Eve 6
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| Eve 6 | |
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| Origin | La Crescenta-Montrose, California, United States |
| Genres | Alternative rock, pop punk |
| Years active | 1995–2004, 2007–present |
| Labels | RCA, BMG, Sony, Fearless |
| Associated acts | The Sugi Tap, Raphael Saadiq |
| Website | www.eve6.com |
| Members | |
| Max Collins Jon Siebels Tony Fagenson |
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| Past members | |
| Nick Meyers Matt Bair |
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Eve 6 (sometimes typeset as EVƎ 6) is an American rock band from Southern California, who are most well known for their hit singles "Inside Out", "Leech", and the slow anthem "Here's to the Night". They disbanded in 2004, returned in 2007 with a new lineup, and finally reunited with all three original members in March 2011. They announced their signing to Fearless Records on May 3, 2011.
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[edit] History
[edit] Formation (1995-2004)
The band originally consisted of Max Collins (bass, lead vocals), Jon Siebels (guitar, backing vocals), and Nick Meyers (drums).[1] The band formed in 1995 in La Crescenta, California first as Yakoo, then Eleventeen; the name Eve 6 was only adopted later. Their first gig was at Eagle's Coffee Pub in North Hollywood. Eleventeen had secured a recording contract with RCA while the band were still in high school. After the recording of Eleventeen, Meyers left the band, and was replaced by Tony Fagenson.
The band's final name is a reference to The X-Files. Fagenson, a fan of the show, suggested the name after seeing an episode entitled "Eve". The episode featured genetically engineered characters known as "Eves", for the females, and "Adams", for the males. The Eves were portrayed by Harriet Sansom Harris. One of these genetically engineered characters, named "Eve #6," made a remark about biting a guard's eyeball, which Fagenson thought merited "Eve 6" as a band name.[citation needed]
[edit] Breakup (2004-2007)
Poor sales of It's All in Your Head (Only 192,000 units were moved, compared to the platinum and gold certification for their two previous albums), resulted in Eve 6's release from their contract with RCA.[2] Subsequently announcing their breakup, Eve 6 played their final show together on July 15, 2004 under the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.("Band Biography". www.eve6.com. 2007-01-28. http://eve6.com/biography.php.) Collins had a short lived project called Brotherhood of Lost Dogs. Collins and Fagenson reunited to form a new band called The Sugi Tap, which can be found at http://www.myspace.com/sugitap. They recorded some demos and played shows throughout the California region during 2006.
[edit] Reunion (2007-2012)
After performing for over a year as The Sugi Tap, on October 1, 2007, it was leaked that a "newly reunited" Eve 6 including Collins and Fagenson, and new guitarist Matt Bair would be going on tour. The Sugi Tap, as a result, was "paused" indefinitely. Eve 6 performed shows with Bair over the next three years. In 2010, RCA released Extended Versions. This was released without the band's input and contains live songs from a show played before their breakup. On December 19, 2010, the band released a demo of the song "Bad News" for free download. On March 12, 2011, the band formally welcomed Jon Siebels back as lead guitarist via their Facebook and YouTube accounts. Matt Bair has left the band to work on personal projects. The first show with the original Eve 6 lineup since 2004 took place at Southwestern Oklahoma State University's twelfth annual SWOSUpalooza concert on April 14.[3] As of May the band signed with Fearless Records and plan on entering into the studio in June to record their fourth album with producer Don Gilmore. On the 8th of September, 2011, it was announced that their upcoming fourth album will be released in early 2012. On the 30th of September, 2011, it was also announced that Chris Lord-Alge finished the mixing of the album.
[edit] Speak In Code (2012 - Present)[4]
On January 5, the band posted about a photo shoot and mentioned that “lots of news [would be] coming in the next week or two, stay tuned…”
On January 7, Max Collins made a rare tweet, alerting fans that his planned acoustic tour with Art from Everclear would be “rain checked” as a result of “Eve 6 stuff starting to ramp up in Feb.”
On January 13, Tony Tweeted “Video treatments, photo shoots, conference calls…it’s all coming back to me now #startitup”
On January 15th 2012, Eve 6 posted a tweet on their Twitter account stating the "The cat's out of the bag - we will be releasing our new album, "Speak In Code", on April 24th! More details to come..."
It was also announced on January 15th, that the first single to be released of the new 4th studio album would be "Victoria" set to be released to rock radio March 19th 2012 to stations everywhere.
On January 18th 2012, Eve 6 posted a photo on their website stating they have new "acoustic jamz" to be released shortly, thus identifying the fact they plan to release some new music before the new album release date.[5]
Eve 6 announced on January 24th via their Facebook page that Lost & Found would be released as Speak In Code's first pre-release single on January 31st.
[edit] Band members
[edit] Current members
- Max Collins – bass, lead vocals (1995–2004, 2007–present)
- Jon Siebels – guitar, backing vocals (1995–2004, 2011–present)
- Tony Fagenson – drums, backing vocals (1996–2004, 2007–present)
[edit] Former members
- Nick Meyers – drums (1995–1996)
- Matt Bair – guitar, backing vocals (2007–2011)
[edit] Touring members
- Gabe Witcher – bass, backing vocals (2000–2001) performed on the Horrorscope tour, and on the track "Anytime" from the 2001 film Out Cold
- JJ Bannasch – bass, backing vocals (2003–2004) performed on the It's All in Your Head tour, and appeared in the music video for "Think Twice"
[edit] Discography
[edit] Studio albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
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| US [6] |
US Heat [7] |
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| 1998 | Eve 6
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33 | 1 | US: Platinum[8] | |||
| 2000 | Horrorscope
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34 | — | US: Gold[8] CAN: Gold[9] |
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| 2003 | It's All in Your Head
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27 | — | ||||
| 2012 | Speak in Code
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| "—" denotes a release that did not chart. | |||||||
[edit] Live albums
| Year | Album details |
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| 2010 | Extended Versions
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[edit] EPs
| Year | EP details |
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| 1996 | Eleventeen
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[edit] Singles
| Year | Song | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| US [6] |
US Adult [6] |
US Alt [6] |
US Pop [6] |
CAN [10] |
NZL [11] |
UK [12] |
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| 1998 | "Inside Out" | 28 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 36 | — | — | Eve 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Leech" | — | — | 6 | — | — | — | 81 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Showerhead" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Superhero Girl"[13] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | "Open Road Song" | — | — | 23 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Tongue Tied" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000 | "Promise" | 108 | 33 | 3 | 40 | — | — | — | Horrorscope | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| "On the Roof Again" | — | — | 19 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | "Here's to the Night" | 30 | 7 | 33 | 14 | — | 34 | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003 | "Think Twice" | — | — | 9 | — | — | — | — | It's All in Your Head | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| "At Least We're Dreaming" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Good Lives" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | "Victoria" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Speak in Code | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | "Lost & Found" | style="text-align:center;"| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Speak in Code | |||||||||||||||||||||||
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.
[edit] Other appearances
[edit] References
[edit] External links
[edit] Interviews
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