The time I almost started a band with Jeremy right before he joined the band

I used to be friends with Jeremy back in the day. We became friends when his old bands, Kepler and Weights And Measures, played shows with my old bands, Black Cat #13 and The Sick Lipstick.

I moved to Ottawa in the summer of 2004 and was planning to start a band called Nervous Sleepers with Jeremy and another friend.

After talking about starting the band a few days before, I went to Jeremy's place to figure out when we would start practicing.

He then told me he couldn't do the band with me because he just got asked to join Arcade Fire.

I could tell he was super excited to join an established and up and coming band and was really happy for him.

It's a great memory for me when I think about talking to a friend right before his life totally changed.

I ended up moving back to Toronto and started the band with two other people, but I always wonder what it would have been like with Jeremy on drums.