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This Is We

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About Me

Fuck egos. Fuck tight pants. Fuck pretentions. Fucking Midwest punk rock. *************** We're in studio. Give us a break. New songs in December.
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Member Since: 10/14/2005
Band Members: Derek the Drummer on the skins, the shirts (thankfully) Scoop on bass, assfros Stroupie on guitar noodling, social diseases Veerez on guitahhhr, heckling
Influences: 7 Seconds, Anti-Flag, Against Me!, Alkaline Trio, Black Flag, Johnny Cash, Noam Chomsky, John Coltrane, The Code, Crass, Dead Kennedys, The Deformities, Frank Zappa, Hi-Standard, The Inquisition, Jello Biafra, Kid Dynamite, Lagwagon, Lawrence Arms, Leftover Crack, Misfits, Mike Park, NoFX, One Size Fits Most, Paint It Black, The Penetrators, Propaghandi, The Queers, RATM, Rise Against, Rochester Method, Rocket FM, Roy Campanella, Seasick Bob, Screeching Weasel, Sham 69, Stiff Little Fingers, Supergender, Swingin Utters, Thought Riot, Upton Sinclair, The Vandals, Youth Brigade, Youth In Asia, Howard Zinn
Sounds Like: A mob of shopping moms being beaten with fanny packs full of fetuses by anxious boner-pill salesmen.
Record Label: Leftover Music
Type of Label: None

My Blog

How it all went down

Just sitting around, feeling wistful and figured I'd add a little rundown of the stats. Here's a mostly complete list of the bands we played with and venues we played in our year and a few months of e...
Posted by This Is We on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:54:00 PST

This Was We ...

Thanks for everyone who supported TIW in its existence. We came to the conclusion that it would be detrimental to our friendship to continue. So, since the band was created as a fun outlet for friends...
Posted by This Is We on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:35:00 PST

Recording almost finished!!

For those of you who didn't know, This Is We has been recording a five song EP. We ran into some conflicts while doing drum tracks losing hours of work. Everyone kept our cool and continued to strive...
Posted by This Is We on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 04:07:00 PST

That show you didn't go to.

I'm really mad about that. Why didn't you go? You said you were gonna. Then I show up and I say at least you'll show up and see us play. And then you're not there. What's that all about? Are you asham...
Posted by This Is We on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 03:46:00 PST

Last night

One of the best times I've had in a LONG time. Thanks a lot to our drunk friends for showing up and rocking out. You rule. Thanks to New Tomorrow for bowling us over with kindness and an amazing show....
Posted by This Is We on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:11:00 PST

Invalid oranges

Hey just wanted to drop a little update. We played a great show last night at the LUNk radio garage. It was awesome. We played our asses off to a small, but appreciative crowd and we opened for Surren...
Posted by This Is We on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:13:00 PST

Web updates, upcoming shows, whatever.

Not too much to say on the TIW front, but we do have a few shows coming up that you should go to. You can check those out on the front page of this here profile thing. I've also updated our website a ...
Posted by This Is We on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:54:00 PST

The Seward Farm Party - a review

Thanks to all the bands who played (and those who didn't) and everyone who showed up at the farmhouse south of Seward Saturday. Not knowing really what to expect I was overall very happy with how it w...
Posted by This Is We on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 03:20:00 PST

Upcoming shows, webpage updates

Hey kids, we got a few new shows coming up- This Saturday we'll be at the Mosaic with Defective Youth and Take Charge. May 3rd we'll be opening for None More Black (fat wreck chords band, ex-Kid Dyna...
Posted by This Is We on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:22:00 PST

Briggs show

Huge gigantic thanks to each and every one of you who came out and sorry if you were too young. Maybe all ages next time? So, booking a show turned out to be a lot more fun and less nervewracking than...
Posted by This Is We on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:09:00 PST