What do you think differentiates your style? If you had to throw out a few keywords to describe it, what would you go with?

‍Stephen: Funky?

Matt: Funky is a good word.

James: Fusion-y

Bea: I think some people have said soul, fusion and funk.

Stephen: We’ve gotten a lot of Motown too.

Samara: It's not a genre thing, but it's an important part of our style: By naming ourselves something as silly as Bread on Fork, we’ve kind of given ourselves license to not take ourselves as seriously. I think it's an important part of the band's identity that we're kind of silly with it.


‍Anything unique about working with this particular group of people as opposed to your other projects?

‍Khalid: This is by far the goofiest band I work with. When I go to the rehearsals, they let me goof around a lot. A lot of bands, they don't let you. They’re kind of, like, we want to get down to business type of deal.

Bea: Each rehearsal is just really fun. We're just hanging out. The writing process is pretty easy once we start getting it going. This is one of, like, the more fun bands I've been a part of.

Matt: The songs just kind of come together so seamlessly compared to the other groups I’m in.


‍Do you guys think that you have a certain rhythm with your songwriting process? Do you always start with a certain thing, or is it kind of spontaneous?

‍Bea: Our songs have mainly been written by Mary.

Mary: There's nothing in particular most of the time. I generally just kind of have a silly idea, and I'm like, Okay, well, that'll be for Bread on Fork. I let it sit for a while, I figure it out, and then I'll bring it to either Stephen or Sam. We'll figure it out chords wise and stuff, and then bring it to the band. And then everybody puts their two cents in and adds whatever they're gonna add.


‍Do you guys have any rituals that you do together before you perform? Any traditions after a performance?

‍Bea: Not really. Sometimes we'll do a little circle, a little huddle. Before Big Mouth, I was like, “Guys, get in the circle! I mean it!”But not, not really. We kind of just get on there and do our thing. That's really it.

Samara: I feel like we don't need much, because all are pretty just comfortable with each other on stage. Doesn't take a lot.


‍YOU WON 3RD PLACE ON BIGGEST MOUTH! How did you guys get there? Why did you want to audition in the first place?

‍Matt: I remember it was pretty simple. We just kind of came to rehearsal one day. We were like, we are auditioning for Biggest Mouth.

Bea: Me and Mary have been talking about doing Biggest Mouth since we started the band. I've seen Biggest Mouth since I was a freshman here, and it's always been something that's interested me. These guys have done it a couple of times already. Like, Sam, you've done it, and Stephen. But they were kind of indifferent to it. Me and Mary were kind of like, “I think we have potential.”


‍Once you guys realized that you had a spot in the show, how did you guys get ready for the big night?

‍Bea: We asked Stephen what his experience was, but that was at the Metro, so it was a little bit different. Since it was at Epiphany this year, we didn’t really have a lot of expectations of how it was supposed to go. But it went really well.

Stephen: We have regular practices every week because that's just our class. Like, we have three hours that we're required to be there a week. So we had plenty of time to practice on a regular schedule, so we were caught up with the songs. I felt good about performing them for a while. Matt: It doesn't hurt that they were two of our favorite songs at the time too.


‍How did it feel when you heard your name announced as third place winners? Do you remember what was going through your head? How did you guys celebrate afterwards?

‍Bea: We were hoping for whatever, but it was still a shock. Like, I can’t believe it.

Samara: What was going through my head was inarticulate, excited screaming. [Laughs.]

Bea: But about celebrating after, we went to Jimmys. Or at least some of us did [Laughs.]James: Yeah, I ditched everyone. I came with my mom so I was like, “Bye, guys.”

Matt: It’s ok, James [Laughs.]

Bea: I think Khalif also went home. Mary, you also went home. And then we all went to Jimmys and got some gyros.


‍I got to watch you perform at Manifest, and particularly enjoyed your performance of your song “Femme.” What was the songwriting process like, and how did the music video come to be?

‍Mary: On the songwriting front, I don't know, I had the like [sings] “Femme, femme, femme, femme” thing for a while, and then to be honest, I was in the bathroom, looking at myself in the mirror, and then I wrote the whole song. So that's how “Femme” happened. The music video was just so fun. It was fun that everything was all pink, and we were outside and in the sun, so it was a good time.

Bea: My old roommate was taking a directing class, and she had asked us to be her subject for an assignment. So the first part was like a documentary, which we have on our Instagram. She called it our Daily Bread. It was a documentary of our first gig, which was at Cole’s Bar. And it was super fun, nerve racking, and that was where we performed “Femme” for the first time.

For the second half of her class, she had asked us if we could be her subject again, but then do a music video for [“Femme”]. She kind of drafted us some ideas of the storyline and anything that we wanted to emphasize. We all kind of were like, just make sure it's pink. Mary wanted to be the mysterious figure that introduces the world to the color pink, which was so fun. It was just a fun process in general. Shout out to Jordyn Billiau. Love her.