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Any reason behind the move to Canada ?
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 4:04 pm
by Kevin_Kjr
For the Barr bros instead of staying in Boston or wherever they were living at the time? Not sure if anyone was close to them or talked to them, obviously Boston can be expensive as heck. What wondering if a lot of the song writing was influenced by the area they were living?
Re: Any reason behind the move to Canada ?
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:53 pm
by lucasdavidsamuels
They moved because Andrew fell for a waitress at a bar. Andrew moved for her, Brad went with. She's now on their management team.
They tell the story often, usually right before they play Sarah Through The Wall.
Search 'Barr Brothers interview' on YouTube you can hear them tell the story.
I believe the majority of songs from Brad's solo release were written holed up in his MTL apartment during MTL's insanely cold winters. Barr Bros self-titled was also written & recorded in MTL.
Re: Any reason behind the move to Canada ?
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 7:31 am
by Kevin_Kjr
i thought most of the talk behind sarah through the wall was just Brad talking about how he met Sarah by living next to her and hearing her harp through the wall.
Re: Any reason behind the move to Canada ?
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 4:57 pm
by harrymcq
Yes I believe the show in question is 5/24/03 Le Swimming, where Andrew met Meghan and there was the fire. Reported as 2004 in some stories...
Here's a good version of the story:
http://www.thealternateside.org/120213/ ... as-session
Andrew Barr: We were born in Providence, Rhode Island. A lot of good things coming out of Rhode Island right now. The Low Anthem. Lightning Bolt, another great band. Deer Tick, who you can’t miss if they’re anywhere near you. Just wear your goggles.
We were playing with The Slip up in Montreal and we’d not really crossed the border in almost eight years of touring and we crossed into this wonderful city. We were playing a show and a fire happened in the backroom of the venue during our last song, which was fortunate for me because I had eyed this beautiful waitress who I was sure was going to become my future wife, my snow princess. There was a fire in the venue and we all got whisked out into the street with our instruments as the sprinklers were going off and I lent her my sweatshirt to stay warm — and get her phone number. Then I lost complete track of her for a year and then finally found her address again by some roundabout way. We ended up moving up there. That’s the story.
Alisa: And you are now married to her!
Andrew: I am now married to her! Brad and I completely fell in love with the city along with me falling in love with this woman. It took no pressure to move up there and relocate. It was a really inspiring move.
Alisa: Did you move up there at the same time or, Andrew, did you go first?
Andrew: I think 11 days and then Brad called.
Brad: I had a total meltdown after he left.
Andrew: (in a high-pitched voice) “Do you know what day is garbage day, man? How do you make a pasta fagiole?”
Alisa: Separation anxiety from your bro?
Brad: I guess so. A momentary lapse of reason.
Andrew: Brad and I have played music together our whole lives so the thought of not having that as a daily routine was a little scary so it was really nice that he came up. We’d been living together up to that point.
Alisa: And now you live together again?
Andrew: The same city. Down the street. We virtually live together.
At some point I had been trying to archive press clippings related to The Slip, SMMD, Barr Bros, as old sites go offline and content is lost over time especially if archive.org doesn't get it. However real life has kept me way too busy to follow up on this. I still want to get a new page up at some point, either Wiki (easy) or Drupal (hard) to manage content and data related to these guys...
Re: Any reason behind the move to Canada ?
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:45 am
by Kevin_Kjr
Interesting, are there any pictures of Andrew and his Wife? Do they have any children?