Intro: A Whole Band on One Screen [00:00:00]

Nicky P: Welcome, everyone, to another episode of We Came From Celluloid. I am Nicky P, here with Mr. Pritchard, the man, the myth, the legend, as we share our screen today with an entire band in one screen, which is a new thing for us. We have The Femaliens out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. How are you all doing today?

The Femaliens: Yeah, not too bad. We're good. Good on this Tuesday night. Could be worse. I usually say, "Oh, it's not the worst day of my life." That is not the worst day of my life either.

Brian Pritchard: I'm super jealous that you guys are at a point where you can still get the band together on a Tuesday night. It is harder and harder to do.

The Femaliens: This is our dedicated practice night, so it helps.

Brian Pritchard: Okay, got it. So Tuesdays were just a good synergy in that respect. I love it. Friday nights have come to be the de facto practice night, but I would absolutely still do more than that, you know what I mean? With whoever was available.

Writing in the Room [00:01:15]

Brian Pritchard: So I'm curious. This may be as good a place to jump in as any. One of the things I'm always curious about is understanding the development of songs, writing process sort of stuff. Do you guys write in the room on Tuesday nights? Do people come in with existing ideas, partially formed ideas, fully formed ideas? Who's doing what, you know? Tell me about your process, guys.

The Femaliens: It's a little bit of everything. It's a very anything-goes type thing, if y'all wanna give your own examples. Normally it starts out with a riff, or say Emily has some lyrical ideas, or I have a riff or something. And then it usually is a sort of conversational back and forth, and then a song comes around. I've tried to come to the band with fully written demos and stuff, and it just didn't work out or have the magic of us just bouncing off each other within a room. Also 'cause it's crazy time signatures that I cannot play. I'm a prog musician. They're not. I think we all, at some point, have come with some random idea, whether that's a fully fleshed-out, you know, chords of a song or a couple lyrics here or there. It's kinda just whoever feels inspired or whatever comes in, which, we're very lucky that we have that. But I feel like the bulk of at least the songs that we're recording for our first album, Emily had some of them written at least. I'd say about half. So some of them we came with the lyrics first, and then everyone kind of wrote their own parts, and we just come together and mash it all together and just kinda jam it out a little bit. We've been lucky. It works.

From Woman Driver to The Femaliens [00:03:00]

Brian Pritchard: Now, was Woman Driver Band part of the foundation of this band? Is it a totally separate thing? What's the connection there?

The Femaliens: Yes. No. Yeah, Woman Driver Band was my second band. It was me, Dave Fouts on drums, Zoe Wislowski, and Bree Elder. So some of the songs actually that we brought to life today, now in a different light. Our one song called Objectify Me started out as a jam song with Woman Driver, and now it's developed into one of our songs with The Femaliens. One of our favorite songs that we love to lock in for. And we love it.

Brian Pritchard: So it's not anybody's first band or only band, it doesn't sound like.

Meet the Band (and Power Violence Under a Bridge) [00:04:00]

The Femaliens: Phew. Well, it's a whole life of band madness. I feel like we could go through the groups. Okay, so I'm Chandrika. I play bass. I'm also actively in Lilith, which is my oldest band, and Nowhere Wolves. I also host shows, do solo stuff, and do gig work, kind of. Like, if a folk artist I know needs a bass player for a couple out-of-town shows, I'm like, "Hell yeah." So that's my second or third band I've been in in my life, but that number I don't know.

The Femaliens: For me, I'm Emily, or Chaos, and I'm the singer. So I've been in a couple different bands. I was in Therapist, was my first band, and then Woman Driver. And me and Draka actually, she helped me with my first performance at Squirrel Hill Sports Bar. Woman Driver was just me and her on guitar. I think I had booked the show, or we had talked about booking the show, and then my band dropped out. So Draka came in, and—

The Femaliens: I was like, "I really wanna see y'all perform. I don't even know how to play guitar. I'll do it." I'm a bass player. I can play far enough that there was guitar behind the words.

