The first time I met Kandle was back in maybe 2006. I was at a party at Ryan Rae’s place out in Langford. One of those backyard shindigs where there is a turkey being deep-fried and people are drinking out of those red solo cups like an American teenage comedy film.
A couple girls walk in and I’m like, “whoa, who are those smoke shows?” My buddy Razer turns to me and says, “calm down pervert, that Is Coral who is like 16 and her LITTLE sister Kandle.”
“Who lets a 16-year-old come to a party with a bunch of you quasi-employed musicians and sexual predators?”
“They are Neil Osborne‘s kids.”
“oh.” So that’s my Kandle story… Kandle and Coral have been bouncing around making music as long as I’ve known of them. They had a band in Victoria called The Blue Violets. At that point….nope still don’t think they were old enough to hit a club, but I saw them at Evolution for a show case once. They have powers maaaaaaaaan. When I was that I age, I had boogers and played D&D.
They grew up and moved away. I think Coral is in Toronto now doing something with music or TV. Working on the Stombo Show maybe? And Kandle is in Montreal making music as…. Kandle. She lives in Montreal. The blogs and press call her “Montreal.” I get that, Montreal is neat, she calls it home now…but she is a West Coast kid to me.
Kandle does a cover of the Rolling Stones “Play With Fire” which is all kinds of super-duper.
I like her style…
Go with yourself.
