 Tangiers | Tangiers' third album in three years, The Family Myth, has just hit stores and they're sitting in a diner telling tales of two cities. The first is Toronto, the band's hometown — looking through the press they've received in the past couple years, a clear image is presented by the city's journalists, one of a semi-alcoholic rock 'n' roll lifestyle. How do they manage to fit so much recording in with all that drinking going on? |
"That was something that was really unfortunate, which was the 'tagging' of us as more of a party band than we were and I think we kind of went along for the ride of that," explains Josh Reichmann, one half of Tangiers' songwriting duo. "But it really didn't do justice to the fact that that was a really cartoon, silly illustration of where we were at. I mean, drinking and partying in your 20s is not anomalous to people in bands. And just because we had pictures taken with beers... I mean that's where we'd end up for an interview, in a place like this and we'd have a beer. And I think they kind of pushed that, I think the local media was interested in having us be poster boys for that. But it was also kind of fun at the time."
His partner in crime, James Sayce, agrees: "It's like I was 22 years old and a magazine came along and said 'We're gonna take you out drinking and pay for it all night and take photos of you.' So of course you would do it — I mean free beer, why not? And then, like a week later, our faces were plastered everywhere — our plastered faces were plastered throughout the entire city."
"Besides, everyone drinks, who cares?" Reichmann laughs. "Now it's all eight-balls and slamming heroin and peanut butter in our arms."
Still, the band members probably wished they were the party kings of repute when they hit New York City, where Tangiers retreated last December to record most of the new LP. So how did their winter weeks in the sprawling city compare to past studio experiences at home?
"I think the main difference was that after a day of recording we would go back to an apartment with no furniture, sleep on the floor and shiver ourselves to sleep," Sayce says. "And we didn't have anyone to hang out with, so all we had to do was focus completely on the record, because it was Christmas in New York and it was this completely empty place. None of the people we knew were there, none of the people at our label were even there, it was just us and our producer — it was New Year's Eve and he wanted to do New Year's stuff, like you know, go to Connecticut or whatever it is New York people do..."
"So we ate pizza on New Year's," Reichmann interjects. "But, like, a couple different kinds of pizza."
Sayce hangs his head. "I think we buried our sorrows in New York pizza."
Tangiers Canadian tour dates:
# October 26 Winnipeg, MB @ Collective
# October 27 Saskatoon, SK @ U Of S
# October 28 Edmonton, AB @ Victory
# October 29 Calgary, AB @ Hi-Fi Club
# October 31 Vancouver, BC @ Red Room
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