Marcus Cole Poll

Found this poll online....my vote: Other....meaning...I think Marcus should be a BAMF that he is and be happy in whatever he does and still be funny =) whats your vote?

Marcus Cole: Less hellos, more goodbyes

Miss You

Miss you already!!!

We'll miss you marcus

This is super depressing. :( (from a myspace bulletin)

carcus mole and hravis dead

so you PROBABLY noticed the little switcheroo under band members on our profile. okay you probably didn't, its kind of a long run on sentence thats really hard to read and doesn't really go anywhere. but it goes on to say that our dear friend marcus cole has decided to move on and pursue his life in carpentry and / or video game programming, i think. he will live on in all our hearts and dvd players, which i think is where he is represented best. there aren't any hard feelings and it was a very easy and natural decision for all of us. SOOO, my friend (and roommate... sounds gay... we both live with our girlfriends) travis head is gonna be playin some bass with us. you might recognize him as the hawt guy who looks like the singer of the killers thats hanging around at our local shows.

otherwise, we're at home in the garage workin on kickin' out some righteous jams and it's going REAL GOOD so far. its gonna be emo.

love, forrest&jesse&travis&chris&sometimesryan

ps. leave marcus fond farewells and travis sexy hellos here. i don't think marcus looks at our myspace though... i do. i look at it. does that help?

I tried to post this vid before...and failed haha

So I just noticed that when I posted this video before I put the wrong link. Why didn't anyone tell me lol jk. But its one of the Current Questions from Curren TV there's two videos so watch both:).

Sex, Drugs, & Dirt

Zombies Aliens Vampires!


Thank you to our fav Current blogger Chapinyoung!!

Hellogoodbye article: OCRegister; POWER PLAY

In an article by NIYAZ PIRANI in the OCRegister, Orange County's news source they dive into the revival of pop-punk, indie rock music. This article is from March 2006 BUT somehow it was in recent Yahoo! news, so I thought I would share anyways. Here is a link to the full article.


Here is the section that they wrote about hellogoodbye (remember this was back in 2006):

Hellogoodbye

If outside forces had their way, Hellogoodbye might never have recorded its debut.
"The game plan was to go to the studio like a year ago or more and (the label) was like, 'Go on this tour and you can record after that' then we'd get back and it would be like, 'You've gotta go on this tour and you can record after that,'" lead singer and guitarist Forrest Kline said with a hint of frustration in his voice. "It would have been nice not to have had such a long wait for this CD, but it obviously worked out."

When he finally found the time to sit down and work on the electronically tinged power-pop debut, also picked for Alternative Press' list, fate threw another roadblock in his way. On a visit to New York, the front man's laptop - which contained the demos for the album - was stolen.
It hasn't been all bad luck for the Huntington Beach quartet. Rounded out by Jesse Kurvink (keyboards), Marcus Cole (bass) and Chris Profeta (drums), Hellogoodbye was signed to Drive-Thru Records after gaining a following through MP3.com and shows at birthday parties, Anaheim's Chain Reaction and the Hub in Fullerton.

The band's only release, a 2004 self-titled EP, was originally an experiment on Kline's computer. From there, Hellogoodbye won MTV2's Dew Circuit Breakout (a showcase competition for new bands) and accidentally ended up on MTV's "The Real World" when the Austin, Texas, cast had to film a documentary on South by Southwest, an annual event that features bands from all genres.

Recently, the band debuted its first video for "Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn" on TRL. Now, it's on the opening slot on this tour, but Kline, looking optimistically into the future, is reluctant to label the recent explosion in pop-punk popularity as just another obsession in the music scene.

"I try not to think of it as a trend or anything," he said. "I just try to make music."

hellogoodbye baby it's fact video is UP!

FINALLY! Thank you so much awesomest person ever for letting me know!!

Here is the video for BABY IT'S FACT!!!!!

i heart it!

I put this up before

so I put up the link for them on MTV Live but they just now added the interviews on there...and honestly it is hilarious. lol. be sure to watch. and check out marcus and chris in the back thank you Heather from the facebook group "Finally, a group made for hellogoodbye" for bringing this to my attention!

hellogoodbye shopping

ahhh they're just like julia roberts in pretty woman....minus the whole prostitution thing.

