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Dorothy Martin is drawing a blank. Nothing. Thiiiiiiinkinnnnnnng … nope, still nothing. Hey, guitarist D.J. Black, what about you — can you think of anything unusual or memorable that's happened while the band Dorothy has been out on the ro—

"Oh, oh, oh — I have a crazy story!" interjects the frontwoman of the group that bears her name. "I got thrown out of a strip club in Montreal!"

OK, Dorothy Martin, you have our attention.

"They had a wily waitress who felt a little uppity, and I bumped into her on accident and s—- hit the fan," Martin excitedly recalled during the phone interview. "I almost had to throw down with three strippers! I was like, 'C'mon, bring it! I've been boxing, I can take all of you.' "

Ooooohhhh, exciting! And then?

"And then," she concludes in a dejectedly disappointing denouement, "they just said, 'Please leave.' … It didn't come to blows, which is not very rock 'n' roll, I guess."

Hey, now — just because you didn't actually get to beat up the strippers … Never mind.

Anyway, with standards that high, Dorothy's concert Saturday at the Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City is bound to be a show.

And a rock 'n' roll show, at that. A bluesy, sticky, sweaty, guitar-driven, raucous rock 'n' roll show. In spite of all the times that all those people have claimed "rock is dead," Martin conceded that naming her band's debut full-length album "ROCKISDEAD" was actually sarcasm rather than confirmation.

"I hear people say that, and I tell them, 'Well, clearly you don't get out much,' " she said. "You have to find it. Just because it's not permeating the airwaves doesn't mean it's not there."

Dorothy hasn't exactly been lurking in the shadows.

"Rolling Stone" named the band among its "50 to watch" in 2014.

It's a big compliment, to be sure, but perhaps that designation also generates expectations that might be hard to live up to.

"There's no pressure," Martin insisted. "We have a lot of fun doing what we do. I really love being able to write with such a positive group of people, and it's just full of camaraderie, and we just really like to play. I'm shocked and in awe that our shows are selling out right now. I was like, 'What if no one shows up? Then what do we do? Are we ready for our first headliner?' That's as far as my self-doubt goes. But there's no pressure, because we're all very supportive of one another, and it's like a family, so you feel like everyone has your back in this camp."

What about outside of your inner circle, though?

Being a former model-and-actress-turned-frontwoman of a rock band, don't you inevitably encounter people trying to make your sex appeal a bigger part of the equation than your talent?

"Did you say, 'How much sex do I encounter?!' " she teases in mock horror, before turning serious and unleashing some expletives to prove it.

"There's nothing wrong with sex in rock 'n' roll; it's part of the package," she continues. "But if you don't have the substance to back it up, and if you're just trading only on your sex appeal, well, then you're a [expletive] puppet and get the [expletive] out and try to write a real song, you know? I think there needs to be substance and raw passion and emotion. And sex is part of that because it's part of being human. But there's anger, there's violence, there's sex, there's raw energy, there's touching, sad, vulnerable moments. There's all sorts of waves of emotion that crash through our set.

"And sex is a fun one," she concludes slyly. "It really is."

Though the "anger" and "violence" ones aren't bad runners-up, apparently, at least insofar as they apply to almost fighting strippers.

Twitter: @esotericwalden —

P With The Georgia Flood

When • Saturday, 8 p.m.

Where • Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, Salt Lake City

Tickets • $12.50 advance, $15 day of; Ticketfly