“He changed my whole life” │ Exclaimed!

Before Orville Peck was Orville Peck, he was a punk drummer in Vancouver’s underground scene — and that’s news to his friend Chappell Roan, who learned all about his friend’s punk past in his interview with Nardwuar the Human Serviette.

Nard gifted Roan with a copy of the vinyl compilation from the defunct local venue, the ER. In the LP’s booklet is a photo of the band Nü Sensae in the original duo lineup, with singer-bassist Andrea Lukic in the foreground. In the background is a drummer who is out of focus and has his head down – prompting Nardwuar to ask Roan if she recognized him.

Roan didn’t, and Nardwuar revealed the identity of the drummer – in the process using Peck’s real name, which we won’t repeat here, although the curious can find it in the video. Clearly surprised, Roan exclaimed, “Wait, shut up! What!?” She added: “It’s so sick – I didn’t know he played drums. It’s so cool. I was just talking to him.”

She went on to explain how seeing Peck’s show was transformative for her own career as a performer. “I went to see him and his show changed my whole life. It changed how I do shows. He was performing at the Troubadour in West Hollywood and he had local drag queens open for him. Meatball was one of them . I told myself from that show, ‘If I ever headline my own, I’ll have local drag queens open for me, too.’ So he changed my life and now we’re friends.”

Watch Roan’s Nardwuar interview below.