Cheese On Bread was born in a university cafeteria, the bastard child of a post-structuralist education and a rather poor dinner menu. After naming themselves in honor of the West's most dependable dish, Sara FitzSimmons and Dan Fishback spent the rest of 2002 perfecting their blend of cultural commentary and complete silliness. They quickly saturated the West Philadelphia party circuit with C.O.B. pins; simple economics forced them to cut an EP in Matt Keesan's bathroom.
Their debut was received with critical approbation. Even so, Dan followed his heart to New York City. He stumbled upon a new home for Cheese On Bread in the city's prolific anti-folk scene. Sara and Dan soon returned to Matt's bathroom, revitalized, to record a full-length record.
During the sessions, Sara picked up Kevin Kelly in a bar and quickly put his Ph.D. in music to good use. From Kevin's bass and banjo to Matt's plinky toy xylophone, new musical textures kept sneaking into Cheese On Bread's live show until the two boys became Side Of Fries, an official backing band. Like any good side plate, they were soon augmented by a special sauce: Dibson T. Hoffweiler, an anti-folk regular, who relieved Dan of his acoustic guitar.
Luv-a-Lot Records released Maybe Maybe Maybe Baby in 2004. By then, Cheese On Bread had grown into a six-piece pop-rock outfit featuring Daoud Tyler-Ameen full-time on drums.
After Daoud left the band to finish college, Cheese On Bread played regularly in NYC for two years with a series of drummers including Gregg Mervine and Justin Tomsovic, but re-configured into a quintet for an acclaimed 30-state tour in 2005.
When Sara and Kevin moved to Los Angeles in 2006, Cheese On Bread's future was uncertain. Yet since parting ways, they have toured Europe, gotten married, and released their first full-band album, The Search For Colonel Mustard, produced by Casey Holford in 2007. Hailing the sophomore LP, Next Magazine declared, “What Ugly Betty is to television, Cheese On Bread is to music.” In 2009, the album was released in Japan on Moor Works Records.
