JOB FOR A COWBOY Singer: 'If A Girl Came Up To Us, We Wouldn't Know What To Do With Ourselves'

Mike R. Meyer of College Times recently conducted an interview with JOB FOR A COWBOY singer singer Jonny Davy. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow.

College Times: We've read a lot on the Internet about how you guys are just a bunch of hipsters cashing in on a popular sound. How are you spending all the millions you've raked in from such a lucrative genre like death metal?

Jonny: Oh yeah, death metal's really popular everywhere, so we're making tons. (laughs) The death metal genre is probably the least approachable by any standards or means in the entire world, so if anything we've been really lucky doing as well as we have. It's been really surprising. I mean, we still feel like that shitty garage band, but we just got lucky enough to tour the world, I guess. We're just doing what we love, playing heavy music. I guess it's been working out for some reason. We're still broke though.

College Times: How much of the backlash do you think has to do with your name? There are some people who seem to think you have to have a name like DISEMBOWELED MESSIAH to be true death metal.

Jonny: Yeah, I think our name is a curse in many ways. If there was anything I could do, I would change it, but I think it's a little too late now. It just started off where we went through every generic metal band name you could think of and, of course, everything was taken. JOB FOR A COWBOY popped up and, I don't know how it stuck, but I wish it wouldn't have sometimes.

College Times: Do you think there's a kind of reverse discrimination in heavy metal where if you're not fat, old and ugly, you're somehow not legit?

Jonny: I guess so, in a lot of ways. It's just kind of weird that even in that genre, people nitpick on how people look. It's kinda hypocritical, considering how everyone seems to act like (metal is) the one genre of music where you can do whatever you want.

College Times: Do you guys get a lot of groupies when you tour with all these fat, ugly old dudes?

Jonny: Hell no. We are the most awkward group of dudes ever. If a girl came up to us, we wouldn't know what to do with ourselves.

College Times: Maybe you can clear up a question that's been bugging us for years. Where do all the hot metal chicks go when they're not at metal shows? You never just randomly bump into a cute chick on the street wearing a CATTLE DECAPITATION shirt.

Jonny: Um, I don't know. I think a majority of them are just kind of like every other metal dude. They don't really go outside much and they just sit in their parents' basement and listen to heavy music and sit on the Internet all day, I guess. That's probably how it works.

Read the entire interview from College Times.

James Allman of Baconmusic conducted an interview with JOB FOR A COWBOY vocalist Jonny Davy on February 23, 2008, just hours before the band's Gigantour show with MEGADETH in Manchester, UK. Watch the eight-minute chat below.