“I go to lots of different groups that organize direct actions ... There are certain roles I can play with my privilege and with the way I look. So how do those roles translate into the [specific protest] space and where I can lend a hand and help out”
Janet May. Photo: Pete Voelker Janet May and I are lying barefoot on the shag-carpeted floor of an insanely well-equipped listening room owned by a guy named Andrew out in Far Rockaway. The speakers, suspended from the ceiling, are comically large, so large that if they were flat on the ground, I could curl up inside one like a cat.
Andrew’s listening room — Andrew, as it turns out, is Andrew VanWyngarden, the front man for MGMT and a friend of a friend of May’s — is a bit of a different venue from where May’s music can usually be heard. She’s constantly hopping from protest to action to show all over the New York City area, singing songs and lending solidarity.
Later, we grab lunch at a local Uzbekistani place, Uma’s. Andrew drives us. I very coolly do not tell him that “Kids” was playing the first time I ever had a drink. Over tea and bichaki, May tells me about her years touring as a professional backup singer, particularly the time she spent working with Bombay Bicycle Club. “When I was touring with bands, it was very much ‘Woo! Time of my life!,’” May says. It was also while touring that May picked up the guitar.
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