Hitting the Media Scrum

January 3rd, 2003

I just finished our first real interview for The Setbacks. It will appear in next Thursday's Ottawa Citizen in Wes Smiderle's night life column. I tried not to sound to lame, and hope that in the process didn't sound too uptight. I have a history of saying silly things, so I held back tight on the reigns. I'll wait until our first cover story to start belching out bad jokes and other such nonsense.

But this interview did get me to thinking, even though it was the first Setbacks interview, the questions were a lot of the same ones you read in the big players' interviews (ie how did you guys meet? how does the songwriting process work?...). If I was in a situation (which I hope to someday be) where I'd need to answer these questions day in and day out I could see a lot of truths being stretched. Soon our history would become so convoluted that not even we would know how we met, or how we write songs.

I guess its part of the process, and believe me the idea of doing more interviews is very exciting. And fear not, it'll be a little while before I start making things up to keep interviews fun for me. But just to be safe you'd better find out all you can about us in the first bunch of press items, because who knows what you'll be hearing after our second cd comes out...

-trevor