Mike
Matt T.
Bill
Matt D.
Lyle
and once, long ago:
Ryan, Sean, and Al
Influences
Lizard & Snake
Cat's Cradle
Frank Heath
The Sileno Family
Spaghetti House
Revolvers
The Jam Room
Matt Kelley
Campground Effect
The Highlife House
65 Filmshow
The Grey A.M. and their fire and bottlerockets
Ross Siegel
Leigh Ramsdell
Gunmoll
Johnny Puke
Matt Ehlers
Nigel Hamm
listening to Andrew W.K. all day, every day
Sounds Like
andrew w.k. after he has been drinking since 9:30 a.m.
YES, THE WORLD MIGHT BE ENDING BUT WE ARE PLAYING IN JAPAN.
FOR REALS.
2008
We're playing reunion shows in Chapel Hill, NC and at the Fest 7 in Gainesville, FL. If you live in these sweaty parts of the country, see you there.
And if you do not, go back to your business and continue to enjoy either snow or your freezing cold Pacific ocean.
2007
Mike is rotting away in Gainesville, Fl and raising his son Ash. He still works at Kinko's and runs sounds at Common Grounds rock club. He plays in the mighty J. Page, and is starting to do some acoustic stuff again, though eventually with a full band this time - but he'll still be rehashing the old songs, as always.
Matt Tomich lives in Switzerland with his parrot, travels a lot, works for the man, and plays the rock in musicals with Swiss people who really do have umlauts in their names.
Bill still lives in Chapel Hill with his lovely wife Cinnamon. He runs The Reservoir and plays in the totally metal (no bullshit) Colossus and Amish Jihad. He can still kick your ass in arm-wrestling and drink you under the table.
Matt Danser lives in the desert in Santa Fe, NM where he makes furniture and gnaws on tin cans. He just received his certificate of fine woodworking from Santa Fe Community College and is applying for an 11 month artist in residence position at Arrowmont craft school in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Lyle still lives in Pittsboro. He has a half redneck / half asian baby girl that looks like the offspring of a Nam vet's warbride. He also runs The Reservoir and plays in Amish Jihad.
1995 - 2003
"Breaking up" sounds overly dramatic. More accurately, we're playing our last show and then not showing up to band practice anymore. "No call, no show" is more like it.
People ask why we're playing our last shows. There is a popular misconception that rock bands stay together forever. Bands get together, write their songs, release them to the world, and then the members go on to work in restaurants or play in tribute bands. Maybe while they were together they were lucky enough to come to your town and play live and get drunk and sleep on your local beach. But nothing lasts forever, which is exactly the reason why after reading this and jacking around on the internet, you should get up and go do everything you keep talking about doing instead of just sitting around and talking about it.
We have a lot of people to thank from the last eight years. Let's start with the entire populations of Orange, Durham, Wake, Burlington, Wayne, and Alamance counties in North Carolina. That should cover everyone we know around here. And everybody in the Virginia Beach area, and whoever lived in Harrisonburg, Virginia from 1997-2001, gracias amigos. Thank you Florida, as somehow we never got a ticket for speeding or indecent exposure in your state. And thank you Garden City, Kansas and Lincoln, North Dakota for showing up in droves, because otherwise I think we would've committed seppuku out of sheer boredom while driving across the Midwest. Meanwhile, anybody who drives the speed limit in Connecticut or runs a crooked rock club in California, you can kiss our ass. You shook our faith in humanity and we hope you all get audited at least once in your lives.
If you heard our songs, you should thank these guys who made sure our records came out: Fab Del Rey records, Matt Kelley at Route 14 records, and Ross Siegel at Law of Inertia records. If you guys were waiting for the big MTV breakthrough hit so you could cash in on our back catalog, I'm sorry we let you down.
Thank you Matt Ehlers and Travis Groo for sending a lot of e-mails and making a lot of phone calls for us at one time or another.
We've played a ridiculous number of shows across three countries and can't remember all the fun places we've played. But we'd like to especially thank Go, Cat's Cradle, Lizard and Snake, Duke Coffeehouse, and Matt Dauer in Virginia Beach, as they always hooked us up and gave us whatever we wanted like the spoiled children we are. But the crowded, out-of-control house shows were some of the most memorable and we had some of the best times of our lives at the High Life House in Colorado Springs, the Spaghetti House in Harrisonburg, Tommy's apartment in Morgantown, and whatever that house was in Atlantic, NC where literally the whole town showed up.
We can't begin to name the bands that we want to thank. We wish we could play with you all one more time. If we could get all the bands we wanted to play our farewell show, it would be a three-day outdoor festival with $10 parking and $5 beers. But for the record, we'd like to say it sucks that The Revolvers, 65 Filmshow, and Gunmoll broke up before we did, and we wish they were waiting for us in band heaven.
And if sometime in the last eight years you came to our show, bought a CD, wore a t-shirt, or downloaded our songs and put them on a mix tape, thanks. You have no idea how stoked we were when you thought something we did was worth taking home (and likewise, we realized we were going to have gas money to get back home.)
And to every single person in Japan, thank you! You're all so nice.
Some people have written us some really kind letters saying all sorts of incredible things. We'd like to say that you should cheer the hell up and go start your own rock band. It's a great way to spend seven or more years of your life. We highly recommend it.
If we have any regrets, it's that we didn't get to finish another album before it was all over. But we hope somewhere along the line, we did something that made your day better than it would've been if we had just decided to stay home and watch movies.
If at some point in the last eight years we were some part of your lives, you made the band that was our lives worthwhile for us. For us, it came to an end while it was still fun. And we hope at the end of your days, you can say the same.
whats up guys. i was in the band "deadline..." in the back woods of Atlantic. just read about it on ur page a got a chuckle. I miss the hell out of those days. take care. Ashley.
Thanx a lot! You probably got our cd from the guy who has released some of our stuff there.We have never been in japan ourselves, but would love to go there. I was really flattered by the reference to starkmarket, they were one of my favorite bands when i was in junior high and still are. I sometimes see their leadsinger at the gym where i train , but I have never dared to talk to him ;-) (Wonder if he still makes music?). BTW, I really like the tunes that you have on your page! cheers/ fredrik from jetpilot
not a problem hehe. i'll leave yu-ki to be my ambassador for those kung fu battles but i will continue eating sushi two times a week in honor of the tour :) arigato. for the comment.
Hey guys, I got your S/T release from Yu-ki!! Great work on that man, and the demos sound mind ;) As I told Yu-ki the cd/booklet is so lovely and well made! Have fun in Japan, I guess you are doing a reunion tour? Cheers from Canada.
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