Thousand Foot Krutch- Trevor McNevan - 3-28-04
Jason: How’s everything going? How’s the new CD treating you guys?
Trevor: It’s been raw. It’s been two weeks now

Jason: I got your CD and you remind me of another Toronto based band, you know Headstrong.
Trevor: Oh yeah, I know who those guys are. I don’t know them but I know who you’re talking about.

Jason: You got good positive songs that deep down it’s all about the music and the lyrics and I think that’s where you guys come from.
Trevor: That’s very cool man. We appreciate that.

Jason: Because you have lyrics that are so relatable to people, you obviously have to get some fan interaction of what your songs mean to them. How does that affect you when you hear something like that?
Trevor: I think that those are the encouraging days out here, ya know what I’m saying? There’s a lot of fun times and we love to play but there is also those days where things don’t always go as you planned out here and sometimes you have those rough days and I think those are the things that get you through the day. That a lot of kids are taking something small and making it big for us.

Jason: And this isn’t obviously the original line up of the band. But when you started with the band and started writing seriously, did you foresee where you’d be at now or was it just kind of a process that happened and now you’re sitting back going holy shit, I’m out on tour?
Trevor: I think its one of those things that we weren’t like, we didn’t foresee it or we’re going to do that. But I think it’s one of those things that we always knew we were going to work really hard and try to get gigs and try to continue.

Jason: I think that you always hear a lot of negatives about the internet and the downloading and all that other stuff that goes along with it but I think its evened out the playing field for the bands on independent labels and bands on major labels in that the access to the music is the same. Obviously you’re on an independent smaller label and there’s bands like Himsa, they’re doing very well on a small label, Maroon 5 got started on a small label. It’s gotta be cool to know that even on a small label you can still reach fans all over the world without having to pack a suitcase.
Trevor: Totally, I think its been a huge blessing and I think that the thing that has blessed us the most to is playing in the US actually and just trying to kinda hit it pretty big.

Jason: You just mentioned touring through the states quite a bit and coming from Canada is like a three day drive between major cities where in the US, every night you can drive to one. Was that part of the reason that you guys toured so heavily in the US, just for the fact that it was easier to play night after night?
Trevor: I do. To be honest man, part of it was because it was such a prolonged hike back and forth from Toronto to most of the places we were playing and we wanted to do stay out as much as we could so we wouldn’t have to go back and forth so much. Part of it was also just because I think the music was better received, for lack of a better term, in the US. It’s kinda evened out after that, it started out that way but I think now it’s a little bit more even keel where a lot of Canadian bands and the Canadian scene has opened up a little bit more, I think to different things but it’s a good time anyway.

Jason: But it’s nice to see a band from Canada not wearing ties.
Trevor: That doesn’t wear what?

Jason: Ties! Ya got Avril, Sum 41...
Trevor: (laughing) No ties, my man, actually, I’m getting married in August and there’s no ties allowed there either.

Jason: And I hear you have a clothing line out.
Trevor: It’s Reakt clothing. It’s at www.reaktclothing.com. We started this year and we’re actually endorsing Thousand Foot Krutch and 3 Days Grace. The clothing company is very new and that’s why we’re waiting and kind of trying to gain distribution in Canada and the US. We also have a section called ‘Street Legal’ on the site where we are trying to get independent bands to submit their songs and anyone can log on and vote for their favorite song of the month.

Jason: How do you feel about the record now that it is out and accounted for? There is no going back!
Trevor: We are happy, we are definitely happy. To be an artist in a true profession and to have been in the studio for three months and still be happy with it says a lot. It’s one of those things, I think it’s the closest we’ve come to wanting our record to actually be when we went in to record.