Sometimes these behaviours are written off as teenagers experimenting, but we were medicating ourselves. It was a symptom of our trauma of being closeted, struggling with our bodies, being outsiders and the homophobia that was so omnipresent during those years. With Naomi, it was easy to write it off as “Oh, this is just a one-time thing.” I wanted the tension and dread I felt knowing I was going to like girls.Īnd I also wanted to address our high-risk behaviour around drugs and alcohol. It was important to me to cover the secret relationship with Naomi, and and muse Zoe, someone who I loved from afar but was also terrifying for me.
What were some of the key stories you for sure had to include? So some of the book was from memory, but some was lifted directly, which I think gives it a real authentic feeling. In a lot of Tegan’s chapters, she took direct conversations from her notes with Alex or the exact dialogue from VHS home recordings. Those notes allowed us to remember how we spoke – like we never called it acid we called it “cid” – and dig back into that version of ourselves. We also got around 50 notes from an old friend we hadn’t spoken to in, like, 20 years. As soon as I read them, it was like unlocking a new level in my brain. I ended up finding the sex notes that I write about in the book. Then we both spent some time talking to friends and looking for other journals, diaries and notes. Initially, Tegan and I wrote down our memories and mapped out the timeline and important stories that we both wanted to tell. We’d say “She’s a real Kavanaugh! She’s got her accounting of what she did every day in the summer of 1997.” We’d be arguing when a rave happened and she’d be like, “Actually, on page 16 of my journal it says it was on…” So yes, there was a lot of source material. This was a horrible joke, but we started calling Tegan “Brett Kavanaugh” because she kept so many journals and calendars. How much of High School was written from memory? Did you have a lot of source material to draw from?
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The book is full of such precise details, like intense play-by-plays of acid trips or sneaking off to raves. Ahead of their book talk and tour, we spoke with Sara Quin about getting high, the rave as a safe space and rewriting their own history. Coinciding with the release of High School, Tegan and Sara are also putting out an album of glistening pop, Hey, I’m Just Like You, based off the first songs they ever wrote.Įmotional, funny and bursting with vivid details, High School transports you into the psyche of two teenagers growing up, grappling with their sexual identities and on the brink of stardom.
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Written in alternating chapters from each sister’s perspective, the memoir also serves as the band’s origin story: they recount discovering their stepdad’s guitar and covertly learning how to play it, recording their first songs in AV class and eventually getting their first record deal. The result is the aptly named High School (Simon & Schuster, 384 pages, $32, out September 24), a candid coming-of-age rife with acid trips, all-night raves, secret girlfriends, heartbreaks and other milestones of teendom. They discussed making a podcast or writing essays, but in the end decided on a memoir focused specifically on their formative high school years from grade 10 to 12 in Calgary. Or at least, a sabbatical from the album-cycle grind. Two decades and eight studio albums later, in which their sound evolved from indie folk to glittery powerhouse pop, the twin sisters decided to take a break. ticketscene.ca.Įver since Tegan and Sara Quin got their first record deal at age 17, they’ve been in a constant whirlwind of writing, recording and touring. DONAHUE at Indigo – Bay and Bloor (55 Bloor West), doors 1 pm, all ages. Sold out IN CONVERSATION: TEGAN AND SARA WITH ANNE T. TEGAN AND SARA on October 18 and 19 at Winter Garden Theatre (189 Yonge), doors 7 pm, all ages.
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