Chewing Bubblegum and Kicking Ass: An Interview With The Bicycles
Posted in The Summer, Canadian Content, Interviews, Current Faves, Music |Dana Snell: The worst thing about the summer is that. . .
Andrew Scott: It ends.
Dana Snell: Yeah, but it’s also like the clock is ticking.
Andrew Scott: The worst part is when it gets close to September and you see all the advertising for “Back To School” and you get this like, weird sense of fear.
Drew Smith: That’s when our record will come out!
Andrew Scott: You get that feeling like, “Oh God, school’s starting again!” and you forget that you haven’t gone to school in ten years and you’re not going to. But you still get this anxiety. That always freaks me out and I always have those “my homework’s not done” dreams in late August.
Drew Smith: Oh, God, I forgot about that. Fucking brutal.
Andrew Scott: I know, it’s annoying!
Drew Smith: Like that you’ll get picked on? And all that shit?
Dana Snell: Awww.
Drew Smith: Do you have those dreams about anxiety in the shower?
Dana Snell: (laughing) So horrible.
Andrew Scott: I have dreams about hating Matt Beckett. (laughs)
Popshifter: Did any of you have to go to summer camp?
Still from Sleepaway Camp
Dana Snell: Drew and I were both camp counselors at different camps for the mentally challenged. I think we had more of the experience that it was hard work and not so much fun.
Andrew Scott: I was a camp counselor during March Break.
Popshifter: People have camp during March Break?
Andrew Scott: Yeah, people do not like their children. Not to say that’s why you send your kids to camp, but people do want to send their kids away. . .
Dana Snell: I went to a really scary camp: Camp Bolton.
Andrew laughs.
Dana Snell: And they had this “Legend of Old Man Bolton.”
Andrew laughs again.
Popshifter: Scary!
Dana Snell: It was really scary! Like, we were pretty young.
Andrew Scott: I think that’s the idea.
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Their upcoming album
Jacques Demy
Board games
Back to school
Old Man Bolton
Plans for the summer
