Arts·Q with Tom Power

Karen Knox's We Forgot to Break Up is a nostalgic look back at the 2000s Toronto music scene

The Canadian director sits down with Q's Tom Power to talk about her latest film, which tells the story of The New Normals, a fictional indie rock band on the rise in the early 2000s.

The Canadian director talks to Q's Tom Power about her latest film

A smiling woman wearing over-ear headphones sits in front of a studio microphone.
Karen Knox in the Q studio in Toronto. (Vivian Rashotte/CBC)

Karen Knox's new film, We Forgot to Break Up, tells the fictional story of The New Normals, a rising indie rock band made up of four friends from high school who move to Toronto in the early 2000s. Their songs are hard, their relationships are fraught and they're trying to make it in an industry that wants to shape them into something else. The Canadian director drops by the Q studio to talk to Tom Power about this "artist coming-of-age story" and why she wanted to tell it.

WATCH | Official trailer for We Forgot to Break Up:

The full interview with Karen Knox is available on our podcast, Q with Tom Power. Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.


Interview with Karen Knox produced by Lise Hosein.