Your Enemies Friends

Your Enemies Friends is a post-hardcore rock band that formed in late 2001 in Los Angeles, California.

They have shared the stage with bands such as ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Blonde Redhead, The Icarus Line, Hella, The Promise Ring, and The Mars Volta.

After enlisting the help of Producer Alex Newport (At the drive-in, The Locust, Mars Volta), Your Enemies Friends immediately began recording “The Wiretap-EP”. Picked up by Buddyhead Records a month later; “The Wiretap-Ep” was re-released to much acclaim in underground circles. “The Wiretap is one of the most stellar and impressive debuts our ears have ever experienced” – Kerrang! Magazine.

In the Spring of 2002, Your Enemies Friends began the touring schedule that would keep them out for the next 19 months. Your Enemies Friends started out by sharing the stage with the likes of Jimmy Eat World, Blonde Redhead, The Promise Ring, The Mars Volta, The Icarus Line & Hella. Followed up by extensive tours throughout The United States, Canada and Europe with the The Donnas, Pretty Girls Make Graves & Superdrag.

“The Wiretap-Ep was basically a demo tape that got out of hand and kept us out on tour for a year and a half. And after touring that long off songs I wrote the first month of being in this band, we decided we were ready to make a record.” – Ronnie Washburn.

Recorded in the Summer of 2003 with the aid of Cameron Webb (Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Danzig) & Curtis Mathewson (Motörhead, Train), Your Enemies Friends’ self produced full-length, “You Are Being Videotaped” was released in March of 2004. The much anticipated disc saw the bands paranoid urgency and schizophrenic dynamics further highlighted by adding string arrangements and electronic elements. “You Are Being Videotaped” is proof that Your Enemies Friends have the ability to mature and continue to grow as artists.

2004 started out with a full U.S. and Canadian tour with The Dillinger Escape Plan & The Locust, followed by a U.S tour with Midtown & Armor for Sleep. A Scandinavian tour including, Oya Fest, in Oslo, Norway and a headlining U.S. Tour with Read Yellow.

Your Enemies Friends was named the House of Blues / Sirius’ Emerging Artist of the month, Nominated by the Diesel :U: Music Awards as Best New Artist, and Your Enemies Friends have been on the CMJ Top 200 charts for 8 weeks.

Your Enemies Friends were writing their next record and were set to record with Alex Newport in July of 2006.

They demoed then performed a large amount of the material at a string of residency show at Boardner's Club Moscow in Hollywood during that period of time. After some line-up changes, demos were posted via their Myspace page but the band disappeared from the live music scene. Although nothing was ever officially said, it could be assumed that they have broken up.

Allen Watke can be found playing music with a band called No Little Kindness.

Ronnie Washburn and Jennifer Goodridge are now a musical duo known as Seaspin.

Original keyboardist Aska Matsumiya plays keyboards and bass in the Moonrats.



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