Biographies
On their website they had bios for the band and each of the band members. You can click on a year below or scroll through the page to see the text of all their bios. Sometimes bios stayed the same from year to year, so they have only been included here if they were changed in any way.
2000:
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"When it's all said and done, I'm still gonna be a girl, I'm still gonna be young, and I'm still gonna be a twin . . . people are either gonna like the music or not."
-Tegan Quin
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That pretty much sums up the attitude of VaporRecords newest recording artists, Tegan and Sara, who will release their debut album, This Business of Art, in July of 2000.
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They have been called one of the most appealing live acts you'll ever see. On-stage, armed with acoustic guitars and two distinctively different voices, they deliver music that is rhythmic, melodic, and powerful. As performers they exude charisma, talking to the audience in rapid fire between songs that thrill with both their musicality and delivery, and their debut album effectively captures this quality.
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In a time when people are beginning to feel that almost everything has been said and done before, Tegan and Sara are refreshingly wise while not road weary. This Business of Art was recorded in two weeks. Building upon a skeleton of driving but spare instrumentation, the addition of drums and bass, coupled with a creative use of effects, have given fullness and maturity to their emerging sound. As the title hints, the album is a portrait of complexities. Their lyrics are simultaneously smart and full of youthful naiveti, while the music ranges from fast and furious to tastefully understated.
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From the punching chords of the first focus track, appropriately called The First it is apparent this group has something to say. They are able to address disturbing realities without succumbing to a sense of despair. The tone of the album is set in opening lines. "By definition from grade school to English 30 / We quietly become strong so early."
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There is no defeat in these realizations however, instead it leads to a sense of determination: "Wasting time in the fast food line / I decide to walk the fine line and / celebrate life, celebrate death / I choose to celebrate the first."
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Initially, Tegan and Sara introduced themselves back in the spring of '98, winning Calgary's Garage Warz contest with the highest score in the event's history. This quickly sparked intense coverage by local and national media. Within two years Tegan and Sara had played shows with Hayden, Paula Cole, Juliana Hatfield, Kinnie Starr, and the Lilith Fair tour, before signing with VaporRecords in April of 2000.
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But that is the recent past, they have spent the better part of the last ten years playing together and developing a sound. Growing up in Calgary, these sisters were originally inspired by their parents' love of music. At age 8, they began playing piano. By their mid-teens they were hashing it out in punk bands. Eventually, Tegan says, "we grew out of our teen angst stage anyway: and began writing and performing acoustically."
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In the end, these talented newcomers have successfully transferred the energy and charisma of their live performance to their debut album. And with This Business of Art set to hit the streets on July 2000, Tegan and Sara are definitely going to turn a lot of heads.
2002:
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?
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Two sisters, two guitars. On-stage banter about diarrhea, the ever-present possibility that friendly bickering may suddenly erupt into bloodshed, and rockin' pop songs that will blindside you as surely as a soccer Mom in an SUV yakking on her cell phone. Ladies and germs, please welcome Tegan and Sara.
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All joking aside, Tegan and Sara - who finally came of legal drinking age last year - were very serious when it came to making If It Was You, the follow-up to their 2000 U.S. debut This Business of Art. "It feels like the first thing we've done that we were ready to do, whereas before it was like, 'We've got ten days to make an album!,'" says Sara. "In the past, there's been some apprehension about recording. This time it was fun."
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The hard-edged yet hook-laden If It Was You is as different from This Business of Art as, well, Tegan is from Sara; the two are obviously related, yet distinct in character. "We went back to our roots: Punkier, poppier, and louder," says Tegan. It wasn't a huge stylistic leap, since the Vancouver residents, who started playing guitar at 15, cut their teeth in a high school punk band, and only became an acoustic duo after they tired of losing drummers and blowing amps.
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"There's definitely more punch to this album," says Sara. In other words, do not look for If It Was You in the Folk section. "I wanted to be more powerful and pretentious and in-your-face this time around," declares Tegan. "We held back a little last time, because that's where women are supposed to go in the music business: Just be shy, sexy, singer-songwriters. And we are all ofthose things, but we're also obnoxious and sarcastic, and intelligent, and, at times, downright overbearing." A volatile combination of traits, but a compelling and charismatic one, too.
