CMJ 2008: Day 4

Q&A: Novillero

Jack Jonasson
A couple years ago your band appeared on the TV show ‘Monk'...WTF?
A music supervisor from NBC came and saw us at SXSW and liked what she heard and we ended up going to LA for five days.

What was the band's role in the episode?
We were the headlining band at this rock festival in San Francisco, where a murder takes place. A piece of evidence was stuck inside a beach ball being batted around the crowd and Monk comes up on stage and asks us to stop playing. A couple of us have lines.

What was your line?
I didn't have one, but Rod's line was "Hey, what are you doing?" and Dave's line was "Screw this guy, let's keep playing..1-2-3-4." It must be said that there aren't a lot of bands that get to do this.

Did they solve the crime?
Oh yeah, the got the beach ball and solved it. Monk saves the day!