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Kat and the Hurricane ‘Got it Out’ Live in the Lair on Max Ink Radio

Max Ink Radio · Sat Aug 10, 2024

It is Saturday night and you're listening to Max Anchor radio on the Civic Media Network

and it's time for live in the layer with rocker and cat in the hurricane.

Thanks Rob.

You know, cat in the hurricane is genre and gender bending indie pop trio from Madison.

Cat in the hurricane released their debut EP Miles Away in 2017, followed up with 2020's

Libra and then the SAR EP in 2021.

Now their upcoming fourth album got it out is releasing on October 4th, 2024.

That's just in another month or so.

With a new single releasing in days and shows coming up around Wisconsin in August and September,

cat in the hurricane are here in the studio to perform live in the layer on Max Anchor radio.

Cat Ben Alex, welcome to Max Anchor radio.

Hey Rocker.

What's up everybody?

Wow, you know, cat in hurricane has performed on our show.

Probably I think this is the fourth time.

And in every single station too.

Yeah, every single station, every single moniker and every single studio now.

For sure.

Because you know, the first studio we were over in Normandy Lane in Madison.

That's over on the west side and it was just this real non-descript office.

Yeah, it was like a shoe box too.

Yes, shoe box.

Yeah, we were in different rooms.

Remember that the control engineer would be completely in a different room.

Yeah, yeah.

And then of course over at University Avenue with the big windows and now here on State Street.

So we're really glad to have you guys.

Thank you for having us.

Yeah, thanks.

Well, tonight we're going to hear some of your new songs, some old songs that maybe even something people have never heard.

And we're going to get to know the band members individually.

But before we do, let's talk a little bit about the band.

This is a band with a lot of feeling, a lot of ideals, a mission and a lot of heart.

Tell us about your band that in technical terms is a gender and genre to fight mix of queer emo and sapphic bobs.

What exactly does that mean?

So glad you asked.

I'm twisted.

Yeah, well, I mean, we're a lot of things to a lot of people.

We were inspired, especially by this new album.

And I guess this is like a teaser for later.

But we've really been inspired by I guess like early 2000s, like pop punk and pop and rock.

That's what we grew up on a lot.

And our music has kind of spanned more synthy dancing routes, kind of the sad, like, crooning pop world.

So it's been a lot of things, but we kind of like to use tongue in cheek descriptions like that.

That really is just about saying something real that resonates with who we are.

Now, would you say that your songwriter is like focused inward or focused outward?

Are you making commentary or is this announced everywhere word everywhere?

Yeah, actually.

So I feel like one of the ways that we've described our music in the start as a joke at first, but sad lesbian music.

And that really described, I think, that kind of introspective songwriting that we had been doing.

Our EP Libra is very much in that same vein.

And definitely the sorry EP as well.

All about kind of going, like, being in your feelings, going through it, you know, being sorry for who you are, things like that.

But I feel like this new record that we're working or that's about to be out is a little mixture of both.

Like, definitely going through it, definitely having the feelings and being introspective about that.

But also processing it.

Processing it.

Yeah.

And getting it out.

So there's that like transition into the external.

And yeah, we do have a little bit of commentary actually on the state of the world in this album too, which is newer for us to be more explicit in that regard.

So that's exciting.

How long have you guys been together?

The three of us we've been doing this since 2019 when Benjamin and I found our way here in Madison.

And then what a perfect time to try to go out and meet people and play shows and just for in time, you know, the pandemic to hit.

And we saw our first our first tour kind of go down the drain for a minute there.

But I think we finally, you know, we made a comeback when when things started opening up.

Now you guys came, I think from Jamesville.

Yes.

From the Jamesville area.

Now, the double entendre with the name cat and hurricane is there a secret meaning to this?

Absolutely.

Not so good.

Let's clear it up.

Let's clear it up on the radio cat.

Clear it up.

I was so I like thought for sure I had discovered it.

Wait, what is the double entendre that you're getting?

I don't know.

Oh, oh, oh.

Okay. Well, I can tell you a little bit of the backstory of that name.

