You could probably say Kate McNulty is making up for lost time. That, or she’s still fighting the gender stereotyping that she claims kept her from playing drums in the high school band. “My dad told me, ‘Drums are for boys,’ and he wouldn’t let me play them,” McNulty recalled. Replacing her sneer with a smile, the 22-year-old Minneapolis native added, “I wound up playing the trombone instead. At least it wasn’t the clarinet.

That would’ve been too girly.” Nowadays, being a drummer isn’t even the least “girly” thing in McNulty’s life. She’s also a semi-professional football player with the Minnesota Vixens and works a rugged job as a bike messenger by day. But playing the drums is what McNulty seems to love doing best — or at least playing rock ‘n’ roll is.

She’s currently a member of five different bands, ranging from the poppy nerd-core band Tough Tough Skin to the cow-punk quartet Hey There Cowboy to the folky duo the Laura Klinkerts . As if she needs to prove her toughness any more, McNulty is hoping to pull off the most audacious musical endurance test since Mark Mallman ’s 54-hour concert next week. All five of her bands are performing Thursday night at Pi Bar — her own five-hour-plus marathon.

“The hard thing has been figuring out the order of bands,” McNulty said. “I’m picking the order based on which ones can play drunk and which can’t.” Talking last Friday night after a rehearsal by one of her groups — Fixed Gears Are for Jerks and Lesbians , a feisty punk quartet that can play drunk — McNulty said she never meant to be in so many bands. “They just sort of came along,” she said. Her first was another punky band on Thursday’s bill, C.