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Long Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, ca. 1874, jutting into Boston Harbor

The Barbours Cut Terminal of the Port of Houston, USA. This cargo shipping terminal has a single large wharf with multiple berths.

A wharf or quay ( /ˈkiː/, US also /ˈkeɪ/ or /ˈkweɪ/)^[1] is a structure on the shore of a harbor where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.^[2] Such a structure includes one or more berths (mooring locations), and may also include piers, warehouses, or other facilities necessary for handling the ships.

A wharf commonly comprises a fixed platform, often on pilings. Commercial ports may have warehouses that serve as interim storage areas, since the typical objective is to unload and reload vessels as quickly as possible. Where capacity is sufficient a single wharf with a single berth constructed along the land adjacent to the water is normally used; where there is a need for more capacity multiple wharves, or perhaps a single large wharf with multiple berths, will instead be constructed, sometimes projecting into the water. A pier, raised over the water rather than within it, is commonly used for cases where the weight or volume of cargos will be low.

Smaller and more modern wharves are sometimes built on flotation devices (pontoons) to keep them at the same level to the ship even during changing tides.

In everyday parlance the term quay is common in the United Kingdom and many other Commonwealth countries, and the Republic of Ireland, whereas the term wharf is more common in North America. In commercial/industrial usage wharf is typically avoided with quay being used to refer to the berthing areas, and port and terminal being used to refer to the overall structures and locations. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms quotes the New York Times as saying "a quay is a docking facility at which vessels lie parallel to the shoreline."^[3] In some contexts wharf and quay may be used to mean pier, berth, or jetty, though these uses are not addressed here.^[3]

In old ports such as London (which once had around 1700 wharves ^[4]) many old wharves have been converted to residential or office use.

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  King Henry's Wharves, typical London wharves converted to apartments

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  Wharf by Marriott/Pacquereau Bay on St. Thomas

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  Tourist boat loading passengers at a small quay, Sa Calobra, Majorca, Spain

Etymology[link]

The word comes from the Old English hwearf, meaning "bank" or "shore", and its plural is either wharfs or wharves; collectively a group of these is referred to as a wharfing or wharfage. "Wharfage" also refers to a fee ports impose on ships against the amount of cargo handled there.

In the northeast and east of England the term staithe or staith (from the Norse for landing stage) is also used. For example Dunston Staiths in Gateshead and Brancaster Staithe in Norfolk. However, the term staithe may also be used to refer only to loading chutes or ramps used for bulk commodities like coal in loading ships and barges. It has been suggested that wharf actually is an acronym for ware-house at river front,^[5][6][7] but it is actually a backronym created by Thames river boat guides.

Another explanation may be that the word wharf comes from the Dutch word "werf" which means "yard", an outdoor place where work is done, like a shipyard or a lumberyard.

See also[link]

• Canal basin
• Dock
• Jetty
• Pier
• Safeguarded wharf
• Port

References[link]

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The Brothers Quay
The Brothers Quay – Wrocław (Poland), July 24, 2010
Born	(1947-06-17) June 17, 1947 (age 65) (identical twins) Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	film director animators

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Stephen and Timothy Quay ( /ˈkweɪ/ KWAY) (born June 17, 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) are American identical twin brothers better known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers. They are influential stop-motion animators. They are also the recipients of the 1998 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for their work on the play The Chairs.

Careers[link]

The Quay Brothers reside and work in England, having moved there in 1969 to study at the Royal College of Art, London ^[1] after studying illustration at the Philadelphia College of Art, now the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. In England they made their first short films, which no longer exist after the only print was irreparably damaged.^{[citation needed]} They spent some time in the Netherlands in the 1970s and then returned to England where they teamed up with another Royal College student, Keith Griffiths, who produced all of their films. The trio formed Koninck Studios in 1980, which is currently based in Southwark, south London.

