Colour Revolt’s members first played together while they were high school students at Jackson Academy in Jackson, MS under the name Foxxe, then changing to Fletcher and releasing a full length entitled “Friends Don’t Speak”. They then moved on to become college students at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. They take their current name from Edwin Abbott’s mathematical novel, Flatland. The group had intended to record their first EP in Mississippi in August of 2005, but Hurricane Katrina interrupted the recording session, and so they recorded it in the house of local label Esperanza Plantation’s owner. The self-titled EP came out in December of 2005; following this the group toured with Brand New and signed to Interscope Records, who re-released the EP on their subsidiary Tiny Evil in October 2006. The group has also performed at SXSW and toured with Dinosaur Jr., Black Lips, Okkervil River, Menomena, Paper Rival, Explosions in the Sky, Malajube, Anathallo, and Manchester Orchestra. They then signed with Fat Possum Records; their full-length debut, produced by Clay Jones, was released on April 1, 2008. In 2008, Boston newspaper The Phoenix named them the Best New Band from Mississippi. Members Current |Jesse Coppenbarger - vocals, guitar, keyboard |Sean Kirkpatrick - vocals, guitar, keyboards |Len Clark - drums, vocals Former |Drew Mellon - bass |Patrick Addison - bass |Jimmy Cajoleas - guitar| |
