Chewing Bubblegum and Kicking Ass: An Interview With The Bicycles

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Dana Snell: It’s hard to play it at our age because you have to roll your age on the dice, but they don’t give you enough time! (laughs) You know, when you’re in your late twenties.

Andrew Scott: You need a couple of twenty-sided die.

Dana Snell: You’re supposed to be like, 15.

Andrew Scott: Dana just totally pulled an age crime right there.

Drew Smith
Photo © Graham Kennedy

Drew Smith: You just lied about your age!

Dana Snell: Well, when we played it we were in our late twenties.

Drew Smith: No, you weren’t.

Everyone laughs.

Andrew Scott: Dana, you were never in your late twenties.

Dana Snell: Anyway. . .

Drew Smith: You know how when someone’s dead, you say the “late ___”? Well, for Dana the twenties are truly late. . . no longer with us.

Matt cracks up.

Andrew Scott: So. . . to answer the question. . . what was the feedback we got from that?

Drew Smith: Confusion? “Um, I have your game but I haven’t played it yet. I don’t have three friends.”

Andrew Scott: Getting feedback requires, uh. . . (whispers) selling it. I think we gave them away that first night. No, we sold some the other day, actually.

Drew Smith: By “some” you mean “one.”

Matt Beckett: I’m so proud of it, it was fun.

Andrew Scott: I think it’s the sort of thing that in a couple of years it’ll be a neat treat when people find it.

Drew Smith: When people take a look at our body of work.

Andrew Scott: Yeah! They’ll be like, “What?”

Everyone laughs.

The Meligrove Band and The Bicycles
Lee’s Palace, Toronto
Photo from The Meligrove Band on MySpace

Andrew Scott: “What, you guys are still a band?”

Popshifter: So since this interview is for our summer issue, do you have any likes or dislikes about summer?

Drew Smith: It’s island time.

Andrew Scott: Yeah, outdoors. You were talking earlier about being friends with other bands. I think initially it felt like we were friends with other bands, but now it just feels like we are friends with people who just happen to be in other bands. So that’s the coolest part of the summer, our friends. It’s fun to sit inside and. . . play interactive board games. We have a pretty close relationship with those same people and we do a lot of summer-ish things.

Matt Beckett: There are definitely “band hangs” that weren’t there before.

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Click to read more from The Bicycles on. . .

Their upcoming album
Jacques Demy
Board games
Back to school
Old Man Bolton
Plans for the summer

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