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the downer party
12+ albums
indie rockpunknew waveindiesan francisco
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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 lit
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