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Family Force 5 (often abbreviated as FF5, formerly known as The Phamily and The Brothers) is a Christan band hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. Since forming the band has quickly grown in popularity.[1]
Family Force 5 has played at Warped Tour, Creation Festival, Ichthus Music Festival, Alive Festival, Cornerstone Florida, Portable Sounds, and performed on the Underground stage of Cornerstone Festival in July 2006 and the main stage this year.[2] They will also be playing at Rock the Universe in Universal Studios Florida in September. Family Force 5 has appeared on mtvU's "The Freshman Class", DirecTV's CD USA twice (First performing Love Addict, and the second time, Kountry Gentleman), G4's Attack of the Show!, and CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on 14 July 2006.[3]
Musical career
The three leading members of the band, Solomon, Joshua and Jacob Olds, are all three sons of Jerome Olds, a Christian artist from the late '80s. Growing up around music, the Olds brothers have been involved in it since a very young age. Prior to the formation of Family Force 5, the brothers were members of a "boy band" known as The Brothers, releasing R.P.M.(1995), and Fact and Reality (1996). Both albums were released on Star Song Records, and produced by the brothers' father, Jerome Olds.[4][1]
Between the Brothers and Family Force 5 the Olds brothers had a band called Ground Noise, which they classified as "a really bad variation of Third Day" Before the band chose the name Family Force 5, they had taken on the name "The Phamily". They had to change later it due to copyright issues with Prince's band, The Family.
A decade later, the brothers had teamed up with two friends, Nathan Currin and Derek Mount and taken the aliases Soul Glow Activator, Crouton, Phatty, Nadaddy, and Chap Stique. Also, the band would not be complete without the help of friend Xanadu, who is pretty much a glorified stage hand. The band signed with Maverick Records for distribution to the mainstream market before signing to Gotee Records for the Christian market. The band sought out a dual recording deal in order to better distribute their music to both the mainstream market and the Christian market.[1] According to Solomon Olds, "To me, and pretty much anybody that's under my age, most Christian music is a turnoff. I don't want to be affiliated with that. I want to be affiliated with something that is great music. I feel that Maverick and Gotee together can pull that off."[4]
However, their debut album has been both disparaged and praised by Christian and non-Christian critics respectively for not containing overtly Christian content in any of its tracks (with the exception of "Peachy", which was apparently written to convert a friend to Christianity and calls God by name). And although "Love Addict" and "Replace Me" are not necessarily obvious faith-based songs, they are simultaneously praised and criticised by Christian critics for their slight Christian themes.[4][1] The band does, however, talk about singing for Jesus often during their shows.
Family Force 5 has also contributed the song "Mind's Eye" for the compilation album Freaked! A Gotee Tribute to dc Talk's "Jesus Freak". For Christmas, Family Force 5 released a few Christmas-themed audio blogs, two of which ("Christmas Carol Blog" and "Christmas Memories Blog") are available to listen to on PureVolume (as of 18th January 2007). They've also recorded "Grandma", a cover of Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer. In March 2007, they re-released their debut album called"Business Up Front,Party In The Back: Diamond Edition", which contains three previously unreleased songs.[3] All three of the songs ("I Love You to Death", "Face Down" and "Never Let Me Go") on their PureVolume, as well as their MySpace. They were the May/June Winner of Yahoo! Music's Who's Next?.[5] and have announced that a remix CD will be out in fall 2007, along with a DVD containing all the episodes of the Really Real Show. Their next project, currently untitled, is set to release sometime in 2008.
Discography
Albums/EPs
| Album Cover | Album Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Family Force 5 EP | 2005 | |
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Business Up Front/Party In The Back | 2006 |
| Business Up Front Party In The Back: Diamond Edition | 2007 |
Music videos
| Year | Song | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | "Kountry Gentleman" | Business Up Front/Party In The Back |
| 2006 | "Grandma" | Unreleased |
| 2006 | "Love Addict" | Business Up Front/Party In The Back |
| 2007 | "Never Let Me Go" | Business Up Front/Party In The Back: Diamond Edition |
Band members
Current members
- AKA Solomon Olds (born March 1979) was married in January of 2007 and his wife is expecting their first child as of June 2007. He was homeschooled as a child. Besides being the Lead singer he is a music producer and has produced songs for tobyMac, John Reuben, and Falling Up among others. He Sang on Various Childrens Music Compilations including Kid Flix Hits, and Shout Praises! Kids, Solomon and his family reside in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Crouton - drums, vocals
- AKA Jacob Olds (born August 11, 1981) is from Atlanta, Georgia. He is the twin of Joshua Olds. Is missing a large portion of one of his teeth due to an accident at a concert.
- Fatty/Phatty- bass, vocals
- AKA Joshua Olds (born August 11, 1981) is from Atlanta, Georgia. He is the twin of Jacob Olds.
- Nadaddy - keytar, turntables
- AKA Nathan Currin (born April 26) has many roles in the band, such as deejaying and percussion.
- Chap Stique - guitar
- AKA Derek Mount(born August 6, 1982) is from Atlanta, Georgia.
- The band also includes "Xanadu" who is their stage tech, and primarily dances and plays tamborine during shows while checking monitor mixes and fixing any technical problems on stage. According to their Youtube series, Xanadu was formerly responsible for driving their newly aquired tour van, but is now responsible for the fixing of the van and correcting anything that goes wrong during a show.
Former members
- 20 Cent - guitar
- AKA Brad Allen, who was later replaced by Derek, can be seen in their 'Kountry Gentleman' video. He drives the car and also signals the start of the race. Left to play in Everyday Sunday Occasionally plays with the band during hometown shows.
References
- ^ a b c d Farias, Andre (2006-03).Business Up Front/Party in the Back. ChristianityToday.com. Retrieved 2007-02-05.
- ^ FAMILY FORCE 5 HITS THE FALL TOUR CIRCUIT WITH “BUSINESS UP FRONT, PARTY IN THE BACK” WeSpreadTheWord.net. Retrieved 2007-02-05.
- ^ a b Tobymac Rolls Out New Project with "Portable Sounds" Tour. BreatheCast.com. Retrieved 2007-02-05.
- ^ a b c Farias, Andree (2006-05-15). Break Dancing … With Jesus? Christianity Today. Retrieved 2007-02-05
- ^ FAMILY FORCE 5 winner of Yahoo! Music’s “Who’s Next”