BIO FROM TEGANANDSARA.COM A VERY LONG TIME AGO...
(written by Sara Quin in the early 2000s)
Bio's Are Hard To Write Because
We Don't Want To Sound Geeky
We are Tegan and Sara. And we never
thought we were geeky. Our mother has always said that nothing is geeky about
us. But she didn't think she was geeky when she went through that really bad
early nineties stage with permed hair and tiger make-up. Plus, she was never
summed up as a "Twin Teen Folk Act" when she was really a pyrotechnic
leopard-print-wearing eighties super mom. These are some of the things we think
people should know about us. If we've left out your favourite T and S facts,
maybe we didn't think they were interesting, or maybe we just thought they were
geeky. Which does NOT mean YOU are geeky, and if you "relate" or have
similar "facts" about yourself, our refusal to acknowledge things
like (long hair worn with a centre part grade 7-12 and/or songs you may have
downloaded through napster that we recorded six years ago that's lyrical
content would closely resemble you with your diary from when you were 14) we
apologise for their absence.
So here is a quick look at the last six years. We
started playing guitar when we were 15, and we called ourselves PLUNK. We were
kind of wussy punk (no drums or bass) and we were really bad. Tegan still try's
to constantly remake old PLUNK songs with titles like "jonny" but I
am trying to live in the NOW. We had really funny garage band parties until
some guy broke our P.A. Our mom wouldn't fix it and so PLUNK became Tegan and
Sara. We were a lot quieter and our mom liked us. We entered a contest and we
won. We graduated high school and I worked at the zoo. We made two albums and
we traveled a lot. We toured and played with Neil Young, Kinnie Starr, Melissa
Ferrick, Jacob two-two, Pony, and Zoebliss (of course there are others, but
this is a small page) We went to therapy, we moved to Vancouver, we became
super fans of the band Sewing With Nancie, Tegan started jogging, I bought a
basketball and we signed to Vapor records. Vapor Records has now since
relocated to Tegan's apartment so they could be closer to her genius. Plus they
say the rent is way cheaper then their offices in Santa Monica, and a lot
"cozier" for seven people. Mike, our tour manager, left us stranded
in tuktoyuktuk because of some weird allergy to polar bear meat, and now lives
in Australia on a vegetarian cruise line that circles the coral reef. We could
tell endless stories of touring that our friends and family beg to stop hearing
in crowded restaurants but if I wrote them all here, what would Tegan and I
talk about on stage?