"that was a great 28 mins and 12 seconds of my life"

i agree with Sasszers3. it is the greatest. yes, i've blogged so much today. but ok get over it. if you dont watch this ur an idiot.

interview, all of your love, interview, call and return, interview, touchdown turnaround/USA/one more time

Fly me to the moon

great youtube find added 6 hours ago.... but this was Nov 1, 2006 on AOL

Fly Me to the Moon


Also, theres a Baby It's Fact video

baby it's fact video...maybe?

So, I got an e-mail saying if I clicked this link I could watch the Baby It's Fact video by signing up for the mailing list. I'm already on the mailing list and still haven't recieved anything....

I'll keep you posted...literally.

hmmm look at this

on the WikiMusicGuide look at who they list as members of hellogoodbye.

Apparently the site has hellogoodbye confused with Hello Goodbye from Oslo. So yea, don't believe everything you read lol.

FINALLY (cont'd)

Next

hellogoodbye announces UK dates check em outtttt.
November Tour Dates:
27th - Cardiff Uni Great Hall
28th - Exeter Lemon Grove
29th - Portsmouth Pyramids30th - Cambridge Corn Exchange

December Tour Dates:

2nd - Sheffield Leadmill3rd - Newcastle Academy
4th - Glasgow ABC
5th - Leeds Met University
7th - Brixton Academy
8th - Folkestone Lees Cliff Hall
9th - Norwich UEA
10th - Birmingham Academy
11th - Manchester Academy

Finally

Tune in Aug 2 to Last Call with Carson Daly to see hellogoodbye perform!

FINALLY

Ah, my internet wouldn't let me get on here to blog but finally I am back! and boy do I have NEWS!

Saturday on MTV Live they did a concert special with hellogoodbye

Click here to watch.
The performed Touchdown Turnaround, Oh, It Is Love, Baby It's Fact, and All of Your Love.

BIG NEWS

Tune into Last Call with Carson Daly on NBC on Thursday, August 2nd to watch hellogoodbye play "All Of Your Love"!

is forrest the World's Sexiest Vegetarian?of course he is!

vote for forrest on the peta2.com poll!!

Sign up for the drivethru records or hellogoodbye newsletter to get hgb 411 asap!!!

A friendly hello

New Article:

A Friendly Hello
Andrew Murfett
July 20, 2007


Forrest Kline is not short of friends. He has 652,288 of them, according to his band's MySpace page.

The 23-year-old frontman of Californian power-pop act Hellogoodbye says the number is a touch unrealistic.

"Most of those people on MySpace are not my friends," he laughs. "Most of them are probably like internet robots or porn pages."

Kline and his bandmates arrive in Melbourne this week for their first Australian headlining tour. It follows a brief jaunt last year playing support to the All-American Rejects.

The band started in Kline's bedroom in 2001. The bespectacled singer was messing about writing synthesised punk-pop songs on his computer.

Attending Huntington Beach High School, he and buddy Jesse Kurvink aspired to make music simply for their friends.

Kline says: "I'd gotten a guitar when I was in the sixth grade and was always in little bands through high school. But it got more and more serious as I got older. We never sent the songs to record companies or anything; we just put them on the internet."

The band's name (taken from the Beatles song Hello, Goodbye) raised eyebrows and helped it get on the bill for numerous local support slots. Soon, they were in a perpetual motion of touring.

"The first tour we did, we were pretty much stupid kids who didn't know what they were doing," Kline admits.

"Most of the bands that played with us were rolling their eyes at us. But I liked playing support. There's less pressure. If the crowd shows the slightest clue of enjoyment, you're stoked. You'll come off and say, 'They bopped their heads! That was awesome!' "

Line-up issues (they shed four drummers and three bass players) and a crippling tour schedule meant the band struggled to put time aside to record an album.

After signing with Drive-Thru, they finally blacked out a couple of months and headed to Los Angeles. In two sessions split over six weeks, they recorded and tracked what would become their debut, Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! The electro-pop sound (think Jimmy Eat World meets XTC) found a niche in the US power-pop scene.

In between, the band had been featured on the MTV program Real World: Austin. The show saw them followed around South by Southwest by a team of MTV-picked contestants aiming to market the band to the US music industry. The ensuing exposure helped land the band heavy airplay on MTV and a top 10 US single, Here (In Your Arms).

Still, Kline is eager to downplay the series' impact on the band's popularity.

"Look, it's hard to quantify what it meant for us," he says, wearily. "It definitely exposed us to a group of people that would not know who we are at all. I'd like to think that doing so much touring and playing with so many different bands has helped just as much."

my hellogoodbye eggs

not really eggs but pssh.



enjoy!