The Femaliens: So I'm Jules. We're all different, so let's go down the line. This, I guess, really is my first band. I met Emily, honestly, on Facebook, 'cause she was looking for other people to join the band. And prior to that, I'd only been drumming for like a year or two, and I was just doing open mics at local bars. More like open jams, which is basically just jamming with random people to classic rock and blues kind of thing. So I'd played with other people, but never in an official band, so it was very exciting to get to start to do that.

The Femaliens: I'm Eve. So this is my second band. My first band was a hardcore band, which doesn't exist anymore, because that's how hardcore is. This, I just joined as a one-off gig, and then we just kept getting offers for shows, so we just sort of stuck around. And I'm in two other bands at the moment. I'm in a metalcore band and a power violence band on top of this.

Nicky P: Power violence. The good old power—

Brian Pritchard: My God, I don't know what the genre of power violence means, but it sounds intense.

The Femaliens: It's pretty self-explanatory. That sounds scary. I'm playing a nine-string guitar through the most ridiculous distortion possible.

Brian Pritchard: Uh-huh. So it's crunchy. A little crunchy, a little growly. You know, one of the things that caught my ear that was funny—

The Femaliens: Literally yesterday, I just played under a bridge with them. It was great.

Brian Pritchard: Okay, a little Chili Peppers. I got it.

The Femaliens: Geographically under— Physically under a bridge. A real bridge.

Brian Pritchard: I see. Oh, the sweet naivete. Not jamming on some '90s classic rock with your power violence act?

The Femaliens: I can't picture you in Chili Peppers whatsoever. I mean, I can play slap bass, so I could bullshit it. Power violence version of Under the Bridge.

Nicky P: I spent probably a good hour this weekend at Levante's party talking to his old coworker, Mark, about old hardcore bands, and it was hilarious. 'Cause I don't usually expect to run into people into old-school hardcore bands in Levy's crew. Very few people I get to bring up Terror and GBH with.

The Femaliens: Yeah.

Influences and "No Such Thing as Too Silly" [00:08:00]

Nicky P: So I'm kinda curious. Mr. Brian is the big songwriting guy over here; I'm more of an entertainer kinda guy. And the thing that I found super fun about the band was certainly your music video that you do have out there, and the production on it. You're definitely leaning in. To me it reminded me of early Vandals kinda stuff, where it's just like, let the joke be the joke and run. And with the whole girl group thing, by and large there's always comparisons to the classics like The Go-Go's and stuff like that, where it's unassailably kinda girly in its own right but still keeping the punk rock thing going. And I loved it. It was super fun. So what are the influences that actually got you there? All the stuff I just put on you, saying, "Oh, these are clearly where you come from," probably aren't.

Brian Pritchard: The visual influences, but the song itself, any of it. Any of it, yeah.

The Femaliens: Okay. Oh, I was getting how the music video— Oh, okay. That video is, I think... Whitney Tarantino? No. I wish I could give all the answers to everything. I feel we all have relatively different musical backgrounds and influences. I'm sure you've picked up our guitarist has more of a metal background than any of us. You have a lot of riot grrrl, and you're more classic rock. I'm more just punk and post-punk. But I think the thing with the presentation of this is, the name really existed before anything else, and then it was just like, "Let's play with that. Let's play off it," and it came very naturally. That's my favorite thing about this band: there's no such thing as too far or too silly. It's objectively supposed to be camp and funny and kooky. You know what I mean? So, yeah, it's a combination of a lot of things that really shouldn't work, but it works. My guitar playing shouldn't work with classic rock drums and punk bass. But a seven-string just fits in there, and it's fine because it's the alien theming. We're kind of allowed to just go wherever we want with it. Cowbell all the time for Nicky. Cowbell. Well, I'm trying to convince them to throw a cowbell blast beat in one of the songs, and they're— It'll come soon. I think it's mostly just the acceptance of... There are no walls. There is no box. I mean, we're themed, so I guess that's a box of its own. But it's more that the brand is just kooky and creative and creature-y, and anything can really happen in that. And you're more willing to try to do random different things, whether that's in the writing or in the presentation, 'cause it's just like, "Yep, we're wacky," but in a good and serious way. If that made sense.

