McBean's lyrics are evocative of fantasy and magic, while Webber has a way of standing immobile on stage, looking like she's trying to remember if she double-locked the front door, and still being a captivating frontwoman. I want to ask them about all this, and how they juggle being in a band with day jobs working for a Vancouver homelessness charity, but it's impossible they've all run away.įinally Camirand wanders into view, followed shortly by Wells and McBean. "It was only when we were recording the first album that we realised we were actually a band at all," says McBean. "If any of us had been in one of those bands that become the next big thing when we were 19," McBean continues, "we'd be dead by now." "We had no expectations of success," adds Camirand.īlack Mountain are all past the first flush of youth. What kind of people like them? "We definitely don't get fans that are swayed by the hip new thing," says Josh Wells. They moved to North Vancouver in 1959 and raised their 3 children in. Led Zeppelin are an obvious influence but so, perhaps less obviously, are the Wu-Tang Clan. 1953 - 2023 On March 1st 2023 Carl Brian Rushton of North Vancouver passed away suddenly and unexpectedly at Desert Regional Medical Centre near the Rushton family home in Palm Springs. Katie Webber (Photo provided by Polk & Co.) Katie Webber will join the cast of Broadways Tina: The Tina Turner Musical as Rhonda beginning April 12. "Their approach is unfathomable," says Camirand. I would kill to spend a week with The RZA in the studio." "They're a garage-rock hip-hop band with nine strong individuals. I ask them about their roles as sometime care workers for The Portland Hotel Society, an organisation set up by a group of former punks to care for Vancouver's homeless.
"It's all about looking after basic needs." "The Society came up with a new way of dealing with drug and mental health issues," says Camirand. "The pride in that, if you've been homeless, is huge." "You'll get a guy who's been given a room for the first time, saying, 'You've got to come up and check this out', and he'll show you the Black Sabbath poster he's put on a wall," adds Wells. Perhaps this other life helps explain why Black Mountain don't act like your typical overindulged rock stars.
"We're all in our mid-30s," says Camirand. "We do this band for half the year and … then I feel good going back to my job.
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