Tunes Consumed: the Poutine Silver Platter

I have a funny way of keeping up to date on these things.

I wasn’t introduced to the Toronto-based outfit The Deadly Snakes until after they’d been around for a while, and their latest Porcella was only back in 2005 so with those two effects in order I sort of just assumed they were still a band, and you know, just sweating out new material for their next release. As it turns out there won’t be another release since they broke up 6 months ago.

In this final interview over at Pitchfork, Max Danger (vocalist, drummer) lays it pretty flat: the band just isn’t (and never was) an “entity” like other people think it is. They never sat down and formed a band that would be their life blood. The investment just wasn’t there, as we assume it to be.

“The main reason is that it’s been like 10 years and…it’s not fun like it used to be and it’s not enough of a career to justify the lack of fun that we’re having,” McCabe-Lokos said. “It’s not excruciating by any stretch, but I think that we’re all getting a little tired of going on tour and playing in Ozona, Texas for two or three people. Some people can do that until their eyes fall out.”

Even despite the album having been nominated for the Polaris Prize, it’s just not happening:

“For the past five years, I’ve been saving up money to buy a house, and I live with my girlfriend, and now I have the acting career, and I’m renovating a house right now. There are so many things in my life that don’t include being in a band that it came time to make a choice, you know–should I be in the Deadly Snakes and let it interfere with all these things, or even just let it stress me out and take up my time, or should I just take a break from that? It’s not so much that we’re quitting–it’s just going on with everything else in our lives.”

mp3:
The Deadly Snakes - Let It Go
The Deadly Snakes - Work