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The twelve tracks range from the bluegrass-tinged "Living Room," which Tegan wrote after realizing the windows of her new apartment were too close to the neighbors' for comfort, to the rollicking "Under Water," born from Sara's stab at writing a children's book, only to conclude her rhymes were a little too tortured for tots. The acoustic "And Darling" was an eleventh-hour composition by Tegan, amended to the album in virtually its original demo form. And Sara insists that the hard-hitting opener, "Time Running," sounds an awful lot like Soft Cell's '80s hit "Tainted Love."
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One of the big difference between the two sisters is their approach to their craft. "Tegan writes songs like a fish lays eggs," says Sara. "She comes up with three hundred of them, and some of them die, and others grow up. She's so prolific that it totally freaks me out if she doesn't tell me she wrote a new song every day, because then I think, 'She must have written a really good one, and she's holding on to it for her solo project.'" Sara, meanwhile, tends to work more methodically and meticulously. "She writes five songs a year, but they're the five that automatically get on the record, without question," says Tegan. "There's never any debate over Sara's songs."
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Work on If It Was You began in March of this year, when Tegan and Sara retreated to Galliano Island, forty-five minutes away from Vancouver by ferry. Tegan's voice turns wistful at the memory: "We were isolated in a cabin, on the ocean, with just eagles and whales..." and If It Was You producers John Collins and Dave Carswell. Having previously shared their favors with such notables as the New Porngraphers, the Smugglers, and the Evaporators, John and Dave were delighted to whore themselves out once more ("when they said yes, we almost peed our pants," admits Tegan) and help Tegan and Sara turn the demos they had hashed out in their home studio and rehearsal space into finished tracks.
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John and Dave did everything," admits Sara. "That's actually them singing on the album. We sped up their voices to sound more feminine. Tegan and I just did a lot of blow and hung out with hookers in the lounge."
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Well, not quite. But unlike so many superstar producers, John and Dave didn't try to put their own sonic stamp all over Tegan and Sara's rough-hewn singing style and slash-and-burn guitar technique. "They came in with absolutely no expectations, and we just rocked out," says Tegan. "They were referencing bands we'd never heard, like T. Rex and The Shins, and then bringing in the records, so we could listen to them." If It Was You was finished at the Factory and Greenhouse studios in Vancouver, and mixed in April in Los Angeles. "So it still has the charm of being recorded in a stinky basement with some lo-fi, high-cred producer, but also has industry appeal and the ability to crossover," Tegan concludes.
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Tegan and Sara were born in Calgary, Alberta, on Sept. 19, 1980, which makes them Virgos. Since making their first splash on the Canadian national scene in 1998, when they walked away with the highest score ever in Calgary's "Garage Warz" battle-of-the-bands, the Lilith Fair vets have toured extensively, sharing bills with artists as disparate as Neil Young, Rufus Wainwright, and the Pretenders, in addition to countless headlining gigs. (Tegan and Sara also traveled throughout Germany warming up arena crowds for Bryan Adams; ask them about his turtleneck collection.) They currently manage themselves, because, as Tegan notes, "we're in the age group we intend on marketing ourselves to, and we know our music better than anybody else."
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Tegan Quin, a Virgo, enjoys comfort foods and long talks about things that happened ten years ago that she "has gotten over" but still talks about them endlessly in this voice that is sort of like metal scraping against bone that is showing through your ripped flesh. Tegan is Sara's sister, and as far as their mother can "remember" they only shared a room once, and that was when they were babies. Until grade eight, Tegan's math teachers thought she was advanced and "bored" with math. Then she started writing music and they realized she was just "bored". Tegan plays a Martin acoustic, and an epiphone electric.