The Quay Brothers' works (1979–present) show a wide range of often esoteric influences, starting with the Polish animators Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica and continuing with the writers Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Robert Walser and Michel de Ghelderode, puppeteers Wladyslaw Starewicz and Richard Teschner and composers Leoš Janáček, Zdeněk Liška and Leszek Jankowski, the last of whom has created many original scores for their work. Czech animator Jan Švankmajer, for whom they named one of their films (The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer), is also frequently cited as a major influence, but they actually discovered his work relatively late, in 1983, by which time their characteristic style and preoccupations had been fully formed.^[2] At a panel discussion with Daniel Bird and Andrzej Klimowski at the Aurora festival Norwich they emphasized the more significant influence on their work was Walerian Borowczyk, who made both animation shorts and live-action features.

Most of their animation films feature puppets made of doll parts and other organic and inorganic materials, often partially disassembled, in a dark, moody atmosphere. Perhaps their best known work is Street of Crocodiles, based on the short novel of the same name by the Polish author and artist Bruno Schulz. This short film was selected by director and animator Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animated films of all time,^[3] and critic Jonathan Romney included it on his list of the ten best films in any medium (for Sight and Sound's 2002 critics' poll).^[4] They have made two feature-length live action films: Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life and The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes. They also directed an animated sequence in the film Frida.

With very few exceptions, their films have no meaningful spoken dialogue—most have no spoken content at all, while some, like The Comb (From the Museums of Sleep) (1990) include multilingual background gibberish that is not supposed to be coherently understood. Accordingly, their films are highly reliant on their music scores, many of which have been written especially for them by the Polish composer Leszek Jankowski. In 2000, they contributed a short film to the BBC's Sound On Film series in which they visualised a 20-minute piece by the avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Whenever possible, the Quays prefer to work with pre-recorded music, though Gary Tarn's score for The Phantom Museum had to be added afterwards when it proved impossible to licence music by the Czech composer Zdeněk Liška.

They have created music videos for His Name Is Alive ("Are We Still Married", "Can't Go Wrong Without You"), Michael Penn ("Long Way Down (Look What the Cat Drug In)") and 16 Horsepower ("Black Soul Choir"). Some people mistakenly believe that the Quays are responsible for several music videos for Tool, but those videos were created by Fred Stuhr and member Adam Jones, whose work is influenced by the Quays. Although they worked on Peter Gabriel's seminal video "Sledgehammer" (1986) as animators, this was directed by Stephen R. Johnson and the Quays were unhappy with their contribution, believing it to be more imitative of Švankmajer's work than truly distinctive in its own right.

Before turning to film, the Quays worked as professional illustrators. The first edition of Anthony Burgess' novel The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End, feature their drawings before the start of each chapter. Nearly three decades before directly collaborating with Stockhausen, they designed the cover of the book Stockhausen: Conversations with the Composer (ed. Jonathan Cott, Simon & Schuster, 1973). After designing book covers for Gothic and science fiction book cover commissions they did while in Philadelphia, the Quays have created suggestive designs for a variety of publications that seem to reflect not only their own interests in particular authors, covers for Italo Calvino, Louis-Ferdinand Céline or Mark le Fanu's study of the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, but also in themes and motifs that these authors develop. Literary texts are inspirational sources for almost all of their film projects, whether they serve as a point of departure for their own ideas or as a textual basis for filmic scenarios, and not as scripts or screenplays. The prowess in illustration and calligraphy seeps increasingly into many formal elements in their later films, evident as graphic embellishment in the set decoration, or their particular use of patterns in the puppets' costume design. Titles, intertitles and credits appear in a variety of handwritten styles.

The critical success of Street of Crocodiles gave the Quay Brothers artistic freedom to explore a shift in subject matter, in part originating in literary and poetic sources that led to exploration of new aesthetic forms, but also because they were able to make extensive experiments in technique, both with cameras and on large stage sets. The Quays are best known for their puppet and feature length films. Less known, but no less incisive in their creative development is their intense engagement in stage design for opera, ballet and theatre: since 1988, the Quays have created sets and projections for performing arts productions on international stages. Their work at miniature scale has translated into large-scale decors for the theatre and opera productions of director Richard Jones: Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges; Feydeau's "A Flea in Her Ear"; Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa; and Molière's "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme". Their set design for a revival of Ionesco's "The Chairs" was nominated for a Tony Award in 1998. The Quays' excursion into feature films and live-action dance films are by no means an indication of a move away from animation and the literature that inspires them—on the contrary, this next film explores the potential which slumbers in the combination of these cinematic techniques. Their puppet animation set designs have been curated as an internationally touring exhibition called "Dormitorium" and most recently on display in 2010 at Parsons School of Design, New York.^[5]

