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Does anybody know The Weakerthans, or better do you know something you want to know about them? I have an interview with them on Wednesday, so if anyone has some information or questions about them that would be greatly appreciated.

Talk to Bethany. She's obsessed with them. Oh yeah, and if you run out of things to say, just start talking about Fat Mike and NoFX, considering the Weakerthans are on Fat Mike's label and all.

They're from Winnipeg


Er...that's all I know I'll ask my friend, who's a fan.

awesome. are they big in europe??

I love the Weakerthans, they are so awesome!

Ask them about vegetarianism, I hear they're really into that.

they are great.

starseed_10 wrote:awesome. are they big in europe??

Nope, not at all.

I asked my friend, and this is the best he could come up with.

Reconstruction site has quite a different sound, do you feel that your music is maturing?

Do you miss Winnipeg on this Europe tour?

He also wants to know their top 5 bands.

Do you think I'd be able to get a copy of the interview once it's done?

I'd like to read the interview also.

i was just listening to the song Aside....it is good.

...and I'm leaning on this broken fence between past and present tense...and i'm losing all those stupid games that I swore I'd never play. but it almost feels okay.

in love with love and lousy poetry.

Ahhh, The Weakerthans

Isn't most of their music based on poetry? (I read that on Epitaph... great label by the way)

areusad831 wrote:i was just listening to the song Aside....it is good.

you ding dong we listened to my whole weakerthans mix cd and you didn't like the band and all of a sudden you like aside

Finding Emo wrote:Isn't most of their music based on poetry? (I read that on Epitaph... great label by the way)

Yeah, poetry and literature are a big part of their music.

Thanks for all the question suggestions, I'll post the answers later, when I´ve sorted out my notes. I'll see if I have time to translate the whole interview when it's done.

thirdhour wrote:I asked my friend, and this is the best he could come up with.

Here's what guitarist Stephen Carroll had to say about these questions:

Reconstruction site has quite a different sound, do you feel that your music is maturing?

We just wanted to try something else. We didn't want it to sound like Left and Leaving. That's why we got a different mixer, to get another, clearer sound. We also wanted to explore other instruments. All the strange noises you hear on Reconstruction Site is just us having fun in the studio, goofing around.

Do you miss Winnipeg on this Europe tour?

All the time, only 18 days left. I miss the familiarity, the basic things. I just bought a new house that I haven't lived in yet. Winnipeggers have a strange kind of pride. It's a tough-love-city. You have to find the things that make you like living there. What makes it interesting for me is my circle of friends. They're all remarkable, diverse people, most of them in art, poets, dancers. These people inspire and influence us.

He also wants to know their top 5 bands.

It would be unfair to pick favorites. I was inspired by people like Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Art Gerfunkel. But I used to listen a lot to classic rock and hard rock, like Led Zeppelin and AC/DC. Lately I've been listening to lots of different bands. The Constantines, Eels, Black Sabbath. And I just bought The Darkness album, but I don't think I'll listen to that very much.

Do you think I'd be able to get a copy of the interview once it's done?

Probably. It'll be up on http://www.rockworst.nl in a couple of days, but if you're Dutch isn't that great you'll have to wait a little longer until I've translated it all.

they speak dutch?

i'm confused

OLPMazurite wrote:they speak dutch?

i'm confused

No, I speak dutch, and the people who visit the website I did the interview for are dutch, so I write in dutch, but the Weakerthans speak english. That does make it confusing, for me too, I do the interview in English, then work it out in Dutch and afterwards translate it back in English. But I think the main thing that confused you is that it's a written interview, not audio.

megxyz128 wrote:Oh wow. After hearing about this band for months now, i JUST REALIZED their name was The WEAKERTHANS and not the WEATHERKANS. OMG that's so weird. I guess the Weatherkans flowed better. haha, i'm seriously cracking up right now.

I'm think I'm going to be seeing them when I go on vacation this summer so I was wondering what some good songs to download are and stuff.