CLEOPATRICK WHO ARE YOU?
We are Luke Gruntz and Ian Fraser, a duo from Cobourg in the Canadian province of Ontario. We are better known as Cleopatrick.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
We play honest music.
WHY DO YOU DO IT?
I feel like nobody has ever asked us this. I don’t really know. It just kind of happened. When we originally started Cleopatrick, we were doing it to make friends, and find a scene we could belong to. I think for me, writing songs has been a vessel to help me figure out the weird things I’m feeling. This whole band has given me purpose, and throughout our growth, this purpose has evolved. It’s gone from making friends, to having fun with those friends, to saying something meaningful
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for myself and anyone else that needs it.
“THERE’S BEEN A REALLY STUPID PRESUMPTIVE CULTURE AROUND FEMALES IN MUSIC FOREVER. AND NOW THERE IS A PARADIGMSHIFT BEING FORCED ON THE IDIOTS IN THIS INDUSTRY” WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW?
We are just wrapping up the best tour we’ve ever done. Two weeks through the UK and Europe. This is our first tour where we’ve been consistently selling out shows, and we just put out a new single
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called “Sanjake” so everything has felt extra powerful with the new track backing us. We are playing a couple festivals through the USA, Canada, and UK this summer. And also recording a lot of new music that is going to redefine what it means to be a band in 2020.
WHAT’S THE HOT TOPIC?
I think the hot topic for us is female representation in music. There’s been a really stupid presumptive culture around females in music forever. And now there is a paradigm-shift being forced on the idiots in this industry. Female artists, managers, agents etc are smashing these preconceived ideas, and creating a proper balance. It’s awesome.