The Ballad of El Chupacabra [00:10:45]

Brian Pritchard: Do people contribute on the lyrical side in the same way that you describe the sort of organic riff development or bouncing of those ideas? Is there a primary lyricist, or is that something that the collective contributes to as well, even if it's in terms of initial concepts if not full-blown lyrics?

The Femaliens: So we've actually done it both ways. Some of the songs came from previous bands that I wrote lyrics to, and then we just kinda developed on. But then we have our song The Ballad of El Chupacabra, which we wrote on a cabin retreat for songwriting that we went up to Lake Huron. Last, I guess it was almost a year ago. My family has a little cabin about an hour out, in the woods. And so we just took a little weekend band retreat, built a fire, had some drinks, kinda tried to jam some stuff. We didn't really know what we would end up with, but oddly, a song about the Chupacabra. It was the culmination of our cabin fever turned into a song. In the dark, creepy woods at night, and then we're kinda being silly, and it kinda turned into a jam. That one was written the second day, when we were all hungover. I was just outside playing the acoustic I brought, and I played the riff, and then Emily came out and was like, "Ooh, I like that. Keep going with that." And we made a joke driving from a friend's house around the area to the cabin about, "Oh my God, it's so dark out. What if the Chupacabra comes out and attacks us?" And that's how that song became that song. Just from a dumb joke when in the woods. And it turned into our main closer. It's a pretty hard song, I would say. In general, she is the primary lyricist. Definitely. But this is absolutely a band where anybody can have any idea about anything. The guitar player might have an idea for a cool drum beat. Everything's collaborative, but she is the primary wordsmith. Chaos is a lyrical genius, for sure. I don't do lyrics for shit.

Brian Pritchard: Well, but it's fun to have opportunities to bounce ideas off, and sometimes something simple can be the seeds to something incredible, right? You never know what's gonna light that fire. And so that's fun.

Capturing Ideas at Practice [00:13:15]

Brian Pritchard: Are you guys usually recording at practice, even if it's just on phones and stuff like that, so you can capture moments as they occur?

The Femaliens: Yeah, we do a lot of that, especially if we're working on new material. But we don't just by default record a rehearsal. If we're working on a new thing, it's like, "Ooh, I like that riff. Can you record it? Let's play it again when we have it." Just stuff to refer back to, for the most part. We've had a lot of our sets filmed, but not so much practice audio kept to refer back to. Unless it's new, where it's like, "Oh, we finally got a good take of this."

What's Next: The Album and a Farm Fest Concept [00:14:00]

Brian Pritchard: So tell me about what's on the horizon. If I were to talk to you guys a year from now, what stuff do you hope to have had take place between now and then?

The Femaliens: Well, I think our album would've sold out. I think all the CDs would've sold. Oh, gee. Yeah, we're recording an album right now, so that will most likely be out sometime next year. We've tracked, not completed, but tracked seven of 12 songs. One thing, this is a concept, but it's a thing that I intend to happen next year that we've discussed a little bit. I have a bit of a background in organizing shows and events and fundraisers, and a few small-range festivals. And we've been talking about doing something in the spring at said farm with said cows. We've not talked to anybody about this but ourselves. Doing a festival that features women artists, but also is on a farm. So it's a concept, but that is a thing that I would keep an eye on. That is a goal sometime within the next year. Concepts of a plan. We have the concepts of a plan. Steve Aliens is presenting our first festy. More out-of-town shit, for sure. Album and festy. And T-shirts.

