Barry Donegan (Vocals) Colby Shea (Guitar) Chris Bradley (Bass) Skeet Childress (Guitar) Miles Mcpherson (Drums) Little known facts about members of Look What I Did
Dear People Who Want To Read the Look What I Did Bio,
It is traditional for bands to encapsulate the value of their commercial viability and marketing scheme into a concise biographical text. Since we are not yet signed to a label who could provide us with a person to intelligently draft one of these up for us, I, Barry Donegan, being the only person in the band who can read and write, begrudgingly have the dubious honor of trying to convince people to care about our band through words myself.
Unfortunately, the burden of expounding the grand virtues of the experimental-post-hardcore-progressive-pop band I sing for, Look What I Did, in the third person, as if I were a casual observer chronicling the cuteness of it all, proved to be a bit hokier than I am comfortable with. And that really says something, because as you familiarize yourself with our band, you'll see that 'hokiness' isn't something we're afraid of. However, I felt it was just best to write this out in a straightforward, honest way.
'Look What I Did' is the only thing we know how to do. It is also all we want to do, and really, it is actually all we will do.
It is a strange band, I must say. We have little concern for the traditional boundaries of what goes with what. It's hard to pin us down, but from the feedback from fans and reviewers alike we've gotten thus far, it would be safe to say that we come across musically like a post-hardcore/punk-metalcore band like Botch, were it at war with Jawbox and Queen, all under Mr. Bungle's rules of engagement. Our tone and lyrical direction is very satirical, much in the same way that the Dead Kennedys presented themselves, and our stage energy is every bit as dangerous and unpredictable as the Stooges.
We are all in our early twenties, and although we have a deep appreciation and understanding of the great bands whose creativity we admire, we are always pushing to challenge ourselves and be as innovative as possible. In other words, while we all know and love the likes of Botch, Jawbox, Mr. Bungle, Queen, and The Dead Kennedys, we are not trying to be them or anything we are not.
So far, we have recorded and released one record called "My First Time" independently. We are in the process of booking a lengthy winter tour for 2004/2005, and are recording demos right now for an album that we would like to record this spring. We are originally from Nashville, TN. Prior to the mass migration of the band to LA, we were very active in the punk/hardcore scene there. In Nashville, we accumlated a substantial draw, primarily through obsessive flyering and being hands on within the local scene.
Since moving to Los Angeles in the Spring of 2004, we've repeated the process, becoming a decent club draw in a short few months, again, through hand billing. I invite you to ask anyone in the LA club scene about us. Whether it be Greg at the Troubador, or security at the Roxy, everyone knows us to be on the streets 6-7 nights per week and handing out in excess of 20,000 flyers per month. And we are not the only ones out spreading the good word. We currently have street team leaders in over 40 major markets ready to duplicate this all across the world with a street team of over 300 members total.
Our team consists of:
Chris Bradley, bass player and interim producer, who brings a lot of chord theory and an attention to the Jellyfish, XTC type of pop arrangement to the table.
Miles McPherson (son of legendary Nashville studio axe man Jerry McPherson) on drums, who spent most of his youth on the road with pop/christian type acts, battling with the fact he'd rather be doing something more like this. Sometimes you can still find Miles doing some studio drumming for major label acts on the side for cash to make a van payment or pay in on merch.
Colby Shea is one guitar player; he's a great player in the intangibles and attention to detail way, and is responsible, in many ways, for the denseness our sound is progressing towards.
Aaron "Skeet" Childress plays the guitar too, bringing more attention to the Guided By Voices, Beatles school of songwriter arrangement, and is apt to tackle the faster more complex stuff that we do as well.
I, Barry Donegan, am the singer. Unlike many of my underground contemporaries, I am very interested in the voice as an instrument, and spend most of my time obsessing on how to become the best vocalist I can be. Despite doing a lot of the more abrasive things, I consider it important to be able to sing with skill and accuracy.
We are pacing for a long career with this band, we want to be able to tour 250 days a year and sell records; we are lifers and are fully aware that we cannot do anything else. Despite the fact that we are not the type of guys to date ourselves by grabbing the tailpipe on a carelessly careening trend, we are very comfortable with the fact that our music must be sold to ensure our existence. Playing music our way excites people. We hope that you enjoy it, and understand what we are trying to accomplish.
Thank You,
Barry Donegan