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Sara Quin is Tegan's sister. Born in 1980, Sara always wanted to be a lawyer or a veterinarian. Actually, up until she was 16 life was a ten-year plan that involved student loans and winterish-fantasies about school on the East Coast. Standing five foot three, Sara enjoys grocery shopping, barbeques, and mid-day movies where no one else is there to crinkle plastic candy bags or talk about what's going to happen five seconds before it happens and then congratulate themselves on their cunning ability to predict the future so that everyone in the theatre hears them and then secretly wish there was jail time for that specific group of society. Secretly wishing she was a drummer, Sara enjoys one on one time, and is addicted to pro-tools and the sound of her voice through a sans amp.
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Rob Chursinoff, otherwise known as Mr. Evil Guy, was born and raised in the Kootenays. 5'9" when kneeling and 27 in dim lighting; this ladies man has played with Kinnie Starr, the Be Good Tanya's, Speed to Kill, and Skull Flush. What in god's name is a skull flush you ask? Well, says Rob, "flush... like flush the toilet." 10 years of experience as a banger/hippie and expertly trained to follow a click track, Rob lives for his dog Leroy.
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Chris Carlson is an Edmontonian who is now living and procreating in Vancouver. He stands 6"4" and asked to lower his age to 24 for the purpose of this bio. Apparently 31 isn't a "cool" age. Playing bass for twelve years, he strokes and cuddles his Fender Precision, for Tegan and Sara as well as Kinnie Starr. A fun side note: Chris and Rob are NOT brothers or lovers; they just like martial arts and "working out" together.
2003:
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this is what we know. tegan, a virgo, enjoys comfort foods and long talks about things that happened ten years ago that she "has gotten over" but still talks about endlessly in this voice that is sort of like metal scraping against a bone that is showing through ripped flesh. tegan is sara's sister, and as far as our mother can "remember" we only shared a room once, and that was when we were babies. until grade eight, tegan's math teachers thought she was advanced and "bored" with math. then she started writing music and they realized she was just "bored". tegan plays a martin acoustic, and an epiphone electric. (by sara)
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this is what we know. sara is tegan's sister. born in 1980, sara always wanted to be a lawyer or a veterinarian. actually, up until she was 16 life was a ten-year plan that involved student loans and winterish-fantasies about school on the east coast. standing five foot three, sara enjoys grocery shopping, barbeques, and mid-day movies where no one else is there to crinkle plastic candy bags or talk about what's going to happen five seconds before it happens and then congratulate themselves on their cunning ability to predict the future so that everyone in the theatre secretly wishes there was jail time for that specific group of society. secretly wishing she was a drummer, sara enjoys one on one time, and is addicted to pro-tools and the sound of her voice through a sans amp.
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this is what we know. chris is an edmontonian who is now living and procreating in vancouver. he stands 6"4" and asked to lower his age to 24 for the purpose of this bio. apparently 31 isn't a "cool" age. playing bass for twelve years, he strokes and cuddles his fender precision, for tegan and sara as well as kinnie starr. a fun side note: chris and rob are NOT brothers or lovers; they just like martial arts and "working out" together. (by sara)
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this is what we know. rob, otherwise known as mr. evil guy, was born and raised in the kootenays. 5'9" when kneeling and 27 in dim lighting; this ladies man has played with kinnie starr, the be good tanya's, speed to Kill, and skull flush. what in god's name is a skull flush you ask? well, says rob, "flush... like flush the toilet." 10 years of experience as a banger/hippie and expertly trained to follow a click track, rob lives for his dog leroy. (by sara)
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this is what we know. chris bossed us around when he first met us. we (rob, tegan, chris c, and sara) like to be bossed around. think of his bossing around as sort of a nurturing but aggresive parental relationship. chris wore a leather coat and sunglasses the first time he met all of us. he also had a large orange container with lots of doo dads and colored tape. i thought he was very professional. sort of like arnold in terminator 2. kind, yet efficient. chris listens very well. you have to be careful not to say something as a joke, because chris might think it’s real and apply that information to situations. so unless you really want tazer guns and black clothing back stage every night, do not ask for them. chris is very messy. he also drinks these awful skor chocolate milkshake drinks out of plastic containers to keep himself awake. they must really be bad for your stomach. actually, chris eats a lot of bad things. he also used to eat really smelly burgers with onions in our tiny little day rooms in europe and then leave the food on the windowsill to rot in the sun. he also used to get out of his bunk in his little black crooked boxers and talk shirtless to people in the six inch wide hallway outside of my bunk. we had to have an "intervention". chris laughed really hard but tried to keep his pants on for the rest of the tour. chris is protective and drives very safely. (by sara)
