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20 Questions with... Kevin Drew

20 September 2007, 11:00

This week marks the release of the wonderous first fruit of the loins of the Broken Social Scene Presents series. We caught up with the main man Kevin Drew and posed our tantalisingly tasty 20 Questions to him and find out that he’d swap his brain for a really good bolognese.

1. Describe your sound in 3 words.

Mush, Mush and Melody.

2. What would be your ideal holiday?

Anywhere that keeps my lips happy.

3. Whats the best cure for a hangover?

There’s no cure for the kind of hangover I get.

4. What’s on your rider?

I’m pretty sure it’s organic…

5. How do you get ready for a live show?

Smoke a cigarette during vocal warm-ups.

6. Favourite song to play live?

Ibi Dreams of Pavement

7. When was the last time you told a lie?

Right now because I haven’t told a lie in a while.

8. Who would win in a fight, a stoat or a goat and why?

I have no idea what a stoat is.

9. What was the last album you bought?

The new Colleen record.

10. If you could rid the world of one song - what would it be?

Anything the fucking frog sang.

11. Who would play you in a film based upon your life?

Noah Taylor

12. Dead or alive. What 5 acts would you have play with you at a festival.

Curtis Mayfield Thin Lizzy The Supremes The Flaming Lips Lee Perry

13. Desert Island Disc? Pick only one.

Whatever You Love You Are – Dirty Three

14. What’s your most memorable on the road story?

The one I could never repeat… good times.

15. If your life flashed before your eyes, what would be the highlights?

Climbing trees, fucking and levitating for the first time with my friend Frank.

16. Do you read your own reviews?

Less and less…

17. Are you a morning bird or a night fox?

A bit of both.

18. If you could travel back in time where would you set the dial?

The 1930’s.

19. What three things could you not live without?

My heart, my stomach and my brain. Well actually… I’d ditch my brain for a really good Bolognese.

20. Tell us a fact about yourself we probably don’t already know.

I should have been an actor… but the parties sucked.

Links Kevin Drew [official site] [myspace]

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