Interview: Max Tundra
Meet You At The Show: Have you ever played in Montreal before? Where did you play and how was the experience?
Max Tundra: Yes, with Junior Boys earlier this year. It was great fun – what a lovely town! Can’t wait to get back up there!
MYATS: When listening to your recorded music you can pick out a lot of different instruments. How many instruments do bring with you on tour?
MT: As many as I can fit within my luggage limit. So that’s about 17 of varying shapes and sizes.
MYATS: What is the one instrument that you would absolutely not tour without?
MT: The Suzuki Andes.
MYATS: How does your live show differ from what people hear on your albums?
MT: There is the welcome addition of silly dancing.
MYATS: How excited are you to tour with Deastro? Are you a fan of his music?
MT: Very excited! I didn’t know his music that much, and have only heard a smattering online, but it’s really great. Met him last night for the first time and he’s awesome, so I think this tour should rule.
MYATS: There was a gap of quite a few years between the releases of your last two LPs. With Parallax Error Beheads You a year old have you begun to think about your next album yet?
MT: No.
MYATS: How did you come up with your pseudonym Max Tundra? You know we have quite a bit of Tundra in Canada…are you secretly from the Great White North posing as a Brit?
MT: It’s the name of a man I suffocated with snow in an anonymous sub-arctic forest one time.
MYATS: What has been the most exciting moment in your career as a musician thus far?
MT: Performing in Brixton Academy last year, to 5,000 bewildered-yet-somehow-excited Hot Chip fans, two nights running.
MYATS: And finally…do you practice your dance moves in the mirror?
MT: No, because if I did, I wouldn’t do that thing with my arm.
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Well we would like to extend a thank you to Ben for answering our questions and we hope to see plenty of arm action at his show on Monday night at Club Lambi. You can purchase tickets for the show here or at the door ($10.00 Advance, $12.00 Door).
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