Shaunna Bednarek had three major things working against her for her interview with Dupont. For one, she didn't know very much about them and felt dreadfully unprepared. For another, some kind of Gmail miscommunication made the interview a half hour late. Most of all, she was still getting over a post-St. Patrick's Day brain fry. Since Dupont's music has no words, it was even jokingly suggested that this here interview have no words. But then you, the reader, wouldn't know that Dupont are Dave Dunnett, Jason Williams and Ryan Cherewaty. And that shortly after their Wavelength show, they'll be amicably calling it quits. This will be followed by a posthumous release of recordings they did this past March. Here are some of the things Shaunna and the band said to each other when they met up.

HOW DID YOU GUYS GET TOGETHER?
DD: I met Ryan at a party at 50 Borden and we jammed in the back shed, and we had a lot of fun. Then I moved into a new place, Jason was looking for a new apartment. I built a jam space in the bottom of the house and we would jam down there.
JW: So we decided to try and do a band. We ran into Ryan at a party in October and asked him to join the band, so that's pretty much it.

DO YOU HAVE ANY FUNNY STORIES?
JW: All we have is tragic stories. Stories of despair and sadness!

WHAT'S THE MOST TRAGIC STORY OF DUPONT?
RC: We were playing this show and this really weird guy came up behind me. I was playing my keyboard, and it turns out it was Jason's best friend.
JW: He's become kind of our unofficial roadie. He likes to come up onstage sometimes and just stand around. He's like, the boss.
DD: He picks up my drums if they fall over. My glasses fall off when I play and he picks them up.

SO, UHH'¦ YOU GUYS LIVE ON DUPONT?
DD: Me and Jason were living at a place at Dupont and Avenue Rd. We used to take the subway all the time at Dupont station. It's a cool station.
JW: Actually, how we got the name was Dave had taken a picture in the subway station with the name Dupont with a bench in it, and the picture was so well-framed. We were looking for a new name. The picture was so good that we decided that we wanted to put it on a record if we ever made one.
RC: The name is a commentary on anti-capitalist structure'¦
JW: There's a standard of excellence that we strive to, as the Dupont Corporation in a lot of ways.

WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO?
JW: We just did some recording. Which was trying.
DD: We spent three days recording with Chris from Audiolab. The first two days were total write-offs. And the third day went totally awesome and we got a bunch of good material. We're hoping to do something with that in the next couple of months.

AND PLAYING SHOWS, OF COURSE.
JW: We've played extensively for groups of our friends.
DD: I started off just setting up shows for us. The first show we played was at Planet Kensington. Then I set up a show for us with the Silent Film Soundtrack from Waterloo at Rancho Relaxo, started talking to some promoters and stuff, started playing a few more shows, like at the El Mo and Silver Dollar and stuff.
RC: We had a strange run-in with a Toronto promoter, who shall remain unnamed, with a crack pipe.

By Shaunna Bednarek