I used to be in a band that had like eight, nine, ten people in it.

And when that finally dissolved, everybody kind of went off in their own direction.

And everybody had their own projects already established.

And I was the newest one to the group, like newest in terms of like getting into guitar

and like actually being a musician.

And everybody had a project and I didn't.

And so I was like, well, I, if I'm going to do a project, I'm going to need a name.

So I went on Google and I googled a band name generator.

Oh.

And I hold on.

Hold on.

Oh, there is a secret.

There is a secret.

Let me know.

I typed in a band name generator.

It popped up.

I typed in my name and I just kept hitting the, the generate button until something came

up of like cat and the weather.

And I was like, oh, that's kind of cute.

Yeah.

My name is cat and I'm here with the weather.

Yeah.

And that's when I kind of cycle through weather things, right?

And so that's where cat and her cane came from.

And so the cat and the cane was, it was like super snappy.

Yeah.

Right.

So I just rolled with it, made a Facebook page.

And the rest is history.

Yep.

Yeah.

And the website happened to be open.

Yeah.

And the website happened to be open.

Oh, and part two of that story is, well, I was in middle school when Hurricane Katrina hit.

And so when that happened, kids are cruel in middle school.

And so the next day after it hit, I got on the school bus and kids were cruel to me.

And they're like, where did go, Katarina?

And I'm like, first of all, my name is Katarina, not Katrina.

And so I think it's really funny to bring it back all these years later.

So here I am.

I'm in Hurricane.

And I got the five.

I've got the, you know, who's the coolest kid on the bus now, though, it's clearly me.

Wow.

They're trying to make fun of me, but they can't keep me down.

As a great story.

As a gender bending band, what if any obstacles have you faced along in your journey and music?

Honestly, just the state of the world's kind of rough.

And we have to work so much harder too.

We really do.

I mean, so I grew up like, I don't know, music is such a boys club, right?

And I mean, that's still the case today.

And I swear, I'll just see bands post their show posters.

And it's just an all-men lineup.

And it's just normal.

And we just take for granted.

The spice in that.

I know.

We take for granted musicians who are not men.

So I think that like the state of the world and also the fact that it's like continually

every year that I've been alive, the deadliest year on record for trans people, like the

morale is low.

Definitely gives us a lot to process.

And I think a lot of songwriting comes from like just, you know, not only exploring gender

and what that means societally, but like how that's hitting us as trans people.

So yeah, definitely can say that.

That's fun.

I want to be visible for our community, because I think that helped spring the morale up

of like, you can do this too.

And I think a lot of our songs are inherently to the core about survival, because we're

still here.

And a lot of trans people from our community are not.

What do you, is the most misunderstood fact or concept when it comes to people labeled

or self-identifying as gender bending or LGBTQ plus?

I feel like there's as many genders as there are people and it's not a big deal, y'all.

Yeah, I feel like one of his, like if I had to pick one, there's a lot, but if I had

to pick one to sum it up, like if they're like, we're just people at the end of the day

and, you know, people will say, well, like don't make being LGBTQ or like your gender,

your sexuality, the only thing about you or like the main thing about you.

And I've never feel like I do that about myself.

I feel like it's what other people do to me.

I'm like, that is certainly not the most interesting thing about me.

It's just the thing that I feel like people want to talk about the most, because they

just don't understand it, which I get.

So I guess that's my thing, is people misunderstand that the only reason that it's the thing we're

talking about all the time is because we have to keep explaining ourselves, I'd much rather

talk about my music or my interests or other things, but yeah, that's what I'll say about

that.

Great answer.

Well, let's get to some of my music in the layer with Cat and the Hurricane presented

by the Aaron Weber group.

The first song you have for us tonight, it's called On My Way Back.

Tell us about this song before you play.

This song is the first single that we released on this album cycle, not really knowing where

it was going to go or what was going to happen with it.

When I wrote it, I write most of my songs on an acoustic guitar, and then when we take

it to this studio, it usually transforms into something we never thought that it would

look like.

