Evelyne Brochu in a few questions
Q1:The moment where I preferred the silence of anything in 2020.
There was this time where I thought there were too many shows, too many opinions. We couldn’t assume it was just a moment where we should have let go, I would have liked that we would have been solitary. I kinda withdraw into myself I think. The family cocoon that is very pleasant when we have a life with the atypical timetable and for me, it was a second maternity leave and sometimes there were people that were saying “what are you doing to keep the artistic side?” and I was like ah I’m not there, there was a moment where I was in the silence.
Q2:Is there an artist that I hide to listen to?
That’s the thing with the 30s is that we don’t hide anymore, I remember when I was a teen, the big identity was to say like “oh that I don’t like” we couldn’t like rap, we couldn’t like country music or we had to like rap it depends where you lived. What I find cool in our generation because I think the younger ones are not like that anymore, we have the right to like everything, so I’m not ashamed of anything.
Q3:Would I change something during my quarantine?
No, I would change something like I think it has very sad effects on the nature of our city, I have the feeling that Montreal is a city or alive art and restaurants, and the quarantine hurts these two subjects, it kills me, it kills me on many levels. It is not like the culture and the restaurants stand-alone, on the other side I felt a lot of peace, being able to receive someone we love at home is the most precious thing.
Q4:What future do I see for music with the year we just experienced?
I think the first breathe that we will take will have to blow air in our artist circles or alive art and the music and the theatre and we will have to go out to help the people that will be standing up again. I also wish that the artists that had to change to take this time to create beautiful works, I wish for ourselves to welcome those works.
Q5:The most incredible thing that I ordered online?
It’s not really linked to quarantine it’s linked to the fact that my house is in renovation and I’m not home and I’m on the edge of giving birth so some baby clothes, I’m guilty to have bought some cute sheets with flowers . I’m ashamed of saying it but I ordered some sandals from Korea. It was not the season for sandals anymore when they came in it was not even my size, that will teach us of not supporting our locals’ shops.
Q6:In what am I very good at?
There’s not a lot of things in what I am very good at so I’m not hiding them (wheeze) I used to play drums in high school but I’m not very good so that’s it , well I cut hair, I cut the hair of my boyfriend’s father, a little sympathetic hair cut outside on a little chair (laughs)