Brian Pritchard: No, I hear you. You're combining the background that you have as an organizer with the access that you ended up having to this unique property, and just going, "Wait a minute, this plus this plus..." That's really slick. That makes sense.

The Femaliens: I low-key might have not should've said that on here, because I hadn't talked to the farm about it yet, but I will. We just like the concept of outside. I'm sure they would love it. And I was inspired by, I forget what they called it, but Macintosh and Bad Static. Oh, I think it was just Riot Grrrl DC. We attended a riot grrrl fest in DC that was at a venue called The Garage that was on a farm, in a little garage. And we were like, "This is a really sick setup," just the grass, the vendors. So it was a bit inspired by that.

The Show Must Go On [00:16:00]

Brian Pritchard: And you had house party shows and stuff in your clips, right? That scene looked super fun. Have you gotten to branch out much geographically? Like this show that we're playing together is out here, right? Or which one is this, Nick? Is this Youngstown?

Nicky P: Just outside of Cleveland. Maple Grove.

Brian Pritchard: Yeah. Just to spit out something that caught my ear earlier that I don't think I finished saying: Nick and I ended up meeting at a show where one of my old bands was booked, and not the entire band, but at least one of the band members ended up being locked up and unavailable. And the "show must go on" sentiment led to my going, "Okay, we're gonna put some sort of act together given the people that are available." Because I didn't cancel on that show is the only reason that I ended up meeting Nick, who has, in the last decade, become this key collaborator. So it was cool hearing that you had a little bit of that same origin story detail of a show where obstacles presented themselves, you persevered and showed up anyway. And in doing so... without going on too much of a tangent, it's another reminder of that sort of law of attraction stuff, where we're concentrating on the outcomes that we want from these connections or these situations, and not always knowing where that magnet is gonna pull people into our world. And it doesn't sound like any of you guys knew each other a couple years ago, and yet here you are, doing your regular Tuesday night business, and that's pretty awesome. It's awesome.

The Femaliens: So we actually all did know each other.

Brian Pritchard: Well—

The Femaliens: Kind of. We all at least knew one of each other. Kind of sorta. There were some people in the mix, yeah.

Brian Pritchard: Okay. Well, never mind. It's not awesome at all. It's totally predictable, and everyone saw it coming, so the end.

The Femaliens: Related to that, this kinda answers two things at once. A little bit of the context of our first show ever. Our first show was in Erie, PA. Our first show was an out-of-town show. It was a festival, actually. It was a female feature fest, and we're wearing the merch for it now. How that ended up happening was I was in another band that was set to play that, and we ended up going on a hiatus. We got it back together, but I didn't wanna drop the show, and I knew you, and we'd messed around with Woman Driver a little bit. So I was like, "Okay, got two months. Let's scrap this together, put together an awesome set," just to fulfill the situation, not necessarily with a long-term intention. The show must go on. Pretty much. And then, yeah, we were having fun. This is the most fun. It just kinda worked. We've played Erie a good handful of times, and adjacent— we played somewhere in the woods an hour from Erie, but still north. Almost Ohio, but not quite. I think the West Springfield area. It was for Metal Fest. Also went up with someone else too, but nothing else, I don't think. This Cleveland show will be about the first time I've at least played in Ohio, and Cleveland is, in fact, my middle name, legally.

Brian Pritchard: Okay, okay. So there's a lot of predestination, roads coming together.

The Maple Grove Bill: "Complete Sonic Whiplash" [00:20:00]

Nicky P: I'm going to almost imagine that the guy that books the shows that they play in Erie is one of my old bandmates.

Brian Pritchard: No, fair enough. I was just saying that at the Maple Grove where we're playing, the guy's good for playing matchmaker and trying to make it a bill where everybody's bringing their own crowd. You guys, because you're traveling, you're not expected to bring people with you in the same way. But we will. And Jeremy does a nice job stacking the bill in a way that lends itself to success. We've had a good time playing the Maple Grove. It's a good venue.

