Starting the band...

Our band site is at www.thekillbirds.com and this is the story so far...

Originally from Melbourne, Australia, singer/guitarist Sebalius Bella’fonte moved to LA from Brooklyn in 2008 to continue his global search for musical soulmates. Initially disillusioned with LA's seemingly timewarped music scene and after a brief stint in a 2-piece outfit he met VuVu on Craigslist, and the songwriting chemical reaction began. Years of frustrated musical expression were released over the next several months during meticulous songwriting sessions that lasted well into the night, with much of the lyrical content coming from observations of LA and its kaleidoscope of characters during that time. Days were spent buying and returning a plethora of guitars, amps and pickups that resulted in the band crafting its own unique sound while retaining distinctly classic overtones from several different eras of music reaching back to the 70’s. It then came time to take their art to the world. The band played a couple of low key gigs in Hollywood with a visiting Italian metal drummer under the name Unfiltered Nasty. With excellent responses from those shows they put together a quick set of demos with good friend and multi-instrumentalist Andy Clockwise playing drums and Nick Mayberry from Perry Farrell's band throwing in a couple of ripping guitar solos and key riffs that resulted in a nice collaborative genesis for the band. The demos attracted a slew of drummers, including Jason Wyman and following a name change the band now finds themselves fully equipped to step out and take on the world as The Killbirds. The band is looking to SxSW to gain management, label, booking, PR representation.