Interesting band moniker—who came up with it and why?
Well, it was a band name waiting to happen. I decided I had to use it even before I had members for the band.
To get a song out on LA FM after playing for a month is a pretty formidable feat, how did that come about?
Getting a song on LA FM is the power of the Internet in full force. Big props to local music blog The Hamster and The Guppies for being influential. An LA FM DJ emailed me after listening to our track through the blog and that’s how we snuck into their airplay.
The band’s music seems dreamy twee enough, why then is it not possible to get airplay on local radio?
We haven’t tried approaching local stations because I think local mainstream stations don’t understand the lo-fi movement. I doubt the DJs even know bands like Dum Dum Girls exist. If you look at the playlist of Kxlu 88.9FM, we came on after Seapony and before Big Troubles. I much rather be in company of those bands than the Biebers and other teen idols.
If you had to describe the band as a literary character, who would it be?
Bret Easton Ellis’ alter ego in Lunar Park is the most apt. Stars of mild then descend into madness. Just like some of our tunes, especially “Dream”. The verse captures the feel of a really old song, and the chorus is dark and very effects driven.
Catch Obedient Wives Club playing alongside the likes of Plain Sunset, Cheating Sons, In Each Hand A Cutlass, Ingride and Run Neon Tiger at the local music celebration Lepa(r)k! on November 19 at Tiong Bahru Park.