Nicky P: As he says that, I've actually talked to all of the bands and artists playing with the exception of one, and I have a feeling this is going to be the most interesting of shows I've played in a long time, because, oh wow, is it going to be all over the place.

The Femaliens: That's the way to do it. That is the way. I'm excited. Just complete sonic whiplash the whole time is the best experience. You gotta keep the audience on their toes.

Nicky P: At least one of the artists is a country rapper.

The Femaliens: All right. Let's go.

Nicky P: You guys are the first group that we've actually interviewed from this particular show. But the other band is an emo band. Emo pop punk kind of thing, from what I've got. So it's gonna be something fun.

Pittsburgh, a December Tour, and a Frozen Feed [00:21:30]

Nicky P: So I'm kinda curious. Disclosure: I actually went to college at Edinboro, Pennsylvania and have roots deep in Erie. But when I was making music, I never spent a lot of time in Pittsburgh, and me and Brian are working on a tour in December, and we're making it out to Youngstown and West Virginia, and Pittsburgh's that next little rung out that we're looking at getting into. But, you know—

The Femaliens: We're frozen in glitch again. We can't hear you. Anything being said is not being heard.

Brian Pritchard: Can't have shit in Detroit.

The Femaliens: We're gonna need that update momentarily. And this is good too. They wanna come to Pittsburgh.

Brian Pritchard: Yeah, for some reason. He was asking for a high-level overview of the local scene.

The Femaliens: Okay. So the thing happened again where y'all's cameras and audio both cut out for at least 30 seconds. But you said you were talking about coming to Pittsburgh in December, and then everything went. So what was the rest of the sentence?

Nicky P: Oh, well, in December we're running a tour. We're making it out to Youngstown, to West Virginia, and Pittsburgh is that next rung out that we wanna get out to. But it's a place I don't know a whole lot of people in. In Erie I know quite plenty more. But what's the scene like in Pittsburgh?

The Pittsburgh Venue Map [00:23:00]

The Femaliens: Who wants to take this one? It's me. The thing with Pittsburgh is that it is a very small city, but it is the biggest city within a very large area. There's a decent amount of small-level venues. I have found that in the past year I've been playing the same five spots over and over again.

Nicky P: They keep closing down too.

The Femaliens: Yeah. It's like a constant flux of places, you know, bars with a shitty manager, and then they have to reopen, they're not doing shows anymore, shit like that. There's good spots around. If you're just going the standard DIY touring level, there's a lot of bars that'll take you in. There's always the Roboto Project, which has been around for years. It's easy to book. You will have a show there. So there's at least spots like that that do exist. When it comes to mid-level venues, there's only two or three that are decent, and that's Spirit and Mr. Small's, and then there's two bigger ones: one is a Ticketmaster venue, The Roxy, and then there's Stage AE, which is some other corporation. There's a lot of stuff.

Brian Pritchard: I've been to a few of those as a spectator, certainly. Nick, you and I saw Vola at Mr. Small's.

Nicky P: As a former Pennsylvania person, I've seen a lot of shows at Mr. Small's. TV On The Radio is probably my favorite I've seen there.

The Femaliens: One place we're playing at later this month, it's a county over, but it's called Green Beacon Gallery. That's probably been my favorite spot lately. It's basically an art gallery. There's cool, interesting crap all over the... It's not crap, art, all over the walls. Since it is slightly outside the county, I feel like the scene is a little bit stronger and more together-y feeling, because it's not eight billion things with a small amount of spaces to gather. That is the cool thing in that town. You know what I mean? It's this cool all-ages art space that always has good bands. The people are always super nice there. So that one's really sweet. But yeah, Pittsburgh, there's not that many venues. There's 8,000 bands, and there's something for everybody. There's heaps of talent around. But I wouldn't be like, "Oh, this is the most perfectly structured nice scene where everyone is cool and gets along and supports each other." It could be better. I hope to see more venues open, and the ones that are at risk continue to thrive, 'cause there's been some crap with some venues, but we're here. This is where we live, so.

