record and fires
we have like a bunch of operatic stuff that's buried
in the background there. We made our own sort of
sample stacks out of that. It was very very interesting
(12:38):
process to do.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
So you'd basically just get in a vocal booth and
sing a bunch of stuff and then sample and resample
and all that sort of.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Yeah, it was like a technical stack building too. It
wasn't just like oh, we'll take this moment. It was like, Okay,
here's the vision and here's the first layer and the
second third and then you just like make them this jointure.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
It's so cool.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
There's an interesting Question's an interesting question. How do you
feel about vocal booths?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Well, I almost never use them. Yeah, yeah, I think
I think that I have a lot of thoughts on
this topic. How the brope can then.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Be no great, no do to the engineer.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
It's up to the mic, it's up to the comfort
of the artist.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
I think your best performance doesn't necessarily happen in an
isolated space. For me in any way, it doesn't if I'm
just alone with my own shit in a tiny room,
I'm like, oh, it's claustrophobic in here.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Like I need to spread out more.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
I want to communicate faster too, with the recording engineer
or whoever I'm working with, because sometimes it's like we
want to move on the fly. Like we've had whole
songs that there's a song called interrogation on this it's
the second last track where the whole hook changed, like
in on the mic. I was like, actually, I'm gonna
throw all of the writing away, and this is the
(13:55):
book now, and here's what I wanted to be, Like,
here's how we're going to catch it and it's like
way better than what it was before. And that song
we'd had written, that's the oldest song on the record.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
We wrote that one in like twenty sixteen and we've
been performing.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
It since then, and like finally now, like a couple
months ago, it got completed because I finally had the
meat in the way that I wanted now on the
other side of the healing journey, which was interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
The reason I asked that is because so I recently
came across an interview, well conversation with Brian Eno, and
he was disgusting. So the three of us are kind
of YouTube fans, and it was it was just Brianino
talking about Bono is it's like they put Bono A
A in a vocal booth and he was like, it
(14:42):
wasn't him, right, So Brian's like, well, come out here
and come out into the in the main room of
the studio, and he's like because when we were listening
to playback, you know, he like Bob gets excited and
he's like, oh yeah, I'm going to sing this and
he starts singing and doing all that kind of stuff.
So it's it's kind of of like it kind of
stuck in my head, and I was like, I'm going
to ask no.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Yeah, capturing the capturing the energy over the like highest
quality fidelity vocal, Like you're gonna puck that shit up
later anyway, depending on the track. Like we aren't actually
recording classical vocals where the fidelity matters.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
We're recording like the energy. So like what is that?
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Like, how do you get that? How do you get
that out of an artist? I think that's like even
more interesting than how do you record it? Like how
do you energetically pull that out of somebody? Yeah, that's
such a conversation.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, well I still sorry. Sorry, Dmitri, just really quickly
and then you can get to your point. But I
think we have to do. You know, we're talking about
doing live events, uh this year LEXI with with Revolution Radio,
And I think you just actually gave us a really
really great idea myself and Derek, myself and Dimitri are
going to be able to just sit on stage with
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the artists and interview them, and Dirky will put him
in a vocal booth off to the side.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
That's where I should be.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
That's where I should be, and there should be there
should be a mute. There should be a button where
I'm allowed to talk and I'm allowed to.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Just and now and now over to you, Derek.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, I'm sorry, sorry to go ahead.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Just like well, you're talking about like a lot of
the studio creation that was involved in Panic Pills, and
I was wondering, like, since how is it, how is
the how has it been replicating that on stage? Like
replicating it live.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
The I'll boomer the studio.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
We definitely do the songs because like you're talking about
like how like in fires had how you had that
and everything.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
So from the production in the studio, how do we
take that into our live show? Yeah, well, actually that's
a that's a great question because it's evolved so much
for us. I think when we started playing this music,
we were like, Okay, it's going to be girl with
a drum machine. It's going to be like a bunch
of tracks. And then just like John hitting a drum
kit live and me singing, and I'm like this is
It got better when we added Mark on the guitar
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and there was like a little more like live.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Energy on stage.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
And then the more we started doing that, and like
depending on the different bands we were touring with the
more we're like are we a punk band live? Because
the energy is and like we're changing all the parts,
and like do we actually need the live presentation of
our so specifically like made for headphone sort of a
sound or like made for vinyl or made for like
paying tad down.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Like do you need that? Because it's not music you
like put on it at dinner party. I mean, it
depends on your dinner party.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I was going to say, you should come to my
place for dinner because.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
That's what you're eating.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Maybe, but if you're if we're doing it live, like
are we not free the rich make it?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Are we not free to just like go ham with
it and like go like balls the wall and see
what happens?
