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<\/a>Doroschuk says that the first single, \u201cIf the World Should End Today,\u201d offers a pretty good hint as to the subject matter of the record.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re still talking about the same things that we were in the \u201980s,\u201d says Doroschuk. \u201cWe\u2019re still talking about climate change and human rights. Besides the topics that we\u2019re exploring, every time I turn the radio on I hear \u201980s influences on the pop music of today. Our stuff sounds vintage but it has a place in today\u2019s music.\u201d<\/p>\n
Doroschuk was the only founding member remaining on the band\u2019s last album of originals, 2012\u2019s Love in the Age of War<\/i>. He has since been rejoined by his brother Colin, who handles guitars, bass, keyboards, and vocals. The Doroschuks round out their sound with guitarist Sho Murray.<\/p>\n
\u201cColin and I produced the record along with our guitarist Sho Murray, who engineered the whole album,\u201d says Doroschuk. \u201cOn this album we are joined by Colin\u2019s daughter Sahara Sloan, who does a lot of the background vocals. It\u2019s a real family affair.\u201d<\/p>\n
Again (Part 2)<\/i> maintains an authentic \u201980s new wave sound from start to finish, which Doroschuk says required about 25 keyboards to achieve.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went old school on this one,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve saved a lot of my gear from the \u201980s. We had a Prophet 5 in there, which is a synthesizer that was used on the \u2018Safety Dance\u2019 session.\u201d<\/p>\n
Again (Part 2)<\/i> comes 40 years after their debut Rhythm of Youth<\/i>\u2014Doroschuk says that they have big plans for their 40th anniversary tour, which starts with the UK and Europe before crossing the US in the summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Canadian tour is shaping up for the fall,\u201d says Doroschuk. \u201cWe will play across Canada starting in September. We haven\u2019t got a date confirmed for Victoria, but it\u2019s been over 10 years so we\u2019re anxious to do a show here. Sho and I are also putting together a big outdoor festival for Victoria, probably in the new year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Doroschuk says there\u2019s a reason he hasn\u2019t pushed to book shows in Victoria over the years.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the reasons I moved here was to be invisible,\u201d he says. \u201cI can go anywhere in the city and nobody knows who I am. It wasn\u2019t like that in Montreal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Doroschuk has called Victoria home for almost 20 years now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI moved here to raise my son,\u201d says Doroschuk. \u201cI was a stay-at-home dad for about 10 years. Moving to Victoria made child rearing a lot easier. When you\u2019re right on the ocean it\u2019s like living in a national park. It was great bringing up my son here. Being able to be outside with him all year and go to the beach every day was awesome. I love it here. I\u2019d have a hard time going back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Legendary new wave band Men Without Hats\u2014once from Montreal but these days based in Victoria\u2014recently released their first album of originals in a decade. The band is best known for \u201980s pop standards \u201cSafety Dance\u201d and \u201cPop Goes the World\u201d; lead singer and founding member Ivan Doroschuk says that new album Again (Part 2) is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-april-6-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22490,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22488\/revisions\/22490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}