Hey everyone, hi, hello, it is me Allison Rosen, welcome to another episode of Allison Rosen, is you new best friend.

I'm sitting here in dining room studios with someone that I've known for a very very very long time but kind of been out of touch with for a while and I'm very excited to be seen in person again Monique Powell of the band, safe Ferris.

Hello, welcome, hello, hello, hello, wonderful to be here. So good to see you. It's great to see you to Allison.

You're more punk than you were last time. So you've changed your look in these 20 years. Yeah, I mean, you know what happens 20 years, go buy and you know, usually things change. So here's what I will first let me explain to listeners how I know you initially I think I interviewed you for whatever I was writing for at the time and I don't I know I interviewed you guys more than once.

Yeah, I was trying to remember and then when I was in a band, I know we all hung out once or twice. We went to sushi and we went to a party sushi and a party and I also know that yummy my bass player and I I don't know if it was at the end of that night.

Were you living in it like Marriott residences for a little while courtyard sweets something it was something kind of LA. No, I feel like it was in Orange County but I could be wrong.

I'm not sure I mean, maybe for a short time like when we were writing a record. Okay, I lived in LA. So I was probably yeah, I was probably like staying down there. Mm hmm. While we were writing. Yeah, I think it was like, was it mean street magazine or was it?

Well, that was we see we either mean street or O.C. We glad I don't know but I think I interviewed you in Fullerton at is it was a club the hub coffee. Yes, yes, it's there. It is I think it's still there. Yeah, I think it turned into the slide bar. Oh, that's it. The guys from lit. That's it. Yeah, I know because I just looked at your book of pdf page you toured with them. Yes. Yeah, long time ago. Okay, so so film me in because all the stuff I'm talking about was many many years ago.

And then now you're performing again as safe Ferris. Yeah, how so I need to know how that all happened. I also need to know like what happened in all the years in between what what you're doing and also.

I just like probably 20 minutes ago. Started reading some stuff and now I realize like there was some unpleasantness that happened recently. Yes. Yeah, I mean it doesn't feel so recent anymore. It's kind of.

You know old news in the past and we've all moved on but how long do we have because I really enjoy talking about me and we're going to cover like 20 years then.

I mean just start at the beginning. I was born a young poor child. So where did we leave off? You know, say Ferris basically stopped playing in 2003.

And then I needed a break for a little while because I spent a lot of time on the road and coming back into life was weird.

You know, like I hadn't driven a car. I had unpacked my boxes in six years. I had an apartment. I didn't even I hadn't even furnished, you know, I was completely estranged from all my friends and my family because I made my work more important than anything else.

And it was totally worth the sacrifice in a lot of ways. You know, but now that I'm older, I think those are things I would never sacrifice again. You know, right.

So, so probably about like the next 10 years I did mostly studio work, saying on a bunch of records and got into some like little projects, some little like cover band projects and other band projects just to sort of like keep my chops up, you know, and there was always this sort of voice in the back of my head, which really was the voice of my dad who was like you need to get back on stage when you're going to get back on stage when you're going to.

And it was really annoying, but he was right.

And then was he saying that because he knows you and knows that that's what makes you happier was he saying that because he wants you to be successful.

I think it was both.

I think it was definitely both. I think he knew that I was happiest.

Being, you know, performing, right, because that's just an area that I makes me really, it just makes me really happy. It's an area of my career that makes me happiest.

Singing is always fun and singing on records is fun and playing in a band is fun. But the performing part is really, you feel like, you know, what I was born to do darling.

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