So this started as an acoustic, like, folk-ish song, and then we brought it to the studio

with our producer, Matt LePlanet, and we turned it into like a dance rock anthem, almost

like a disco beat, and we released it right before we went on stage last year at Live

on Queen Street.

Wow.

We debut it for the very first time, and it's a banger.

It's a banger.

And the song in itself is about living some life going out, experiencing some experiences,

and then finding your way coming back to yourself.

Because at a certain point, at a certain age, you're going to be the person that you're

going to be for the rest of your life.

So it's like settling into that person and kind of nurturing the version of you that

may have gotten damaged along the way, and also holding space for yourself of like, you've

experienced some things, and then this is who you are, and this is how you're going

to live the rest of your life, and accepting that it is what it is, and you got to take

care of yourself.

And so it's about coming back to yourself at the very end of the day.

Wow.

That's really profound.

Well, great.

Let's hear it.

This is Kat and Hurricane.

You're listening to Max and Gradio.

This is Live in the Lair.

Remember that you can go to the website and download the app.

Listen to this on your phone.

Right now, let's hear Kat and Hurricane live in the Lair.

Thanks for having me.

I'm going back, I'm on my way back, to where I started, to where I started.

Now I'm working with what I have now.

If you're on that bono to get back, mind, stick my thumb out, and ask for directions.

You probably call up a friend and ask him, so I'm on my way back.

I'm on my way back.

I'm on my way back, to where I started, to where I started.

I'm on my way back.

We're on our way back.

We're on our way back, to where we started, to where we started.

I'm on my way back.

You are listening to Kat in the Hurricane live in the Lair on Mexican Radio.

Wow, how cool is that live music in the Lair, Kat in the Hurricane.

Let's get back, Kat.

Ben, let's get to know your band a little bit.

Let's start with Keyboardist and Vocalist Benjamin Rose.

Ben, what is your backstory?

How did you get involved with music?

Music's been part of my life, as long as I can remember, really.

My family is a pretty musical family.

I took piano lessons as a kid for about 10 years, and so that's kind of always been

a background, and kind of that training has always been with me.

I also kind of grew up in a context where I was really involved in church music, which

is in a huge part of my life now, but it is where I learned to play with other people.

So that's ever since I was in high school, I've been playing with other people on stage.

So I got a lot of experience doing that, and now it just feels right to be doing it with

something that feels a little bit more personal and close to home.

What role did your parents play in your music while upbringing?

Both of my parents are musicians, neither of them perform or anything.

They're not professional musicians, but both of them are very musical.

My dad plays guitar.

My mom played flute and piano and everything as a kid.

So my family definitely has a belief in the art, so they paid for me to take piano lessons.

So that definitely started me to where I am now.

Do you play other instruments?

I play some guitar, I'm self-taught on guitar, and that's mostly it.

I do a little production stuff, but keys are my first love.

So how did you run into this group, Cat and Hurricane?

That is a great story.

So yeah, Cat and I both grew up in the Jamesville, Wisconsin area.

I went to college out in Michigan, and when I moved back, Cat had been here performing

with their other band while I was in Michigan.

That kind of stretch of years, and when I came back, is right around the time that Cat

kind of set off to do the solo project.

And we just kind of ran into each other at an open mic that the cat had been going to

four years, and I had come back from college, like, I want to do the music thing.

We heard each other.

We just kind of were like, what?

We did the Spider-Man meme with the fingers, and we're like, hello, have you been here

the whole time?

And we were like, we should totally jam.

And it was literally like a couple months later that Cat was like, do you want to be in

my band?

Hold on, tell them about the Facebook.

Oh yeah, so I got to tell, so Cat had, so we met in like the fall.

Of 2017, along with our friend Candice Griffin, and we all kind of, you know, started

hanging out, and we were doing music stuff.

And Cat had posted on Facebook, they're like, I just want to start taking this thing seriously.

I want to do Cat in the hurricane.

I was like, I'm looking for a bassist and a keyboardist, if anyone knows anything,

me like saving that post looking at it every day.

Like, I should just message them.

Be like, let's do it.

And I was like, no.

And then they message me.

Too slow.