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Right?
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Like, So so we started doing that and like now
live like John's got hybrid drum kits, right, so it's
got still like the full like live kit effect and
like the the energy of like what it is to
have an actual drum kit in the room. But he's
got all his triggers on it and they're dialed in
so that all those parts and then his little octopad
above it so that all his parts are there. We
can trigger everything, and now we're owning so much more
of the live space because we've blended it with what
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it is to be a live like rock band, punk band, whatever,
and then the electronic project we are because when it's
just electronic, it mays will be a DJ set and
then there's like not enough like energy.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Again, it's all energetic. I really think that that's like
the bottom.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
How do you feel about being a punk band? About
the idea of love it?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
I fucking love it because like it's a totally different
presentation of the music and it's a reason to go
see it live. Like if I want to get I'm
not the biggest this is so controversial.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Oh my god, I'm.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Digging another controversy.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Yes, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I'm just not. I think that, like I'm a little
on the spectrum.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
I think that live can be really difficult to interpret
if you don't fully know then artist. And I really
like to experience an artist live and like just be
taken away by it. But then again, and there's so
many venues where it's like I can't hear what's going on.
So unless you're like you know, playing at the Horseshoe
and you're a rock band, and I know what that is,
and I can hear it. If it's something like off
the beaten trail a little bit as we are, it's
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difficult to like get the full picture. And then I'm like,
I could be so easily turned off because I was
standing in the wrong part of the room or beside
a guy like drinking too loud, Like I don't know, right.
So I think being a punk band live or like
having a different energy to it live, that's a little
more like ah, like it's it's just easier to get
people's attention and like give a different presentation to the art.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I'm one hundred percent with you on the seeing music live.
So the last thing and the three of us were
at this thing, the last thing that we went to
is we went and saw Boys' Night Out did their
first their first show, their first logo show back as
a band in fifteen years at the Danforth, And I
ran around with my buddy Lee filming the thing, and
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I hated my life because what it's out as fuck.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Two.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I'm on stage, you know, and you know what you
hear on stage? Fucking nothing you hear. Not All you
hear is the guy hitting stuff behind you and he's
just slamming and that's that's all I hear. And I'm
just like, this is no fun.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
You should have been out, well, you should have heard
it where we were sitting I negot.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Running around. So the thing is, so I like, I
like good live recordings because I like the energy of live,
like live, I love the energy of live music, but
I hate being there.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
So I have this, So he's going to be So
if it is going to be live, then you got
to present it in a way where it's like easy
to understand, right, because that's why.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
So much going on.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yes, So I have the stems from the show at
dan Forth Music Hall of Boys n Out and they're spectacular.
And I'll listen to that. From where I was standing,
I was like, this is gonna be garbage. So no,
it's it's wonderful. It's so good.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
So one, is there a possibility then that FEATURETTE may
do a live gig very soon and record a live record.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
That's an interesting thing.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
I will take it under advisement that that could be
a thing about.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
So there's a great thing. Three people love that, and you.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Know what I mean, I honestly I think it'd be
fantastic because again, like if you're saying you're presenting your
product in an entirely different way, it would be awesome
to have that that, you know, those two things right
side by side on Spotify or or in a record
store what have you.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Right, So I think when we get the following and
the demand for that, that's something I would consider. But
before that, it's kind of like I want you to
have to see it live because it's.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Like, Okay, the band name is Featurette, right.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Like we do visuals as well music videos, like crazy
we do, like we travel with the Light Show, despite
like us.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Not having the most viewers in the world.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Like we care so much about the visual presentation of
this thing because not only because it's called that because
Mark used to work in photography, Like we direct all
our own music videos, like they're all self directed, and
it matters to us what that like presentation is. So
just to have the audio, I feel would be a
disservice to the like thing we're presenting when we're like
in your face and like like I kick the whole show,
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like it's like high knees.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yes, So then so then you have so then instead
of just a live recording its.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
Percent.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I will do that. I would percent.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I would do that.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
It's probably gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Well, I would stand everywhere. I get one of the
I get one of those, like go everywhere all accesses,
and I can run all over.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
The like you were running around with a gimbal at
the Boys' Night Out show was yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So both of us were, me and Me and Lee
were both running around with.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
That's right, two gimbals.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
So a couple of weirdos with gimbals. Nothing better than that.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You wouldn't believe how how fast people move out of
your way though, when you're carrying gear.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Sure, that's my favorite part is just like excuse me,
and they're like, oh sorry, dude, best, it's the best.
