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The Backup Plan began “officially” in late 2000 when the core members decided to try to take the next logical step with their music, having gone through a transformation in their goals and attitudes and solidifying a line up. The present line up is: Joe Osolin, Dan Brenner, Andrew Jones, and Jeff Tiu. Drawing on array of punk and hardcore influences they established their own style of fast, aggressive, melodic music. The Backup Plan would have to work for everything that would come their way, playing anywhere and everywhere, recording and releasing their own music, and printing their own shirts, patches, and stickers. The band recorded a five song demo in their basement and quickly sold out that first pressing at local Long Island shows. They re-recorded the demo to fatten up the sound, added an extra song, and began to play out of state on weekends, only to sell out a second pressing of the demo. After attaining a van, scouring the internet and burning through phone cards, the band booked their first DIY tour. A straight three week run of the east coast. Their first tour clocked in at twenty shows in twenty three days, not bad for a first DIY effort. With this ethic in hand, The Backup Plan has fought every inch of the way to establish themselves as one of the top up and coming hardcore bands to watch. They’ve played in almost every state up and down the east coast and mid-west, and have had the pleasure to share the stage with such bands as Bane, Terror, Comeback Kid, Norma Jean, Beloved, Scraps And Heart Attacks, With Honor, Modern Life Is War, The Suicide File, The Distance, Against Me!, Mental, Trial By Fire, The Disaster, Kill Your Idols, Ensign, Paint It Black, Evergreen Terrace, Andrew W.K., Hum, Finch, Taking Back Sunday, None More Black, Marathon, Zero Zero, Subterfuge, Tear It Up, On the Might of Princes, I Farm, The Break, Majority Rule, Pg. 99, Avenged Sevenfold, Shai Hulud, Circle Takes The Square, Crime In Stereo, Every Time I Die and many more...

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Member Since: 10/3/2003
Band Website: thebackupplan.net
Band Members: andrew jones, dan brenner, jeff tiu, chris gleason, dan bourke, joe osolin
Influences: we listen to this stuff: scraps and heart attacks, beloved, with honor, comeback kid, thieves and assasins, the disaster, kill your idols, go! for the throat, omission, misfits, stretch armstrong, descendents, trial by fire, verse, operation ivy, bad business, on the rise, the movielife, paint it black, worn thin, classic case, haste the day, marathon, legs up, minor threat, kid dynamite, lifetime, slayer, the break, against me!, modern life is war, bad brains, evergreen terrace, underoath, another breath, suicide file, none more black, norma jean, brand new, ensign, majority rule, heads vs. breakers, for all its worth, let it burn, where eagles dare, bane, strike anywhere, black flag, alove for enemies, iron maiden, on the might of princes, gorilla biscuits, the promise, blood red, dillinger four, aitia, crime in stereo, the survivors, avail, the reformation, the dillinger escape plan, folly, grade, at the drive in, the aftermath, your day strong, the hope con, man without plan, nightmare scenerio, gabriel, give up the ghost, converge
Sounds Like: we look at this stuff: bottle rocket, swingers, made, chameleons, nightmare before christmass, boogie nights, old school, royal tenenbaums, rushmore, donnie darko, the professional, cotton candy, the shawshank redemption, the big lebowski, most extreme elimination challenge...
Record Label: none
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

BACKUP PLAN / CRIME IN STEREO...SPLIT!!!

    so after about five years we'll fnally be releasing some songs that alot of people never had the opportunity to get their hands on.  these songs we're demo'd in jeff's basement...
Posted by the backup plan on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:41:00 PST

Church and State (backup plan, this is hell, soldiers, gracer, stray from the path)

www.myspace.com/churchandstateny yooo...it's andrew and dan from backup plan, this is our new thing...add us!!!way different than the other bands... a couple electric, a couple acoustic...shit man... ...
Posted by the backup plan on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:14:00 PST

CALL IT FIRE (EX EVERY BAND ON THE PLANET) FREE DEMOS!!!

WWW.MYSPACE.COM/CALLITFIRE so here it goes, one more band from long island that has ex and current members of every other band...i'd like to think we're a bit different then the others though...so ch...
Posted by the backup plan on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 07:42:00 PST

DEAREST WHOMEVER no longer sold out and back on WWW.INTERPUNK.COM

for a while now the previously sold out "dearest whomever" has been a little hard to get your hands on....we just came across a box of them and put them back up on www.interpunk.comcheers.the backup p...
Posted by the backup plan on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 07:16:00 PST

times, they are a changin'

so its been a really long time since anything has gone on over on our side here, no there are no plans for reunions at the moment, just figured i'd throw out some stuff about whats been going on. sold...
Posted by the backup plan on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:00:00 PST

BASSIST/GUITARIST LOOKING FOR FULLTIME BAND!!!

first off...before anyone reads this and think im being i douche i am posting this same text where people dont know me so eat it. second...i left gracer on good terms...we had all wanted to go in diff...
Posted by the backup plan on Sat, 24 Sep 2005 04:46:00 PST

thank you...

last night was nothing short of amazing, thanks to everyone who came out and had anything to do with setting up or playing the show at the jcc. we appreciate it more than words can describe. and mos...
Posted by the backup plan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

THE BACKUP PLAN APRIL FOOLS!!!

april fools or not? come find out! Friday April 1st 6pm?? @ Jamesport Community Center South Jamesport Ave and Route 25, Jamesport NY The Backup Plan The Distance The Haunted Life (Chic...
Posted by the backup plan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

show last night at tgif...

a big thank you to everyone who came out and everyone who helped in setting up and just being a part of last night... but most of all we would like to shout a huge thankyou out to our good buddy keit...
Posted by the backup plan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

keith of thieves and assasins, filling in for backup plan!!!

we're psyched to announce that our good friend keith of theives and assasins will be filling in on the drums for the backup plan for feb. 5th at tgif and possibly some others TBA andrew.
Posted by the backup plan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST