singer/guitarist Morgan Lander has named her “goofiest” tour memory. The Canadian musician, who co-founded Kittie with her drummer sister Mercedes in 1996, offers the anecdote in . She looks back to a 2002 tour with New Wave Of American Heavy Metal stars and Shadows Fall, plus post-hardcore beloveds Poison The Well.
“For Poison The Well’s last show, we wanted to do something special,” Lander tells journalist Emily Swingle. “We hired male strippers to come onstage and dance during their set. It was very, very silly.
The band were like, ‘What are these guys doing?’ They went up onstage fully clothed, and Poison The Well thought they were just going to stagedive – then they started taking their clothes off and dancing!” Lander adds that Kittie pulled a similar prank on Shadows Fall during that band’s last show of the tour, as well. “We wanted to do something for Shadows Fall’s last show too,” she continues, “so we had one of our techs set Brian [Fair, vocals] up with a special microphone. It looked like a penis.
So Brian had to perform the whole set singing into a penis.” Kittie enjoyed breakout success in 1999 with the release of their debut album, . It reached number one in the US Top Heatseekers Album chart and made the band a prominent name in the movement.
However, Kittie never neatly fit the genre, as Lander explains. Sign up below to get the latest from Metal Hammer, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! “Throughout our car.