DJ Lowdown: Andrew3

by Martin Turenne on March 21st, 2007 at 3:55 PM

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This Sunday (March 25), the hipster takeover of Vancouver's nightlife will be made complete, as the gentlemen behind the city's hottest underground weekly (Saturday's Salon Des Bourgeoisie at the Royal Unicorn Cabaret) invade the Caprice for one night only, welcoming France's sizzling-hot Ed Banger Records to town. Alongside brothers Erik and Paul Devereux, Salbourg resident AndrewAndrewAndrew has made the city's nightlife safe for music lovers, playing anarchic sets that run the gamut of genres and generations. Forget for a moment that dreaded term hipster —in their perpetual hunt for new sounds and their occasional revival of disused ones, Andrew3 and his ilk are fanatical in the best sense.

FIRST GIG

"My first gig was in 2002 at Shine in the back room at Nowherefast—a night I did with March 21 and Konrad Black. Konrad played minimal in the front, and March 21 and I played new and old post-punk, '80s, and electro. It would get really packed with Strathconans. I danced on the ceiling on more than one occasion."

CRAZIEST GIG

"It was the 2003 spring formal at Zack's house. Andrew Dadson and I deejayed for four or five hours at this house party that had been promoted with handbills for the preceding month. It was beyond insane. Something like 200 people were squeezed into a living room the size of six office cubicles. When people are that stuffed together you can play lull abies and people will dance."

DREAM GIG

"A bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah for one of Woody Allen's great-grandchildren."

FAVOURITE LOCAL ARTISTS

"Erik Devereux is brilliant. He spends hours and hours at the library every week doing research on every kind of music. Circlesquare makes some of the most original, exciting music I have ever heard. And he continues to get more incredible with each new album. The Mutators are a new punk/noise band that are totally blowing my mind."

WHAT MAKES THE VANCOUVER SCENE SPECIAL?

"How condensed it is. Everyone from a certain scene goes to one party per night. It feels like high school—everyone knows everybody. I think people are more friendly for that reason."