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this is what we know. nick wore this touque with ear flaps and hanging wool strings, like little kids wear in alberta, the first time i met him. well, we met before that time but i don’t remember him. so the "first time" we met, he wore that hat and i thought, "if i was a boy, i would want to be nick". i remember when we almost died landing at the castlegar airport nick seemed calm, "no problem" he said. we believed him. and it was no problem. nick surfs. i haven’t seen nick surf. i vaguely remember seeing pictures of nick in "surf" shorts in costa rica a few years ago. rob and nick always "talk" about going surfing, but i don’t know if they really "surf" or if that’s just a code word for "something else". nick and i listened to IF IT WAS YOU in a car in front of lucky bar in victoria. i wanted him to hear it, because i wanted him to come to vancouver and help get the band ready to tour the record. nick used to stay at my apartment on the couch last summer, and when i got sick and lost my voice the week our record came out, he bought me lemons and made these funny drinks. my voice was still lost. nick was tour managing the night of our 22nd birthday in charlottetown PEI. nick saw me get boobed by a healthy excited easterner. nick’s mom made us knitted hats with pink skulls on them. nickwent to a special school in victoria and is very sensitive and kind. (by sara)
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this is what we know. piers is very tall but drives a very small car. i know a lot of tall men who drive small cars. cars that are very low to the ground. these tall men i know, they make this sound when they are trying to get into their small cars; bending their long legs, clutching and clinging to the steering wheel, hips thrust to push their torso into the drivers seat, trying to remain cool, calm, continue listening or talking, but trying not to grunt. however, piers does not do any of this when he gets into his little car. the last time i was in his tiny car, he had big white sneakers and tennis racquets in the passenger seat. piers went to school on a tennis scholarship and reportedly enjoyed hemming pants when he was a boy. i feel safe when piers says he is going to "draft" something up. i can’t remember if it’s true or if i made it up, but i remember in october 2002, piers walking with a cane and wearing a matching velour track suit in los angeles. i just saw piers play with his band (jets overhead) this past month. watching him rock out on stage was similar to seeing my mom dance for the first time. you feel giggly and shy, but mostly because they dance better then you do, and they’re cooler too. (by sara)
2004:
With Tegan and Sara you can never really be sure what is going to come out of their mouths. Their first word as babies was a four letter one according to family legend, and since then the only thing that’s changed is that now people pay to hear what they have to say. If you want to hear their legendary onstage stories along with some new four-letter words, buy a ticket to their next live show. If you simply want to hear the power, precision, and originality of their lyrical and musical vision, then throw on their brand new album – So Jealous (Vapor/Sanctuary).
Produced by Tegan and Sara along with John Collins, David Carswell and Howard Redekopp (The New Pornographers), So Jealous was recorded in Vancouver, Canada. The band is happy to report that no one cried during the recording process, except of course Sara (identity crisis on the second day of mixing) and Tegan (she cries whenever Sara starts crying). And with only a few unforeseen post-recording bumps – the record company submitted a last minute request for them to sing about “something other than love” for once – Tegan and Sara are now set to release their fourth studio album on September 14, 2004.
In preparing material for the new album, Tegan and Sara began writing and recording demos in their respective bedrooms during the fall of 2003. Hoping to transfer as much of their self-styled home-recording sound as possible to the new album, these demos would become the official blueprint for the production of the studio album. With 26 new songs written, Tegan and Sara recruited drummer Rob Chursinoff and bassist Chris Carlson for album rehearsals at Vancouver's legendary Renegade Studios. In an unorthodox move designed to stay true to the vision of the demos, Rob was forced to rehearse his drum parts alone to the sound of what became known as “the bedroom demos.” The resulting mental duress for Rob was reminiscent of the Karate Kid movies, and he was quoted as saying it was a “stupid” technique and that he had never had to try such a thing in all his years of “legitimate” rocking.
