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Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. And yet, thanks to Soret's Montreal theatre background and ache for the bottle, the Molestics' chatty gigs across Canada were hilarious, sloppy and wild — legendary to some.

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And his newly published book is a relatable, relentless and relentlessly entertaining tale of drinking, friendship and low-level Canadian fame is there any other kind? His fringe outfit was ill fit for calculated swing. Soret's was a '20s jazz band with dirty, silly lyrics — many reprinted in this confessional — including tales of drunk driving, local legend Ray Condo, how The Molestics rose and fell, and why Calgary has no soul.

After touring for years till the end of his romantic relationship, Soret fled to Toronto.

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Here, he ended up squatting in an abandoned apartment and eventually tried to kill himself with pills. After a book-launch show this week in Edmonton, where the philosophically rugged autobiography was published independently, Soret takes inventory. And then you're unloved and you want to convince people that you're lovable and sexy, which is antithetical to what my schtick was. I was interesting, never sexy.


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Losing your mind didn't matter as much as losing your schtick! When you're doing something subtle, it's really hard to say that it's important. We didn't care for the Toronto guys who came to Vancouver.

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And there was no reason for them to care about us invaders. You kind of got strong; in another sense you got self-deprecating. That was you in spite of all their beatings, in spite of all the lessons, in spite of everything.


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Soret, now in his mids, digs deeper. I wanted to die because she left me. It was just that. I was suicidal immediately.