The Quay Brothers are regular guests at film festivals, art colleges and universities, most recently at The European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.^[6]

In June, 2010, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia received a grant from the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts for $287,000. The Quays were commissioned to produce a new film entitled Anatomica Asthetica. The film is their first produced in the United States, and focuses on the history and collections of the College's famed Mütter Museum. It is expected to be released in Fall 2011 with symposia at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania; New York City's Museum of Modern Art; and the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.

The interdisciplinary performance artist, dancer, and multiple amputee Lisa Bufano lists the animation of the Quay Brothers as an influence in her artist's statement.^[7]

The Brothers Quay have been commissioned by Leeds Canvas, a group of eight cultural organisations in Leeds, UK, to create a major city-wide art installation, OverWorlds & UnderWorlds in May 2012. The commission is one of twelve Artists Taking the Lead projects around the UK, Arts Council England's flagship contribution to the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

Filmography[link]

Feature films

• Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)
• The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005)

Short films

• Nocturna Artificialia (1979)
• Punch And Judy (Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy) (1980)
• Ein Brudermord (1981)
• The Eternal Day Of Michel de Ghelderode (1981)
• Stravinsky – The Paris Years (1983)
• Leoš Janáček: Intimate Excursions (1983)
• The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984)
• The Epic of Gilgamesh, or This Unnameable Little Broom (1985) aka Little Songs of the Chief Officer of Hunar Louse
• Street of Crocodiles (1986)
• Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988)
• Rehearsals For Extinct Anatomies (1988)
• Old Piano (1988) – an ident for MTV
• Ex-Voto/The Pond (1989)
• The Comb (From The Museums Of Sleep) (1990)
• Rain Dance (1990) – a short film for Sesame Street
• De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis (1991)
• The Calligrapher (1991) – an ident commissioned for the BBC2 television channel, but never broadcast
• Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (1991)
• Long Way Down (Look What The Cat Drug In) (1992)
• Stille Nacht III: Tales From Vienna Woods (1992)
• Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (1993)
• The Summit (1995)
• In Absentia (2000)
• Duet (2000)
• Stille Nacht V: Dog Door (2001)
• The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (2003)
• Inwentorium śladów (2009) Poland (23')
• Maska (2010)^[8]
• Through the Weeping Glass (2011)^[9]

Appearances

• The Falls (1980)

References[link]

Further reading[link]

Journal articles on the Quay Brothers

• • Buchan, Suzanne, "Liberation of the Mistake: A Glimpse into the Quay Brothers" Research Process', in: Proof, Vol 3 No 1 (2008): 16-20
  • Costatini, Gustavo. "De Artificali Perspectiva: The Brothers Quay's Use of Sound and Music." Filmwaves Magazine, Issue 32 (2007): 43-47
  • Buchan, Suzanne H. 'Choreographed Chiaroscuro, Enigmatic and Sublime.' Film Quarterly, Spring (1998): 2–15.
  • Nichols Goodeve, Thyrza. "Dream Team: Thyrza Nichols Goodeve Talks with the Brothers Quay." Artforum, April (1996)

Hammond, Paul. "In Mystery, Shrouded: On the Quays' New Film." Vertigo Magazine, Vol. 1 No.5 (1995): 18-20

• • Atkinson, Michael. "The night countries of the Brothers Quay." Film Comment, September/October (1994): 36-44
  • Atkinson, Michael. "Unsilent night: The Brothers Quay." Film Comment, Vol. 30 No. 5, September/October (1995): 25-38
  • Romney, Jonathan. "The Same Dark Drift." Sight and Sound, Vol. 1, No. 11 (1992): 24-27
  • Romney, Jonathan. "Brothers in Armature." City Limits. No. 446 (1990): 16-17
  • Atkinson, Michael. "Stirrings in the Dust." Afterimage, No. 13 (1987): 4-9
  • Wadley, Nick. "Masks, Music, and Dances of Dream". PIX, no. 2, January 1997, 126-134; + Interview with Brothers Quay, 135-143

