2008 Woodie Awards
No shoes, no shirts, Full Service
Band blends diverse lyrics with heavy guitar and reggae undertones
April Havens
Issue date: 4/9/07 Section: Entertainment
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Full Service, a reggae/rock band from Austin, Texas, that frequently tours Mobile area bars and restaurants, recently held a show at Fabacher's.
With Hoag on drums and vocals, Bonesaw on guitar and vocals, Twink on bass, and Smell on percussion and rhythm guitar, Full Service delivers a truly unique sound, blending diverse lyrics with heavy guitar and reggae undertones.
The band has released four albums - "Sawngs," "Irie Love," "3 Will Ride Forth" and "Recess" - in the last two and a half years, with another slated to release at the end of this month.
Brothers Bonesaw and Hoag began the band after graduating from college - Bonesaw graduated from Amherst College with a history degree in 2000, and Hoag graduated from Yale in 2003 with an African-American cultural expression degree - and also write most of the band's lyrics. Some older college-day albums can be found online, but to hear the full effect of Full Service as it is today, listeners should pick up the "Recess" album, which features the brother duo and Smell and Twink.
I had an opportunity to interview these quirky but fun guys before the show. Here's a taste of what they had to say.
Vanguard: Describe Full Service's sound.
Twink: Crunchy reggae groove metal.
Hoag: Crunchy is in the distortion. Reggae is in the rhythms. Groove is in the riffs, steady grooves. And the metal is for when it gets pretty hard.
Vanguard: What makes your band different?
Twink: We are not any one genre. We are all over the place.
Hoag: If you go to a Full Service show, there's going to be like hip-hop guys in the crowd, black people, white people, skaters, preppies, maybe a housewife or two because they like some of our slower stuff, punk-style people, people who are just too cool and they just kind of stand there and nod their heads, and even kids. It's a stew of humanity.
Vanguard: What role do each of you play in the band?
Bonesaw: Smell does nothing but show up for the shows, and he gets us where we need to go.
With Hoag on drums and vocals, Bonesaw on guitar and vocals, Twink on bass, and Smell on percussion and rhythm guitar, Full Service delivers a truly unique sound, blending diverse lyrics with heavy guitar and reggae undertones.
The band has released four albums - "Sawngs," "Irie Love," "3 Will Ride Forth" and "Recess" - in the last two and a half years, with another slated to release at the end of this month.
Brothers Bonesaw and Hoag began the band after graduating from college - Bonesaw graduated from Amherst College with a history degree in 2000, and Hoag graduated from Yale in 2003 with an African-American cultural expression degree - and also write most of the band's lyrics. Some older college-day albums can be found online, but to hear the full effect of Full Service as it is today, listeners should pick up the "Recess" album, which features the brother duo and Smell and Twink.
I had an opportunity to interview these quirky but fun guys before the show. Here's a taste of what they had to say.
Vanguard: Describe Full Service's sound.
Twink: Crunchy reggae groove metal.
Hoag: Crunchy is in the distortion. Reggae is in the rhythms. Groove is in the riffs, steady grooves. And the metal is for when it gets pretty hard.
Vanguard: What makes your band different?
Twink: We are not any one genre. We are all over the place.
Hoag: If you go to a Full Service show, there's going to be like hip-hop guys in the crowd, black people, white people, skaters, preppies, maybe a housewife or two because they like some of our slower stuff, punk-style people, people who are just too cool and they just kind of stand there and nod their heads, and even kids. It's a stew of humanity.
Vanguard: What role do each of you play in the band?
Bonesaw: Smell does nothing but show up for the shows, and he gets us where we need to go.
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