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Group Members:

Ben Murphy, Ben Green, Jay Littleton, Shane Johnson, Peter Tsouras

Similar Artists:

Brand New Disaster, The Stryder, Koufax, The June Spirit, My Hotel Year, Recover, The Movielife, Piebald, Planes Mistaken for Stars

Influenced By:

Sunny Day Real Estate, The Cure

Followers:

Typhoid Mary, Race the Sun

Formal Connection With:

Olympia
  • Formed: 1999, Virginia
  • Disbanded: 2003
  • Genres: Rock
  • Representative Albums: "If They Move...Kill Them," "Lusitania"

Biography

Straight from the small suburbs of Virginia is the emocore band Fairweather, and after supporting dates for the Juliana Theory, the Stryder, and Dashboard Confessional, they have converted themselves into one of the new millennium's brightest bands in the indie circuit. They cite New Order, the Cure, and Sunny Day Real Estate as influences and such potency is found on their debut, If They Move...Kill Them, released in February 2001. More touring followed its release, and the band returned in late summer 2002 with the four-song EP Alaska that highlighted a progression in the band's sound by incorporating elements of My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, and Fugazi. Fairweather -- comprised of vocalist Jay Littleton, guitarists/vocalists Ben Green and Peter Tsouras, bassist Ben Murphy, and drummer Shane Johnson -- entered the studio in the early spring of the following year with producer J. Robbins (Jets to Brazil, the Promise Ring) to work on their sophomore full-length. Lusitania was issued that July. The band called it quits in 2004; Tsouras and Johnson surfaced later in the emo rock outfit Olympia. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, All Music Guide
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Fairweather
Origin Virginia, USA
Genres Alternative rock
Emo
Indie rock
Post-punk
Years active 1999 – 2003
Labels Equal Vision
Website Official Site
Members
Peter Tsouras
Shane Johnson
Jay Littleton
Ben Green
Ben Murphy
Former members
Jay Littleton
Ben Green
Justin Cochran
Scott Joplin
Pat Broderick

Fairweather was an American rock band from Virginia that has released two full-length albums on Equal Vision Records: If They Move...Kill Them (2001) and Lusitania (2003). The band also released several demos and the Alaska EP.

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Biography

Fairweather began playing shows in the Washington, DC suburbs of Virginia. After much critical acclaim of their first album, If They Move...Kill Them (named from The Wild Bunch http://punkrockacademy.com/stm/int/fairweather.html ), the band booked dates with Thursday, Brand New, Saves The Day, The Movielife, Piebald, Onelinedrawing, Codeseven, and other nationally known touring acts.

The band announced that they would be disbanding in late 2003, not too long after their second full-length album, and finally disbanded in the winter of 2003. The played their final show at St. Andrews Church in College Park, Maryland, with Darkest Hour, Age of Ruin, StarsHideFire, and Good Clean Fun. The setlist was:

  • Blood on the Pages
  • Whatever it Takes
  • Soundtrack to the Ride
  • Lusitania
  • Letter of Intent
  • Let's Hear it for Dartanian
  • Still Paradise
  • Concrete Atlas
  • The Treachery of Images
  • South Street 1am
  • Casting Curses
  • The Culling Song
  • If They Move...Kill Them

Full Length Albums and EPs

Release Date Title Label
February 20, 2001 If They Move...Kill Them Equal Vision Records
August 20, 2002 Alaska EP
July 11, 2003 Lusitania

Members

On Lusitania and Alaska

  • Jay Littleton - vocals
  • Ben Green - guitar
  • Peter Tsouras - guitar
  • Shane Johnson - drums, bass (studio)
  • Ben Murphy - bass (live)

On If They Move...Kill Them

  • Jay Littleton - vocals
  • Ben Green - guitar
  • Scott Joplin - guitar
  • Pat Broderick - drums
  • Justin Cochran - bass

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