Hammond, Paul. "In Quay Animation." Afterimage 13, Autumn 1987: 54-67

Academic essays on the Quay Brothers

• • Buchan, Suzanne. "The Animated Spectator: Watching the Quay Brothers' 'Worlds'". In Suzanne Buchan (Ed) Animated Worlds, pp 15–38. Eastleigh: John Libbey Publishing, 2006. ISBN 0-86196-661-9

• • Weiner, Steve. "The Quay Brothers' The Epic of Gilgamesh and the 'Metaphysics of Obscenity'" in J. Pilling (Ed.), A Reader in Animation Studies London, John Libbey & Company, 1997.

Books on the Quay Brothers

• • Mikurda, Kuba and Prodeus, Adriana (Eds). Trzynasty miesiąc. Kino Braci Quay. Cracow-Warsaw: Korporacja Ha!art & IFF Era New Horizons, 2010. ISBN 978-83-61407-62-1. (in Polish)
  • Buchan, Suzanne. The Quay Brothers. Into a Metaphysical Playroom. University of Minnesota Press, 2010. ISBN 0-8166-4659-7
  • Pilling, Jayne and Fabrizio Liberti (Eds). Stephen e Timothy Quay. Bergamo: Stamperia Stefanoni, 1999.

Catalogues

• • Costa, Jordi. (Ed) "Quay Brothers". Sitges: Sitges Festival Internacionale de Cinema de Cataluna, 2001.

DVD

• • Brooke, Michael (Ed), Quay Brothers—The Short Films 1979–2003. London: BFI, 2006. ISBN/EAN: 5035673006535
  • The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984–1993. DVD Region 1 / NTSC. Kino Video. Release date 2000. 120 minutes. ISBN 6305957681
  • Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) DVD Region 1 / NTSC. Kino. Release date 2000. B/w, 104 minutes. ISBN 630595769X
  • Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) VHS PAL. ICA Projects Ltd. Release date 1996. B/w, 104 min.
  • The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes (2005) Zeitgeist Films. Region 1 /NTSC. Release date 2007. Colour and b/w, 99 minutes.
  • The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes (2005). DVD Region 2 / PAL. Artificial Eye. release date 2006. Colour and b/w, 99 minutes.
  • L'Accordeur de tremblements de terre DVD Region 2 / PAL. E.D. distribution. Release date 2007. Colour and b/w, 99 minutes.

External links[link]

• Quay Brothers profile at European Graduate School, biography, bibliography and video lectures
• Senses of Cinema. Great Directors Critical Database
• Senses of Cinema. Through a Glass Darkly Interview with the Quay Brothers
• Timothy Quay at the Internet Movie Database
• Stephen Quay at the Internet Movie Database
• The Short Films of The Quay Brothers at Zeitgeist Films
• Videos by Brothers Quay

A Skylit Drive
A Skylit Drive Performing in Mission, Texas during 2010.
Background information
Origin	Lodi, California
Genres	Post-hardcore, melodic metalcore
Years active	2005-present
Labels	Fearless, Tragic Hero
Associated acts	Odd Project, Of an Era, Escape the Fate, WeAreGiant, Jonny Craig, Reprezent
Website	www.askylitdrive.net
Members
Michael Jagmin Brian White Joey Wilson Nick Miller Cory La Quay Kyle Simmons
Past members
Jordan Blake

A Skylit Drive is an American post-hardcore band from Lodi, California. The band released one DVD, one EP and three studio albums: Wires...and the Concept of Breathing on May 20, 2008, Adelphia on June 9, 2009, and most recently Identity On Fire on February 15, 2011. Michael Jagmin has provided lead vocals for the band since 2008. He is often recognized for his unusual singing range.

