SPRING 2014
How did Donovan Wolfington come
together as a band?
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In a land far, far away called Loyola University in New
Orleans, about 3 and half years ago, Matt and I met
at orientation. He was wearing a Pavement shirt and
everyone else was really weird, so I said “Hey, I like
your shirt.” and then we talked for hours about music.
Or it seemed that way. Matt gets very excited about
things and is very enthusiastic when he talks about
things he enjoys. But either way we eventually got to
school and life was miserable. It was the opposite of
“NEW ORLEANS IS IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
BUT WHAT I LOVE IS THE COMMUNITY ASPECT
OF OUR SCENE. IT’S NOT SOMETHING LIKE
PHILADELPHIA WHERE THERE ARE SICK SHOWS
ALL THE TIME, BUT IT MAKES FOR THE DRIVE TO TRY
HARDER AT MAKING SOMETHING REALLY SPECIAL...”
summer camp and everyone seemed like a dick.
So I eventually met up with Matt and started jamming
some songs with him. We both liked each other's
songs so we were like "fuck it let’s do both."
I met Savannah somewhere along the way and she was
a vocal major. I was like, “Yo, wanna be in this band?”
and she was like "sure". We had a bunch of different
members before the line up we have now, and we
didn’t really know what we were getting into/doing
until the songs started to get better, but we’re having
more fun now then I think we’ve ever had before.
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Our new drummer is one of my friends from
Connecticut which is where I grew up, and he just
moved in with me, and our new bassist, we don’t
really know who it’s gonna be yet, but we’ve been
jamming with some homies and it’s been really
refreshing. Our new bassist is Batman actually.
So you better watch your shit.