Hi,
My band is called the Downer Party. We formed in San Francisco in 2008. The Downer Party has always been me and my best friend, Sam. He plays bass really well.
I was 18 years old then and had just left my previous project of two years, a band called Elephone that enjoyed some mentionable, but not that mentionable success in the bay area. The other members of Elephone were all about 20 years older than me, and after a couple of years of trying to carry myself like someone in their late 30’s(with only very limited success), I was ready to be a kid again. In a major way.
Sam and I spent about six months in late 2008 and early 2009 partying our asses off. We made friends and made out and drank like fish and then tried walking like fish, but we were too drunk to pull that one off and decided to go back to drinking like fish. We went through four notable, but not that notable drummers and created an EP titled Ego Driven Lust Creatures which we had the pleasure of releasing on San Francisco’s Popsmear Records. Those recordings received, and continue to receive (knock on wood!), some modest airplay on the Bay Area’s Live 105.3 FM, KALX, and KUSF. We’re pretty stoked on that. We played some awesome shows up here in the bay area and down in LA. We almost moved to New York without telling our friends or family but at the last minute, we reckoned it would be too hard to find jobs out there and grumpily decided to stay in California.
Over the summer I think we’ve mellowed out a little bit. Sam and I have both, in our separate ways, come to see that playing music, and more importantly, making music together is what we live for. We’ve started dedicating more time to working on our band, and less time muck running. We even considered changing our band’s name to The Downer Gathering of Close Friends or The Dinner Party. Hahaha! Just kidding.
This otherwise nominal change in attitude led us to seek a new and truer artistic match by way of drummers. After literally weeks of searching, we found our guy and have welcomed the highly notable Colin Popaduik into our band. Additionally, we have taken on a fourth and final member, an old and dear friend of mine, August Churchill. He plays lots of instruments and has proven to be outlandishly useful and nice. The four of us are scheduled to begin tracking our new EP in November and are aiming for a release sometime in the early spring.
So that’s it! Those are all of the facts about my band!
I hope this bio wasn’t too amateur. I tried paying a guy on craigslist to write one for us, but he wound up taking my money and never calling me back.
Have a bitchin’ summer, Sierra Frost
Next Upcoming Show:
"You can't go wrong with the Downer Party. Hardly down on anything, this band--with sugary female vocals, a dizzying punk momentum, and hooks so sharp they'll claw at you for days. "Being a Teenager is Free Palestine" has a confusing title for a song, but being an adolescent is hardly the age of clarity. The tune, which you can stream from the Downer Party's MySpace page, has little to do with the Middle East. Rather it's about party-hopping around the world, from getting knighted in England to living it up in Spain and France." -SF Weekly
"If I was walking across the mountains near Lake Tahoe, and say I was hungry, there would be no other band I'd rather eat than The Downer Party. They're young and have the feel good party indie rock vibe. Lead singer Sierra also did vox for Elephone and she's well on her way to holding the torch as San Francisco's premiere female rocker to watch catapult to international celebrity." -SF Chronicle
"Snotty...absolutely charming..." -East Bay Express
~ .: JUST WANTED TO STOP BY AND SAY THANKS FOR THE ADD ,AND TO SHOW YOU SOME LUVIN... AND PLEASE STOP BY AND TAKE A LISTEN TO MY MUSIC AND SHOW SUM LUV, HOPE YOU HAVE A HAPPY DAY :o) XOXO:. ~ ~ .: TU NEW FRIEND :. ~ ~ .: JESSI V:. ~
Working hard at the AAU Drawing and Painting. I am working towards being a creative director using my management skills + art skills, at some sort of a firm... we'll see.
Yes I will definitely try to stop by, it has been too long!
If you guys have Facebook add me on that, because I use it more.
Check out another great new track from the band on our radio show called "The New Rock Report" with DJ RON this Sunday night (October 11th) from 6-8pm (pst). We will be playing two hours of nothing but brand new alternative, indie, punk, rock and great local orange county bands. We are always commercial free and free to listen to anytime. Check us out and let us know what you think.
Talking House Presents: Jonathan Devoto's "Bird By Bird" band debut! (guitar/vocalist, the Matches) Friday 8/21 @ Blake's (Berkeley) - TICKETS: http://...com/BirdBBDebut
The Lovemakers single is iTunes' "WHAT'S HOT": http://...com/LvmkrsSingle Tuesday 8/18 @ Silverlake Lounge (L.A.)
hope your Rickshaw show was rad sorry we had to miss it cause we was on the road. man that OKGO shit was long ago when we were just band babys. hope yall are do'n well! love!
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