History[link]

[edit] Formation and She Watched the Sky EP (2006–2007)

A Skylit Drive's original members all met while attending Lodi High School in Lodi. Cory La Quay (drummer) attended Franklin High School in Elk Grove, California along with Zyler Gilley and their Original bass player Curtis Daniger (Tokay High School) Left the band due to enlisting in the U.S. Army (he would later go on to other local bands like Scream no Louder and Adjasent Red), but did however help record some demo pieces. Their debut EP, She Watched the Sky, was released early in 2007 on Tragic Hero.^[1] Following this the group toured with Four Letter Lie, Blessthefall, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Greeley Estates, Oh, Sleeper, The Blackout, Alesana, Before Their Eyes, Dance Gavin Dance, Kenotia, Pierce the Veil, and From First to Last.

Jordan Blake left the band mid-tour around November 2007 due to ulcers that made it difficult for him to sing. Blake's departure was mutual between him and the other members of the group. He then formed the musical projects Watchout! Theres Ghosts!, JbdJ, Trances, and The Legend. The Leader with Etienne Sin and Dani Quero.

Following Blake's departure from A Skylit Drive, Jonny Craig aided A Skylit Drive for a few shows after leaving Dance Gavin Dance. Then they got a new singer, Michael "Jag" Jagmin. That was the final lineup change the band would go through thus far. Now they still use the same recording personnel as they did for their early stuff. Jessy Mickles is their head recording supervisor.

[edit] Wires...and the Concept of Breathing (2008)

A demo version of "Knights of the Round," was performed live with Jonny Craig as the lead vocalist during his few performances with the band in November 2007. Though Craig had written lyrics to the song, only the chorus or refrain is believed to have been kept in the final album version sang by their new-found, permanent vocalist Michael "Jag" Jagmin, formerly of Odd Project. Craig Mabbitt also tried out for lead vocals after leaving blessthefall, but later joined Escape the Fate after dialing the wrong number in an attempt to contact A Skylit Drive's Manager, but instead reaching Escape the Fate's. The full length Wires...and the Concept of Breathing (produced by Mitchell Marlow and Allen Jacob) appeared in May 2008.^[2][3][4][5] The album hit #171 on the U.S. Billboard 200,^[6] as well as #9 on the Top Heatseekers Chart and #20 on the Top Independent Albums chart.^[7] Shortly after the release of the album they filmed a music video for the nonprofit group To Write Love on Her Arms directed by Robby Starbuck.^[8] They appeared at The Bamboozle Left in 2008 and toured in the summer of that year with Sky Eats Airplane, Breathe Carolina, and Emarosa.

They toured with Greeley Estates, August Burns Red, Sky Eats Airplane, This or the Apocalypse, Escape the Fate, Alesana, Chiodos, and Silverstein during fall in 2008. They also filmed a live DVD called "Let Go of the Wires", which was released on December 9, 2008.

In Mid-November the band released a music video for the song "Wires and the Concept of Breathing". The video can be viewed through their MySpace profile. Their song "This Isn't the End" is now the music video on their MySpace directed by Robby Starbuck about teen suicide in conjunction with the non-profit organization To Write Love on Her Arms. Both videos are on their first full length album, Wires... and the Concept of Breathing, and the band has shot other videos for songs on the album. They have announced that there will be five brand new videos on their upcoming DVD "Let Go of the Wires" as well as live performance footage from a show at the Glasshouse in Pomona, CA. The DVD was released exclusively at Hot Topic on December 9, 2008.

On December 19, 2008, it was announced that A Skylit Drive would be a part of the Vans Warped Tour 2009 lineup. A day before Warped Tour 2009 began, the band appeared at a Hot Topic store in Montclair,CA.

[edit] Adelphia (2009–2010)

In their DVD, "Let Go of the Wires", the band discussed plans for their next album. The album was to be titled "Glaciers". The band later announced that this would not be the title of their new album. On May 26, 2009, A Skylit Drive released a new song, entitled "Those Cannons Could Sink a Ship" onto iTunes and also for play on their MySpace page. The song is the first of their new album to be released on iTunes.^[9] Their second full-length album, Adelphia, was released on June 9, 2009 and peaked at number 64 on the Billboard 200.^[10] The band released a music video for "Those Cannons Could Sink A Ship!" on October 19, 2009, directed by Spence Nicholson.