222 Ormsby and Why All-Ages Spaces Matter [00:26:15]

Nicky P: I was reading an article, I think a month or two ago, about a local venue that ended up closing because someone was perhaps in a pit that maybe he shouldn't have been and got hurt, and it became a big issue. Like, parents sued or something like that. And then—

The Femaliens: Yeah. So that's actually the one I work at. Not work at. I volunteer there. I have a key. I'm not an employee, but I host open mics there on a regular basis. It's still open; they're just not accepting new bookings. I still host the open mics. Whatever shows were booked before that happened are still being honored. And we're just being hopeful. Until a court case happens, we won't know what the future holds. But that was an incident outside the venue's control. The guy was promptly banned. And it's really sad, because it is a really special place. It's been around 18 years. It's all ages. It's DIY as hell. Bring your own beer. I bring fucking food every time. It's a great time in there. You can really do anything. I've made drag shows happen. So that's 222 Ormsby. Big shout-out to that place and any place like it who does stuff like that. Those places, especially all-ages places, are essential to fucking youth culture and being alive. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't go to shows, you know?

"A Small Town at the Scale of a City" [00:27:45]

Nicky P: You kind of touched on it in your answer, but I'll ask the question. So your local, quote-unquote, "scene" is not a very cohesive thing, it sounds like. I don't know if there's factioning, or if there's just nothing even to faction. It's just kind of a big mess. Like, is the scene—

The Femaliens: It kind of feels like a small town at the scale of a city sometimes. Sorry. Yeah, I grew up an hour north of here, and, I don't know. My entire time I've been here, I don't know if any other cities are different, but you always hear, "Oh, these two people don't like each other," and then they'll make a big thing of it on social media. Constantly. But I'm pretty sure that's pretty consistent everywhere. Purely from a numbers scale, this is a real statistic I have: we have a local street festival. They do 300 local bands on this festival. It's two days. It's called Millville Music Fest. 300 bands play it. I know that one of the years previously, over 800 had applied. So there are at least 800 bands who are active enough and interested to apply to a thing. And I was in two bands that didn't apply. So we can only imagine the number of bands that exist in this town that doesn't have a huge amount of stable venues to support it. So there's also a bit of that. It's a bit jumbly. It has its ebbs and flows. It has peaks, and then things, you know.

Farm Shows, Taco Shops, and Small-Town Scenes [00:29:15]

Brian Pritchard: So close to all these rural areas, you could see that there could be whole house party scenes or farm party scenes that maybe exist in all these little pockets of Pennsylvania too. You know what I mean? One of my close musician friends and his wife have a property. I'm trying to remember the name of the little town in PA. It's like Confluence or something like that. Just middle of nowhere, Pennsylvania. But like you said, all those farms. We've played farm shows before, and Ohio's got a lot of that stuff too, you know? That's really interesting.

Nicky P: It's interesting to me to hear the way you guys talk about it, 'cause, now granted, you guys look much younger than me and Brian are. 30 years ago, I guess, when I was in a punk band in my hometown, our local venue was a taco shop, and that's where all of our DIY punk shows happened, because they were happy for us to funnel kids into their place and eat their tacos. It was either there, or the next town over there was a punk house, you know, it was its own sort of thing. I always felt like, for us young kids, that was almost a little level of sketch that maybe not all of us were okay with. I was, I guess, kind of a goody-goody kid in that respect. But it's always amusing to me how these little tiny thriving scenes develop in places where there's literally only one place to play, and how many bands will kind of become a thing in those places.

The Femaliens: I mean, when you're in the middle of buttfuck nowhere, you need something to do, and then a bunch of people get together, they'll make something to do happen. Pittsburgh, there's always eight million things happening all at once. So it's hard to pull a consistent crowd, versus a town where this is where all the peeps are at tonight, 'cause this is all there is, you know? And that's not just about music. We're a big sports town. There's always just a million things happening in this city.

