Camila Grey (left) and Leisha Hailey, who stars on TV's The L Word, are Uh Huh Her.

Waiting can be a pain, but patience has a way of sometimes making things work.

In the case of Camila Grey, one half of the brains behind Los Angeles electro-pop band Uh Huh Her, it involves finding the time to work with the band's other core member.

It just happens that the other member is Leisha Hailey, formerly of The Murmurs but far more famous now for her role playing Alice Pieszecki on the hit Showtime series The L Word.

Grey says the notoriety associated with the show has been both a blessing and a curse for the group.

"It's been amazing in that we have an immediate fan base that's really supportive," Grey says prior to a Norfolk, Va., show last week.

"At the same time it takes her away from the band and we're unable to tour during the summer, or at least we haven't been because she's always shooting a show. So we've always had to put our touring on hold. Now I think with the free time it will be better."

Uh Huh Her, named after the PJ Harvey song and performing tomorrow at The Mod Club, released their debut album, Common Reaction, in August.

Grey says making it was an exercise in patience mixed with quick creative spurts.

"Leisha was living in another city while we were making it," she says. "So to get both of us in the same room at a certain time was certainly very hard. There was a lot of traveling involved. There were always changing environments so it wasn't like we holed ourselves up with this record in one fell swoop."

Aside from being in different cities, Grey and Hailey also tend to work from opposite points on the songwriting spectrum.

"We're very different, we're kind of like oil and vinegar or salt and pepper," Grey says.

"She's more organic. She wants to write with guitars, whereas I want to produce the whole track in one fell swoop. We have very different writing styles, which I guess in this situation complement each other. She brings me down to earth and I make her technical."

Regardless of the dichotomies, Uh Huh Her's sonic bread and butter lies in electro-pop or synth-pop styles that touch on current bands like Metric and stalwarts of the genre such as Depeche Mode. The album is highlighted by the song Wait Another Day, one Grey is particularly fond of.

"I felt like for me it was the perfect, anthemic kind of love song in a weird way," she says. "We didn't really set out to write a love song per se but that's what came to mind when I did scratch vocals on it, sang certain words and we took it from there."

Producer Al Clay (Blur, The Pixies) also helped out Uh Huh Her. Grey says Clay put the final polish on 11 of the roughly 25 songs the band wrote for Common Reaction.

"He elevated our sound in such a crazy way from the EP (released in 2007) to the record, you can definitely tell that I was at the helm of one and he was at the helm of the other," she says. "It was the difference between cutting vocals in a bathroom and cutting vocals in a real studio."

Grey says Uh Huh Her will spend the next few months touring the world with another EP release being talked about.

But that's down the road. Grey is more concerned now with the road itself and this North American tour.

Uh Huh Her rehearsed for one week before starting this trek after Hailey finished shooting season six of The L Word.

"There's never a lot of time with this band, we're always catching up with ourselves."

Learning while doing on the road

With the album barely two months old, Uh Huh Her have been honing their chops with each gig.

Singer Camila Grey says she hasn't been able to determine whether the shows have been consistent or not.

"I mean one night it can be great and the next night it can be horrible for you," she says.

"The thing I've learned about touring is that you might be having a horrible time up there but from the audience's perspective they're having a whole different experience. I try to keep that in mind when there are shows and they're looking up at me saying, 'Oh this is so cool.' Or, 'She sucks.' "

Grey also says the shows have been starting with a new "spur-of-the-moment" song not found on Common Reaction, which is going over well. Just don't expect the duo of Grey and Hailey to write a lot while on the bus.

"I haven't really nailed the whole being-on-the-road thing yet, even though I've been doing it forever," Grey says.

"Now that I'm doing it and singing every night it's like you want to have time to do all that other stuff but all you want to do is sleep or just stare at a tree or something."