I'm like, I need to wash room. I'm gonna go
this way.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
So let's see. You mentioned a songwriting collective earlier, right, like,
what is the name of the songwriting collective?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Oh, it's called the Legal Audio. It's just a duo.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
It's a writing and production duo that Mark from the
band and myself have.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Is that that's the totality of the collective.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I didn't say collective, and I'll say.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Well, okay, can we can play it back? I had
it maybe maybe maybe I built it up in my
head too much.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
You know, No, it's just it's it right, Well, I
mean it's worth building up. It's a writing and production
duo and we write and produce for a bunch of
variety of artists at this point.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Carlie red Jepson.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
No, but we did write with Carlie red Jepson's basis
for this.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Record Tavish Grow Yeah, and then and then the other
and then the other. Big co write on the album
was a Ryan Gildemond from Mother Mother.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Indeed, what a cool guy.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Terrifying, right, How was he terrifying? Tell us about how
he's terrified?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
He is quite large one.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
He looks like he looks like somebody, whereas like we would,
oh my gosh, do you want to hear a funny story?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, all right, no, no, something else.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
So we had a writing session booked with him in Vancouver.
This is for Next Life, which I don't know if
you've seen the music video, but that's that's Joe. But
we had a writing session booked with him and I
had this song that I was bringing to him that
was like really like sensitive subject matter's got my grandma
and her journey with Alzheimer's.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And it was like a whole there was a whole thing.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
But we were like, you know, gearing up to go.
We're like we're nervous. It's just John and I were babies. Still,
We're like, oh my god, like we're gonna meet this
guy and he's gonna be so like terrifying because he's
done so much and he's such a big deal on
And we walk into this coffee shop to get like prepped,
and he's like he's yeah, in the coffee shop and
we're like, oh shit, this is not this is not
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the intro that we had planned. Like I have to
pete like we're not. So we like literally like duck
and run to the bathroom and like hide until he's gone.
And then we like show up at a studio lady and
be like hey, man, like how's it going, Like all
cool just for.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
And now he knows because you just said it.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Now he knows.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Well, he's we're going to see this. I doubt if
he does.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Thanks, we're done today, No one sees, don't worry about it.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
It's all good. That's all good.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
He's busy he's busy.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I'm sending it to him.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Oh my god, please, I'll send it to him.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Awesome, Right, he took the song from like something like
just for me to like something for everybody. It was Honestly,
we built the whole campaign around Next Life, which was
like the ground jewel of everything.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
So I actually have the video for Next Life where
is it?
Speaker 8 (25:50):
Do it?
Speaker 5 (25:51):
But but before we do that? When all right? Tell
I just want to know when you when you and
John write for a different artist, do you like or
do you just write a whole bunch of songs in
the say? Okay, this isn't a featurette one. This is
(26:12):
a feature real, No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
No, Yeah, it's mostly it's mostly me and Mark.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Actually, John and I used to write with some other artists,
but the illegal adio thing is me and Mark the guitarist.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Okay, and.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Uh, when we write for other people, they're in the
room with us and they are going on their own
journey and we're there to like I'm sitting in the
room with my laptop open, pen and paper whatever it
is on the day, and we're like trying to like
we basically therapize them. We're basically going and ro what
are you feeling? And then Mark kind of underscores the
conversation and he's making all these gorgeous production sounds, and
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he's driving the console and like just guiding us to
whatever they're leading toward.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
And then we you know, find the trucks, We find.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
The hook of whatever, like the meat of the song
is that they need to get out, and we like
do this for the next hour and a half and
pull it out of them and then if they want
to cut it, we'll finish it with them later. But
it's a beautiful process because I think part of the
reason feature it was difficult for me at the beginning
of our career was that I didn't understand that I
was a songwriter and that that extended beyond my project,
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so I would have songs on our records. In particular,
Dream Right was definitely this way for me our second record,
where they were just they're just songs, but.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
They weren't necessarily my songs, you know, and there's nothing
wrong with.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
That, but it wasn't meant for my voice, or it
could have been better pictured like here here or here,
or I was just writing because I was like, yeah,
this is this is what people want to hear. It's
a song, it's a well crafted song, but it wasn't
my truth and it wasn't my well crafted song. So
now I can do that for myself, knowing that the
creativity that I have can find a home elsewhere, and
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that not all those things are meant for me.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Oh that's a neat step of you. Yeah, but that's
I think that that's an important step as an artist,
you know.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yeah, Oh yeah, it changed my life.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
My publisher, Jordan Howard of Day Tripper, he really like
showed me that it was possible to take something like
the art that we've made and just like understand that
not all of it needs to come out like.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
That, but that like you are free to have all.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
These things transmute, just not necessarily through my own version
of myself, you know. And that really helped me like
become this character too. Like I had brown hair before,
who was she? I didn't have any tattoos, I didn't know.