Brian Pritchard: Competing for people's attention never seems to slow down.

The Femaliens: If anyone's bored in Pittsburgh, they just haven't looked at anything ever. There's always crap to do here.

Nicky P: It's funny the way that you talk about Pittsburgh, because I had a residency at a bar across from the freaking baseball diamond there for a year or two, and I'm like, "Oh man, we must've been really good if they kept us as one of the house bands," and the competition is that deep.

Picking the Song: "Uranus Is Our Titus" [00:32:00]

Brian Pritchard: You guys mentioned you were recording stuff at the moment as well. We always like to feature songs, right? I know you have the music video out. Is that what we would sort of roll into in terms of having listeners hear examples of your work? Or do you have something newer than that you could send? Audio form or otherwise, you know what I mean?

The Femaliens: In terms of studio-recorded stuff, that is the one at the moment, but we do have a lot of live clips on our YouTube. We have things that are essentially demos, or completely unmixed, need-overdubs tracks, but that's the fun surprise to send to a friend. And you guys are friends. But I wouldn't broadcast a demo of an unreleased song necessarily.

Nicky P: Well, and the question to ask is, what do you want to play at the end of this episode?

Brian Pritchard: Yeah, set up the song that you would want us to share, you know what I mean?

The Femaliens: I feel like Uranus. Yeah, that's a cool one. Uranus really describes who we are. It always comes down to Uranus. Uranus is our Titus.

Nicky P: The laughing that I hear in that track when I listen to it, it just sounds like so much fun. It's so tongue in cheek.

The Femaliens: Yeah, it was very fun to record. In the music video, and in the studio, 'cause we did it during a little demo session with one of our friends that has a music studio. To record it was fun, but then to kinda think of all the little background space noises and little things we say in the background, that was very, very fun. And our group scream that we have during it, I really like doing that. It has very much become... we don't always play it first, but it is an intro song. It's a get-to-know-us type vibe a little bit. But it's funny, 'cause how it actually came about too is, like I said, we had that female feature fest. I was like, "Okay, I wanna work with you." You had the band idea, the name. I was like, "Do you have a song called Uranus yet?" And you were like, "No, actually." So that was the first song written for The Femaliens.

The Femaliens: I don't think I knew that.

The Femaliens: It was very much our intro. It's our first original. There was some recycled material, but I was like, "We gotta have a song called Uranus."

Brian Pritchard: So it's just more continued evidence that Uranus has power. Uranus has magnetic attraction and strength.

Nicky P: Oh, I've heard that many a time.

Brian Pritchard: Uranus is a force to be reckoned with, and it's the gate that one has to pass in order to come into the fold. So that's naturally what we'll have to share. Okay, we'll share Uranus. I'm in.

Outro: Find The Femaliens, and See You at the Show [00:35:00]

Nicky P: We are looking forward to the show at the end of next month. It's gonna be a grand old time. I have no doubts in that. Is there anything else you'd like to leave people with, where they can go find out more about you? You have a website or a home base, so to speak?

The Femaliens: Instagram. We're probably most active on Instagram. I think it's just the_femaleans. So we post all our shows there. We're trying to do some content lately, so some silly little videos. Oh, and our bandiversary is coming up on October 5th. Two years. Two years on October 5th. We're gonna release a cute little promo video that day. So stay tuned for that. Check out the social media for that.

Brian Pritchard: I'm in. Well, I look forward to seeing you guys in like 30 days, and we're gonna have a fun evening of, you know, dancing under the stars. So we'll see you there. It'll be fun.

The Femaliens: We're ready. Yay. We'll see you guys there. All right. Uranus. Uranus.

[Outro track, approx. 00:36:00–00:38:00]

Brian Pritchard: Just for you.