And they're like, hey, so do you want to play keyboard in my band?

And so here we are.

Wow.

That's pretty cool.

So Facebook played a huge part.

Yes.

Facebook and local open mics.

What club was that at?

It's a little coffee shop called Mocha Moment, and shout out to Mocha Moment.

Wow.

It has my heart.

I have so many wonderful memories.

They like brewed a band.

Yeah.

Literally multiple.

Multiple.

That was the first time I ever got up in front of a crowd and played my guitar.

Wow.

That is a great story.

And the hurricane have a large catalog of songs.

New singles seem to come out all the time.

What is your secreting ingredient of song rating?

Going into lockdown during pandemic times and having fun, I don't know what to do then

just cook up a bunch of news.

The secret of writing good songs is having a bad time in real life.

Um, no, but we, uh, listening to it.

Wow.

That is it, I think, you know.

Not that I'm recommending, but this new album is called Got It Out and it's really

a reflection of, you know, we've, we've all gone through things in our lives and the

music is the place we put it all so that we can kind of get it out of our system and

put it into the music.

Wow.

Well, let's get back to live music in the layer with cat in the hurricane presented by

the Aaron Weber group.

The next song you have, it's brand new.

It's unreleased and it's called Smoke.

Is this a verb or a noun?

Oh.

It could be both maybe another double entendre.

No, um, we're just being very mysterious.

It is, uh, in the context of, of the song, it's a noun.

Um, so this one is not released.

Uh, it is going to be on the album that's coming out in October, but we wanted to give

you a little sneak peek, uh, something that's, uh, that's new.

Um, we're really excited about it.

It's one of our favorites on the album.

It's a, the song that's the most collaborative, I think, ever between me, cat and Alex, um,

cat and Alex actually wrote the chord progression when they were living together early,

early days of lockdown.

So we weren't seeing each other in person.

We weren't having band practice.

They sent me this video or this clip of them playing this song.

And, uh, I actually used some of Alex's lyrics that they had written, um, to kind of,

like, write a melody.

So it's got pieces of all of us.

And it's just a song, uh, closes out the album.

And it's just kind of reflecting on these themes of healing and growing up and moving

on how, uh, even sometimes when you leave hard situations, there's still signs of it.

So even when the fire is gone, the smoke is still there and you can still kind of see

the traces.

Um, so this isn't known to anyone that's ever had a long term, you know, dealing with

those hard things.

Wow.

Awesome.

How profound.

Uh, this is smoke by Cat and Hurricane.

It's been months since I've heard from you, just as well, you're always got new time.

So tired of all my demons, I can't you with all of yours too.

It's been weeks since I've heard your name and days since I thought about the details

of your face.

I don't mean to sound thematic, but I think I might find it be okay, someday, yeah,

yeah.

It's been months since I've heard your name and days since I thought about the details

of your face.

It's been months since I've heard your name and days since I thought about the details

of your face.

It's been months since I've heard your name and days since I thought about the details

of your face.

Cat and the Hurricane on MaxingCradio.

Well, you know, that was absolutely amazing.

I am convinced after seeing you guys tonight and I wish Candice was here because the

harmony, the vocal harmonies that you guys are doing are literally the other member of

the band, like together, the harmonies are their own thing.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Thank you.

No, that's something we're really proud of and whenever we go into the studio, there's

lots and lots and lots of vocal tanks and we just try a lot of things and try to figure

out what fits together and I feel like it's become one of our signature things is the

kind of many layers of harmony that we try to do.

Years and years of practicing those harmonies.

Wow.

Do it well.

Well, you know, let's get to know the members a little more and we were going to ask this

question to Candice Griffin.

Of course, she can't be here tonight, but Candice is an artist in her own right since

she can't be here.

Tell us a little bit about your bandmate that also sings with this band.

We love Candice.

We love her so much.

Yes, she is my best friend of over a decade.

She is the reason that I am the musician that I am today because we went to high school

together.

She was a senior when I was a freshman, but we didn't become best friends until after

we were both graduated.