I didn't know who I was yet, And I think
because I was trying to be this thing that people wanted,
and now I've decided that, like I need to be
something I want.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Yes, And then the music.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Really changed just so you know Derek is a tattoo artist.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Okay, do me, Okay, okay done?
Speaker 9 (28:47):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Wow, what the fuck is that?
Speaker 5 (28:49):
What?
Speaker 4 (28:50):
How did this not happen? That happened when you said
do me?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Why can't I do this?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
She said?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
She just thumbs up?
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Come, I don't get that.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I that's what I was not looking but interesting.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I'm so I'm I am so bummed that that doesn't
happen when I do.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It on an iPhone. I feel like that's like part
of what this is.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
You're on an iPhone. Okay, look fucking lasers, Craig. I'm
so excited right now.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
I've got an iPhone too. I'm going to have to
figure this out.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
This is your iPhone is probably an iPhone two?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Really was there even an iPhone too? I feel like.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I think it didn't have a roundback.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
As a matter of fact, I will have you know
I got the very first iPhone three G in Markham
because my store opened a half an hour before all
the other stores in Markham did and I was the
first in line.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
So I was the first person to get an iPhone
three G in York region. Good pretty when we when
we look at it, when we look at your Wikipedia article, Craig,
that isn't it.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
That the owner of the first apple.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
That's what's happening with my lights? Lexi's got lasers. I've
got to like that I can turn on and off.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
There you your iPhone was used by Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
On fire today.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Unbelievable. Oh, Dmitri's on fire. You know he's he's got
gas or something like that.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
The wow.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Okay, I just want to let you know that we
are at a half hour, and that's usually what we
ask of our guests.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
So if you've got to you know, fly or whatever,
we we We're just letting you know. That's all.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
If you want to hang out.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Doing anything whatever you need next, perfect good stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Okay, So uh, let's go back to you growing up
as a kid. Like obviously you've got your influences as
far as featurette goes. What are some of the sounds,
artists and things that you listen to growing up as
a kid.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Let where do hold on? Hold on, hold on?
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Greg?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Where did you grow up?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Guess?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, I can say to those are different places.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I was in Esa, you know, I went to Fame
high school. It was fun. So did John, so did
Mark at different times.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
But yeah, yeah, I as far as listening to again, like,
I've had a really weird journey with music in my life.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
We could get into that another podcast, but it's a
little more intimate.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
I had a really work journey with music. It's always
been part of my life. It wasn't always like listening
to other things.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
I had like a interesting childhood with some like dark
twisty twists and turns, which if you've watched some of
our music videos you'd have a little bit of insight
into from the past record. But yeah, I think I
was always like really involved in the like tactile aspect
of music.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
So it was like there was like violin growing up,
and there was piano.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
And then I went to ESA and I learned music
theater stuff, and then I went to UFT and I
learned opera stuff, and it was very like music was
in the doing of like I was like the vessel
for music more so.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Than just like the listening side of things. But I
did have a few friends.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
That brought me into the music world and listening to
things a long way.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
My friend Andrew Brennan showed out who ran CP twenty four.
He's like their anger now, which is so weird to
say because we're just bros.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
But like now he's like an anger and like that's
so funny, Like will be the nail slant and be like, oh,
it's my boot.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
But yeah, he he used to show me some some
cool stuff.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Back in the day, we were like, I don't know,
nine inch nails, LCD sound system, like so just it's
like all just.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Stuff, stuff and things. I never really got into.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
The emo scene, but I would have had ide aesthetic.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
To support my actual depression. I just did. I was
doing emo. I R not just for show. It was
just like, yeah, they just devastating.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Was really expensive. I should do that right now.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Now Now, now, now I can have the darkest But
then I was just like a regular kid who wanted
to die.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
I didn't need a soundtrack to that. I made my own.