So after a month of stick throwing, yelling, and screaming (mostly by Rob, age 32), the band anxiously headed into Mushroom Studios to track the album’s foundation: drums and bass. They were quickly thrilled (translation: relieved) to discover that their strict rehearsal regimen of dynamics exercises, Greek food, magazine reading, and drumming to bedroom demo CDs had produced exciting musical results. Tegan and Sara followed with three weeks of guitar overdubs, vocals, organ, and Casio keyboards, and Matt Sharp (ex-Weezer, The Rentals) flew in to make a sky-fisting guest appearance on Moog and strings. The end result is a record that everyone seems to think is their best yet, in a “high-fi/low-fi kind of way.”
After mixing and mastering put the final touches on the CD, Sara returned home to resume a life of bicycle riding and red onion eating, leaving Tegan to host Scrabble parties in Vancouver. Known for their onstage banter, Tegan and Sara are in fact now trying to isolate themselves on opposite sides of Canada to avoid fighting; Tegan lives in Vancouver, BC and Sara resides in Montreal, Quebec.
Tegan and Sara were born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Tegan’s childhood dreams included being a clown, working as a veterinarian with polar bears in the Arctic and being a rock star, of course. Sara wanted to be a lawyer and live in Boston strangely enough. Tegan is impossibly stubborn, while Sara is good-natured and loveable. They have toured with many bands and performers over the course of their career, including Hot Hot Heat, Ryan Adams, Rufus Wainwright, Neil Young, and Ben Folds. Their previous catalogue includes If It Was You (2002) and This Business of Art (2000).
2005:
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Tegan has lived in Vancouver for five years. She does not own roller blades or one of those water bottles that fits into a holster on your bike. In fact, she owns a bike, but if you tried to ride it on a “trail” you would die. Once, we tried to double on her bike, but we didn’t even get out of her apartment before we decided her bike was too little for two people, and also, secretly, we both thought it was creepy to be sisters, and double on the bike in public. Instead we put suntan lotion on our faces and walked. That was a horrible day, and I had an allergic reaction to Tegan’s cheap lotion, and broke out in hives. It happened to be the day before our video shoot, for “walking with a ghost," of which I was the star--which leads me to believe that Tegan sabotaged me. She still wasn’t the star of the video, and ended up in jail for causing bodily harm to an innocent star of a music video. Who’s laughing now Tegan? When Tegan wasn’t in jail, she liked to record at home and send mp4s to Sara via the internet, even though Sara told her she couldn’t open mp4s. Tegan liked to handle all of “Tegan and Sara’s” money, and threatened to cheat Sara out of her earnings, but now that she is in jail, Sara is making sure to even everything out. Tegan cried on the first day of school until she was 14, but that is because she is sensitive. Based on my theory, she was supposed to be born as my mother's second child years after I was born, which would explain why she has a stressed hairline and a mild social disorder. Tegan writes infectious songs and wishes she were in a punk rock band from the 90s. Or at least that’s how it seems to me, since she refuses to “get in the now” and stop playing CDs we liked when we were 15. Although I live 3000 miles from Tegan, she and I have a bond that transcends time and space. Not really, but we are contractually obligated to put out one more album, even if Tegan is in jail.
