Is Tegan and Sara a band with interchangeable parts or are you a duo?
Sara: I think we think of ourselves as um… Tegan: …we’re a band. Sara: [We’re] not necessarily a conventional band. I mean we never perform as a duo. We are the band leaders, and there’s two of us. So we’ve always gravitated to the idea that we are, you know, you’re sort of your standard rock-pop band. And we just sort of have a rotating background, or backing musicians. You’ve made a couple of documentaries on the making of your albums. How did that idea originate? Tegan During our “If It Was You” era, which is our third record. At the beginning of 2000 and 2001 we finally got cameras and a video camera and started documenting everything. We hadn’t done that in our first two records we missed moments. One of our first tours was opening for Neil Young and The Pretenders all through the U.S. and we don’t have one picture to document it. So we got really obsessed with capturing as much of our lives as we could, but not necessarily us with celebrities, but more like us and the band al
