Yes, a surprise indeed. It seems Hello Edwards, the band composed of two fifteen year olds, was deemed fit to tour. I just recieved an email from a band called The Enigma Code, from England. As far as I can tell, they found us through Purevolume (www.purevolume.com/helloedwards) and wanted to tour with us, first in America for 7-9 dates and possibly more tours to follow in England.

As much as I would love to say, "Yeah! We'll be touring! We've never played a show in our lives, but we're going on tour!", I regret to inform you that such a thing will not be happening, at least not soon.

There are many good reasons for our decision, not the least of which being that we are fifteen and still living with our parents (The Enigma Code even wished us to supply transportation). Another very prominant factor is that TEC is quite a hardcore band, and we are not. I had the opportunity to listen to a select amount of their songs and they are nearly the opposite of everything Hello Edwards wishes to be in the music world.

I have absolutely nothing against hardcore bands, and listen to a few of them (Norma Jean, Underoath...) but our band is most definately modeling after bands such as Five for Fighting, Augustana, Copeland, and Deas Vail much more than any metal bands that I know of.

Thank you for reading this blog, and if The Enigma Code is reading this, rock on dudes! Even without us.

Garrett DeRossett
Hello Edwards