Growing up means that you can’t eat candy or walk around in your pajamas all day. It means that you have to become an adult and that really means that you have to become a robot with no emotions. And it most certainly means that you can’t hang out with your co-workers and party at work.
“Um… gee…about that. I wish somebody would have told me that.”
That’s Cori, the charming lead singer of Wendy Darling. She’s calling from Northern California where she finds herself hanging out in her pajamas for a good portion of the day and sometimes she can be found eating candy – Sour Patch Kids if you’ve got any.
The thing with the candy, and more importantly the band, is that you shouldn’t underestimate them. It could be that the four-some from San Diego take their name from a Peter Pan character and that dredges up all sorts of suggestions to cartoons and Jack-O.
But Wendy Darling is that one fork in an endless sea of sporks – they’re the type of band that serves up a hearty, bluesy, harmonious, spectacle that will kick your ears.
Pretty good for a band that met on Craigslist. Cori answered an ad from guitarist Nate and the rest was history… well, then drummer Hector and bassist John showed up. It’s all very happenstance. Nate produced the band’s album, Half-Told Bedtime Stories, which invokes a sense of camaraderie among four adults trying to be artists trying to be innocent long enough to make a go at it. The theme of the album, for Cori at least, is a bit more honest.
“It means things are never really over,” she says of half-told bedtime stories. “You’ll never know how it’s going to end. That not knowing kind of makes me anxious at times because I want to know everything, but that’s never going to happen. And I’m OK with that now.”
Though all four members take part in song writing Cori recently ran into some writer’s block. She’s OK, don’t worry. Material for the next EP is on the burner. So for now the band is going to be adults who howl on such tracks as We Are, which could find itself on any Warped Tour fan’s playlist and they’re going to have fun not knowing what is next.
Well, she does know that she’ll keep eating candy and eating Mexican food at two in the morning. It’s really happenstance.
By Nathan Solis
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