Yvette: We are all "now" from Vancouver.

Kurt: Did you relocate?

Yvette: I am just a permanent relocatee, originally from San Francisco but I've been traveling for the last eight years. I've lived in London and Paris. I've traveled through Africa and Asia for a couple of years and ended up here. I've been here for three years and this is where the band started. Two of the bandmates are from here, the drummer is from Winnipeg, and Lisa is from Edmonton. We were all here when the band started.

Kurt: Why did you chose to base the band out of Vancouver?

Yvette: Well, the band were all living here cause Vancouver is a very wonderful place to live in, and myself, I fell in love with my girlfriend, she's British, we met there, I came to visit her once and never left. I then started the band, and my music took off here. Once I got here it seemed like the place that it's definitely gonna happen.

Kurt: Do you think your style of music fits into the "Vancouver Scene"?

Yvette: I don't know if our music fits into any scene, really, but at the same time it doesn't really "not" fit into any scene. It's not extremely hardcore left or right down the middle, its just kinda left of center. I think that it's pretty much its own little niche,. We don't sound like anybody else, but we're a rock band, whatever, an alternative rockband for lack of a better word. this city has been very supportive and I think people here are looking for something new and different and they've been great with us because we are kind of new and different. we're an interesting, eclectic collection of people, we're intense, anal muso-heads, so we spend allot of time working on our music, and it comes from a really honest place. It comes from a lot of my former period as a songwriter traveling around the world, and then turning that into a band form, then turning those into band songs. Now we write songs together.

Kurt: Have you guys been touring lately?

Yvette: Actually, we haven't toured at all. Our album was just released world wide. We haven't toured yet, except in Canada. We're leaving Thursday for our first American tour, we're heading all the way down the west coast and back and then straight across Canada. Then probably touring for the next year and a half. We got offered some really amazing tours in Europe , so basically all the touring has been set up. The album has just been released and we're just going to follow it.

Kurt: What's the word on the album now?

Yvette: It seems to be doing well. Canada is a hard country because it's so massive, but we're definitely selling. We're hitting the charts and stuff like that. Quite honestly I don't pay attention, I don't really want to know . I just live my life, I walk my dog, I sleep, I eat, I piss, you know, I fuck, I do what everybody else does and I really kinda try not to pay too much attention because I don't want it to completely dominate my life.

Kurt: Do you love playing live?

Yvette: I think it's the only thing! I think if you can do it live, you've got it, because as far as I'm concerned it's the beauty of the whole thing. It's sharing the music on a very intimate level. It's an exchange of power between the audience and the artist. I don't think there's anything quite like it.

Kurt: What kind of music do you listen to?

Yvette: Indie, British movement, the grunge thing. A lot of hip-hop and black.. I never really got into country music or heavy metal, those are the only two types of music that I don't care for.

Kurt: So you're looking forward to go on tour to the states?

Yvette: We're delirious. I'm really looking forward to playing in San Francisco, my home town. My mother is driving my manager crazy, E-mailing him every day. I have a lot of friends and family there and playing for the first time in my home town is going to be incredible.

Kurt: Where do you see the band, and yourself in one years time?

Yvette: On a very big holiday, in a very warm country with lots of fruit. Swimming in the ocean. Just chillin', back to the basics, with my acoustic guitar writing the next album. I hope what every other artist hopes, that this album does well. There's alot of things about the industry I hate and the commodity side of things I hate, but I'm old enough to understand the reality. I just want to do well, and sell the albums. What else is there besides love of music?

Kurt: Thanks, and good luck to you and the band.

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