by LORRAINE CARPENTER

New York City’s all-girl, all-rawk quartet Candy Ass didn’t need to go on the road with Pink to learn how to party. In fact, Pink - whom Candy Ass singer Galadriel describes as both “a badass little bitch” and “an utter delight” - probably learned a thing or two from them. With her bandmates Hopey Rock, Alice and Mary Katherine, Galadriel has partied professionally in a Metallica video, a Coors commercial and on The Howard Stern Show, all the while dishing out positive, power-punk energy in their own live shows, which Galadriel calls, “a party you pay to watch.” With these Red Bull-guzzling girls about to drop their friendly fire on us, the Mirror intervened, questioning Galadriel about guns, roses, orgies and kicking asses.

Mirror: So how was the mega-tour?

Galadriel: It was a rock ’n’ roll fantasy come true. Pink’s audience ranges from, literally, four-year-old girls to 36-year-old gay men and we won ’em all over, thank God. I mean, we expected to get tomatoed or booed off stage, but every night we won over another city, and everyday was something crazy, I shit you not. Our band is like Spinal Tap - if the car hasn’t broken down, then we’ve hit a deer, and if we haven’t hit a deer, there’s something terribly wrong with the hotel, but we just laugh at everything. Meeting Justin Timberlake was pretty exciting, I have to say, and we also met Slash, which was unbelievable ’cause Guns N’ Roses is my all-time favourite band.

M: Are they the ones who inspired you to form a band?

G: Well, I grew up in a small, isolated rural community in Vermont so I only had Top 40, which, at the time, ran the gamut from Pat Benatar to heavy metal, and I worshipped both worlds. That is so evident in everything I bring to the band - I’m part Solid Gold dancer, part Axl Rose. Then, as a young adult living in NYC, seeing the Toilet Boys and the Lunachicks pushed me over the top. That’s when I thought, “Okay, I’m doing this, I’m making the dream happen.”

M: Okay, but what’s the deal with the band Orgy calling their album Candyass and you ladies calling your album Orgy two years later? [For those of you who may have, quite justifiably, forgotten, Orgy is the band that covered “Blue Monday.”]

G: Well, our egos are a little big so we like to think that they stole the name from us. We went on Howard Stern very early in our career and that particular episode was aired on TV, I swear to God, probably 150 times over four years, so they could have seen it easily. I met one of them and I was like, “Nice album name, sweetheart,” and he was like, “Nice band name, sweetheart,” and we were just eyeing each other up and down like, “You wanna go, you wanna go?” So then we named our album Orgy.

M: Band on band, could you have kicked their asses?

G: Uh! With our hands tied behind our back, hell, yeah, baby! We’re known for our ass-kicking. :

With the Cherry Persuasion and DJ Rico at Petit Campus on Thursday, Feb. 6, 8:30pm, $9

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