Comedian Mae Martin wrote a rock album. When the world’s chaotic, ‘So much of life doesn’t have a punch line’

When the comedian May Martin first moved to Los Angeles, they set up a monthly residence in Largo in the crown. Martin, “Feel Goy”, and many of the popular Standup shows, fell in love with the history of music that passed through the club.

Martin said: “They had the piano that Elliot Smith played, I think,” Britain’s child. “So Flan, who runs Lajo, encouraged me to have music guests, so I started doing the covers of Elliot Smith. It was a great feeling that the comedy audience had patience for it, when you can hear a pin drop and the energy will change. These shows were built my confidence in music. “

This work with “I am TV”, Martin’s first album to write the original songs that excite the millennium that they grew up as well as the regular pop for Largo Canon. The LP is the Pithy in the way it writes Phoe Bridgers or Jenny Lewis one lines, but it has recorded an unexpectedly high song from one of the most intense and most aware minds in standing. Martin will perform it live in Regent on Wednesday.

The Times talked to Martin about making peace sincerely in music, how the lines hit the sects in a different way now, and what you do about the relationship of the interlocking comedy with the far right.

It is clear that this is a tense time for a Canadian comedian in the United States, how are you?

Like everyone, I am full of existential awe, and I try not to allow torment more than necessary and not to feel paralyzed because of the hopelessness of all of this at the present time, because I know that it is not hopeless. It looks like a tremendous step back. I have many friends who express activists, and I try to take my signals from them.

I hosted a CBC documentary About the non -bilateral identity, it must be frustrated by seeing people here Passports are wrong by force.

It is always frightening when the government does not agree to science. Yes, I felt as if we were really moving towards a place where young people do not have to defend their identity as much. Or that I can walk in a room and not to be the first thing that appears. But the vision is very important, and I try to hope that only by being a happy and confident person, this is a kind of resistance.

I am sure that we are just talking about your album and your upcoming show in Rignet on Wednesday.

It is certain for life in the tour, because you have this small mini -form of society, and remind you that people are good, they want to contact and that we have much more.

So let’s talk about the record. It strikes a sweet spot of sad rock music. When did you feel ready to create an album?

I have always written songs, but from the private sector. I made this show entitled “Feel Good” in England and my friend Charles Watson The composer was on it, and the guitar played on one of the songs. This was the first time that I was concerned about getting opinions about music and my taste, especially the emotion of music.

When I moved to Los Angeles after 12 years in England, I had a lot of time for myself, and re -contact with my serious side in North America. One of the players who produced the album, Jason, went to the summer camp when we were thirteen years of age. We used to play the vocal guitar next to the camp’s fire, and Ben Harper and the hog played tragicly. I think this comes, the warmth of the period in which I fell in love with music. A lot of life does not have a punch line, and in music you can be more recognized because you do not say, “Hello, I, and I say this about this particular incident in my life.”

You can really hear the Elliott Smith effect “Figure 8” on some songs such as “Garbage Strike”.

O man, I am a fan of Elliot Smith, the deep. I loved his last album, “From the Camps on the Hill”, which was dark and heavy, and I love Heatmiser. People have these associations with this type of sad vocal object. But his arrangements are very full, and there is a lot of Paul McCartney and George Harrison there. “Garbage Strike” is the most Canadian song, because it relates to the garbage strike in 2003 in Toronto. But this is a great comparison, I love this album a lot.

There is a song book like Jenny Lewis or Father John Mesti who are very funny, and comedians like Tim Heidrikir who wrote exciting music. How does intelligence work differently for you in these two different preparations?

If I have moments of intelligence, it is likely that you refer to a real paradox in life. I had to not get rid of the muscle memory to take people to an impressive place and then reduce this tension in the punching line. This is rooted inside me, not to take out anyone. The operation of Largo offers was like a first aid tearing, because there is a winking in the audience or the sponsorship in the middle of the road with a joke, but I had to adhere to a complete song.

When talking about Los Angeles nightlife, we have seen strange bars like Ruby Fruit Close during the past year, and it will be difficult to preserve small clubs of all kinds. Do you worry about nightlife here?

I remember in the early twenties of my life in Toronto, there were a lot of amazing or strange lesbian bars that no longer exist. We definitely feel a retreat. Most of my life felt that I am part of the comedy community more than Queer, because most of my nights are in comedy clubs. I have never made an invisible effort to save myself in nightlife, but now I feel I have to do this because I want to support these companies, and society feels more important than ever.

“I know this is not hopeless,” the comedian May Martin said about a recent reaction to the reaction. “It looks like a huge step back.”

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I was honest about addiction in your work, especially “you feel satisfied” and “the drug”. When the world feels like it is collapsing, is it difficult to maintain recovery as a priority?

I try to be awake when addictive behaviors explode. But you are right, when the world feels increasingly shining, those amazing behaviors are in the tips of our fingers. I grew up in rehabilitation, I felt that addiction was just something that was for drug addicts. But a major shift for me was when I understood addiction as a calming mechanism for basic things, and how we all participate.

It is boring to say, but I am very addicted to my phone. I feel that I have a good handle on the material, but I definitely feel myself sliding into numb because of the size of the bad news. I do a lot of escape rooms. I think I have done more than 60 in Los Angeles I have this app for it, “Hey, here is a prize to do many escape rooms.” It is a more healthy transformation, but I found myself chasing through a maze by a man wearing like Minotur, and I was like, “This looks like a red sign that this is the way I relax.”

“Gray”, your Next Netflix seriesHe was appointed to the troubled teenage industry and exploring the dynamics of worship. Do these topics fall differently now and then when you started working in this offer?

definitely. I was working on it for years, and two years ago, this topic entered Zeitgeist with the story of Paris Hilton. It has a honest framework about troubled teenage industry, but also of its kind of excitement, and sects are a great likeness to coercion of society.

He was appointed in 2003, and this was an interesting thing in the differences from then, the conflict between generations and all critical thinking that you must suppress as an adult to participate in these systems. We have talked to many sociologists and worship experts who talk about the language used by the sect leaders, and the double speaking that I have definitely noticed in the current discourse.

This electoral session showed how some elements of the reserve comedy culture push a lot of the far right, with President Trump on Joe Rogan and Tony Henkeskef performs in the Trump gathering. It can be said that Dave Chapheel contributed to the current violent reaction to combating the conservation in his work. Is it interesting to see people with backgrounds to stand up to this direct line to the far right in power?

Yes, it’s very strange. But I can see where they met, because governments reach reality TV now. I got the “Apprentice” host, so of course he will want to speak to the “Fear factor” host. But these men refer to, they are not part of my comedy community. I do not think about it. What they want is to participate in fighting with them. I prefer to agree with qualified people, thinkers and scientists. I hope that the heroes of me are still fighting the good battle and not falling into this perception that the enemy is the left.

I am thinking about returning to the thing in the last “SAP”, as you talk about how our minds are these small rooms that we show to others to be known. Looking at everything that is happening here, do you think your room will always be in Los Angeles?

I just bought a house here, and I never dreamed of, I will be able to do it. But will we collapse in the sea or shoot? Do not get such a bad rap, though. After living in England for a long time, and Canada, Los Angeles was very mysterious to me. I had a feeling that this was a frightening and only vital place, and I found it not the case. I have found people here with great enthusiasm, looking for collaborators and society. It’s cliché, but I got out of this sunset and Palo Santo. Los Angeles has become and loved her.