She was a part of the song share group, we became friends through a mutual friend and

then I got invited to the song share group and I'm like, wow, you guys do this every week

and like every week they would get together in a friend dance basement and we'd all just

go around in a circle and share our songs and then every other week we'd go to mocha

moment and we'd play the open mic and after doing that for like six, seven, eight months

we all just kind of looked around and we're like, guys, I think we're a band.

We should do this.

Wow.

Awesome.

We literally booked the corner of a Dunkin' Donuts in Jamesville, Wisconsin.

We were just like, hi, can we come set up?

We'll bring people in to buy your donuts and your drinks, but yes, all that to say,

she's been there for me at every hard moment of my life and we just love her so much and

in her own right is just an incredible lyricist.

She draws a lot of her inspiration from like Joni Mitchell and like Jewel and Fleetwood

Mac, like we consistently cover Fleetwood Mac because we want to give the crowd a taste

of what Candace can do and her embodiment of like Stephen X.

Wow.

But yeah, she has so many albums out on band camp that you can get for free right now.

She just recently started adding things to Spotify.

She's played on this station quite often and we're cat in the hurricane, but when we're

with Candace, it's like we're her band, like we're her backing band and it just kind of

happened naturally.

She's like, I don't know.

Do you guys want to play with me?

We're like, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, that is too funny.

Well let's start talking about your new album, got it out.

It's due out on October 4th.

It's a great story.

It starts with a Kickstarter campaign to fund the entire album.

Talk about this process.

What what you did, how long it took to fund your album using Kickstarter, I mean, that

doesn't sound easy.

No.

It was, it was not.

And the reality, I mean, it's just, it's really hard to be an artist nowadays.

I guess for money.

It's really also hard to ask for money.

But we wanted to like not only like be like, hey, y'all, we want to put out this album,

it's really expensive.

Can you help us?

We also wanted to give something back to people.

So that's why we decided to use a Kickstarter platform rather than, you know, your GoFundMe's

or like, just Vennmois money or whatever.

And so we, I mean, our community has always been so much a part of who we are and what

we do.

And our, it's part of our live shows.

It's like just part of cat and the hurricane.

And so it only felt right that we would, you know, ask folks to be like, hey, can you

help us?

And in return, you can be part of this album.

So we launched a Kickstarter in May, I think, and we wanted to raise $6,000.

And so much of that was going to pay for recording and a recording that we had already done

most of.

And then for, you know, just packaging the albums, getting them out, distributing and

press and promo music videos, photoshoots, merch, merch, graphic design, oh my gosh,

there's so many things that go into an album cycle.

And so we wanted to like, paint picture of that for people in our community and invite

them in.

And so we rose, we rose $6,000 before the Kickstarter was due, which was unbelievable to us.

And by a lot of people that we don't even know.

Yeah.

Like, how far, what do you think was like, you're far this reach?

I mean, we're these locals and local people.

Yeah.

So it is national.

Skyland.

Wow.

Yeah, we were so fortunate.

And like, it was a really humbling experience to get this much support.

And so, yeah, we wrapped it up in like last month.

And now we're, you know, in the process of getting everybody, there were wards and things

like that.

And we were able to announce the album a couple of weeks ago.

It was really, really exciting to let our fans know, like, hey, here's this album we've

been working on.

And also here's the album art.

It's already made and ready to go.

And here's this new single that we're putting out called therapy that we're really excited

about.

So that all was announced like a week or two ago.

And so, yeah, it's, it's been a whirlwind of a summer, but it's been really, really fun.

Well, speaking of therapy, getting the hurricane, have a new song being released on August 12th.

Just around the corner here.

And we're lucky enough to have a copy of it right now.

So before we premier this brand new song right here on Maxing Radio, it's the namesake

of the album.

Tell us about what we're about to hear.

We're going to listen to the recorded version of this song.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's right.

So this is a song that I remember Kat brought out of the room and we were living together

during the pandemic and was like, look at this little riff that I got.

I just got like a couple pieces of like a chorus and a couple pieces of a couple verses.

I was like, this could be something.

And we were like, oh, yeah, this is definitely going to be something.

