Updates Both Personal and Band Related

It’s been a long while since I’ve posted a blog post on here and a whole lot has happened during that time. We played a ton of shows at the end of 2016 to celebrate our debut EP before fizzling out due to a lack of key members. During that time we learned a whole lot and we gained an awesome new member in Tori Valerio on bass (I’ll do a blog post soon introducing her). I also got married at the end of 2016 to an amazing girl named Amy that I met up in New York while I was touring with a musical in 2015. 2017 proved to be a year of rebuilding in so many ways. As a band, we didn’t play any shows in 2017 as we were without a drummer and I was busy navigating the first year of marriage which saw us moving back in with my parents for a time as my wife finished college. I spent much of 2017 rather depressed as we were completely unable to find a drummer to complete our lineup and I had a hard time finding work that was both well paying and felt worthwhile to me. Of course we’d all love to just play shows full time and be “rock stars” but for now we have to pay bills and eat haha. Eventually for my mental health I had to take a break completely from playing shows or recruiting a drummer. While that break was good for me, it killed me to feel like I was putting something so important to me on the shelf. Towards the end of 2017 my brother Jonathan decided to rejoin the band on guitar and as 2017 came to a close and 2018 began, we resumed the search for a drummer and quite quickly our prayers were answered. I met Brian Walters at an Emery show in January and in February he agreed to start playing drums with us. Couple that with being offered the chance to play at the Orlando date of the final Van’s Warped Tour and 2018 is shaping up to be an exciting year of rebirth for us. Personally I now have a job as the director for a music school and that has been a dream come true. It took a year of resetting and waiting, but we’re in our own place again and I have a studio/office to write, record, and play music out of. I’m at the healthiest place I’ve been in a long time emotionally, spiritually, and musically and I’m so excited for this next year! Can’t wait to see you all again at our shows and we want to get new music to you later this year! Thank you to everyone that has stuck with us through the last few years of starts and restarts, the best is yet to come!

Hear the voiceless,
Stephen