Performing at a nudist colony may not be your average gig, but Confessing Sila frontman Steve Train has no complaints about a recent show in front of an entirely naked audience.

“The whole band was practically naked,” Train said. “Then we brought a bunch of naked people on stage and they were all dancing around.”

Although Iowa City has no nudist colonies, when Confessing Sila brings its show to the Hawkeye Music Festival Sunday, the Kansas trio promises to put on a show just as crazy.

Confessing Sila describes itself as a pop-trypnotic band, influenced by the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction and even some Latin music. Train doesn’t hesitate to put his band in the “alternative music” category.

“[Our music] varies a lot,” he said. “We have richly melodic vocals, it’s not real whiny like a lot of college bands.”

Confessing Sila was born in September of ’97 in Lawrence, Kansas. Train had been in and out of bands since he was 14, but after being on his own for a while, decided he missed the companionship of having a real band.

“I put an ad in the paper for a few months,” Train said. “I went through 25 to 30 tryouts before I found the right guys.”

Those guys ended up being drummer Phil Siler and bassist Jason Barr.

“In our first day we made up five songs, and it kept going from there,” Train explained. “We ended up putting out a CD in three months.”

However, Train agreed putting out a record as fast as the band did is not necessarily a good thing.

“Looking back on our CD now, we don’t think it represents what this band sounds like anymore,” he said.

On the to-do list for the band is putting out a second record, but taking much more time on it.

“We recorded our first one in 20 hours,” Train said. “We’re definitely going to take our time on this one.”

The band also plans on touring overseas sometime after next summer.

“We have a lot of support in Germany and places like that,” Train said. “We’re actually pretty big over there.”

One place Confessing Sila doesn’t seem to have a big following is its hometown.

“There is only so many bars you can play before people get sick of you,” Train said.

The group is a fan of festivals and is eagerly anticipating its Iowa City performance.

Train and cohorts plan to bring a film crew to the show to shoot a video during the group’s performance.

“We are going to play some of our harder music and end it with some funk,” Train said. “We want to bring some people on stage to do some dancing and hopefully they will take their clothes off. We want to create some good eye-candy for the camera.”

Confessing Sila will play at the Hawkeye Music Festival Sunday at the Johnson County Fairgrounds in Iowa City. Tickets are $22 and are available through all TicketMaster outlets.