Natasha KrollThe situation I’m out with Luke Beetham and Stacy Peck of the garage-rock duo Pony Time; we’re at Queen Anne’s Streamline Tavern, a halfway point between Beetham’s home in Interbay and Peck’s on Capitol Hill, where she lives with a cat named Peggy who hates Beetham. The bandmates share a very jabbing, teasing, but clearly affectionate brother/sister type of relationship; Peck tells me they have absolutely nothing in common. “Well,” she amends, “we both like disco music.”How They Got Here Beetham is a self-employed electrician; Peck once worked as his apprentice–that’s how they met–but decided the field wasn’t right for her (“Too many dudes everywhere!”), and now splits her time working at the Redwood and Bauhaus. Pony Time is a seat-of-their-pants-type band–they practice about once or twice a month in half-hour spurts and actually play shows oftener than they rehearse.”We have nice friends who ask us to play shows with them, and I would rather do that than practice. Sorry,” says Beetham, addressing Peck. She shrugs. “Me too.”Shop Talk This fall, Pony Time’s brassy, boisterous, guitarless tunes (Beetham plays bass “up high” and sings; Peck drums) will appear on an eponymous six-song EP via Seattle’s Per Se Records. All the songs are originals, but the band does like to do covers–when they can agree on one. Peck suggests Chubby Checker’s “Pony Time;” Beetham demurs. “He has better twist songs.” “We never get to do anything I want,” sighs Peck.BTW: Beetham and Peck’s differences in taste extend to their appearances. Peck conceptualized the cover of the new EP, which depicts her sitting on a dumpster while Beetham wears a tie and irons a shirt. I ask him if he actually irons his clothes. “No, I take them to the dry cleaner,” he says. “It’s a Ferris Bueller thing.” “Luke is very fancy,” says Peck, who sports a Garfield T-shirt that reads “I HATE MONDAYS!” and a chipped gap in her front tooth (“I fell, a couple years ago”). “I just make sure I don’t have barbecue-sauce stains on me.”Pony Time plays Cairo this Friday, August 26, with Detective Agency and Silly Goose. The show is all-ages, starts at 8 p.m., and has a $5 cover.Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.