It was supposed to be just one show, but the Los Angeles electro-pop trio Wildcat! Wildcat! that one show turned into another and another.







“We kept getting asked to do show after show after show,” Michael Wilson (vocals/keyboard) said. “We fell into the project.”







The band is winding down its first national tour in support of their debut “No Moon At All” with a stop at the Thunderbird Cafe on Nov. 22.







Wildcat! Wildcat!, who pulled their name from a blink and you’ll miss it moment in Wes Anderson’s “The Royal Tenenbaums,” formed in 2012.







“It wasn’t quite official. We were really just getting together and coming up with tunes. We really just wanted to play one show and that was it,” Wilson said. “So, we put on one song, ‘Mr. Quiche,” on SoundCloud.”







The show pulled a sizable audience and offers to play live kept coming in. What started off as a one-off became a passion project for the trio.







“We have friends who are in band, and Jesse (Carmichaels) and Jesse (Taylor) have been in a bunch of bands, I think there is a lot of letting go with this project. Just focusing on the music that we wanted to write and having a good time again. Playing music instead of just being in LA and trying to make it and doing all of that jazz, it is too much to think about. At the end of the day, I think we all wanted to look in the mirror and say that we had a good time and, hopefully, other people are enjoying it as well. It is almost oversaturated in LA. It is almost easier to make music there because if you are supposed to do it, then it will happen. It is less pressure.







“I think when people hear it live, especially because I think our recordings are great and we definitely stand behind them 100 percent, I think our live show we really do like to have a good time and we have a lot of energy. Some times our recordings can be really delicate, but I think that if people come to shows they get the band more. I think that is what we are after. It is really just about playing and sharing the music we like. We try and stay away from the politics and the business side of things, but that is impossible. We try and not let that run our decisions too much.”







While some electronic artists have to figure out how to replicate their studio efforts in a live setting for Wildcat! Wildcat! it was the opposite.







“Actually the album was a good step to replicating the live set. It was the first time we ever recorded live drums. It was one of my favorite parts of the album. It provides a little bit more of a landing for everything to lie on top of.







“There are so many different platforms that people are using a live show for these days. I think it gets pretty tricky. Even if you dabble in the genre of electronic music, you can attract a lot of different types of fans. I really do like our approach to it.”







With only a few more stops on the tour, the band is looking forward to some downtime, but not too much downtime.







“We have been on the road with some breaks here and there since August. I think we are going to take most of December off. In January and February, we actually are in the early stage of beginning stage of scoring a film.”







They will continue to write new music. The California band is pulling inspiration from the frigid temperatures and snow they encountered on this tour for writing.







“We are always writing and coming up with new ideas. We are toying with the idea. We are the kind of band that really enjoys mixing the writing process up and not sticking to one specific way of writing. We were just toying with the idea of having it be a destination writing session where we would go up to the mountains. Even though it is cold (on this tour), we definitely enjoyed the serenity that the snow and winter have. There are less distractions.”







There is, also, talk of going back out on the road albeit is a different capacity.







“There had been talk of doing a big support tour or submitting for some major slot like doing 3,000 capacity rooms. It has to be the right fanbase , because we had done some support stuff and you feel like you are not quite sure if it is valuable to your career necessarily that you might just be the noise before the band that everybody wants to see.”







Knowing from experience, Wilson and crew appreciate and know the value of the supporting slot.







“We have been really lucky with the support that we have gotten in the last three legs. They have all been the most sweet and super talented people.







“We know what it is like to be a supporting act, so we do what we can to make it enjoyable for them too. It makes the shows better. They play better. The morale is high. It really is about a little bit going a long way and making the whole experience enjoyable.”