“I’ve worked in security at The Bay for about fifteen years. Ten years ago we had a riot here — the Stanley Cup riot. We had a hundred staff and customers in the store that we had to protect. They broke all of our windows and we had fire extinguishers that we shot at them to just keep them from coming inside. It was kind of amazing that we stopped them. It was pretty traumatizing. There was so much glass hitting the ground. Even now, if a piece of glass hits the floor, my mind goes back to the sound of broken glass on the day of the riot.

“My personality doesn’t really suit this job. I’m definitely easy-going and am more of the artistic type. I play music on the side. That’s not a usual thing for people in our business. I play guitar and do the vocals for a local band called International Blindfold. I also write all of our material. Because we’re a dark, gothic band, death is a theme of it. I get inspired by finding the beauty in really dark things. I’ve been doing it off and on for about nine years. I had a song play on CFOX in 2014, so that was cool. For the last five years in a row we were booked at the Art Gallery at the Halloween expo. They build a stage right outside the stairs and it’s a free concert. I like doing stuff like that. You meet an artistic crowd, and it’s always very versatile, because Vancouver is a very diversified city. We’d get people that would send us messages on Facebook from all over the world who were visiting and appreciated the show. I think that meeting people after the show is my favourite part of performing.”