Check Out Thick Specs Interview with Andrew Whiteman

If you're a fan of Broken Social Scene or Apostle of Hustle you'll want to head over to Thick Specs to check out Matt McKechnie's interview with Andrew Whiteman. The whole thing is at http://www.thickspecs.com/my_weblog/2009/11/andrew-whiteman-of-apostle-of-hustle-and-broken-social-scene-interviewed-by-matt-mckechnie-.html but just to get you motivated:

"MM: I watched an interview where you openly bashed the concept of the book that was written about Broken Social Scene ('This Book Is Broken') – how do you get away with that?

AW: Well, ya know, my band is used to me, man. They're my family. I say what I want. But I'm never afraid to admit that my opinions change. In fact, we were in Houston, Texas, touring a while back, and someone in Houston read the book and told me about how it changed his whole perspective and really opened up his eyes to the fact that a specific music scene can start anywhere. You don't have to be in a 'cool' place. Houston is a cool town, man – we loved playing there. And they're just trying to get a scene going there. So the fact that this one guy got off on the book and it helped him – I think that's awesome. I still think the concept was f*cking stupid, though and way too early. I mean, come on – we're not even ten years old as a band.

MM: What was the story about the fan accusing you of uttering a death threat against Stephen Harper?

AW: (laughs) Ohh. Yeah – no, that guy wasn't a fan. He was some ex-army guy who was passing by the show. And as I was introducing Fast Pony for Victor Jara, I did this thing on stage where I talked about the decapitated, bleeding head of George Bush making love to the decapitated, bleeding head of Stephen Harper. But this ex-military guy said I was making a death threat and he told the cops about it. Anyways, there were cops backstage, after the show, asking me these questions, but they were really nice and basically told me I had done nothing wrong but that they just had to verify that I wasn't making a death threat against anyone."