While our minds are already in summer mode, the fashion world is focusing on fall and winter. From March 1 to 4, the big names in Montreal fashion shared their fall/winter 2010/11 ready-to-wear collections with fashionistas, journalists, buyers and bloggers at Marché Bonsecours. Read on for our front-row seat report of the ten major trends.
Frontman Mat Klachefsky talks Cannonballs, Cannonballs! and festivals
Mat Klachefsky definitely knows how to do things his own way. At 18, along with a group of friends, he started his own record label - even though he “didn’t really know what a record label was.” Now, 10 years later, the leader of Manitoba band Boats continues to call the shots. “I’m a bit of a dictator,” he admits. “That’s the only way I’ve ever been in bands. I’ve never been involved in the whole communal songwriting thing.”
Formed in 2007, this indie pop group consists of musicians handpicked by Klachefsky himself - Ashley Roch, Luke Bergen, Louis Levesque-Cote and Ryan McVeigh. The rest of Boats were found through various acquaintances Klachefsky had in the Winnipeg music scene. The band’s name was also his idea. “I wanted a nice small word that started with B,” he explains, “I’ve also spent a lot of time in boats. I’m actually a licensed fishing boat operator even though I’ve never been in a fishing boat.”
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