HEAVE sat down with a fatigued Andy Fry of Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s after their set at Lollapalooza to discuss the new record, the show they just played and how their Daytrotter session went.

HEAVE: Are you happy with how your set turned out?

Andy Fry: It was so thrilling. A lot more fun than I thought it would be.

HEAVE: Was the crowd as big as you wanted it to be?

Andy Fry: What I wanted it to be? (laughs)

HEAVE: Expected it to be?

Andy Fry:  It was. I mean we were on pretty early; way too early to play a show. 12:30.

HEAVE: How do you deal with the heat?

Andy Fry:  I’ve got to be honest. I really don’t like that part at all. It’s hard. You get way too sweaty. It’s really hard for me mentally when there is no roof over my head. I feel like a very tiny and insignificant speck on this enormous landscape. I guess I can get over that. It’s hard for me to watch bands outside, too. I get really distracted. Lights really help.

HEAVE: You guys all grew up in Indiana – what was the music scene like?

Andy Fry:  There were some really good bands. I grew up in the nineties, and there was a pretty good scene in Bloomington when I was going to school. I had a few heroes that were transplants from the Boston scene. A guy from the Blake Babies – just bands like that. It was a pretty thriving scene and I started from that. There was always something going on. We had so much time. We didn’t have to work that hard.

HEAVE: Well, it is Indiana.

Andy Fry:  Yeah. I’ve never had a full time job.

HEAVE: If you had to have a full time job, what would it be?

Andy Fry : I thought astronaut would be cool but I realized I had a fear of heights. I used to want to be a marine biologist, but I’m afraid of scuba diving. I think anything that I wanted to do I developed an irrational fear so I wouldn’t have to. A painter. I want to be a painter. Does that count? Am I allowed to say that?

HEAVE: Oh that is good, yeah. You guys just recorded your Daytrotter sessions. What was the experience like?

Andy Fry: : It reminded me a lot of Indiana. We went into this old building – up to the third floor. We have a studio in Indianapolis that is a lot like their studio. A bunch of old analog gear that you might have to punch a few times to make work. It was comfortable. We just sat down in a room and played. It was pleasant.

HEAVE: What did you guys do to change it up a little?

Andy Fry: : What we did was all play in the same room. We stripped it down. The drummer played quiet and we really had to feel it out like that. It was a lot different than spending three months recording, or the better half of two years. I was really happy with how it turned out. They wouldn’t let us go back and fix things. They are all just full takes so there are some mistakes in it. Stuff we would have done again – but I like it because it’s congruent. It mashes together and flows right.

HEAVE: You have two albums coming out on October 7th, Animal and Not Animal, what is the difference between the two?

Andy Fry: : The difference is we turned in Animal, and we finished it and turned it in – that was the record called Animal. They let us do our thing, but when we turned it in they said they weren’t going to release this. They asked what the hell it was. So we talked them into letting us release it on vinyl. We recorded like twenty or thirty songs, so they picked the ones that they wanted and those are coming out on Not Animal. It’s cool that they are all coming out, though. Whatever people want to listen to is fine, but we want people to know that Animal is the record that we made. The other one is songs that we made.

HEAVE: It’s too bad people don’t buy vinyl that much.

Andy Fry: : Best Buy is going to start carrying vinyl again. I think they realized that people can’t copy vinyl very easily, and that it might be wise to go back to it.

HEAVE: We need to create a vinyl recorder.

Andy Fry: : Yeah, some laser that zaps it off there.

HEAVE: You all lived together in a house in Indiana – how was that possible?

Andy Fry: When we originally got together and had the theory that we are going to do this or we are going to die. I really felt that way. I had a house, and it was cheaper so we all just moved there. We made a bunch of extra bedrooms from the bedrooms that were in there. It was a flophouse, but it was cheap so we could tour.

HEAVE: I pictured it having an Elephant Six vibe.

Andy Fry:  You know, we hardly ever played music in that house. There was no room! It was a functional thing, though.

HEAVE: Ok, so you are here at Lolla, which band did you really want to see?

Andy Fry : I really wanted to see that band with the kids in it - Tiny Masters of Today. I always call them Masters of the Universe because of He-man. I wanted to really see Kanye after what happen at Bonnaroo. I love going to shows and not knowing if it’s going to be a disaster or not. I like that tension. It seems to be missing from a lot of bands today. I like seeing people mess up.