The Girlfriend Experience

[ Tobias Hawkins III - vox | Dave Kirk - drums | Ty C. Gerhardt - gtr | James Maize - bass ]



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The Girlfriend Experience has come out of the gate swinging with blistering live performances in the bay area and beyond. 2005 was a busy year. A 12 city 2 week Southwest Tour happened in September. Tours of the Pacific Northwest happened in March, June, and November. And there were a couple trips down to L.A. and San Diego in April and July. The "It Felt Like a Kiss" EP recorded with Justin Phelps at the legendary Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco is available at shows only. The EP was a warm-up for a full album recording with mega-producer Sylvia Massy Shivy (Tool, System of a Down, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Love & Rockets, Johnny Cash, et al) at RadioStar Studios.

Ramping things up in 2006, the band returned to the studio to finish their full-length When in Rome.Do as the Lions (available to the left (scroll up) or over at Heyday Records), and hit the road again with a South by Northwest (SxNW) Tour during the month of May, including a mid-tour show with Agent Orange and a welcome home show on Saturday June 3rd West Memphis 3 World Awareness Day, when The Girlfriend Experience played a benefit concert at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco with Mondo Generator (featuring Nick Oliveri from Queens of the Stone Age & Kyuss) and Blag Dahlia (from The Dwarves).



In 2007, the GFE began a monthly multi-orgasmic blow-out party called Vaudeville a la Mode at The Uptown in Oakland. Click on the Vaudeville a la Mode icon in the top eight below to learn more or to get involved. And, of course, once again the GFE lube up their van for a 2007 SWxNW Tour this June through August. Check the tour dates above.



The Girlfriend Experience features Tobias Hawkins III on vocals (Laundry, Sling Shot Venus), Ty C. Gerhardt on guitar (Madness of Dean, ing, Taikonaut), James Maize on bass (Superlarry, Spore Attic) and Dave Kirk on drums (Cushion Theory, Stacked).



While The Girlfriend Experience's sound can be easily viewed as Modern Rock or Alternative, the band artfully draws influence from equal parts of Pop, No-Wave, Psychedelia, Stoner Rock and Mimimalism to create their signature sound.



PHOTO: Peter Ellenby