And so when we went to record the album, we actually went to record with our co-producer

Matt LaPlanet when everything was in their demo phases, which is really, really special

because we got to record everything really from the ground up.

We didn't really have very many tracks that came in like as the demo ready to go or anything

like that.

We got to work with him and doing that.

And this was one of them.

And so we just started like riffing on it and one thing from the ground up.

Yeah, one thing led to another and Matt was so into this song.

Matt was so excited.

He was like, this is the one.

This is the one.

And we were like, I think so too, I guess.

But it ended up being like one of our favorite songs on the album.

It's like the, it's also the namesake of the album.

So we called it got it out because that's a refrain that we repeat over and over in the

song therapy.

And it really encapsulates a lot of what we were trying to go for in this album, which is,

you know, expressing what's on your heart, getting it out.

And yeah, not suffering as much.

It's like Weezer meets girly pop music.

Oh, that's a great description.

All right.

Well, let's check it out right here.

A Maxine Gradio.

It's the premiere of the brand new song by Cat in the Hurricane.

It's called Therapy.

This is Maxine Gradio.

We are local music.

I hope that now you've had the time.

Did you make some time to finally talk to someone?

Because you got it out, you got it out of your system, you got it out over me and

him and her and them and me.

Oh, we got it out, we got it out almost completely.

We got it out with what we like to call it.

Oh, we got it out.

And on riding songs about you, if you don't count this one.

I pay for all your insecurities, but not to be your surface.

Dad, dad, dad, we got it out, we got it out almost completely.

We got it out, we got it out, we what we like to call it.

Oh, we got it out.

We got it out, we got it out, we what we like to call it.

Oh, we got it out, we what we like to call it.

Oh, we got it out, we got it out, we got it out.

We got it out, we got it out, we got it out, we got it out.

We got it out, we got it out.

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Rocker, cat and the hurricane have been knocking the roof off this building.

Boy, I thought you were going to curse there for a moment, Rob.

I'm going to have to hit the dome button.

Man, we've gotten to know Ben and Candice.

Now let's give the drummer some.

This is Alex Nelson.

Alex, tell us a little of your backstory.

How did you start playing the drums?

Oh my gosh, yeah.

So my dad is a professional drummer in the Quad Cities of the Illinois side region.

Yeah, yeah, he's a professional drummer.

And so I grew up with drums.

There was a little too intimidating for me though.

So I took up guitar.

And then it wasn't until I moved Madison started thinking seriously about doing

solo music career with the guitar stuff that I've been doing.

And music writing that, I'm at cat through a mutual friend.

And they were in cat and hurricane.

And they were like, hey, do you want to play drums?

I'll get you a drum kit because that was the only thing I didn't have.

And I was like, well, I mean, if you insist.

It's just like in the blood.

Yeah.

You just sat down and then it just happened.

No, genuinely, genuinely.

Yeah, look, I just absorbed it growing up.

And I had always drummed, but I'd never drummed on a drum kit.

So, yeah, that was the first time we did it.

And the first time I ever drummed on a drum kit was in a barn.

And it's just hit all the three from there.

In a barn.

Yeah, it was so fun.

It's the pizza barn.

In East Troy, Wisconsin.

Now, you also play from time to time with Sisa?

Yes, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I love playing with Sisa.

There's such a fun group.

And we actually are playing the Hanyun saloon this week with Reyna.

Oh, yeah.

That's right.

Well, let's continue this story about your new album.

Got it out.

We heard about the funding.

Tell us the rest of the story, the artistic side.

You know, where was recorded?

What's going on when they give us the skinny?

Yeah.

We've already kind of dropped some of this, but yeah,

we recorded it with Matt LePlanet of Mattown Mix Studios right here in

Madison, Wisconsin.

Unfortunately, he left us.

He's in North Carolina now.

He got a really cool job opportunity.

But we can say this album was all recorded here in Madison.

And yeah, like I said before, it's just been the most collaborative project.

We, the four of us, me, Kat and Alex and Matt all kind of co-produced everything

from the demo stage all the way to its final form.

