Q: What is your favourite record store (besides your own)?

A: In Canada, I love Grooves Records in London, both for the music and the staff! Worldwide I would have to say Rough Trade in London, UK.

Q: What is your favourite venue?

A: I really don’t have a favourite. I think that certain magical things can happen to or at a venue when a particular band is playing and the stars just magically align, so to speak. So I think for me the live music experience can actually make a venue special. For example, one of my favourite concerts in 2012 was Reverend Horton Heat which took place at This Ain’t Hollywood, a gritty Hamilton rock n’ roll club in the north end. The band’s performance and personality; the music; and the crowd all combined for me to make that bar the best place in the world to see live music on that particular night.

Q: Who is your favourite Ontario punk band?

A: Definitely two different kinds of punk rock are represented in this geographically biased answer, but I love The Dirty Nil and TV Freaks (both from the Hamilton area).

Q: What do you love most about Ontario?

A: Hamilton!

Q: Hockey or Curling?

A: Sorry, not a sports fan at all. But my girlfriend just said that if I answered curling that she would leave the room, so I would definitely say hockey!