NORA AND THE JANITORS

You can call me Nora. It's not my name but whatever. If I'd been a girl, it sure would have been. I started playing drums when I was ten and that was awesome but by the time I was thirteen I got sick of the limitations of a drum set; it's not an easy thing to articulate your sadness and disgust with the world through rhythm and volume alone. I got into Daniel Johnston and although I was never cool enough to crash airplanes and get beat up at a circus, I drew a lot of comics, bought a chord organ and started singing. It was an incredible moment to me when I realized, sitting in my basement, that anyone can write songs - even drummers.

When I was sixteen I released my first album, Frank, a cassette of noise music recorded during the summer of 2008. I thought Armageddon was coming. It was interesting. Eventually I started playing guitar, played some shows around NoDak and a couple out on the West Coast with a different band. Went to university for a year and a half, it sucked, and I released a shitty cassette-a-la-Johnston single on the internet (Elevator Song) about how much I hated it there and how weird life is. So I got out of that situation. I'm close with the people at a recording company here in Bismarck and I learned the basics of audio engineering. Last summer I grabbed all the instruments I could play and recorded what will become one half of a split release with MT/ND band Lawrence, Jennifer entitled Girls Just Want to Have Gun. It was released digitally on August 8, 2013.