So just a labor of love very much though.

Well, now, Kat, we've heard the entire band, but we haven't heard from you.

Hey.

How did you get involved playing music?

What is your back story?

It was an app.

Remember.

A band generator.

No, I guess my story starts way before that.

As a child, apparently always wanted to be the center of attention.

And now it terrifies me, which is so funny because we have this band that we got to do now.

But ever since I was a little kid, I was always grabbing for the microphones at weddings

apparently.

And I was, I found myself in a youth group.

And when they found out that I could sing, I was the one to sing the national anthem every single time.

And I got my influences in music from my dad.

And he inherited to me all of his dad rock music.

And one dead rock music.

Dead rock music.

What?

Define that for me, please.

For me, it was a lot of Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

It's better than I thought.

Steve Miller band.

And the one that really stuck with me was actually Paul McCartney.

I got hooked on his Ram album.

And I wore the heck out of that mixed CD that my dad burned for me.

Oh, that is a great story.

That's very interesting.

Dead rock.

I don't want to want to offend any dads out there.

I immediately went to Yacht Rock.

And I was like, uh, absolutely.

Yeah, yeah.

Notice the sugar cane.

That's affectionate, you know?

Yes.

Very affectionate.

Now, uh, let's see.

Let's get back to live.

Music in the layer with Kat and the hurricane presented by the Aaron Weber group.

The next song you have for us tonight, it's a classic.

Now, uh, it's called, sorry, then I'm like this.

Is this satirical or rhetorical?

Both.

Yes.

I mean, you know, you just, you have to, you know, sometimes you mess up on something.

And it's just like a really fun, funny cheek and, uh, uh, tongue and cheek thing to be like,

sorry, that I'm like this.

Like, I don't know how we got here, but this is a very silly thing that I did.

Um, but the other meaning of it is just like, uh, sorry that I'm like this as in, like,

here, who I am as a person.

And it's like reclaiming that back of like, no one should be sorry for who they are as a person.

Right.

Unless, unless you're a bad person.

I mean, I don't know what to tell you that, but, um, oh, uh, but yes, uh, that,

that, that's the first song that I ever co-wrote with Benjamin.

And it's almost at 100,000 streams across many different platforms.

Wow.

We're very excited about that.

Uh, the running joke is that when it hits 100,000 streams on Spotify,

I'm going to get a nice big tattoo on my shoulder.

Oh, really?

It's like the heart with the sorry that I'm like this ribbon.

Like all, like American traditional.

Oh, what a tribute.

And I'm sticking to that.

I'm going to get that tattooed on my body.

Yep.

Absolutely.

Do you have a tattoo pilot you're thinking of here?

Uh, oh gosh.

Uh, well, uh, Red Clover, uh, Red Clover.

Absolutely.

Red Clover.

Um, over on, what is it?

Are they on Main Street?

No, barely.

No, barely in Main.

Uh, Red Clover.

Oh, really?

Uh, Red Clover.

Red Clover.

Yeah.

Let's hear it.

Alright, let's go.

One, two, one, two, three, go.

One, two, three, go.

Hey.

I saw you in the middle of a crud in bro.

You'll be the valko away.

Now can I like you?

I barely even like myself.

I'll make it hard to stay.

And I don't know.

Is that good enough?

I couldn't help.

I'll be myself.

I still want again.

Done, I know.

Good, Emily.

That she picked me.

We didn't anyway.

Sorry that I'm like this.

I can't sleep.

Because you're haunting me.

You're just feeling fun and new.

I hear them speak.

If I don't hate myself by now,

I'll never know.

I love you.

I don't know.

Is that good enough?

I'll be myself.

Once again.

Done, I know.

Good, Emily.

That he picked me.

We didn't anyway.

Sorry that I'm like this.

We couldn't help.

It's like we ourselves.

Once again.

Done, I know.

Good, Emily.

You didn't make me.

You didn't anyway.

Sorry that I'm like this.

Cat in the hurricane.

The

best.

That makes me to go to him.

You can see anything on the

maths.

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We just can't helpаste my

ass.

