The Globe and Mail spoke to Angus about how his band Grievous Angels is still performing after 30 years and releasing their first album in three years, Last Call for Cinderella
NDP MP Charlie Angus performs at Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern. Through his two decades in Parliament, Angus continued to perform with the band the Grievous Angels.Because singer-songwriter Charlie Angus has been the New Democratic Party MP for the Timmins-James Bay riding in Ontario for 20 years, his long-running alt-country band has often been on hiatus. No more: Angus has announced his political retirement and the Grievous Angels just released, its first album in three years.
We were planning to do the record for some time. The Grievous Angels have always been there during my political career – sometimes more, sometimes less. In the last four years we’ve begun to do more. With the new lineup of the band, it’s exciting. It was serendipitous. I think I came to realize, having given 20 years, living almost entirely on Highway 11 and with all those little towns I was representing, that it was a long time to serve in politics. It meant I wasn’t able to do other things that were always an important part of my life. Music has always been there. The Grievous Angels have played more than 30 years together.
There is a huge level of uncertainty today. Artists need to be the ones who are trying to make sense of that. The folk music tradition has been a means of telling stories, so that we can reflect on the situation we’re in and how we can get out of it. Today, I guess I’m writing songs for the dystopian age.
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