Five Way Friday

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Five Way Friday
Origin Greenville, South Carolina
Columbia, Charleston, South Carolina
Genres Rock
Years active1997–present
Labels Mile Marker Records
Redeye Label

Five Way Friday is a pop-rock band based out of Greenville and Columbia, South Carolina. They have been compared to Train and Matchbox 20. [1]

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History

The band formed in 1997, playing gigs in Greenville, Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina, [2] and releasing a full-length (Moon Driven World) and two EPs over the course of the next three years. In 2000, Run Like This reached #4 on Billboard's Top Internet Albums chart. [3] Subsequently, the band toured with such bands as Vertical Horizon and Cowboy Mouth, and had several songs including "Homecoming" and "Everyone" featured in episodes of Dawson's Creek. [4] Though the band nearly broke up after the making of Run Like This, when founding guitarist Michael Helmly departed, in 2003 a full-length entitled Wrecked was released, produced by fellow South Carolinian Mark Bryan of Hootie & the Blowfish. [5]

While most band members now have full-time jobs away from music, the band continues to play a limited tour schedule throughout South Carolina. All Five Way Friday albums are available for download at iTunes. In 2009 Five Way Friday teamed up with the Share Our Suzy (SOS) Foundation, an organization that provides financial assistance to cancer patients from diagnosis to remission, and began the Back to Her Campaign. FWF is donating a percentage of every download of its song Back to Her from iTunes to the SOS Foundation. Official Webpage

Guitarist Mac Leaphart is now touring the Southeast with his band, Mac Leaphart and My Ragged Company. Mac's debut solo album Line Rope, Etc. was chosen as one of the best albums of 2008 by the Charleston City Paper. Official Webpage

Members

Discography

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References

  1. Review of Wrecked. Melodic.net. Accessed April 27, 2007.
  2. "Local Yokels to Make Charleston Proud." The Post and Courier, January 30, 2003.
  3. Billboard, Allmusic.com.
  4. Five Way Friday Tries New Sound Archived 2007-10-06 at the Wayback Machine . The Daily Gamecock, January 17, 2003. Accessed April 27, 2007.
  5. A New Beginning. Upstate Beat, March 4, 2003. Accessed April 27, 2007.