Interview i did with trezzy from killbourne
I almost forgot my greatest pleasure and that was posting my articles so that all my friends could read them and then tell me how good they think i am and that i am an attractive fellow and the my shoulders have a nice shape to them... Or just read them because they have no access to the publication... cause they all live in shitty small towns.
This interview appeared in this months Nerve Magazine but it was way shorter and streamlined and cooler here is the long shitty version enjoy suckers.
Nerve-Does your band get any detrimental attention since you are an
all girl feminist band?
Trezzy-Some radio station that I can't remember the name of called me
at 9 am, it wasn't planned or anything and I was bleakly hung over—who
calls people at 9 am on Saturday! Any way the first words out of the
guys mouth after all the blah blah blah radio station preamble are "so
you must really hate men eh?" That was just the wrong foot to get off
on with me.
Nerve-Well it is a good thing I didn't ask you that—it was actually my
second question… just kidding.
Trezzy-Yeah you better be kidding. Actually we just played warped
tour. We played the Vancouver and Calgary dates on the Shira girl
stage. And we were hanging out at the merch tent after our set in
Vancouver and this guy comes up and he is like "sooo your playing on
the man hating stage hey?" What! I don't know; that connection is
missing to me.
Nerve-I will try to explain it to the best of my knowledge it's that
we are in the feminist backlash stage and there are a lot of men that
don't really know what to do when it comes to feminists. They See
Shira as upping women in rock and a lot of men have seen in the past
that you up women by downing men.
Trezzy-Well fuck that! Ok what I said to the guy after that comment was
"actually we love the cock"
Nerve-Oh p.s. I am totally putting that in the article
Trezzy-Oh come on my moms gonna read that—you should have seen the
look on the guys face the guy really didn't know what to say to that.
Nerve-He was probably like "payday!"
Trezzy-Well no we're not indiscriminant cock lovers.
Nerve-Aww…
Trezzy-But yeah I think that the notion of being a strong woman automatically
making you a man hater is really antiquated. That idea should have
died out with the dinosaurs.
Trezzy-I Totally agree about the backlash thing. In my opinion [when] we went
from the riot girl era to the suicide girl era the role of women in
alternative culture basically changed from being musicians and
activists and just involved to being porn stars.
Trezzy-To me being alternative is about values not an aesthetic and to
me porn is a very main stream value—that is not a judgment. I am not
saying that everyone who reads porn is bad, quite far from it actually
I think it is just another fetish. You have your Asian girl porn, you
got your girl on girl porn and you have your tattooed girl porn. To me
it is just another flavor and people heralding it as a new bold
revolution can fucking suck me off!
Nerve-Kiblourne is pro-scene but anti-scenester what does this mean?
Trezzy-You know how in ever scene there are always the cool kids who have
their finger on the pulse of the underground. Always in with the right
people, talking to the right people and going to the right parties and
so on and so forth?
Trezzy-Yeah were like the opposite of that.
Nerve-So your geeks.
Trezzy-well fuck yeah! Represent! Ain't no body geeks quite like we're geeks
Nerve-It says on your website that you believe in higher education: is
this a reference to college or world dynamics education?
Trezzy-I think there is a difference between education and schooling I
have met incredibly educated and awesomely knowledgeable people who
have never spent five minutes in a post secondary institution. That
having been said all three of us [have gone to school] like me and
Fran have degrees and Steph is actually second year.
Nerve-what are you degrees?
Trezzy-I have a BA in applied communications with a focus on media
studies. Fran has a B-Sci in management information systems. There is
this wonderful stereotype of musicians as these like drunk moron
fumbling fools.
Nerve-Is there any sister dynamics between you and your sister franny?
Trezzy-We often refer to each other as hetero sexual life mates. We
don't like anyone else. The only dynamic is we work really well
together. I'm the art fag and she takes care of the technical details.
There is a really good collaborative vibe there.
Nerve-Do you think it kind of alienates your other members at all?
Trezzy-No. I have been in a few bands in my day and I have never been
in a band that got along this well. We don't really disagree on too
much.
Nerve-what is eating you up these days like what is your issue du-jour?
Trezzy-Issue du-jour? My issue du-jour is the fact that our noble
leaders here in Alberta are charging off full Calvary style to try and
get the gay marriage thing over turned here in Alberta. They are
trying to get it that Alberta can only issue civil unions. Their only
argument is the sanctity of marriage and how same sex unions violate
the sanctity of marriage. My mom was telling me that-don't take this
the wrong way—that swingers clubs are all the rage right now like they
are huge. my moms is really uptight roman catholic Philipino so she
wouldn't dabble in this 'friend of a friend' you know. If swingers
clubs are really rampant and they say that homosexuals are violating
the sanctity of marriage like what is that.
d-swinging though is not really out in the open really it is more unspoken
t-I think things like that eventually always come some what into the open
d- it was really big in the seventies and they would have swinger
parties and such In my personal opinion I've never thought that
swinging went away
t- I agree not that I really know that much about it but as an
anthropologist I have read some pretty sound evidence that humans just
as primates are strongly inclined to non-monogamy. I'll use that to
excuse my antics on tour just joking
d- my opinion is we are monogamous in ever way except for our sexuality
t- that is an interesting so you mean our hearts are monogamous but
our junk is not
d- look how loyal we are to our best friend or our 'hetero life mates'
it's become to a point where we get our emotional relationship support
from one person and our sexual support from another person I'm not
saying that is everyone but I am noticing it a lot
d- what makes you happy what aren't you angry about.
t-I'm not actually what you know that whole thing about outdated
stereotypes the angry girl that's really not any of us were super
mellow people well we have grievances with large demographics of
people but you know we have a sense of humour about them. What makes
me happy is CSI makes me happy being self employed makes me happy.
Foundations made me happy when I had dinner with mack and his wife and
our bandmates
d-what is foundations
t-foundations is a restaurant in Vancouver that is really good
d- tell us about your award career as a folk singer
t-ah fuck I knew this was gonna fucking come up FUCK!
t- here is what happened last year I read in ffwd which is our musical
weekly there was an article about the winning entries and how
disappointing they were they reproduced some of the lyrics from the
winning song they were like "Alberta Alberta your so grand Alberta
Alberta you're my homland" and I was like psh I can write a fucking
folk song so I did and it won. Out of a 170 entries. Well there are
threee categories there is best song, best song about Alberta, and
best song by a new comer I was very calculated about the whole thing I
thought that there would be the least entries in songs about Alberta
so I wrote a song about Alberta entered it in it got second place in
that category so it got entered into the best song finals and then I
got first place in the best song finals. It was a total lark and it
kinda pisses me off that that garned me and kilbourne more attention
than anything I actually care about. We actually just played the folk
fest myself and my boyfriend who was playing the drums for my tune it
was fun it was really rainy but it was fun and I kinda felt like a
fraud because the other two finalists were all awesome and sincere and
folky and you know I felt like a huge poser.
t- but now avenue magazine which is this high society arts and culture
magazine in Calgary wants to do a photo hoot of me in like high end
couture the theme of the article is what local artisits in hot couture
like what we would wear if money was no object and like I don't own a
piece of clothing more than 20 bucks but honestly if money was no
object I wouldn't wear different clothes but I would have a lot more
guitars and a nicer computer too
d- how adamant is your hate for celine dion
t- I think ther is a lot of really good music coming out of Canada and
I don't know why the music and I don't know why the music that gets
chosen to represent Canadian music to the rest of the world is so
loathsome like hot god like the whole celine-shania-Alanis-bryan sort
of pantheon if you will