Blue Sky Theory

Callie Fournier and Alex Highsmith met in 1996. Both had a passion for poetry and music, and after composing their first two songs, "Darkened" (which appears on the debut cd), "Mutt Secrets", and "Over Me", they decided to form Wave after Wave. The band played a few successful shows around school and at parties, but for the most part they kept a minimal local presence. Their lineup then consisted of Callie on keyboards/guitars/vocals, Alex on guitars, and Brian Farid--a friend from Caliban's former death metal project--on bass. For lack of a better choice, the drums were handled by a machine. During that time, their sound was very reminiscent of The Cure.

They experienced a period of stasis around mid 1997-98, during which free-time for band-meets became scarce. Callie and Alex still wrote music, though none of it was fully composed and realized by the whole band. Lingering this way, Wave after Wave could easily have faded into obscurity.

But luck and new life came in the form of Stefanovich Productions, a tiny company which was looking for a guinnea pig band to test out it's recently built studio. Since Callie and Alex were personal friends with Stefanovich himself, they were able to take full advantage of this opportunity and release their first full-length cd, People You Meet While You Fall. During the recording of this album, Wave after Wave acquired a synth player, Pixillion. She appeared on many of the tracks on PYMWYF and helped to write some of them also. Brian was unable to continue playing bass for the band, so Wave after Wave consisted of only Alex, Callie, and Pix for about a year. The search for a full-time bassist turned up Chris Block, a friend of Callie's and a talented, lovable musician. Then, right before the second album was to be recorded, Stefanovich, in his infinite wisdom, asked Dave Belman, formerly of HissyFit, to be the drummer--at least for the recording and for live shows. But suddenly Pixillion was gone.

The ensuing vacuum created by her loss was filled by the new, exciting Sidd! He had mentioned wanting to back them up on keyboards someday, so he was the natural candidate for a replacement. The little start-up goth band that began with two lipstick wearing dorks covering Cure songs using a drum machine and a death-metal bassist too shy to face the audience had finally grown into a full, five-piece phalanx. They practiced weekly; their live set was stronger than the recorded versions. They began setting gigs with local clubs. Then they lost both Chris and Dave to a bad case of busy lives. Shortly thereafter, Alex discovered Katsu. He was the drummer for a period of about three months, just before Wave after Wave fell into permanent disrepair.

Another haitus settled over the band. Numerous line-up changes seemed to have sapped vigor from the three-piece. The songwriting was in transition again--becoming something much different than what had ever come before. Callie and Alex decided to close Wave after Wave like the chapter of a book and move on. After some discussion, they took the name Blue Sky Theory and continued working on the third album "Good Place, No place".

New hope came with the addition of Tony on bass, followed by Josh on drums, but soon thereafter things fell apart again rather quickly. Josh disappeared, and the others dispaired. Half a year went by before the fragments could rejoin. With Josh's return, Blue Sky Theory launched a new effort to train for shows in the near future.