But I was always writing music.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
I was literally like even to this day, like I
really prefer the quiet so that I can hear like
the stupid noises in my head and go get them,
because otherwise it's like it's hard to think your own
thoughts when you're so wrapped up in other people's you know.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
So yeah, absolutely good call. Good for you. That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
So do you have so what do you have? What
live gigs do you have coming up?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
We have a.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Gig on the last gig of our tour with Kris,
who was at one point watching this podcast Lave because
she was texting me, She's like, who are these people?
Speaker 8 (33:50):
Like?
Speaker 3 (33:50):
These are?
Speaker 6 (33:52):
I text you back, I'm in the podcastbody.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Everybody asked that question of who the fuck are these people?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
These are great times, having a great time.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Three old white dude, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (34:04):
But she and I had a little tour. It was
called Till Death to Us Party Tour.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
I proposed to her with the Ring Pop and then
we put out the single ring Pop and we went
on tour together and that song is fantastic. It is
not on this record, it's just a standalone single, but
like check it out.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
That's like quite quite the piece. But yeah, we have
a show coming up at rum Runners and she's still watching.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
Hi, Aviva, we have a show coming up at rum
Runners in London on the thirty first with Bella Rosa
and Aviva.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Text me the name of the other person right now,
because I can't remember it. I needed to come on
the screen, but.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
Yeah, it's it's going to be a great kig. It
is the last in the series of this tour, so we're.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Very much looking forward to that. It also happens to
be on Panic Pills release.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Day, so I'm very excited about that.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Nice And are you going to do Panic Pills CD release?
Speaker 6 (34:58):
We kind of kind of did, so if you're in London, Ontario,
come to that and that'll be our CD release party,
I guess.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
But we had just the other day.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
At the studio, we had like a pre album like
friends and Oh Taylor Holden, thank you, Viva Taylor Holden
and Belarussa are opening up for that gig with Kris,
said myself. And the other day in the studio we
had the band hosted like friends and family, you know,
seventy of our closest friends and family and industry humans,
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and we gave everybody a record and we did like
a screening of all the music videos.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Because futurette right, so we did like that. We put
on our little show and it was so special and
so intimate and like we performed the last.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Song, Golden Hour, is the focus track for the album
and that comes out with the music video on the
On the thirtieth is when the music video comes out
the day before. And yeah, we had the pleasure, the
absolute pleasure of like playing at top to bottom sonically.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
For our right.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Like I said, I was like, okay, live show, I
have questionable thoughts about that, and we've been touring it
so people have seen it live now for like a
little while. But to actually be able to be like
listen was so special.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
And we cued up. We had the lighting show playing
for the songs that didn't have.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Visuals, and then of course music videos for the majority
of the album that we've got to have on this
like giant giant screen behind us that was just like
a lighting backdrop paper you know that they can roll
out to have like a photo studio thing. But we
had that like from Florida sixteen foot ceiling and it
was like a whole the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
It was really special. We had popcorn, got a popcorn
maker for it. We really did the do It's very amazing.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
Yeah, so that was that we actually have another one,
but for now that was sort of the like for
those who needed to know, here you go.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
You know, Yeah, I think it's really cool that you've
that you've got this visual focus that you spend that
you spend almost as much time on as the audio.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Or we went to Iceland more.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
Okay, you went to where Iceland? Oh god, yeah, wow yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
The last music video.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
We've gone all over the world to make this record,
but the last music video golden.
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Now are we.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
It's it's about my It's again about my grandmother. And
the whole record is not this way, but the ones
that were like kind of were. She had dementia at
the end of her life, like I mentioned, and we
were in a really awful car accident.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
We didn't know that she had it, and we were
driving and we got t boned and all the damage
was on my side. She was totally fine. She's not
with us anymore, but not because of that day. And
this song was just.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
About like the most beautiful moments of your life flashing
on like a highlight reel before you die, like right, So.
Speaker 6 (37:46):
In order to do that, it was like all the
warmths and like all this like beauty wrapped up and
like because time slows down, time slows down when you're
a car flipping upside down.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
I don't know if you've been there.
