Who are you and what do you do:
We are the band COUSINS and we play music.
Current obsessions:
Science podcasts & cleaning house.
A song or a record that will always put you in a good mood, without fail:
African Brothers Dance Band International or State Trooper by you know who.
Tell us about an album or artist you think is really under-appreciated, and why they are deserving of more praise:
Construction & Destruction is easily the best band in Canada, hands down.
Most played track on your iTunes:
Right now it’s Pillar of Stone by Construction & Destruction.
Most cherished musical object:
The red drum sticks and the brown bass drum.
Proudest moment:
When we ramped the van over that fiery chasm in the desert.
Most vulnerable moment:
Lighting the fire that opened the chasm.
If you could score a film for anyone, who would it be and why:
It would be an honour to score films for Kim Gordon, if she made films. Imagine that?! Oh ho ho!
Your favourite use of a song in a film:
I don’t know about favourite, but hearing Leonard Cohen’s ‘Everybody Knows’ in Pump Up The Volume felt pretty powerful at the time.
Are you most influenced by your surroundings or your inner monologue:
They are the same thing.
Fiction or nonfiction? Poetry or prose?
Don’t make me choose.
Favourite venue to play in and why:
The planet bakery in Peterborough, a total disaster and a total delight. & the trinity in Sarnia
Dream venue to play in and why:
Venue shmenue. Let’s play on the beach with the ocean lapping our drum stools.
Top album released this year:
Who knows?
First band t-shirt you ever purchased from a merch table:
I don’t remember the first, I bought a lot when I was young, indiscriminately. But a favourite was Change Of Heart.
Band you’d leave your bandmates for:
Construction & Destruction.
Album you want to expose your kin to whilst in the womb:
Manu Dibango, “O Boso” mentioned above.
If for some reason you lost the ability to make and play music, what would fill that gap?
We’d make mix tapes and play them really loud in the van.
What was your last dream about:
Today in the car I dreamt I was trying to pull a red ribbon out of a cardboard tube, I woke up in Virginia.
