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About Me



Kevin and Jarrod met when Jarrod (formally from CMYK and Thieves Cross) tried out for the position of vocalist in Kevin's band, Manchester School. They became fast friends, hit it off musically, and decided to start their own project. After 2 months of intense song writing, they decided the time was ready to gather a full band and start gigging. Jarrod's brother, Nick (of Oldowan and The Story of Mikey) came aboard on drums, and Mark Sharp (of 13th Sky, Wiggle Wagons, & Shadow Cabinet fame) took up the bass position. They've already played with many solid bands, including: Astral, The Common Men, Dandelion War, Dusty Brown, The Hundred Days, On Blast, and Metabear. They've just finished recording a demo, and are already perfecting material to put on their future full-length.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/7/2008
Band Members: Jarrod Pagan - Vocals, Keyboard
Kevin Rollis - Guitar, Synths, Keyboard
Nick Pagan - Drums
Mark Sharp - Bass

Influences: The Cure, The Clash, The Smiths, Tegan and Sara, The Faint, Death Cab For Cutie, Covenant, Kent, Interpol, Bauhaus, Bloc Party, The Birthday Party, Joy Division, Killing Joke, Depeche Mode, Radiohead
Sounds Like: A mix of Post Punk, Synth pop, and Britpop with a heavy Cure influenced guitar sound. We call it 'post-pop'! :)
Record Label: deep shag records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

picture, demo, and upcoming bits

just thought i'd run down a few things while i was up. first, new pictures: i'd like to thank andy for a bang-up job. we spent the day in the awesome, crazy waterfront town named port-costa. i just pu...
Posted by primary on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:24:00 PST

Recording Diary 2

Let it be known that not even closing out Temptation @ the cat club in SF can put a damper on recording the next day. (roughly 5 hours later!) after the first attempts of guitar tracks I had a listen ...
Posted by primary on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:40:00 PST

Recording Diary 1

"Louis Fishnarrd-Suraeyurp!" I have no clue what it means, but we kept laughing about it for a good hour or so. If you have the chance to reverse someone speaking or singing to add reverse-reverb to ...
Posted by primary on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:35:00 PST

Thanks!

Big Thanks to everybody who came out to our show on wed. it apparently was a Really good show! we had a lot of fun, and made some new friends with the band Astral who were flippin' awesome and le...
Posted by primary on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:50:00 PST

oops & a nice bit of ’D’oh!’

well, thanks to the psyical demands of 'stage presence', I kind of (in the words of the infamous Doug) Wanged up my Vox Phantom. I took it to a repair shop but it saddly won't be ready for the show th...
Posted by primary on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:18:00 PST

updates and tidbits

just thought i'd check in with everybody and let them know how things are going with us. first and foremost, we're currently working on a plethora of new material that we hope to play for ev...
Posted by primary on Wed, 14 May 2008 11:46:00 PST

BOOKING INQUIRIES

Thanks for your interest in booking Primary. Please forward all booking inquires to: http://www.myspace.com/belladonnaproductions 
Posted by primary on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:37:00 PST

a couple more things

so, there's a show in development with the prids AND the telltale hearbreakers (who rocked the damned house at the retox last night) for june 11th at the voodoo. it's not finalized yet, but we (and by...
Posted by primary on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:41:00 PST

just a random update

just thought i'd give everyone a quick update and say hello. we're in process of writing a slew of new tunes that i'm VEEEERY happy with, quality-wise. i think our new material is blowing the old stuf...
Posted by primary on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:05:00 PST

welcome Mark Sharp - our new bassist!

just wanted to take a moment here to congratulate and welcome aboard our new bassist, Mark Sharp! He’ll be on board for our May 2nd show onward, and he will not disappoint. i don’t have th...
Posted by primary on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:51:00 PST