Clementine creevy how to#

She’s the reason I’m able to do what I do. We did a West Coast tour with one of her bands Sex Stains that she was in two years ago, which is now defunct. I hang out sometimes with Allison Wolfe from Bratmobile which was a ’90s Riot Grrrl band, super influential along with Bikini Kill and that whole scene. Well, being women we’re still fighting to be taken seriously, but we have a lot of women in the arts and in music that paved a path for us. So, I have been running into instances of people being very respectful and understanding of my history of having done this a lot. I still think of myself as a baby band but then I’m like, ‘Oh shit, I have been grinding at this for seven years.’ We’re not fucking Arcade Fire but people do know who we are. I’ve noticed people know who I am now, which is crazy to me. I love being on the road and venues are great to me. And then sometimes you run into a great deal of sexism and I think it’s like anything else in the world, because misogyny permeates every aspect of our society. For the most part venues are accommodating, shows run smoothly, things are great. How has that shifted? Or is it still the same?

You’ve spoken about the misogyny you’ve faced specifically in venues, and now you’re 22, you’ve been doing this for awhile. And then I’m on tour for 10 months and I’m like. So, it’s a very natural place for me to be-I wish I could be on tour 24/7. And my version of success is making music. And being on tour allows me to play music every night. Being on tour is a really natural state for me because I love playing every night. It's complicated.ĭoes getting to travel on tour keep you more connected in a real way? But I think most of us have an awareness of that and know that that’s shitty, and that’s, to me, a good starting point. But I think Facebook and Instagram want us to believe that we are a brand, and I think that’s really harmful. I’d feel like a part of my identity had been stripped away. And if my Instagram account got deleted I would probably go into a state of panic. And I think the way it meshes with creative careers-a lot of people feel like they have to have an Instagram because it’s how you promote yourself. It is something we all collectively complain about, but then a lot of us are still really addicted to it.

Clementine creevy how to#

I don’t think we’ve figured out how to navigate that yet, but I think we’re at a good starting point. Because if we’re all talking about how shitty it makes us feel, then there’s a consensus that maybe we should do something about this thing that makes us feel horrible about ourselves all the time. I think we have such a complicated relationship with it and I think the fact that everyone talks about how social media makes them feel bad is in and of itself an act of radical pushback. But there’s so much cool stuff on the internet too-I’ve met a lot of cool people from the internet. I feel like a lot of the crap on the internet is a projection of our fears just accumulated into one and we’re forced to look at it. And that’s sad to me because that’s not reality. And I think when you get stuck in an internet K-hole, that idea can be tarnished. I’m of the school that thinks that the world is not a bad place and for the most part, our inclination is to love one another and that we want peace and harmony-that the world isn’t bad, that it’s awesome and beautiful. It wasn’t a place where I discovered who I was at all. I had been musical ever since I was like, four years old, so it was something that facilitated what I was already doing. There’s a lot of great things on the internet and a lot of corruption as well. But what do you think of it as a landscape? I’m interested to hear your perspective about the internet, because in your case it was something that helped you get into your passion with music. I always played guitar and was writing a lot of songs. Then Joel Jerome who is an LA producer/songwriter, he helped me record my first batch of recordings when I was 15. I started making Cherry Glazerr songs when I was 15 and I started recording my own music with help from my friend Paige who is in this band called Tashaki Miyaki. A lot of my earliest experiences with rock music came from the internet. I also watched a lot of videos of bands playing on YouTube.

I was really into No Age and Battles and angular rock bands.

When I was 14 I started going and seeing a lot of bands around LA. How did you realize you were into making music? Something she’s doing a lot of these days.ĭuring a brief stop in New York, the singer sat down with office to talk Stuffed & Ready and growing up. Aside from having had Cherry Glazerr songs featured in film soundtracks, Creevy’s acted on Transparent and modeled for the likes of Saint Laurent-but her idea of success is simply getting to make music and go on tour.