Speaker 8 (37:54):
But it's really real, So trying to keep the pacing
of the song in that like you know, clinging to
life moment and.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Then like the song starts to unravel and fall apart
and fall apart and fall apart, and.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Then like everything I was like rushing back to life
when you're adrenaline kicks in and you realize that you're alive.
So in order to film that, we wanted some like liminal.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
Space to evaporate this beautiful like familiar set out into
and we decided Iceland has feords and black sand beaches
with icebergs and ice caves that you can have a
raven at the end. And we're like, yes, this is
the perfect place to take reality and build part of
a living room on a beach and then like have
that just like fizzle out and become complete like Heaven
(38:34):
on Earth by the end of it.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
So yeah, it was it was.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
Quite the journey. We did like ten hour twelve hour
day drives while we were out there. It was really wild.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
Wow, amazing.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Yeah, I want to commend you on your language, by
the way, just the words that just came out of
your head.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
What did I say? I have no idea when.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
You were describing the landscape of Iceland. I'm just I
don't remember exactly the Craig play it back. I'm sitting.
I'm sitting and I'm listening to the words and just
listening to you talk, and you're so very eloquently spoken.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Don't be nice to me. I'll cry. Go get out
of here.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
Okay, I'll just go.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
It's my show. It's the Derek Show.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Just go, Derek, go to your vocal booth. I'll go.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Right, hold on, hold on. I'm just going to put
this up because you know I should, because it's.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
The Derek Show.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
It is not no, it's just you. You had you
had some really good like this.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Whole well pen Light pin Light ninety seven space. Yeah,
that probably blew Derek's mind.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
I was like, you don't hear people say stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
It's like David.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
It's like David Bowie saying, you know, uh, sway through
the crowd to elliptic space and let's dance.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
It's like you're like, sorry, what.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
I loves guys, I love.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Where's very with David Bowie?
Speaker 4 (40:03):
What is that? Jen?
Speaker 8 (40:04):
What is.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
How is that logo file?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
That's what yours? A lago file of the building. Lexi,
you'r Lexi. You're a logo file. That's what you are.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
You're a lover of woes insight and sounds slightly insulting.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
Logo fhile what sounds a little bit like you.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Don't need to see it to matrix, you don't need
to say it.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
And she week's words.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Yeah, okay, looks.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
You know, it's beautiful about words.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
As soon as you choose one, you've destroyed all the
other ones. It's like you paint with one color and
like that's that's the.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Land now, you know. So, I think it's very important
to be specific with your.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Pin Light ninety seven says it was poetic and the
description of the pacing of pacing the song in a
slowed down way, I loved it and I couldn't agree
more absolutely.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Okay, well, listen, we really appreciate your time tonight, my friend.
We really sincerely do. We're gonna have to have you
guys back when you are ready to do uh, you know, gig,
new record, anything that you want to you know, jump
on and uh and promote and have a chat with us.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
We'd be more than happy to have you.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
Yeah. Well, and it'll be exciting to see where in
which direction featurette evolves. You know, I'm too.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Because honestly, like since so since the announcement. And by
the way, you're totally forgiven for forgetting the name of
the other person on your on your show in London,
because on my show last Friday, I was like, Hey,
we're doing this interview with somebody I can't remember the
name of. Right, I was like, ah, I got nothing.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Tell me introduce yourself.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
And then I was like and then I was like
I went, I went, and I like check my email
and I was like, yeah, not in there. And I
was like, chat, I was having the worst day.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
And then and then and then Derek went back to
his vocal booth.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
I went to my vocal booth because that's where it
was vocal. That's fine. He's not letting that go.
Speaker 4 (42:16):
Nope, not letting it go.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
So like I called him DJ sugar tits the entire.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
I did last week. Yep, you sure so much.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
It's nice.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Listen, I own it. It's all good.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
I own it.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
I was wondering if you could do us a favor.
We're going to spin your video for Next Life. Now
I believe this song has been out for a while now, yeah, okay,
and so you essentially decided to, uh, you wanted to
do a video for this guy and then kind of
almost give it like sort of a quote unquote re
release sort of thing. I was wondering if you could
(42:52):
actually talk about the video before we spin it.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
And this is pretty suctake too. I won't keep you forever,
but have do you know what the animated I?
Speaker 8 (43:00):
Yes, yeah, so I saw when I was a kid,
like little little kid.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
I saw this episode at the Animaniacci.
