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    Artist description
    Four Honkeys and a Chilean playing fast, melodic punk rock that will brainwash teenage girls, and seduce your mother.
    Music Style
    skate punk, pop punk
    Musical Influences
    NOFX, Britney Spears, Backwash
    Similar Artists
    New Found Glory
    Artist History
    Here's a little background on our band, to let everyone know how this crazy group of guys got together, and what keeps us together. The idea of starting a band started in sixth grade. Mike and myself have been friends since we were born, Conor came to our elementary school in 3rd grade, and we became friends in 6th grade, the same time Fernando moved to our school. By junior high, we were all inseparable. This was the mid 90’s, and Green Day, Offspring and Rancid were getting to be very popular. We all liked this music, and were soon introduced to NOFX through some older kids. This was the greatest thing we had ever heard. From then on, our dreams of playing music intensified by the day. I eventually bought a drum set and the other guys brought their equipment over and we started jamming, trying to put together some songs I had written. If you can't tell, I'm Matt, I play drums in the band, and will be narrating our history for you. Conor and Fernando play guitar, and Mike plays bass. Nic is our singer, but he comes into our story a little later. I write a majority of the music, but Nic also writes a good portion of our songs, and the other guys always have input on our music as well. As I said, we started jamming a little bit once I got my drums, and by now, it was coming close to summer time in our junior year in High School (where did the time go?!). This kid moved to our school halfway through our junior year. We started hanging out with him, and often to amuse us, he would sing Michael Jackson’s song from the movie “Free Willy”. Now, none of us are big Michael Jackson fans, but it was clear that Nic had an amazing voice! We soon found out we liked the same types of music, and hit it off. We invited him to come practice with us and to join our band. We began seriously practicing somewhere around the beginning of that summer, putting together songs that I had written and that Nic had written. We played for our friends as much as we could, to get used to playing in front of people. Soon we were ready to perform, and slammed our high school gym in a “celebrating the arts” assembly during our senior year. Good friends of ours play in a band called Good For Nothing, who a week or so after the assembly were having a CD release party and we opened for them. At this point with the reaction of all our friends partying down with us as we played our music, we knew we wanted to do this…and do it a lot! Since then, we’ve played several shows in the area and worked up a strong song list. We all love playing music, and just having a good time together. With us being at different colleges right now, it's tough to practice and to get everyone together to play, but since we're all best friends, it makes it easier to stick together, and keep our dream going strong.Our musical influences come from all areas on the musical map. With 5 members in the band, all having somewhat different tastes and influences, when we create our own music, we tend to each add our own style to it; creating music that is appealing to a wide variety of people. We play what most would classify as melodic “skate punk”, but throw in some emo, hardcore, or straight up rock n’ roll for good measure. Thank you for reading a little history on the band. To find out a little more about each of us, check out our personal profiles. Peace!
    Group Members
    Nic- VocalsConor- Lead GuitarFernando- Backup GuitarMike- BassMatt- The Drums (and wow can he play)Kelly - Everything else
    Instruments
    We have a few, yes
    Albums
    The Goosecock Demo Full CD SUMMER OF 2001
    Press Reviews
    We kick a$$
    Additional Info
    We are good download us!!! West Cost Tour SUMMER of 2002
    Location
    Redmond, Washington - USA

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