penguincafeorchestraWahrscheinlich jugendlicher Irrsinn und jetzt müssen sie damit leben.
Jugendlicher Irrsinn plus Alkohol. Es gibt ein Interview, rund fünf Jahre nach der Bandgründung geführt, in dem Julia Shapiro diese Frage beantwortet:
Q: I’ve heard you say that Chastity Belt got started as a joke college band.
A: We came up with the name before we had any songs or had played any shows or were even a band. We would just yell “Chastity Belt!” at other house shows and start chanting our name. Our first show that we ever played was for this thing called “Beta Fest”–it was a battle of the bands, so we decided to write a song for it and perform this one 6-minute long song. We had our friend rig the votes by just putting in tickets all night so that we would win. I also think that no one else really knew it was a competition, so yeah. We won. With our one fake song. (…)
Q: What was it about the term “chastity belt” that you guys were so drawn to?
A: God, at this point, it’s so hard to remember what we were thinking. I think we thought it was funny? And feminist in a way? It was me and (bass player) Lydia (Lund) who came up with it. We were kinda drunk this one night and were just like “Chastity Belt would be a good name for an all female band.” And then we decided that we were gonna claim that name.
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