I'm like this I'm maxing skull.

We're playing a lot of games in one day.

Two shows.

And I get to tell you I've enjoyed saying

damsel trash.

Like, all week long.

Yes.

We love them.

Damsel trash is a band that kind of carved out a

space in Madison before we even got here and we

wouldn't be able to do what we're doing without bands like

them who paved the way and so we're super excited about

you can park and also the damsel trash show.

I can also just kind of name drop some other shows we got

coming up in September because we've got this album

coming out October 4th.

We're trying to do a little mini tour just around

Wisconsin in the area.

So September 13th, we're at Appleton Beer Factory in

Appleton on September 20th.

We are going to be at Northeastern Wisconsin pride up

in the Green Bay area.

Then on September 21st, we're going to be at Project

North Festival in Rhinelander.

Then we've got some more in October that aren't announced yet,

but we're definitely going to have a Madison show in there.

Definitely going to have a Milwaukee show in there.

So we're going to have to come back and see a rocker.

Oh, yeah, let's talk about that.

But definitely check out Count and the Hurricane.com or any

of our socials to see where we're going to be all over.

You too.

We're all over.

Wow.

Well, you know, I see though that you're going to be in

deep here then Rhinelander in just two days time.

Yes.

That's going to be a lot of driving, seeing a lot of Wisconsin.

We are going to see a lot of Wisconsin.

You know, last year we went on our first national tour.

We drove all the way out as far as Providence or at Island.

So I think it's time to give Wisconsin a turn for some driving.

Well, let's get back to live music in the layer with

Cat and Hurricane presented by Aaron Weber group.

The next song you have for us tonight, it's called

Caffeine and Alcohol.

Is this about being a wide awake drunk?

God, I hope not.

But maybe, you know, so this song is one of the singles

that is out right now from the album.

It is our fastest growing single.

The response to it's just been amazing.

We dropped it in May to April because it is amazing.

Thank you.

Yeah, this is the first song that I've sang lead on

on a Cat and the Hurricane track.

And it's really special to me.

Comes right out of my journal pages.

And it's just a song about growing up, trying to find

your way in your 20s and especially shout it to anyone

with religious trauma or family trauma.

Like this is a song for people who've gone through

the hard stuff and are just trying to make their way.

Nice.

All right, Cat and Hurricane, this is live in the layer.

You're listening to Maxing Gradio and this song,

Caffeine and Alcohol.

Here we go.

MUSIC

Anybody tell me

when my dreams ignite?

There's one to take on the world.

Right now, I'm taking on myself.

I'm just silly on set about the things that I once loved.

MUSIC

The second it's smoking from on my clothes

I can still smell it.

Is this the...

I'm feeling alcohol in my mind.

MUSIC

The second it's smoking from on my clothes.

MUSIC

The second it's smoking from on my clothes.

MUSIC

I'm just silly on set about the things that I once loved.

MUSIC

I'm just silly on set about the things that I once loved.

MUSIC

I'm just silly on set about the things that I once loved.

MUSIC

I'm just silly on set about the things that I once loved.

MUSIC

I'm just silly on set about the things that I once loved.

MUSIC

I've filled homes with my eyes

but I still lay down with the walls.

I've never been discarded

but I still hate to sleep alone.

Maybe I could breathe better

than you just take off my shirt.

MUSIC

The second it's smoking from on my clothes.

I can still smell it.

MUSIC

The second it's smoking from on my clothes.

I can still smell it.

MUSIC

The second it's smoking from on my clothes.

MUSIC

I can still smell it.

MUSIC

The second it's smoking from on my clothes.

MUSIC

I'm just silly on set about the things that I once loved.

MUSIC

The second it's smoking from on my clothes.

I can still smell it.

Feeling the past outside of my face.

Love, caffeine, God, alcohol.

MUSIC

It's the caffeine and alcohol in my life.

It's in some kind of divine punishment.

It's the caffeine and alcohol in my life.

You've been listening to Live in the Lair on Maxing Gradio on the Civic Media Network.

I tried and done.

You know you're becoming undone.

MUSIC