I think it’s how I came of age in my 20s and 30s. In hindsight I think that was really helpful.”īut wouldn’t it be exhausting to be “on” all the time? And that was something that really served me well because I never had a moment to feel sorry for myself or feel down. It was Bif Naked in the chemo chair with all the other patients. It couldn’t just be me in the chemo ward. Being a performer served me very well as a patient. Optimism for me was always a coping technique. On the question of whether she’s still “haunted by demons” – based on a backstory that includes being orphaned in India, adopted by Canadian missionaries, bullied in school, and a punk rock lifestyle that led to a drug overdose in Vancouver – she replies, “I don’t feel like I ever had demons to begin with. People need to march, to do other things that are much more important.” There’s a new single now, Rollerdome, with the full release of CHAMPION coming later this year, “hopefully, maybe,” she says. There was supposed to have been a new album, but then the pandemic hit, and then George Floyd was murdered in Minnesota, and so Bif, more political and “pissed off” than ever, put her project on hold. Bif Naked plays Friday, July 22 at Taste of Edmonton in Churchill Square, part of a fresh new tour after two years off. So that’s where a death doula would come in, to be another person in the room, and just listen and sit with the family.” She has since taken training to become a “death doula.” She explains, “It’s the same concept as a birth doula this is part of your health care team that’s integral to you as a patient, and your family.” In one case, she knew a lady in her 80s suffering from both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s and who wanted to apply for MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying), “which is absolutely her right, but her family does not want her to apply for that, so it is tricky. Bif beat the cancer, used the time in recovery to “hit the reset button” from being stupidly busy, literally working herself sick, and was a patient support counsellor. I met Judas Priest, what else is there in life, you know? I was on two SNFU records, I’m good, I’m fine.”
And I’m like, phh, hey, good-looking corpse! My parents are happy, I got to meet Jay Leno, I’m good. She says, “People were like, oh, the Grim Reaper’s in the air.
Like that time she got breast cancer – she was a little young for it when she was diagnosed in 2008 – and thought she might die. Posted on JBy Mike Ross Entertainment, Front Slider, musicīif Naked possesses superhuman optimism to go with her hard-won success. INTERVIEW: Bif Naked Triumphs Over Adversity – Again
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