Swilley
Home Shows Bio Pictures Links Merch Contact
Swilley formed about 6 years ago in Aledo, Texas and has gone thru some different line-up changes over the years. This one rock the hardest, with the least amount of people.
Swilley has played all over the DFW area at places such as The Aardvark, Ridglea Theater, The Wreck Room, Galaxy Club, Club Indigo, and The Fort Worth Rail Market.
Swilley has played with so many different bands, both local (Cityview, The Charismatics, One Minute Halo, Frolic, Ultrasonic, Podunk, XES Whiskey, Open 24 Hours) and national acts (Cheap Trick, Authority Zero).
But what happend in those six years you ask?
Well our story starts off in Mr. Swilley's math class where Caleb met Jake. Yes, Mr. Swilley, an old air-force pilot that turned to teaching. Anyways, Jake had a drummer who played with him in his old band Japanese Midget Kings. This trio went on covering old blink-182 songs pre-enema of the state and did some really gay events at their old high school and made a name for themselves. Soon after they relized that covering songs would get them no where in their musical career.
Enter the era of Chase Krupa
Jake found this guy, Chase Krupa, at a fight at Lance Winton's house (kid with alot of land for kicking ass) and asked Chase to try out for the band. Chase had a heavy country influence, but liked us because he was into Pimpadelic at the time and wanted to be a rockstar. Understandable. Anyways, this new 4 piece cranked out some mediocre rock songs which they brought to battle of the band audiences across the metroplex. Won a few of them also. Along with those spoils came recording time, but just before there frist EP Dan was left due to parental supervision. Take it for what its worth.
Enter the era of Cory and Austin Hines
We played with these guys, who were called High Strung at the time, at a house party. Around the time Dan left so did Cory and Austin's bass player Andy, so in turn we melded and made even newer sounds and adopted some of the old High Strung songs. This is when things took off for awhile. We played shows vigorously and also had a full length CD (which we named High Strung, quite unoriginal) with this 5 piece. After 2 years or so we saw that Austin wasnt going to be in for the long haul and let him go and Chase finally left due to personal reasons, a very sad ending to what we thought was the end of our band.
But no! This change ushered in what you know Swilley today as.
After all these changes neither Jake, Cory, or Caleb was about to get out of the lime light they worked so hard to get into. None the less after the recent line up change we went on hiatus for about 6 months, all the while writing new material and busting back out with a more defined sound and a much better attitude about our music. We are happy to finally be this way and it wont change, so there ya go bitches. This is SWILLEY
