Bands to play acoustic show

By: Sarah Zeeck

Posted: 4/30/08

At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday night, three bands are scheduled to perform an acoustic concert outside the Western Illinois University Union in the Free Speech Area. The famed Lucky Boys Confusion is to perform along with Swizzle Tree and Hartfelt Sorrow.

As the main act, Lucky Boys Confusion's band members Stubhy and Adam Krier will represent the full five-member band, singing and playing guitars for the show, with the rest of the band staying behind. Stubhy, who attended Western 10 years ago, said other members include Joe Sell, Ryan Fergus and Jason Schultejann.

"We've been together 11 years," he added. "We were all in the same music scene, and we got together when other bands broke up."

Swizzle Tree, another band to perform, is influenced by bands like Weezer, Green Day, Metallica, Mudvayne and Stone Temple Pilots.

Steve, the guitarist, said the band formed when he and another band member became lost looking for a rave. "Instead, (Saarang and I) ended up getting lost and spending the night in a Ford Probe."

He added, "We got to talking and decided we wanted to start a band."

Swizzle Tree has been playing since 1995.

Up and coming band Hartfelt Sorrow, based out of Springfield, formed around 2002 but has been official as a band since this past January.

"We were very close friends, so about 2002 we played in a cover band and after about a year and a half, we went our separate ways doing different things," said band member Jeremie Bailey. "I think we had a mutual agreement that we made each other better, and we decided to start the band we're in now."

Band members added their sound is unique.

"It's definitely a fusion of everything we're influenced by," said band member Phil Wagener. "I guess it's what you'd call more of a pop-punk feel."

Wagener added the band became closer as they edited a song he had written. "(Jeremie and I) collaborated on the song and made it work better, and from that point on, we had a tighter bond as to the kind of music we were working toward and the goals we had set in order to make ourselves better musicians."

Admission is free. The rain location is the Union Grand Ballroom.