I was grown in fields of punk rock and your classic pop hitmakers like Jim Croce, the Clash, the Anti-Nowhere League, and the Eurythmics. Then slowly and painfully simmered in the 90's "emotional hardcore" scene, and finally stripped down and served fresh in a steaming pile of my own guts.

Biography:

In the early nineties everything was possible. Somehow after the death of Shlumpf, the metallic hardcore band that popped my rock'n'roll cherry in high school (god I miss just being the lazy singer who got to bash his face bloody in the stage monitors), powerpop seemed like a nice change of pace. So I traded in the drummer to one day become Manuok in exchange for the future bassist of Flogging Molly.

Then over the next few years through tours and friendships we were assimilated into the asscrack of what people were calling the emo scene.

That was just fine for me when it meant that we got lumped in with bands such as Still Life and Sense Field, who were nearly idols to us and certainly were kind and inspirational as individuals. The Locust, F.Y.P., The Fixtures, J-Church, were the types that we liked to be around.

I remember the shows we played with Left Alone at short-lived venues like Club Bullocks and the P.C.H. Club in Wilmington.

Those are my influences.