Ace Kinkaid will be the first of four smashing bands who will perform at Wavelength 469 on June 28 2009. Here is what our Wavebot questionairre device had to ask bassist Shane Bellenie, and here are his responses.

Doc Pickles: You're in the frost of the cold north. Does the weather affect your music? Does dreary weather make you write more aggressive songs? if you lived in a sunny climate do you think your songs would feel more relaxed?

Shane Bellenie: Most of our songs were written in a damp windowless basement, or in the dismal depths of our jam hall. When we're writing, we're usually totally unaware of the world outside, for hours on end. The cold does make touring harder, though.

DP What do you do when you are angry at one of your songs? Do you rehearse it, do you take it out onstage with you and fight with it during a live show?

SB When we're angry we give the song the silent treatment.

DP Have you ever been brought to tears by a live performance?

SB The most moving performance I've ever been to was Tom Waits. Even though the show was in a very large theater, it was entirely intimate, as though you were in his living room - or perhaps, his dungeon. We hope to bring some of that to our own live show - bringing people into the experience.

DP Have you ever been brought to tears by a work of art? How does this catharsis feel compared to being brought to tears through music?

SB In terms of visual art, I love the work of Mark Ryden and Todd Schorr. It just baffles me because I don't understand the process behind making it - which makes me appreciate it even more.

DP How does one "see" sound? Does it have to do with memory and the impressions a song creates comes from those memories? Does it have to do with your reaction in the moment and is it the song that carves its meaning onto you?

SB When my brother and I were really young my mom would listen to "Gloria" by Laura Branigan on repeat for hours on end while she did the chores around the house. It's ironic that we grew up with our Dad's awesome record collection yet that song is the one which brings me back to my childhood!

DP Does your interpretation of a song change through the years? Has a song you wrote early on in your musical adventure transformed itself over the years to mean something entirely different to you than it did originally or does an old song transfix the feelings all those years ago and does the meaning remain immobile?

SB We've been playing and writing music together for over a decade in various incarnations. We're constantly trying to bring in new material to keep things interesting for us and the audience. Right now we're not playing anything more than a couple years old - when it comes to our old songs we're pretty much "love 'em and leave 'em".

DP Imagine I am asking you a seventh question right here. What would my question be? What would your answer be to that question?

SB You would ask me, "Can I borrow five dollars?" And my answer would be, "No".