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The Disease

Beating a Dead Horse Since 2000

About Me

The Disease is a three piece noise rock band from the upstate of South Carolina. The original unit existed for only 9 months in the year 2000, but stayed mildly active through 2003 with the recordings of original members Christopher Ashley and Franklin Farr. The current and strongest line up to date features Ashley, Farr along with John Henley. The band has released 3 records, a split 7" with Racebannon on Monotonstudio (Germany), a full length cd entitled, "Dyslexic Experts in Reverse Psychology" on Alone , and a split CD/LP with Fax Arcana, "We, The Bankrupt" also on Alone. The Disease has played several indie/hardcore fests, MacRock twice, and CMJ as well as selected WARPED TOUR dates.
The current line up just completed a new set of songs for 7 inch singles on various labels. A new Lp should be completed by January 2007.
Bands read this before messaging us, please!
Lastly, if you are a band and need help booking a show in the south, try www.groundzerorocks.com or www.holycitybooking.com . we rarely book shows unless it is a friend's band, and we get like 5 emails a day about this. I am sure someone can help you from those sites, good luck!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/8/2004
Band Members: christopher ashley ::guitar/vocals/programming [index for potential suicide, the slasher film festival strategy, murder weapon, the avenging disco godfathers of soul, the black octopus]

franklin farr ::bass [marion, the black octopus]

john henley ::drums [the avenging disco godfathers of soul, every kid loves a clown]

photo by scott smallin www.scottsmallin.com

CD/LP w/Fax Arcana (AL068)

"Dyslexic Experts in Reverse Psychology" CD (AL049)
Influences: hot snakes, vss, at the drive in, stooges, drive like jehu, herion, angelhair, jesus lizard, fugazi and many more
Sounds Like: rock/punk/hardcore
Record Label: alone, monotonstudio, lucky creature, 1963, etc.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Disease Interview with Mashnote.net

Our friend Jim did a interview with the Disease for his webzine www.mashnote.net Checkout his site, lots of great interviews and reviews. Thanks franklin
Posted by The Disease on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:11:00 PST

October 29th show in Charleston

Hey everyone we are playing in Charleston tomorrow, so come out if you can. Thank you franklin Holy City Booking October, 29 2006 at VCR, Snack Truck, Gospel @ Cumberlands 301 King St, Charleston, 294...
Posted by The Disease on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:56:00 PST

2006 News

The Disease have a new split 7inch out with our friends Network Of Terror on Lucky Creature Records. We have another 3 song 7 inch coming out later this year on 1963 recors. We are in the process of f...
Posted by The Disease on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:28:00 PST

The West Memphis Three Awareness Day 2005

  The West Memphis Three For Info on the cases please go to www.wm3.orgDonations are needed to help cover legal fees.   WM3 WORLDWIDE AWARENESS DAY July 23, 2005 Supporters all over the worl...
Posted by The Disease on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

macrock and warped tour dates confirmed

the disease will be returning to live performance for the first time in two months at james madison university's mid atlantic college radio conference in harrisonburg, va. the showcase we are playing ...
Posted by The Disease on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

broken arm.

our guitarist, zach, had an accident the other night and broke his arm. he is doing ok for the most part, send him your love. unfortunately, we won't be playing any shows, until he recovers, late ma...
Posted by The Disease on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the disease scheduled to play cmj in ny, ny

the disease has been confirmed to play the cmj music marathon in new york, new york on october 13-16. the disease's showcase is in brooklyn on saturday, october 16th, more details as we get them.
Posted by The Disease on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST