Jack's Mannequin on Coachella Fashion

RJ here, so our Coachella experience continues.

Right now we got Andrew McMahon, who y'all know from Jack's Mannequin. Howdy, how you doing, man?

Hey, man, how you doing?

Ah, can't complain, glad to be here. So why is it a big day for you? You got a performance at Coachella.

I know, we're pretty excited, man. This is uh, yeah, it's gonna be a good moment we're looking forward to.

So let's talk about a set when you're doing something at Coachella. How would it be different than than something else you might be doing?

I mean tomorrow will probably be like kind of a hit set of like, you know, the best of, you know, both of the Jack's Mannequin records and hopefully we'll give people a good education on uh what we've been up to the last four or five years as a band.

Nice. We gotta talk now the Coachella fashion 'cause everyone's always looking at what people are wearing. There's some crazy outfits. You just doing the normal, normal Andrew outfit?

These are higher, these are higher cuffs on my jeans. This is my hipster cuff for the day. Yeah, um Yeah, it's it's that's pretty much the wardrobe for me regardless of where I'm at. You know, sans the uh the cuff.

Exactly. How crazy the weather been that today was brutal? Today was hot.

Although I should say we played Coachella in '07 and we played on a stage while it was 113 degrees outside, so Wow. So yeah, add a few more on to this. But uh yeah, it's it's pretty nutty, but I love the desert. We actually, we learned a good amount of the new record living in a house in in Joshua Tree not too far from here, so we're kinda used to it, we kinda dig it.

Yeah, let's talk about that. So you did a lot of the writing for for the new album in Joshua Tree.

Some of the writing.

Why Joshua Tree of all places though?

Because it was so far away from Los Angeles. You know what I mean? I I you know, close enough that we could get home for the weekends, you know, but far enough that there's just, you know, it's hard to make records in LA. You know, you get done with a few hours of of work and you'd go climb up a a big hill and look out over the the valley. It's it's amazing. It was amazing. I love the desert.

Rough life, right? So why 'People and Things' as as the title?

For me, that's largely about relationships and about, you know, and about deep relationships, you know, not just romantic ones, but ones with, you know, family and friends and

And we know you're on a tight schedule, just take us through the Coachella schedule though. Like you've been here since Thursday. What have you done till now and and what's tomorrow look like?

You know, you wake up. It starts getting hot quick. You know, we were lucky enough to have a a pool outside of the place that we're staying. So you kinda take a minute in the pool and then around 2:00, everybody starts gearing up to head over to the festival. We'll head over hopefully in time to check out Mumford and Sons tonight and uh the Arcade Fire and and a few others. And spending the day poolside at the Viceroy Hotel. I'm a Some of the desert. I'm a super blessed individual. I I I feel really lucky to get to do what I do and uh and yeah, to get to do it out here is is even better.

And what about Something Corporate? I mean, you have a lot of fans out there who probably just wanna know what's the deal, what's happening, what's the future of of Something Corporate looking like?

I mean, that reunion tour that we did in August, I think that was kind of our I don't wanna say our last hurrah, 'cause I would not put it, you know, I would not put it past us that we put something else together at some point and and go out and play some shows. We we love each other. We're we're boys, you know, I'm finally back living near everybody. So I get to see see all my see all my old friends in Something Corporate pretty regularly again now. So

If there was one thing people you think don't know about you, well, I know it's a It's a tough one, but what what would it be? Is one thing that would surprise people?

I've developed a recent interest in maybe learning how to how to fly airplanes and so

That could be dangerous, though.

I actually I've I uh I've received an amazing gift for Christmas to take my first flight lesson.

So Coachella, Jack's Mannequin, one of the big performances tomorrow. And you gotta check it out.