SARA AND TEGAN
Live on CBC Radio
Radio Sonic | 1998
INTRO (x)
The session you're about to hear was recorded during Sara and Tegan's jaunt to Vancouver earlier this year for the New Music West Music Festival, and the two of them were joined for this performance by a conga player named Aaron, whom I'm told has since progressed to a full drum kit. And not only that - Sara and Tegan are searching for a bass player now, and a cellist, to complete a full band sound...
...this could get really big, but back on the night of May 30th, 1998 it was much more of a stripped down affair: 2 guitars, 1 conga, Sara and Tegan in performance.
INTERVIEW (x)
Interviewer: We are here with Sara and Tegan, 17 year old identical twins from Calgary. Although, do you really look that much alike? Or is it just cause your hair's different that you don't look ident-
Sara: Our hair's different
Interviewer: Did you used to have the same hair?
Sara and Tegan: Yeah
Interviewer: And then you looked exactly the same and nobody could tell you-
Sara: Uhhhh you know it's amazing is we have different pieces of metal hanging out of different places of our body and now we have different hair and people still get us mixed up.
Interviewer: No way, really?!
Sara and Tegan: Yeah *laughs* *whispers* a little slow
Interviewer: People just don't get it, do they?
Sara: No
Tegan: No
INTERVIEW (x)
(discussing Garage Wars - their first gig)
Sara: Yeah, 48 applied or whatever, and then they pick.. 18? 6 at each venue, and then they pick 2 from each one, and then you have a finals
Interviewer: Now be honest, when you guys entered this, when you started, did you think you had a chance?
Sara: Kicking and screaming, 'No no no we don't wanna leave the bedroom!'
Sara and Tegan perform FALLING ASLEEP (x)
INTERVIEW (x)
Interviewers: We have a little bio of ya here, and I was just seeing... it says here: 'Both are currently single and see boys as an obstacle in their career'
Sara: That's not necessarily true
Tegan: Yeah it is. Sure it is.
Sara: That's just an excuse
Tegan: They're just in it for the money
...
Sara: I mean, if you're just listening to one type of music, I mean, it doesn't give your music very much depth, so it's nice to have other things to fall back on sort of
Tegan: *whispers* You're so smart
Sara: Shut up, Tegan
OTHER THINGS DISCUSSED
- Aaron is a stud... also married
- Sara is a diehard Smashing Pumpkins fan
- Sara's room is trashy and "full of character"
- Tegan's room is barren with a few pictures of nature and swirly things, "sterile and anal"
- NKOTB + Bruce Springstein
- Sara and Tegan perform and then get kicked out of venues for being underage
Sara and Tegan perform DAYS AND DAYS (x)
OUTRO (x)
Wackyalex94, Youtube.com, 21 January 2010, via CBC Radio, Studio 2, Radio Sonic, Vancouver, 1998.
