Easily one of Orlando Florida’s hardest working bands, The Staredown is a five piece punk rock band that is known as much for their legendary weekend band house parties as they are for their invigorating stage shows and dedicated following. Blending the clean and potent riffs of Bad Religion and Pennywise with the snotty punk-as-fuck-ness of NOFX these boys know what it takes to satisfy a crowd.
A band can never be more than the sum of its parts. Each “part†of The Staredown brings his own punk pride, wild humor, and musical prowess to the table, and people are constantly coming back for more. Arturo Matamoros and Evan Rhind’s caustic guitar work and incendiary riffs are fueled by the kindling flame of Kevin Gerrity’s pounding bass lines. No stranger to the rock star life, drummer Daniel “Goci†Valery is a Vans’ Warped Tour veteran, consistently playing on Orlando’s stages since 1999. And punctuating the band’s sound, front man Peter Francis leads the way with his anthemic lyrics and guttural yells.
Already having spent time in studio with Bruce Hensel (known for his work with The Eagles among others); and armed with a true D.I.Y. ethic and an endearing sound, The Staredown is already well on their way to moving beyond Orlando’s underground scene.
12.16.06 07:33 A.M.
So hello everyone, we have some news, good and bad so so..... heh anyways since people usually want the bad first (yes we're assuming) we had to cancel the show on 12.27.06 unfortunatelly the show kept being moved back and forth from one date to the other, finally it came the time where we had a conflict in schedules, so we decided to drop off of it.Well now for the good news! we hae finally pinpointed a launch time for the e.p. we are putting out before the full length..... and SOON!!! this means new material on MySpace for sale at shows, etc. Expect to have atleast one new song up by the end of the month on our page! and expect there to be a cd release show for the e.p.
Also come out to our shows on December 22nd at Backbooth for the Lucky Number 17 special Christmas Luau show and our December 23rd show at The Haven for the HandTOHand Christmas party!Anyways thats pretty much all for now, please keep checking back to the page for more news!-Daniel, The Staredown12.07.06
Ok, so we are sorry, we are doing a terrible job updating everyday.......I guess we are too boring to be able to give new news EVERYDAY, heh.....
We have a couple of things to mention for today, like on our last entry we mentioned we have a couple of shows at the end of the month, those are still going on with no problems BUT we might be adding a few out of state dates to our arsenal of shows for earlie January, probably to Virgina, Carolinas, and Georgia, if you want us play in your town please drop us a message and we'll do anything we can to get out there! thanks for tunning in today and till next time, stay safe.-Daniel, The Staredown12.02.06
Hello everyone, so we have some cool news for this month!
first we have been writting some new material for us to take to the studio for recording! and second, we have a few shows lined up for the end of the month, please look at our dates above and hopefully you can make it out to the show(s) plus we will be selling alot of our merch at these shows so make sure to get some of it while it lasts!
if you are interested in booking us out of town for any dates at the end of December or early January, please drop us a line, it would be greatly appreciated! thanks and stay safe.-Daniel, The Staredown11.22.06
So it seems we have broken our promise to update you guys with news everyday, so we are sorry, but we do have some really cool announcements,
We finally got our merch up on here, so if your interested in buying some shirts / stickers / etc. please let us know!
We have 2 shows coming up pretty soon!
Also, we never sent out a special thanks to the guys over at Backyard Studios for putting on the show on 11.11.06, we just gotta say that F.A.M fest was great! we all had a lot of fun and made a lot of new friends! so thank you so much and hope to see you guys do this more often!
thanks for tunning in on todays news, take care now.-Daniel, The Staredown11.19.2006
Hey everyone, so hows it going? we are doing fine,
as you can see we have revamped our myspace page, and now we
will be posting news updates on this box! so now you know where to come to get all the latest and greatest news...hehehe...We are also asking friends and fans to support us by posting a complete 'The Staredown Standalone MP3 media player' for your MySpace page or other internet pages, it looks exactly like our player you see above and all it requires is you just asking us for the codes!We also have some new merch that we will be posting up on this site very very soon for all of you to get your hands on, and new recordings will be up very soon as well, so please keep checking back to our page to get all of the news on what is new with us and we'll do our part and try to update this message box atleast once a day! thanks so much again and take care now!-Daniel, The Staredown
