Define your genre in five words or less:
Like regular hip hop, except dorkier.
What do you reckon people will say you sound like?
I probably wear a lot of my ‘90s hip hop influences on my sleeve, particularly De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, and Del the Funkee Homosapien. I don’t sound as good as any of them, but I’m sure my fandom got baked into my technique as I developed.
Describe the best gig you have ever played.
I think the very best performance I ever managed to give was on tour through my old home town of San Francisco, in a former speakeasy beneath Market Street in the Castro with an extremely packed and engaged little crowd that knew all the words.
Where would you like to be in five years?
I will in fact eventually be too old to leap around onstage for the amusement of young people. Five years from now is a pretty good guess for when that will be. So, dead in a ditch, I guess? Or at home in Brooklyn phoning in voice acting work from my project studio.
Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it?
I do a lot of stretching and drink almost but not quite too much coffee, then I hit my asthma inhaler and straighten my tie. When I have my whole band with me, we do a che che, which is a warm-up and synchronization routine for children. Helps us listen to each other and gets the blood flowing.
MC FRONTALOT plays The Workers Club on Monday November 2.
