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New to the Alabama hardcore scene, but not new to Samuel Blackwell and Alex Ivy-Townley, Harbor House is over a decade in the making.
Sam and Alex met in 2007 at a small nondenominational church in Anniston, AL, when Sam only knew how to play Red Hot Chili Peppers songs on bass and Alex made him learn worship music so he could switch to electric guitar. After a year of Alex shoving hardcore music down Sam's throat, Sam sat at a drum set for the first time in his life and he and Alex played through a Maylene and the Sons of Disaster song without ruining it.
Over the next ten years the pair lived together twice, playing multiple open mic nights and startling everyone coming to hear indie acoustic jams, appearing on other recordings with friends, and generally just annoying each other a lot. Sam was living in Orlando in 2019 when he started sharing demos of fully fleshed out songs with Alex that he'd written and recorded. Alex asked him to move to Birmingham, AL to live with him for a third time and finally make their dream of being in a band together a reality.
After trying and failing for a few months to secure other bandmembers, Sam and Alex found Kyle in a dumpster eating old chicken wings and now he plays bass and he owns the storage unit the band rehearses in. Justin joined the band in 1983 after being expelled from Harvard and has given up his successful career as a jazz musician to hit the drums a lot harder than he's ever been able to.
So this is Harbor House.
Sam and Alex met in 2007 at a small nondenominational church in Anniston, AL, when Sam only knew how to play Red Hot Chili Peppers songs on bass and Alex made him learn worship music so he could switch to electric guitar. After a year of Alex shoving hardcore music down Sam's throat, Sam sat at a drum set for the first time in his life and he and Alex played through a Maylene and the Sons of Disaster song without ruining it.
Over the next ten years the pair lived together twice, playing multiple open mic nights and startling everyone coming to hear indie acoustic jams, appearing on other recordings with friends, and generally just annoying each other a lot. Sam was living in Orlando in 2019 when he started sharing demos of fully fleshed out songs with Alex that he'd written and recorded. Alex asked him to move to Birmingham, AL to live with him for a third time and finally make their dream of being in a band together a reality.
After trying and failing for a few months to secure other bandmembers, Sam and Alex found Kyle in a dumpster eating old chicken wings and now he plays bass and he owns the storage unit the band rehearses in. Justin joined the band in 1983 after being expelled from Harvard and has given up his successful career as a jazz musician to hit the drums a lot harder than he's ever been able to.
So this is Harbor House.
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