Vanishing Act was founded in Pleasant Hill, CA by Don Clark (drums), Tharon… Read Full Bio ↴Vanishing Act was founded in Pleasant Hill, CA by Don Clark (drums), Tharon Weighill (bass), Shawn Lloyd (guitar), and Jeremy Ciccone (vocals, guitar). After only practicing for roughly six months, they completed their first EP, "We Liked Our Music Before It Was Cool." One of their tracks, "Years Mapped Out", attracted fans left and right from all over the globe, thanks to an advertisement posted on The Strokes' MySpace.
After the first EP was completed, they began working on a new EP tentatively titled "Terrordactyl", which had 9 brand new tracks prepared, but the tracks never saw the light of day as they called it quits after numerous attempts of finding a permanent drummer. Jeremy began numerous solo projects (Broken Speech, Dirty HZ, et al) with the styles ranging from Indie rock to IDM/Breakbeat. Shawn joined former Radio Fiction member Jesse Gale to form Corduroy Frogs, which is currently at a standstill.
After a 2 year hiatus, the band regrouped with founding members Jeremy Ciccone (now on vocals and drums) and Tharon Weighill (bass, percussion), and recruited friends Jesse Gale (guitar, percussion, keyboards [formerly of Radio Fiction, Wrecknodrome, & Corduroy Frogs]) and Garrick O'Connor (guitar, keyboards [formerly of Orange Apples & Broken Speech]) to join them.
The band has played a few low-key shows in the San Francisco Bay Area, and playing songs such as "Death Team", "You Brood of Vipers", "Fresh Air", "Years Mapped Out", and new songs including "Parallels", "Starlight", "Kill Taxi via Lovely", "Romania", "Hot As Coals", "Murdercycle" and "Troublespreader".
Unfortunately, the band has had a falling out and has disbanded once again. Jesse, Tharon, & Garrick have gone on to work on a new project, still unnamed with no official line-up.