00:00St. Motel is playing Coachella and we're playing the Motel pool. Watch this.
00:12St. Motel. Hi guys, how are you?
00:14Good man, how you doing? How did you guys name your band?
00:18We sat down with a bunch of paper and a lot of pens.
00:23No pencils?
00:24No pencils, no way, because we wanted it to be forever.
00:27Yeah, after writing a full novel.
00:30Yeah, we wrote a novel.
00:31The last page ended with,
00:33that shall happen at St. Motel.
00:35And we're like, that's it.
00:36Those words together are really nice.
00:39It's like this dichotomy of something clean and holy,
00:42and then this Motel is like this sleazy, dirty connotation,
00:46and then it kind of just fit.
00:48What's cool about Coachella and what other bands here
00:51are you guys looking forward to checking out?
00:53Just to play it is an incredible honor,
00:55but like to be here to like get to see and be backstage
00:58with all these other incredible artists.
01:00Last night we saw like Todd Sergé and Flying Lotus,
01:02and Steely Dan, and it's like these artists are just all over the place
01:06and it was like such a cool lineup.
01:08I love your music videos.
01:09Excuse me, I'm choked up about it.
01:11It's alright.
01:12You guys direct the music videos as well.
01:15What can a good music video do to a song?
01:18If it's done right, you have a video that fits the vibe of the song,
01:22and it's something that's not just you throw on YouTube and it's over.
01:25I mean, it can last for us, like the My Type video still has, you know,
01:29various behind the scenes footage and characters from it,
01:32and it's still kind of going, you know, that much later.
01:34A good music video can very much enhance a song.
01:37They're hand in hand.
01:39And your following is huge in many parts of the world.
01:50What's that like going to different places
01:52and having people know about you differently in different places?
01:56We're new to a lot of people everywhere in the world,
01:58but we have like a large base of people that know us here on the West Coast
02:02from, you know, us playing shows randomly in basements
02:05and U-Haul trucks and whatever over the years.
02:08So it's like those are the two kind of faces of St. Motel.
02:11Like that underground band that plays anywhere for anyone,
02:14maybe not wearing pants,
02:15and then a band that just came on the scene with My Type.
02:17You know, that's two worlds that live together.
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