Speaker 6 (43:07):
And it was on this gold piece of wrapping paper, okay,
and it's basically her fall from grace. So there's this
perfect piece of wrapping paper sitting in like the reatman's
or whatever, right, and they picked her out. They're like
that one, and they wrap the present with it, and
then she fulfills her destiny as like a Christmas wrapping
paper and she gets like ripped up by the kid
thrown away, and suddenly it's like this most violent of things,
(43:27):
and like the paper is like journeying through the earth
and like going onto like a garbage barge, and like,
oh my god, like I don't even recall if that's right,
but that's what it was for me and my memory
now and my heart was breaking. And a kid you
not like, ask anybody in my life who's close to me.
I am so maybe it was my grandma who grew
up in the war. I'm so triggered about waste. It's nuts,
Like I can't even stand it. And I don't mean
like I mean like like human error about like how
(43:50):
much you should have versus like how how much you
actually have to take and what you need that kind
of thing. So anyway that is to say, I was like,
I want to make that. I want a piece of
trash to miss.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
The trash and then live its own destiny.
Speaker 6 (44:03):
And we animated it and it became this thing where
it was like half if you can't see this, and
it's a podcast to you, I'm holding a coffee cup
with two giant giggly eyes on it, and it is spectacular.
His name is Regular Joke because he's a cup of Joke.
And make a feature and we're gonna do like a
old like sitcom style intro with the like starring Regular
(44:26):
Show and it starts in live action, and we like
had to use a leaf blower to get him to
move appropriately and like throw him down a set of
stairs and like go on this violent journey after he.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
Misses the trash. But then he sees this mural by
a Toronto artis. Actually he sees this.
Speaker 6 (44:41):
Mural and he's enchanted by it, and she's enchanted by him.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
And she reaches out of her out of the wall.
Speaker 6 (44:49):
And picks up the cup and like drinks it and
he goes to space. He becomes animated now and he
like comes into her world and he meets all these friends.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Along the way. And I won't give away the ending,
but that is all to say. He makes all different kinds.
Speaker 6 (45:02):
Of friends with all these characters, some of which may
or may not be my cats in the form of planets.
And uh yeah, he has he has a wonderful life
and he ends up in a two D animation space.
Speaker 5 (45:12):
So and this is the song that was co written
with Ryan for Mother Mother, Yes.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Exactly this next Life with Ryan Gildeman.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
The production aspects of this video just have me reeling.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
Because such an undertaking.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
That's because it all because you're like and then this
and then this, and then this happens and we have
both from here and go to and I'm just like,
that is that's a lot.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
You did this with our front Yeah, you did this with.
Speaker 6 (45:40):
Our friends like three separate times, like it's not sorry,
live live action, like three separate times. He doesn't even
stay animated. We were like, we're going to reintegrate him
actually because we're idiots and we just are stupid.
Speaker 5 (45:52):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
But no, but it's it's it's it's really great because
you're you're like, because it's well won. It shows that
you're you're actually like invested in what you're doing. It's
not just like, Okay, we'll make a video.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
You're like, listen, nobody's going to care.
Speaker 6 (46:09):
At the end of the day, nobody's going to give
a shit about a band called Future atte unless.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
Nobody nobody gave a shit about the band.
Speaker 10 (46:16):
Okay, go right, unless they do, And then when they do,
it's because you built the lore, and you built the world,
and you lived in it and you've lived and breathed
it and then one day something clicks or doesn't.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
It doesn't matter to me. It's clicking for me and
it's helping me live my own journey as trash coming
back to life.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
You remind me very much of a young lights. I'm
going to see.
Speaker 3 (46:37):
Thank you. She's such an icon, so I appreciated.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
That she and she's she's one of my best friends and.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Oh my god, introduced me.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
I would die a hundred percent. We will do that, Yes,
one hundred percent, we will do that. She I love
her and I've loved her journey and like she would,
she just got like super invested in making music videos
for her like by herself, and she did it.
Speaker 6 (47:00):
I saw the lore right, she's got, like her tattoos
line up with the like art that's coming for her
next album, and like the machine, the vending machine as
the buttons that line up with the it's crazy. It's
crazy the world that she's built. And I see that,
I see how that takes. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
Yeah. Great, So I can commend you in your undertaking
of creating the world that you you exist and.
