{"id":10178,"date":"2015-10-17T21:03:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T21:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=10178"},"modified":"2015-10-17T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T21:03:09","slug":"dilly-dally-doing-anything-but-dilly-dallying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2015\/10\/17\/dilly-dally-doing-anything-but-dilly-dallying\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilly Dally :: Doing Anything But Dilly Dallying"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By\u00a0Kaitlyn Emslie Farrell<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dilly Dally is a name you might want to familiarize yourself with if you\u2019re into that whole grunge, badass thing, and I hope you are. There are four of them in total. Katie Monks and Liz Ball have known each other awhile but Dilly Dally all began about six years ago. Some bassists and drummers came and went but they\u2019re lucky now to have Jimmy Tony and Benjamin Reinhartz solidified within the group for the last year and a half. <\/span><\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the story behind their name? Well, not much other than they just came up with it. \u201cWe would have band meetings before we\u2019d written any songs,\u201d laughs Monks. \u201cWe would have these meetings where we would just go to bars and get very drunk and come up with these shit names.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The group\u2019s future identification came out of a journal entry by Monks when she was about twenty years old. \u201cWe thought it would be a cheeky name to go to the top with cause whenever you say you\u2019re in a band people think you\u2019re just screwing around and we were very, very serious.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Monks says their writing process isn\u2019t overly scientific, but rather very honest. \u201cThe process would just be very instinctual and natural,\u201d says Monks. \u201cGenerally it\u2019s just cause something intense happened in my life. Something emotional or I just feel inspired by something real.\u201d Monks will take four chords playing them over and over and work off of that. \u201cIt almost becomes meditative. And then lyrics and melody come from that.\u201d Once Ball\u2019s part and the vocals are set, the bass and drums come very quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Getting up one stage can be quite intense. \u201cWe have these things called power moves,\u201d says Monks. After some noticeable nerves before a show, a sort of exercise routine was implemented. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like yoga but for people who are way more badass.\u201d It\u2019s only too bad these moves are backstage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nerves appear on stage maybe, but it\u2019s tough enough just riding around. Touring can get a little cozy when you\u2019ve got four people shoved in a vehicle. \u00a0\u201cIt does get a little irritable. I don\u2019t drive so I\u2019m on my best behaviour when we\u2019re touring. I try to be very charming and very funny. I have different creative car games that we do, a big hit is mad libs,\u201d says Monks. \u201cWe\u2019ve got our own mad libs as well. We\u2019ve got a book of homemade mad libs that we\u2019ve started, it\u2019s great. We should start posting them online to be honest.\u201d Dilly Dally fans would likely be interested in these other forms of art that the bandmates are creating whilst travelling but it\u2019s not all fun and games on tour having to deal with the lack of privacy and financial issues. \u201c[It\u2019s] just a lot of ups and downs. Some of the funnest moments ever and sometimes the darkest moments ever,\u201d says Monks. \u201cAnd lots of sexual tension as well\u201d Monks quickly adds, laughing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Struggles aside, the band just wants to share their real life experiences. \u201cAll I really want is to connect with people on a very real human level. That\u2019s what we all want in this band. And going back to the process of how we write the songs, it\u2019s very natural and very intuitive and the more we reach deep inside ourselves and discover things about ourselves that we didn\u2019t even know, through music, the more we\u2019re able to connect with other people in this very deep, profound way, that\u2019s completely impossible to do otherwise. I mean that\u2019s what art is all about. And for me, to put that into words, is completely impossible,\u201d says Monks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new album is great, I\u2019ll be the first to admit it. Monks describes it as having a \u201ccohesive sound.\u201d The songs all come from a different place but Monks lumps them all together on the topic of honesty. \u201cIt\u2019s just all instinctual, it\u2019s hard to say there\u2019s a calculated intention behind it, there just isn\u2019t,\u201d says Monks. <\/span><\/p>\n

There have been a lot of changes over the life of the band. \u201cSo much has changed in six years. What has not changed is Liz and my own commitment to this project. We have always, always, always been 100% on this,\u201d says Monks. \u201cWhat has changed, is the biggest thing, \u00a0Tony and Ben who are in the band now. Once they started playing with us there was a whole new energy.\u201d Monks says they bring their own artistry to the table and now everything \u201cfeels complete.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

You can catch Dilly Dally at The Goodwill Social Club on October 23<\/span><\/i>rd<\/span><\/i> with locals SC Mira and Mullirgub. Don\u2019t forget your \u201cmarry me\u201d Backstreet Boys style fan sign. They\u2019re kind of expecting it.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Kaitlyn Emslie Farrell Dilly Dally is a name you might want to familiarize yourself with if you\u2019re into that whole grunge, badass thing, and I hope you are. There are four of them in total. Katie Monks and Liz Ball have known each other awhile but Dilly Dally all began about six years ago. Some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}