Duncan Fellows
Colin Harman and Cullen Trevino met in an overstuffed one-story house on Duncan Lane. As students at the University of Texas at Austin, they spent the summer between their freshman and sophomore years on the verge of heat exhaustion — the house had 14 inhabitants and no air conditioning. "Our house was a living hell," says Trevino. "I had to soak my shirt in water in the morning and throughout the day to stay cold ... and it was a really, really dirty place," he said.
The boys, who had time to kill and shared a love of music, got through the balmy Texas days by jamming together in the sweaty garage with a rotating group of friends. The group started writing music of their own, and soon these coping mechanisms slash jam sessions became rehearsals, and the loose group solidified into a band.
Six years later, all five members of Duncan Fellowshave graduated from both UT and their cockroach-infested point of origin. With bandmates Jack Malonis, David Stimson and Tim Hagen, they've released a full-length album, become a fixture of the Austin music scene and will soon make their festival debut at Austin City Limits Music Festival on Oct. 12, a mere four miles away from the house where it all began.
"It's very surreal," says Harman, who works as a software engineer when he's not splitting songwriting and vocal duties with Trevino. "When I was growing up, that's a festival that I went to quite often and I never really thought that I'd be playing there, which is pretty crazy."
Colin Harman and Cullen Trevino met in an overstuffed one-story house on Duncan Lane. As students at the University of Texas at Austin, they spent the summer between their freshman and sophomore years on the verge of heat exhaustion — the house had 14 inhabitants and no air conditioning. "Our house was a living hell," says Trevino. "I had to soak my shirt in water in the morning and throughout the day to stay cold ... and it was a really, really dirty place," he said.
The boys, who had time to kill and shared a love of music, got through the balmy Texas days by jamming together in the sweaty garage with a rotating group of friends. The group started writing music of their own, and soon these coping mechanisms slash jam sessions became rehearsals, and the loose group solidified into a band.
Six years later, all five members of Duncan Fellowshave graduated from both UT and their cockroach-infested point of origin. With bandmates Jack Malonis, David Stimson and Tim Hagen, they've released a full-length album, become a fixture of the Austin music scene and will soon make their festival debut at Austin City Limits Music Festival on Oct. 12, a mere four miles away from the house where it all began.
"It's very surreal," says Harman, who works as a software engineer when he's not splitting songwriting and vocal duties with Trevino. "When I was growing up, that's a festival that I went to quite often and I never really thought that I'd be playing there, which is pretty crazy."
