Familiarize Yourself

Chicago-based band glittermouse may have gained inspiration from Bertrand Russell when it came to naming their band, but there is nothing dark or controversial about their music. glittermouse’s Jeremy Mumenthaler gave us an inside look at how the band began, the naming process, and who they are influenced by in this week’s edition of FYW’s Band of the Week!

Be sure to catch glittermouse’s live show on NOVEMBER 19TH at our favorite venue, Metro Chicago.

When the band started as a dorm room project, what were your goals for glittermouse?

The goal of glittermouse was always to have fun and be outrageous. When we realized that people started to like our music and enjoyed our shows, we decided to get serious, the point was to make engaging music that involved our audience.

Did the additional members help shape your sound to what we hear on the demo? And if you had to classify your music as a particular genre what would it fall under?

Each member comes from a different musical background which allows glittermouse to have it’s original sound. We all compliment each other with our own flair. We don’t really like to pick genres, but we fall under rock. It’s all just rock anyways, rock just means it makes you move, and that’s what we do. We have been considered, “fraggle-rock, pop, feel-good, space, fun, soul, dance, march”, and the list goes on.

What bands have influenced you over the years that you’d recommended our readers become “familiar with”?

We all have our own influences that bridge the spectrum. If it’s got soul, we like it. We have been compared to the Silversun Pickups, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead and The Flaming Lips to name a few.

glittermouse is an usual, but catchy name. How did it come about?

Bertrand Russell, Lewis Carroll, Michael Jackson. That is our line of thought. Bertrand Russell had a theory, the teapot theory, which you should look up. This led us to Lewis Carroll to get “door mouse” and we used pop sensation Michael Jackson to make it more interesting with glitter. Voila! glittermouse.

Recently you placed 4th out of 200 bands at the Elbo Room’s battle of the bands, what was that experience like?

You know fourth isn’t first, but we are happy with our placement. We like to think of it as another opportunity to perform for our fans.

Do you any any upcoming shows or releases you’d like to plug?

In fact we do! It’s our guitarist/singer Michael’s birthday and we are planning to release some music we have been working on the past few months.

Shoeshine Boy Productions presents:
glittermouse, Boho Paisley, Helicopters, Weber Band
at metro
Thurs. Nov. 19th, 7:30pm

Pre-Sale Tickets only $6. Type “glitter” next to “band 1″