Spewing out of Montreal with “Some Sort of Rock n’ Roll” is the drippy, mascara-slopped quartet, Pale Lips, whose sophomore album ‘After Dark‘ rattles hearts and brains alike via speakers and stages worldwide. After just completing their first tour of the US, the gang to talk about cool guitars, how not-cool effects pedals are and parallel-universe names for the band!
We had been jamming for a few weeks and decided it was time for a band name. We wrote a list of would-be band names down, some of which included: Jackie and the Jugs, Damn Boots, Cheap Perfume and Pale Lips. Pale Lips was drummer girl Lynn’s brainchild… and it captured us the most. Some people ask if the name is a double entendre… it is not! Lynn had the idea of starting an all-female punk band. She had her eye on Ilona as a possible guitar player (after seeing her in Dagger Eyes) and had been asking her for a while to start something. Lynn and Jamie met serendipitously in a van on the way to an after-party (by way mutual friend and now Jackie’s now husband Chance). In the wee hours of the morning, they talked about the prospective band and exchanged numbers. A few weeks later, Jamie, Lynn, and Ilona met for breakfast and started jamming covers shortly after. The original candidate for lead singer didn’t pan out. After furiously flipping through their Rolodexes, they landed on mutual friend and karaoke queen, Jackie Blenkarn. The rest, as they say, is history.
“The Kids” is the second single off of Pale Lips sophomore album “After Dark!”
The Fat Angel Sings 