Speaker 5 (47:24):
Your yeah, your multimedia thing, but also just the also
just the the introspection that you have done with with
your internal issues and how you've used your art to
tackle that you know and and give it and given
your audience something that they can relate to. You know,
(47:45):
and they maybe helped them through their journey with a
similar journey.
Speaker 3 (47:49):
So it helped me. I'm not the only one, right Like,
who who am I to say? I'm like different?
Speaker 6 (47:55):
Right?
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Like if I'm different, so with somebody else, and then
that's what it's for.
Speaker 6 (48:00):
It's this connection thing and you can only do that
when you're authentic to yourself.
Speaker 4 (48:04):
So I'm on.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Thank you. Thanks for Guy's is huge.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
Well listen again, thank you so much for being here.
We greatly appreciate it. We are now going to spend
next life by featurette this incredible video.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
Again. Can you just give us your your socials and
everything like that. Let everyone know where they can reach
you please.
Speaker 6 (48:23):
It's at feature at music basically everywhere we're in Canada.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
So TikTok is still real. But yeah, underrated is our.
Speaker 6 (48:31):
Is our YouTube channel because all these videos live there
and we put so much effort into music videos. You're
dead right, That's where I live now. I live in
the grave.
Speaker 4 (48:40):
That's awesome. I'm glad you're I'm glad you're doing music videos.
It's fantastic because they really they should be brought back.
Speaker 5 (48:46):
I love them. I love that's what we're old.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
We're old. So we like love music videos.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
That I'm whatever and I just think it's I think
it's a trip. It's like we got to make that.
That's crazy what it is.
Speaker 2 (48:58):
Really, they're really a lot of fun make it's it's been.
It's been a it's been a nice adventure. By the way,
Broken is my favorite music video from you guys.
Speaker 3 (49:07):
Oh cool, just you know love.
Speaker 4 (49:12):
Alrighty folks, here we go.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
Thank you again so much to our new best e
Alexei from Featurette. Thanks so much for hanging out with
us tonight. We greatly appreciate it. We're gonna spin your video.
You can hang out till the end. You can do
whatever you like, you can bounce and do whatever you
gotta do. It's all cool. We greatly appreciate your time,
honestly being here. You've been awesome. This is a great conversation.
So we'll definitely have to have you back.
Speaker 5 (49:31):
Okay, thanks, thank you.
Speaker 4 (49:33):
Here it is next Life.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Featurette is right here on Canadian as Heck episode Dimitri
one third twelve, one twelfth, one twelfth. Thank you very
much right here Revolution Radio Canada. And we do that,
and we do this, and we play.
Speaker 7 (49:54):
I'm Not in the mind of here all the time
I'm running on dam I'm trying to drive it out
of my life. Maybe there's another place from my head's
not way up in space. Maybe I got away, and
(50:14):
maybe in my.
Speaker 11 (50:15):
Next life because I am madic, total statle static. Maybe
in my next life I could live my best life.
Speaker 3 (50:27):
But I'm a fuck up on using it on my dog.
Speaker 12 (50:32):
I know it doesn't look right.
Speaker 13 (50:35):
Some baby in my next life, my next life than
(51:01):
sig americ control. I'm on a by roll and the
door the door too.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
I'm using the cool what are you gross?
Speaker 13 (51:11):
Because Mama say you what to do?
Speaker 7 (51:14):
Maybe thousand dollar place holding my head's not way up
in spaces. Maybe I got away and maybe in my
next life.
Speaker 11 (51:24):
Because I am back in a total statos panic.
Speaker 13 (51:30):
Maybe in my next life I could live my best life.
Speaker 12 (51:36):
But I'm a fuck up on using it on my docog.
Speaker 9 (51:40):
I know it does you look.
Speaker 12 (51:43):
Write somebody in my next life, my next.
Speaker 9 (51:47):
Like okay, cannot can tame get back get back sign.
Speaker 7 (52:16):
Maybe there's a lot of place from.
Speaker 13 (52:18):
My head's not way up in space. Maybe in my next.
Speaker 11 (52:25):
Line is are ematic in a total statle s paanic.
Speaker 13 (52:31):
Maybe in my next life. I could live my best life, but.
Speaker 3 (52:37):
I'm a fucking i'm I'm using all my love.
Speaker 12 (52:42):
I know it doesn't look write somebody in my next.
Speaker 9 (52:48):
Slide came back, Get back. Sat cant cannot simans se
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