User:Cringey

Lucas Hoodlum aka "cringey" was born in chicago illinois in 1982, he is the by-product of what can only be considered a mistake of 2 people who hate each other bumping uglies, he briefly attended the chicago waldorf school until the age of 10, then was dragged kicking and screaming to delavan wisconsin, where he brood and stewed for the next nine years, in the course of of his dislocation he formed and took part in many musical outfits mostly as lead singer and guitarest, his first at age 12, called eli slurry it didnt go much farther than a show or two, the music they played was grunge but then evolved into a very sloppy ska band, the next project he fronted was started by him and his long time childhood friends and old waldorf schoolmates nick suttner(who plays drums,sang and wrote most of the lyrics) and nathan leucking(bass,vox),called grade a t and a, they played ska pop punk and played a few personal shows for there friends and even got some horn players,and recorded under the name hansome luke johnson of 3, but after about 2 years the distance between them ended the band, the next project was his high school band named pig sticker that consisted of his former bandmate from eli slurry, jon boisvert(drums) and current stux guitarist ian honeyager on drums and greg goglin(guitar), it was mostly covers ranging from henry rollins to operation ivy to eric clapton, his next outfit was short fuse mostly a street punk sound with a reggae song or two, it was made up anthony morega(bass,vox) currently of pyroclast and deep shit and ricky karlecke(drums), they played many shows and recorded at jim beal studios, but after 4 years anthony living in mchenry illinois, and the rest now back in chicago that band split up, about a year later he founded the band coupe contra coupe with ryan whitaker(drums) and jon davis(guitar,bass,vox, and later added andy and the outcry front man adam himebauch on guitar and keys, they changed there name to screamin bloody murder and had mild success touring, adam eventually left to start his own band, and anthony arichio(bass) was added and the line up rearranged, shortly after a few small midwest tours, they band split up due to personal differences, mostly just luke having a problem with everything. lucas kept writing songs and performing solo with an acoustic guitar, his lyrical content mostly consists of tongue and cheek scathing social critics, some examples of his song names are, weddings are dumb, suicide party, and we wont dial 911. he was briefly in the chicago hip hop group occasional cannibals with nate russel aka scabby orphan, under the moniker L-pill( a reference to the suicide pill taken if you dont want the zombies to each you in the book world war z). his most recent but now disbanded project was 9th wave, which was a ska band from the future, who came back to the present because theyre government banned ska because each wave got progressively worse. Lucas still lives in chicago with his girlfriend of 11 years and his 3 annoying cats, hes still writing songs and is due to start recording a solo album titled bible songs and is currently looking for a backing band after the album is finished