I’ve known Andrew Lee for years, but as I take the train to his studio in an empty industrial park near Main Street station, I realise we haven’t had a real conversation since I last interviewed him for Discorder in 2015. Andrew is a friend, but we’ve never been close — I get nervous around people I …
In 2008, Freeman Young was suspended from high school. The reason, according to him, is “neither here nor there.” Armed with a pen, a pad of paper, and the Bible, he took his lengthy in-school suspension as an opportunity to write his first song. “I was like, give me the notebook and the pen, and let me …
“We were all friends from playing in other bands.” Mike Flintoff, thin, sanguine, and bespectacled, sits at a 90 degree angle from me in the noisy Mount Pleasant bar where I’m interviewing the Flintettes, one of Vancouver’s newest and most promising pop groups. It’s trivia night, so we’re all shouting over the din of a multiple …