MuchMusic's Nardwuar makes Canadian history rock out
Jessica Klement
Issue date: 3/2/04 Section: Arts & Entertainment
Nardwuar did get the chance to talk to Kurt Cobain on Jan. 4, 1994, but it was not any easy task.
"To get that Nirvana interview was two days of basically waiting in the rain and stalking him," says Nardwuar. "I think it was probably the last interview he did in Canada before he died."
Switching to his music, The Evaporators' live shows involve Nardwuar yelling at people, talk about Canadian history and food and a little bit of back hair.
"It's like me doing an interview, in the same way that I yell at people in an interview I'll yell at people from the stage," says Nardwuar. "My shirt might come off so don't be offended by my back hair."
The Evaporators want to be classified as history rock, though Nardwuar insists it is anything but boring.
"We love exploring events in Canadian history and we love food, so food and history rock," she says. "An example is in our new album called Ripple Rock. There is a song about a rock they blew up near Vancouver Island; it was a rock that got in the way of ships so they blew it up."
"And we have another song from the past called 'United Empire Loyalist' about the dudes that left America and came to Canada during the American Revolutionary War," says Nardwuar. "This song is based on the hypothesis that it wasn't necessary the Americans fighting the British but that it was Americans fighting Americans!"
The Evaporators play L3 in St. Catharines on March 3.
"To get that Nirvana interview was two days of basically waiting in the rain and stalking him," says Nardwuar. "I think it was probably the last interview he did in Canada before he died."
Switching to his music, The Evaporators' live shows involve Nardwuar yelling at people, talk about Canadian history and food and a little bit of back hair.
"It's like me doing an interview, in the same way that I yell at people in an interview I'll yell at people from the stage," says Nardwuar. "My shirt might come off so don't be offended by my back hair."
The Evaporators want to be classified as history rock, though Nardwuar insists it is anything but boring.
"We love exploring events in Canadian history and we love food, so food and history rock," she says. "An example is in our new album called Ripple Rock. There is a song about a rock they blew up near Vancouver Island; it was a rock that got in the way of ships so they blew it up."
"And we have another song from the past called 'United Empire Loyalist' about the dudes that left America and came to Canada during the American Revolutionary War," says Nardwuar. "This song is based on the hypothesis that it wasn't necessary the Americans fighting the British but that it was Americans fighting Americans!"
The Evaporators play L3 in St. Catharines on March 3.
