Interview with The Ottawa Sun

By now, The Barr Brothers’ Brad is so used to telling the story, he just assumes that everyone’s already heard it several times.

In 2004, he and his brother Andrew were in a band in Boston called The Slip.

They were booked to play the Montreal club called The Swimming, but a couple hours before curtain, the club caught fire. Huddled together in front of the burning building on rue St-Laurent, Andrew, the percussionist in the band, noticed a waitress shivering in the cold. He offered her his sweater.