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Sara typically writes the bios for Tegan and Sara. And, because she speaks of a deep passion and admiration for writers, fiction writers specifically, I’ve never applied for the job (until now). Sara’s real life dream, according to her, would be to write fiction and go on book tours. (I think Sara has read John Irving’s ‘A Widow for One Year’ one too many times). Sara never liked to tour much (on our past records) but now that she has her own little bunk bed on our bus, she seems quite content to not step inside her city (Montreal) or her apartment (a really big three bedroom that she pays the same amount of money for as I pay for my 600 square foot hamster box in Vancouver) for months on end. Sara makes friends easier then most people (me) and finds the ‘next big thing’ every time she thinks a ‘next big thing’ should be found. She wears her pants too short, her shirts extra long, single handedly brought back vintage high tops this year and travels with way too many bags to be even remotely organized. Sara apparently cocoons herself in her blankets when she sleeps, likes wearing layers, cutting her own necklines and socks that go to the knee. She is obsessively clean, and so, as a reminder to those visiting her at home: don’t throw kitchen garbage in the bathroom garbage if you want to be invited back. (Do what I do, just stuff it in the couch cushions). Sara always wanted to be a lawyer but was easily persuaded into a life of rock and roll after high school. On rainy cold days she likes to argue politics, human rights issues and cultivate her infatuation with Naomi Klein and bicycles.
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Chris is one of the most helpful people you could ever hope to meet in a dark club, behind a stage, holding a backdrop. This is not just because Chris is tall, or has good balance, but because Chris is a doer. If there is a task that needs to be done, then Chris is going to do it. Chris cuts his hair before each tour and generally finds the best t-shirt shopping in Vancouver. That has nothing to do with Chris’s talent as a bass player, or his ability to balance on the edge of a guitar amp with a backdrop in his hands, trying to fasten it to a lighting pole ten feet above his head. Chris will fill up a tiny space and never complain, even if his legs are all crooked and he might end up with a limp. Chris enjoys getting up early, and never leaves wet towels on the hotel floor. Chris is a great friend to have, especially if you slept on your neck wrong and you feel like it’s broken and need someone who can massage it out so that you can go on stage. Chris is quiet, but there is a whole universe of happiness exploding inside of him. Chris is the patient foundation of a fantastic rhythm section.
The newest and youngest member of Tegan and Sara, brother Ted, joined the band in August 2004. Ted knew how to play keyboards and guitar (sometimes at the same time) and because he was young and impressionable, he seemed to fit the ‘work for free’ vibe that we were going for. Ted has admitted to having trouble in street fights, and when it comes to making introductions, he can be a little forgetful and shy. Most recently Ted has shown interest in hair straightening techniques, and has proven himself to be quite photogenic. In Ted’s audition tape, he proclaimed a love for small dogs and tennis. Although small dogs and physical activity were not requirements to play with Tegan and Sara, we thought Ted was cute and talented, and felt we could overlook an obsession with racquets and poodle brushes. Ted likes to share, and has been known to get drunk and hug people with nice shoes in the metro. Finally, Ted is a good sport; he often plays multiple gigs with Tegan and Sara and never complains or cries. In fact, he has shown signs of enjoyment while hanging out at these unpaid gigs. Ted really rounds out our amazing band, and Tegan and I are very happy to welcome him to the Tegan and Sara bio page. It only took me nine months, but I hope this blurb offers some insight into a very complex man.
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The two most commonly spoken phrases by Tegan and Sara’s 11th Tour Manager and Sound Man Craig Brittain:
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“I’m not going to lie to you guys.”
“I’ll be honest with you.”
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This is why Craig works so well on our team: he is honest and caring, not too maternal but maternal enough that even Rob hugs him when he is drunk. Craig likes pizza and sneaks off with Tegan for philly cheese steaks every time they are in San Francisco. Craig has a very hard time waking up, so his alarm successfully wakes up the entire bus before he even begins to stir. Craig did not like our suggestion of trying to find a shock alarm to give him a little jolt instead of playing bad ring tones endlessly. Craig likes colored tape and diet Pepsi even though we tell him it is bad for him. He is insanely nice and polite and he never forgets anyone’s name. Craig never loses his cool in front of us and according to Rob ‘does not know how to relax’. He wears shorts just like all crew guys, even when it is way too cold to be wearing shorts. Craig suffers, like most tour managers, from ‘Expanding Disorder.’ We have to remind him that all his bags have to go into his bunk so that we can sit down in the bus lounge (he apologies each time). Craig would ‘never lie to us.’ he knows when he is expanding and gets himself in check. Craig is 3 months away from being our longest running tour manager. Go Craig Go!!! Sweet dreams Craig.