Slunt
by Daniel Robert Epstein for SuicideGirls (http://suicidegirls.com/)

Slunt is a combination slut/cunt but I wouldn’t use either one of those words to describe Abby Gennet and Jenny Gunns. Mostly because they might beat me up and also because they are from the band Slunt. Of the four members of the band Abby is the vocalist/guitarist and Jenny is the bassist. Slunt is heavy rock band that started in New York City, signed with Repossession Records and just released an album. Their tour has just begun and they will be slunting soon to a venue near you.

Check out the official website of Slunt

Daniel Robert Epstein: I didn’t realize I was going to do both of you at the same time.

Abby Gennet: Yeah we like that.

DRE: I looked up Slunt in urbandictionary.com and it means someone who is both a slut and a cunt.

AG: That’s the general consensus.

Jenny Gunns: We never heard that before!

DRE: [laughs] What made you go with that as a name?

AG: A friend of a friend suggested it and we thought it was funny.

JG: We’re lucky it wasn’t that obvious to my grandmother. She said “It sounds like a dirty word but it’s not.”

AG: That’s what I say to the parental type people.

DRE: Are your parents very interested in your band?

AG: Oh yeah! They are very interested in our careers.

DRE: What do they think of it?

AG: I think they like it. I doubt they are jamming out to it on a Friday night but they support us at shows and they are smiling when we come out onstage.

DRE: What do they jam to on a Friday night?

AG: Probably the Bee Gees and Billy Joel.

JG: That’s an interesting question. I will have to look into what my mom is playing these days. Abby’s parents came to a show and they think I am very flexible.

AG: My dad kept telling her how flexible she was. I’m glad he noticed.

DRE: That’s disturbing?

JG: I know. I was like “Yeah!” My mom asked me if I choreographed it because it looked planned.

DRE: What did you tell her?

JG: Just that we all work well together.

DRE: Where did they see you?

AG: At BB King’s when we opened for Vince Neil. It was a hoot.

DRE: Would that be a better place to see you than some dive bar/club?

JG: If you are a parental then yes.

AG: My parents have come to CBGB and had a blast. Wherever we are we just put on the same show.

DRE: So you didn’t have to tone it down for BB King’s?

AG: Hell no! We don’t tone it down for anyone.

DRE: How was it opening for Vince?

AG: It was great. We got to play for some people who had never heard us before which is nice. It was a big crowd.

DRE: How did Vince pick you guys?

JG: What are you asking us really? Our knees weren’t bruised the next day.

AG: Actually I’m pretty good friends with Vince’s bassist Alan Vine.

DRE: I definitely wasn’t implying that you guys had sex with Vince Neil, ugh! I couldn’t imagine, ew!

JG: A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do. We want it to leak out that we make a great fluffer band on the road.

DRE: I was reading this article about you Abby where you once took a set of pictures called The Prom Mom. What were those?

AG: For a while I was doing some crazy photography and showing stuff in galleries. I would take fucked up things in the media and recreate them. I had a whole website called promom.com which I took down once I started working for Viacom. They were a little freaky about that. Prom mom was about the girl who gave birth at the prom and then threw the baby in a dumpster. I still get emails asking me about that.

DRE: What are you doing for Viacom?

AG: I was a VJ on MTV2 and VH1. Now I’m hosting the AOL broadband rock concerts like tonight I’m hosting a Good Charlotte concert.

DRE: That doesn’t seem very “cool.”

AG: It’s super cool. They pay me lots of money and I can work one day a month.

DRE: So Slunt isn’t paying the bills.

AG: Not just yet.

JG: One day rock will pay the bills.

AG: Well we just got signed to Repossession Records and we are going to hit the road soon.

DRE: Who are you touring with?

AG: We’re doing some dates with Zeke, Fu Manchu and we’re also doing Voodoo Festival.

JG: Yeah this year it’s huge.

DRE: Last year was a great lineup.

AG: I went last year. It was great!

JG: What did you think of our website?

DRE: It’s cool. Whose panties are those on the front page?

AG: That would be mine.

DRE: I suppose all those cuts aren’t real.

AG: No.

DRE: Have you guys gone much on your message boards?

AG: Right now it’s more like a guestbook but we’re trying to get a chat forum going.

DRE: How do you think things will change now that you are on Repossession?

JG: We have a cool van that makes our friends jealous.

DRE: What’s cool about the van?

AG: It takes us across the country.

DRE: The other one didn’t?

AG: We never had one before. We just played around the New York area so we just rented or borrowed. Now we’re mobile so we’ll be slunting across America corrupting the youth.

DRE: Can the van handle the craziness?

AG: It’s going to have to.

DRE: Are you going to pick up hitchhikers?

AG: Yeah we’ll just throw them in the trailer.

DRE: If you guys picked up a hitchhiker and he pulled a knife what’s the first thing you would do?

AG: Get Charles. He’s our drummer and he carries a knife.

DRE: Does he think you can’t take care of yourselves?

AG: We can take care of ourselves but it’s always nice to know that Charles has our backs.

DRE: What kind of knife does he have?

AG: He always has a pocket knife.

DRE: Not a big bowie knife.

AG: No he doesn’t have a big hatchet. But he’s definitely good to have around. He can be very intimidating but we know he’s a pussycat.

DRE: How did you hook up with Charles?

AG: He’s an original Slunt member. We started a couple of years ago just jamming. I would go down to a friend’s recording space with a bunch of jazz/funk musicians. Charles used jazz/funk guy and he adds such a different flavor than a regular rock drummer would add. But with us if he does any jazzy moves we yell at him and he stops. We started off as a three piece then we had this guy Adam playing bass but he was too jazzy so we had to swap him out for Jenny Gunns then we added Pat who is our lead guitarist because I’m just a rhythm player. With Jenny and Pat we really heavied up the sound.

DRE: Was there ever any conflicts over him not being a girl?

JG: I attack him sometimes.

DRE: So is he in sync with your periods?

JG: We all are.

AG: Though Charles gets PMS worse than us.

JG: Everyone gets pissy when we get more chicks than them. Chicks just attack us like flies to honey.

by Daniel Robert Epstein

SG Username: AndersWolleck

web address: http://suicidegirls.com/interviews/Slunt/