The Gap

Divorce is never an easy "out", regardless of the alternatives. Whether it's in our personal life or a divorce of less intimate proportions, a departure will always create a gap.

Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies fame decided 18 months ago, together with the rest of the band members I presume, that it was time to depart from a 20 year relationship. Steven's life had taken many turns over the previous years; he had left his family, moved to upstate NY, found a new partner, lost a substantial amount of weight and finally gotten caught by the local law enforcers with banned substances.

One would suspect that the turmoil that was Steven's life led him to the conclusion that a clean break would be the best solution.

Sadly that's only in the movies. No option is an easy one when it comes to a big life decision.

I recently had the pleasure of seeing BNL perform at the Hammersmith Apollo. This was the 4th or 5th time I'd seen the band live, but the first time without co-founder Page.

Whilst the show was very enjoyable, funny and nostalgic (If I had $1m automatically takes me back to freshman year at University), you could both see and feel that the band was trying to find out how to fill the void left by Page.

Initially you can't, but with time it gets easier and easier.