Hey guys, this is Katie from Adwish I Was Still Sleeping on WXAV 88.3 FM Chicago. And here's my interview with Jenny from Bad Cup Bad Cup for the Fat Records 25 Years Tour. First question, so how is the Fat Rec Tour going for you guys? And what's it like to be all part of something that's this is pretty big, it's 25 years.
Well, we are joining the tour tomorrow, so we haven't done it yet. Oh, really? Oh. I'm sorry, that's kind of a...
Oh, I know, I know. I'm like, I should do it. No, I know, it's not good. Yeah, we're kind of like all of our beers and excitement are followed up into one giant mask that is following us around.
But yeah, tomorrow we join the tour in Boston and we actually... Kind of weird because we don't have land with us until Chicago. Okay. So we're borrowing Jason from Mass Intruder, so...
Sorry, Yellow Intruder. That's a brilliant thing. That's pretty awesome. Nice.
So it's kind of a weird trip so far. It's drive so far and not play, you know? We usually do stuff that's close to the home where it's like, where'd you play at home? Then you play 20 minutes from home and then you play an hour from home and you...
You know, different already. Yeah, yeah. So I'm assuming you have you guys played Chicago before? We've never been there.
I'm excited I'm from the Midwets, so I'm like really happy to kind of wear people I know live. Oh, nice. Where are you from? I'm from Michigan in like the suburbs of Detroit.
Okay. And we are booking aid in, it's actually based in Detroit, so she got us a show there on Sunday night and I'm excited to embarrass my parents. Oh, for the awesome. But I know that I would have to go with so...
Oh, nice. Well, I hope you guys enjoy Chicago when you come through and everything. Yeah. So another question.
So besides like touring and playing music and all, it's like a big part of your life and everything. What do you like to do when you're not playing music? I am an artist. So I make art when I'm not playing shows like every day or minute that I'm not doing something for the band.
I make art. Oh, cool. So do you like paint or draw and just everything pretty much? Yeah.
It's like I do a lot of mixed media and 3D stuff. Oh, nice. Commission. I tried to do the gallery thing for a while, but that's kind of weird.
It's like building a house on spec and hoping that people like it and want to spend much money on it. So now I do commissions. So I make just finished a bunch of puppets in a movie. And then I do murals and like wedding cake toppers and dog portraits.
Dog portraits. Oh, yeah. Maybe I could. I guess your job on the picture of my dog.
Yeah. I like doing this. Because then it's like, you know, somebody wants it and like it's special for them and they're not going to get over it in like a year and kind of try to throw it away. That's pretty awesome.
Do you have your own personal account on like Instagram or anything that like shows that stuff? Yeah. I said probably be professional and have like a separate art Instagram, but I don't. Oh, well, well, yeah.
I follow you guys. I have a website. Oh, nice. Awesome.
What's the website? It's J and I E B O P T T R I L O dot com. Awesome. Awesome.
I'll definitely check that out. I follow you guys on Instagram and you're definitely one of my favorite accounts to see because you guys look like you have a blast you were wearing and everything like that. Yeah. That's Instagram.
She's killing it. Nice. Yeah. Yeah.
You guys definitely are. So this is kind of I don't even know if it's like a serious question or anything, but probably a bigger question. So do you guys experience any setbacks or obstacles being like an off email band and kind of a male dominated scene? It's kind of weird.
Kind of a weird topic and we it comes up kind of all the time. Oh, okay. Because like, well, I mean, you're women and like it's like, what do we do? Do we talk about it or do we not talk about it?
It's kind of like describing. Like feminine. You're like, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Cribing feminism is kind of weird and like it's hard to know what to do. I feel more inclined to answer that question when it's asked by a woman, you know, because I feel like there's more understanding generally like kind of built in there. But we we were just talking about this last night because my regard on a list that this wonderful woman Candace wrote about, you know, 10 really taking female drummers that you should know about.
And then there are like these kind of foolish people that don't understand feminism that are always men that about that. And it's like, who are the little girls and like, and then it's just they want to derail everything because they don't understand anything. And it's like, we were like, okay, well, if you just ignore them completely, like it might go away, but they're like really into the band for some reason to. And it's like, well, why do you give what we're doing?
But hate feminism and like refuse to understand this. Like, I mean, you wouldn't listen to NWA and be like dropping the N word and like, you know, being a total ignorant piece of. I mean, I hope, but I don't know. So it's weird.
I think in a lot of ways, I feel like it allowed people to remember our band in the beginning a little bit better than if we were guys because it would be like, you know, back up, back up, that step in. And it kind of sounds like a bunch of fans that are also guys in the NWA also. And like, it sort of gave us a way to stand out, but then it comes with some secret set of weird, I don't know, kind of just depends on the person talking to you. So like in journalism, like, is that even an obstacle anymore?
I feel like it's not. I kind of feel like the same thing with you as just a matter of opinion and, you know, I guess who's trying to judge you or anything like that. Because being, I guess, you know, like a female radio host, maybe people don't have the expectations for you that they would for like a male. Yeah.
So weird. Yeah. Yeah. So next question, who are some of your influences when you write?
