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While it’s easy for any up-and-coming band to dream of the day they become so famous that they sell out back-to-back shows at the Air Canada Centre, the three guys of Kelowna, BC’s We Are The City have a smaller goal in mind: the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver.
Seating a modest 2,688 people, the Orpheum is one of Vancouver’s most beautiful theatres, and also a definition of success for We Are The City’s Cayne McKenzie, Andy Huculiak and David Menzel.
“That would be crazy,” Andy, the band’s drummer, told andPOP at the prospect of playing the Orpheum.
“If I get to play there I will quit the band right after the show because it can’t get any better,” said Cayne, lead singer and pianist.
At this, Andy started to laugh.
Cayne turned to him and said, “You’re laughing because you think I’m joking, but…”
“No, I agree, I’ll quit the band too,” Andy interjected.
The band’s guitarist, David, agreed with a, “Me too!”
The thing is, booking (and selling out) the Orpheum is not out of the cards for these three talented artists. And if they plan on staying true to their words, that day will be a sad one for the world of music.
Though still considered babies in the “real world,” the guys in this progressive indie rock band know what they are doing – and they do it well. Andy, who just turned 20, and Cayne and David, both still 19, have been playing together since they were in Grade 10.
“We were always serious about it, we were always trying to make the best music possible,” David said. “But it only became something we really put everything into like, two and a half years ago.”
Fair enough. Three guys, two years, one dream. Sounds like just about every other group of musician hopefuls around. But there’s a kicker: last year, We Are The City entered a huge music contest organized by Vancouver’s 100.5 The Peak radio station and Music BC. Called the Peak Performance Project, the contest saw 450 BC bands compete for a top 20 spot in band boot camp, a top three cash prize, and ultimately, the top prize of $150,000.
Well, We Are The City won.
“The three of us were just so excited that we made top 20 and then camp was so awesome, the people that we met were so great and that’s what we were so stoked on,” Andy said. “And then we found out we got top three it was like, ‘Oh my goodness we’re third place?’ That was so awesome, and then the night of [the finals] was just mind-blowing.”
Since then, their lives have been a whirlwind of tours and live shows (including gigs as part of the 2010 Winter Olympics and Canadian Music Week) and surreal appearances (including the premiere of the music video for their song “Astronomers” on MuchMusic).
“So many awesome things have been happening that we were just so humbled by,” Andy said.
And humble is probably the best word to describe the band; they do not even read the reviews on their album: “Good reviews and bad reviews both fill your head really fast with either negative or positive things,” Cayne said. And despite their successes so early on in the game, We Are The City are friendly and grounded.
Their debut, In A Quiet World, is alive with emotion and true to the realities that every young adult has to face when finding their place in the world.
“You can only write about what you know about,” Cayne said. “You can only write about what’s close to your heart.”
For the guys, who all went to school together, being in the band has turned their friendship into a brotherhood. Or, as David likes say: “It’s changed from a friendship into a marriage.”
All jokes aside, their tight-knit bond is evident in every aspect of their lives, particularly the grins of “Can you believe this is real?” that pass between them onstage. We Are The City’s passion for music is undeniable; it shows in their recordings, during their live performances, and even recently, on their fingers.
“I do have a blood blister that I just found on my thumb from playing piano,” said Cayne. “My first one in my life.”
Andy and David leaned in to take a look as Andy piped up, “Rock n’ roll, man!”
Catch We Are The City here:
Mar. 16 @ Kilroy’s in Thunder Bay, ON
Mar. 24 @ SAIT in Calgary, AB
Mar. 25 @ Henotic in Lethbridge, AB
Mar. 27 @ Haven Social Club in Edmonton, AB
