by Leigh Blenkhorn
Barrie fans will be the first to see Sloan’s One Chord To Another 20th Anniversary Tour when the band takes the stage at The Roxy Theatre April 5.
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“This will be the first show of the tour, so it could be really good or it could be really bad,” laughs the band’s Patrick Pentland. “It could be a lot of bugs being worked out or it could be fine. Some place has got to be the first show.”
The tour is in support of the band’s third album, One Chord To Another, which features hits The Good In Everyone, Everything You’ve Done Wrong and The Lines You Amend.
Pentland said following the tour for their latest album, Commonwealth, they decided to rerelease One Chord.
“I didn’t even know it was the 20th anniversary until other people started saying it online,” he said. “It was a bit of a coincidence I think. People started calling it the 20th anniversary tour and I was like, OK, let’s go with it.”
The band — made up of Pentland, Chris Murphy, Andrew Scott and Jay Ferguson — plans to play the whole record followed by another set.
“We rehearsed a bunch of stuff from other albums that we don’t normally do,” Pentland said.
He said the album’s release 20 years ago was like a rebirth for the band. After recording their first two albums, the band broke up.
“One Chord is when, I consider, the Sloan you know today started,” he said, adding the track The Good In Everyone is “probably his favourite” from the album.
“It’s very short. For me, it was a statement of intent in terms of what I wanted to do musically with the band,” he said. “It’s more of a hard rock song. It’s the first song on the record and it was a new beginning.”
And his least favourite?
“There is a song of Jay’s called Junior Panthers, which I like, but I always screw it up,” Pentland said. “It’s a very quiet song, so if you screw up at all, it’s very noticeable.”
One Chord To Another allowed the band make to its mark on MuchMusic, building bigger audiences.
“I feel like we are much more of an established name now, where as back then, we were still trying to get it out there and prove something to everybody,” Pentland said. “We also carried a certain amount of guilt about having been signed to major labels, when other bands we knew were going a bit before us and they were still struggling. We don’t feel that way anymore because nobody from those days is around anymore. It’s just us and The Hip and Our Lady Peace, that’s about it.”
For anyone who hasn’t seen Sloan perform live, it can be like watching a game of musical chairs.
“We sort of switch around. No one really sings two songs in a row,” Pentland said. “It’s something we’ve done for a long time. I don’t ever think about it. We are capable of doing a lot of things. The way we tour now, we don’t bring an opening act. It’s an entire evening with Sloan, so we like to switch it up a bit.”
--taken from: Simcoe.com
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