I'm sitting at a bar with Captain Dandy and Puff Dandy, two bandmates so damn happy being friends they finish each other's sentences. Dandy, the newest and Nutrasweetest addition to Ottawa's pop landscape, is taking their increasingly popular live show to Barrymore's for the first time tomorrow for a Food Bank benefit. Before it was a really, really bad mix between folk rock and prog-rock. Luckily, those recordings will remain hidden until the boxset so we only get to hear songs so darn catchy they stick in your head 'til you want to run up the walls like in that Jamiroquai video. It developed out of how we approached the songwriting.
Brent comes up with the central musical ideas.
And Brent, of course, is weened on Donovan. Smith just gets a huge grin on his face. I got no finisher. I can't close it up. If Al wasn't around, I would have 150 unfinished tunes.