Greg Prato of Songfacts recently conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Morgan Lander of Canadian metallers KITTIE. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.
Songfacts: How did the idea come up to do a documentary at this point?
Morgan Lander: The idea for the documentary has been in the works for the last couple of years. I believe we started to discuss it towards the end of 2013 and going into the beginning of 2014. Mercedes [Lander, drums] was really the one who pushed the idea and thought it was a really great way to celebrate our upcoming 20th anniversary, so we decided to plan and get everything together for that. Initially, we had reached out to a number of different people to try to have them direct. The documentary has actually changed hands over the last little while, but I’m really quite happy with the direction that Rob McCallum has brought it. We’re really excited about everything. It’s been in the works for a number of years, and only now starting to come to fruition. It’s taken a long time, having to reach out to past members and get them on board to discuss things and negotiate and describe what the idea is. But it’s all for a good cause. 20 years is a long time to say that you have done something that you love.
Songfacts: Has seeing some of the old footage inspired the band to work on new material?
Morgan: It certainly has rekindled the love that we have had for the band, and reminded us how exciting of a time being in the band was — and still is. It’s been a really interesting experience, looking back, and seeing all that footage, and being like, “Wow! Did we really do all that? Did we really say that? Did we really go all these places?” Memory can only be stretched so far, and it just so happens that it’s quite convenient that we did record a lot of stuff, too. So we’re certainly jumping back into the KITTIE pool — I know that sounds ridiculous. [Laughs] And sort of getting our toes wet with toying with the idea of doing new music and perhaps a new album.
Read the entire interview at Songfacts.
KITTIE’s career-spanning documentary will be rekeased next year. The trailer for the film premiered on September 25 in London, Ontario, Canada’s historic Hyland Cinema in conjunction with the Canadian premiere of “Nintendo Quest: The Most Unofficial And Unauthorized Nintendo Documentary Ever!” as part of the London Comic Con convention.
KITTIE last year raised $40,000 via a crowd funding campaign for the documentary.
Pictured below: KITTIE 1996 – Present
From left to right: Talena Atfield, Fallon Bowman, Tanya Candler, Mercedes Lander, Morgan Lander, Tara McLeod, Trish Doan, Ivy Jenkins and Jennifer Arroyo
Source: Blabbermouth