On January 8, 2009, the band announced, via a MySpace bulletin, that they were now a part of Fearless Records and to expect a new album release sometime in 2009. They also announced tour dates with Dance Gavin Dance. A Skylit Drive was a part of Warped Tour for the 2009 season. the band also did a signing at hot topic in Montclair,CA the day before the first day of Warped Tour 2009. During the tour they did signings for the non-profit organization Music Saves Lives. A Skylit Drive recently announced a new tour with Senses Fail starting on September 30.^[11] After their American tour, the band did their first tour of Europe.

On December 6, 2009, the band recorded a cover of Journey's "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" for the next Punk Goes compilation.

During February–March 2010, the band toured with We Came as Romans, Of Mice & Men, The Word Alive, and headliners Alesana, nationwide. During a New York City set on February 16, Dee Snider (vocalist of Twisted Sister) appeared to see the show, and hang out with the band(s). On his Twitter, Jag was quoted saying, "I'm never going to get over hearing Dee Snyder compliment my voice. Dee, "can you really pull it off every night?". Me, "You'll see."

This tour, titled The Emptiness Tour, will continue Spring 2010 in the U.K. and Europe. While Of Mice & Men, We Came as Romans, and The Word Alive won't be appearing out of the U.S. shows, ASD (as well as Alesana) will be sharing the tour with Emarosa and Bury Tomorrow.

[edit] Identity on Fire (2011)

On his Formspring account, Jagmin predicted that A Skylit Drive would begin writing and recording a follow-up to Adelphia during Summer 2010. He also suggested that the album would see an early 2011 release.^[12]

In February 2010 Hassle Records published on their web site "We have new recruits to the Hassle Records family, please welcome A Skylit Drive with open arms... Fresh out of California, A Skylit Drive have been together in their current line-up since 2007 and have been touring their unique brand of metalcore across the US. We released their second album Adelphia in October and the UK joined the ever growing A Skylit Drive bandwagon. Catch the band on the rapidly selling out UK / Europe tour with Alesana in April."^[13]

The band announced via MySpace that on May 29, 2010, the band Desires of Sires will debut on their Adelphia tour. Recently, Michael Jagmin hinted on Twitter that A Skylit Drive is currently writing new material.^[14] A Skylit Drive is recording new demos. The band's MySpace layout changed in July 2010 with a new message saying that A Skylit Drive was in the studio recording a new album with Cameron Webb for early 2011.^[15]

The band was on the "Average Guys with Exceptional Hair" tour with bands Woe, Is Me, For All Those Sleeping, Motionless in White and Scarlett O'Hara.

On December 7, 2010, the band announced the tracklisting for the album and a date set on February 15, 2011. They have been on tour mid January through February with Underoath, Thursday, and Animals as Leaders.^[16] The band has released a music video for "Too Little Too Late" on January, 12, 2011.

They will participate in all dates of the Warped Tour 2011^[17] at the Ernie Ball stage.

The band has also announced they will be on a European tour set for Autumn 2011 along with Woe, Is Me, I Set My Friends on Fire, and Sleeping with Sirens.

On September 9th, 2011 the band posted that they're in the studio recording a cover song for the upcoming Punk Goes... Compilation. ^[18] The pre-production began on Monday September 12th. ^{[19] [20] [21]} The cover of "Love the Way You Lie" was announced via facebook.

On January 20, 2012 A Skylit Drive released The Cali Buds music video, via Altpress.com.

In February 2012, A Skylit Drive toured South East Asia with Australian band, For This Cause.

Discography[link]

• 2007: She Watched the Sky
• 2008: Wires...and the Concept of Breathing
• 2009: Adelphia
• 2011: Identity On Fire

Band members[link]

Current members

• Brian White  – bass guitar, unclean vocals (since 2005)
• Joey Wilson  – lead guitar (since 2005)
• Nick Miller  – rhythm guitar (since 2005)
• Kyle Simmons  – keyboards, synthesizers (since 2005)
• Cory La Quay  – drums, vocals (since 2005)
• Michael "Jag" Jagmin  - lead vocals (since 2008)

Former members

• Jordan Blake  – lead vocals (2005-2007)

References[link]

External links[link]

• A Skylit Drive on Facebook