Hey folks!<\/p>\n
In the early days of this program, I wasn’t swamped with wonderful reading material as I am today. This is one of the few examples of a filler – i.e. when I took a past interview and “turned it into” an episode of Get Let.<\/p>\n
But what filler! 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize<\/span><\/a> winner Sean Michaels<\/span><\/a>!<\/p>\n I had the distinct pleasure of working, however briefly, with Sean Michaels. As he runs the music blog Said the Gramophone<\/span><\/a>, he’s considered a music journo; as Program Director at CFMU<\/span> <\/a>and freelancer, I am the same. As such, we’re both on the jury for the Polaris Music Prize<\/span><\/a>. In 2013, the year of the “controversial” Godspeed You! Black Emperor<\/span><\/a> win, both Sean and I were on the grand jury. He was “working on a book” at the time and was remarkably modest about it, even though that book turned out to be the fabulous Us Conductors<\/span><\/a>. If you watched the Gillers that year, that look of shock on his face when he won? 100% genuine. A humble fellow and a cool dude.<\/p>\n Anyhow, I interviewed him a propos of nothing, and here it is now, repackaged as episode seven of Get Lit. Dig!<\/p>\n