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About Me

Hollywood Guillotine is a band from the suburbs of Chicago. Yes, yes... the suburbs. Hoffman/Palatine to be exact. Lemme break it down: It all started around the beginning of the school year of 2005. One day at school, Sean and Matt (from the Skandal) came up to Ryan and said "Ryan, you’re playing drums for us after school today." Ryan said OK thinking it was just a one-time thing. Later that day, the 3 of them "practiced" and made up a song or two. They decided that this was a good thing they had going, so sought out a bassist. Bassists are hard to find but Ryan remembered a kid at a local band show who was playing around on the bass. His name was Will (from The Backstabbers). So after many attempts of finding him, Sean, Matt, and Ryan approached Will one day and asked if he wanted to "jam". Will accepted. So they got together and practiced some songs and ate lasagna. Yes that’s right....lasagna. We like to just have fun with what we do. Oh yeah, and the name? Well...either the origin of how it came about is top secret...or we just don’t know.
So, that’s basically all you need to know about us.....
HG @ the Fremd Battle of the Bands - "Escapism"
HG @ Clearwater Theater - "Shit Stroll"
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Music:

Member Since: 2/4/2006
Band Members: Sean- guitar & vocals
Matt - guitar & vocals
Will - bass & vocals
Ryan - drums
Influences: Operation Ivy, The Broadways, Sublime, The Lawrence Arms, Morning Glory, Dillinger Four, The Suicide Machines, Fucked Up, Choking Victim, Bouncing Souls, Rancid, Against Me!, Alkaline Trio, Dub Trio, Slapstick, Blue Meanies, None More Black, Toots and the Maytals, and more..
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My Blog

The Battle of FHS...

Last night we played the Fremd High School Battle of the Bands. It was such a fun show. I'm also pleased to say that we did alot better than last year. It's cool to see how much you've progressed in a...
Posted by Hollywood Guillotine on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:06:00 PST

It’s not a party until the cops show up

Friday night's insanity seems to justify the statement. Bands' playing awesome, crowd dancing awesome, cops not shutting us down too early, all contributed to what I'd say was a hell of a su...
Posted by Hollywood Guillotine on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:43:00 PST

Clearwater Theatre [on a Saturday night!]

Hey guys and dolls!Thank you all of you who came out and showed your immense support at our Clearwater Show last night... it was truly and amazing experience, if I do say so myself...Haha, that huge f...
Posted by Hollywood Guillotine on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:43:00 PST

crazy, trippy Renegade Space Rock!

I think it's safe to say that tonight was MY favorite show i've ever played. I think Sean agrees w/ me. It was just an all-around amazing night.The show was at Putting Edge...the trippy neon glow in t...
Posted by Hollywood Guillotine on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:52:00 PST

Crazy, insane, trippy mini-golf show

Yes...trippy. Have you ever been to Putting Edge?!Anyways, tonight was the Putting Edge show we talked so much about. I think, in my opinion, it was definitely a show to be remembered. Probably my fav...
Posted by Hollywood Guillotine on Sat, 26 May 2007 10:06:00 PST

Life on the Vine Benefit Show

i'll keep this one short...Tonight was probably one of the funnest shows in a long time!us, The Skandal, We Will Eat Rats to Survive, and Osvaldo Paese hit up the stage at Life on the Vine Church for ...
Posted by Hollywood Guillotine on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:49:00 PST

casa de Del Prado...

so tonight was, yet again, another Del Prado house show!a St. Patrick's Day show!I must say, I myself (Ryan) had never been to one, but have heard great things. So to be able to play at one, was very ...
Posted by Hollywood Guillotine on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:12:00 PST

hXc in Addison....

So tonight was our first show since December 12th at Clearwater. And first off, it felt great just to be out there finally again with our friends. We played at the St. Paul "School of Rock", and it wa...
Posted by Hollywood Guillotine on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:05:00 PST

Clearwater Theater

We played at Clearwater Theater for the first time tonight.First let me say, great job to Slush Fund and awesome job to Dr. Ed and the Flushots.Thanks To Decal Productions for setting it up. Also, tha...
Posted by Hollywood Guillotine on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:06:00 PST

Bar Time: Special Thanks To...

-Dr. Ed and the FluShots for lending us their drumset and inviting us to the show in the first place!-I think the guy from Urban Sprawl for lending me a bass drum pedal.-Becca for taping some of the s...
Posted by Hollywood Guillotine on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:35:00 PST