TEGAN AND SARA
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TEGAN AND SARA
16 Monday 16th August 2010
My name is Abi. I make music. Sometimes I talk to other people who also make music. But mostly I just talk about myself. Recently I interviewed Tegan Quin of Canadian folky-rock duo Tegan and Sara, who are in the process of their world tour. They make nice songs about love-type things (actually they have a song called Love-Type Thing). They also have a very massive fan base, six albums and have been making music for fifteen years.
I spoke to Tegan before their gig at The Roundhouse in Camden. There was a very long queue of lesbians camping outside and I felt very superior that I was not one of them. I even managed to make Tegan wear a T-shirt with my name on it. And she touched my shoulder.
I spoke to Tegan before their gig at The Roundhouse in Camden. There was a very long queue of lesbians camping outside and I felt very superior that I was not one of them. I even managed to make Tegan wear a T-shirt with my name on it. And she touched my shoulder.
Well this is odd...it’s not often I interview someone whose music I actually like. But every Sunday my friends and I make a den on my bedroom floor out of clothes lines and bed sheets and we use your music as the soundtrack.
Ahhh that’s so sweet.
Yes, but last week my hamster died during that time, so now you are the soundtrack to death. How do you feel about that?
Well on ‘The’ Con we were writing a lot about death so maybe your hamster felt inspired?
Maybe. I was thinking we could play your song Hell at its funeral, because it did bite people a lot. What are your thoughts on animals?
Well I don’t really like dogs – not that I think they should die or anything...
I wouldn’t mind putting a dog to sleep.
What, you’d like to be the one to do it?
No, I’d shout the orders. I’d say, “YOU go and get rid of that mutt and I’ll be with you shortly.” My dad said he was into animal husbandry until they caught him at it. He also says: “it was a pig’s arse, which is never pleasant...well...depends on the pig...”
How does that make you feel that your dad speaks this way?
Quite good.
I think your dad and my dad might get along. My dad is more like a fake suicide person. I’ll call him and be like “How’s it going dad?” and he’ll be like “I’m thinking about cutting myself up into tiny little pieces and flushing myself down the toilet, because I can’t even afford a funeral.”
Ohhhh my dad has planned his own funeral! He went into the funeral shop and said “I don’t want a big affair ‘cause I don’t have any friends. I just want a hearse – me in the back” and I said “So not you in the front driving then – a skeleton behind the wheel?” Then he said “No, but hopefully someone will turn up and I don’t give a fuck if they don’t. Burn my fucking arse off!”
So how does that make you feel?
Fine. He also said when he’s dead I can prop him up against the garage wall and open his mouth with a twig and shove earth down his throat with a ruler.
That’s amazing. Yeah I think our dads would get along.
Ok changing the subject slightly, you know Sara had her first girlfriend when she was five? Well when I was five I was shouted at by the teacher for chasing a girl round the playground and trying to kiss her and making her cry.
Well, that certainly doesn’t stop us...
From kissing children?
Yeah exactly... kissing children. No... I don’t know if you feel the same way about this, but I don’t think it was until I was about 14 or 15 I realised the way that I felt about girls was actually something that made me different. I think I still thought boys were cute until then. We also socialised in a way that made us need male attention, but I was totally comfortable with the fact that I liked girls.
I wasn’t. I pretended I fancied Craig David to ward off people who thought I was gay.
Did you really?? See I missed the whole Craig David thing, thank God... I never pretended I liked boys. We were lucky to grow up when we did because Courtney Love was so popular... and all these other really amazing alternative women who seemed a little queer – and it was really normal to like these women.
Have you and Sara ever fought over liking the same girl?
Oh my God no... Well there are certainly similarities between me and Sara, such as similar facial features –
Oh yeah I can see it now...
But we’ve always had our own groups of friends as well. And we had our own best friends, who we always ended up dating.
My brother and I, we aren’t twins, but once I had a go with a girl he liked and when he found out he smeared Vaseline all over my face, set fire to my bank statements, and poured water over my clothes.
Well we’ve never had anything like that happen. Luckily the girls Sara goes for are not really my type...
Tegan and Sara’s album Sainthood (2009) is out now. Visit www.teganandsara.com to learn more things.
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