Sarah McLachlan

So I squeaked by high school and then started going to the art college there.

And I was working at a place called Club Flamingo.

And Terry McBride, the president of the label, came with their band Skinny Puppy.

which was this industrial skinny puppy yeah blood and guts and mud and gore yeah um anyway very different than your music a little bit different yeah a little bit different so um he came and i remember so clearly i was playing quicksilver my favorite pinball game and i was working on my high score and he's like hey i want to i want to talk to you i'm like yeah yeah give me a minute i'm

So I waited until I finished and they took me out to his plush blue velvet tour bus and sat me down at the kitchen table and put a contract for me.

So we want to offer you a five record deal.

Whoa.

And I was like,

Yeah, sure.

What do you really want?

Does anybody know I'm here?

Yeah, there's too much plush in here.

Yeah.

But no, he was serious.

And originally, they wanted me to come out to Vancouver and work with a bunch of other network bands.

Then when I got out there, they're like, all these other network bands hadn't been asked.

And like, we're not going to work with this punk kid.

She's got no track record.

She hasn't written anything.

Never mind.