Well, that's also kind of individual too. It's kind of fun because we all have different record collections and, you know, had our own musical background that we're bringing to the table. And, you know, it sort of turns into the sounds that we have. Lynn is really into a metal and deep including upright bass.
So she has a little bit more technical understanding and she's really good at kind of picking apart the harmonies that we should be singing. Like, whereas I think the rest of us didn't learn music, music, music, music, music, various things like that. And Myra loves his and ACEDD and like that is pretty evident in her drumming. And, you know, we would never be like, keep taking it way back.
Let's do a real jazz each low pick. Yeah. Yeah. It would be weird and safety, you know, a fixture of this effort to go on rock community forever and ever.
And I like all this kind of solo and like I grew up listening to that record band because that too came through and exciting. And so. That must be pretty cool though. Like growing up and listening to these bands and then you're going to be on tour with them with people like Joey Cape and, you know, like, I bet it was pretty cool to meet like, you know, because I bet you listening to know if that's growing up.
Totally. It's kind of weird to like, if I want to meet you and I want to talk to you and I want to tell you how much I enjoyed this and that, but then I'm afraid to say that because then I would immediately be classifying myself as like a fan person and like, let's talk about this regular. Yeah. But you know, I get the fan girl out of there.
I know. I got a cinder block and first of all, it was like, we can hear anything super loud and I immediately tried to be like, I'm like pretty much every record you could hear me and I got this big like what? I'm like, I'm going to go to the bar. Oh, that's pretty awesome.
I mean the same way. I'd be like, oh my God. I'm not going to tell you what I just said to you again because I realized when I said it was kind of weird. So this is kind of a similar question in the way.
I don't know why I had them one right after the other. But like, what bands are you listening to right now that you would tell somebody like, hey, check them out. Well, I just got a scene or both of us for the first time and that was amazing and perfect. I really liked new creases.
So that's kind of how I was alerted to the existence of a nervous. That's completely different. And I do creases was like the biggest, my favorite thing that happened in the last probably 10 years as far as a band. And then the nervous is like kind of post-punk red dawn servers kind of stuff.
But so it's so cool and just really like people doing something well and you can tell what people have been record collection stuff. You know, I like that a lot. And then last summer we were telling everybody about the co-hangers who's miring. I kept going.
But we haven't gotten to see them this year. So I guess you've killed out about that. But if you're not listening to Shannon and the Clamps yet, you need to do your self-examble favorite by all their records. I will definitely check that out.
Yeah. What are you listening to? Oh, what am I listening to? Um, well, right now I'm actually like, I'm like a huge anti-flag fan.
And I didn't get to listen to their new CD when I first came out because I just came back to the radio recently. And I finally got to listen to it last week. And I was, see this is why I love them so much. I'm like, I don't know why, but they've just always been one of my favorite bands.
I think probably since I was 11 or 12 years old. So I'm 24 now. So I would say I've been a fan for a while. So that's pretty much, um, we get a lot of like, I would say like weird, we get a lot of artists here at the radio that are like more underground and everything.
So like people haven't really heard of them yet, I guess I would say. So I'm kind of on a mix of things right now. So, but mostly I've been listening to that, I guess. And then, um, kind of in a brain fart right now and what else I'm listening to.
But I don't know. I was, I painted a big mural and I was in a timbre camera the entire time. Like, it's like, I don't know if you've heard them, but like it's kind of like Nick Cave. Okay.
Yeah. It's like Nick Cave in like the Haunted Mansion. Like it's amazing. It's so cool.
It's very visual and like kind of creepy and moody and like love it. Well, I just, I just remember, I just actually checked out the new Lamma God too. And that was actually pretty, pretty sweet. So crazy.
Yeah. Like super heavy. Metalhead when I first started listening to music and then I got into punk and then like I'm kind of just like a mix of, you know, things now, but I like it. You know, it's cool to be in everything.
When you only listen to one thing, it's like a symptom of brain damage or something. Like matter of you that you only want to eat burgers every day. Like, you know, so what's your opinion on college radio? Have you guys had any experience, you know, while trying to get your music out there with them?
And do you think it's important to the music industry? Of course it's important. It's, I mean, college radio is like the NASA test kitchen of music and like, that was actually like the best description I've ever heard. It is.
It is. Well, I mean, because you can try anything and it's, you know, young people that are interested in, you know, exploring and learning, I don't know, we were at KXLU. That was really cool in the middle of the night. Nice.
Loyal and merry amount. Oh, I like going, I don't know. It's just kind of nice to not have to worry about corporate sponsors and corporate playlists and, you know, their little beacons of truth and light and fresh music and new ideas. So all right.
Cool. Thank you so much for this awesome interview. And I'm definitely gonna come say what's up to you guys next Monday. Yeah.
Do it. Yeah. Come get a picture and stuff and we'll hang out. All right.
Cool. That'll be awesome. I'm so excited now. And we'll have, we'll have land for the first time all two or that day.
So we'll be the best. Okay. Cool. Cool.
That'll be great. Okay. All right. Cool.
Well, have a good one. Yeah, you too. And drive safe and everything and have fun. We will.
If you feel it. All right. Cool. Okay.
Bye.