Make Do And Mend

Formed in December 2005 on the ashes of Short On Breath in West Hartford, Connecticut, Make Do And Mend began modestly through rehearsal sessions and local posters. With no other ambition than to produce sincere music, the band recorded its first EP We're All Just Living with the means of the edge and Restless Minds was there to release the cake in autumn '07. A few mini tours later and extra pounds, the quartet decides to start writing again and lays the beginning '09 Bodies of Water . Distributed as a free download, the album quickly attracts pairs of ears from Panic Records, which then distributes it in various formats in April '09. Immediate critical success.
Then followed the first games for Shipwreck , Hostage Calm , Let Me Run , etc. and an appearance at the Rainfest '09 after a month and a half tour in summer across the United States.
At the end of '09, everything goes on: Pat leaves the bassist position to concentrate on his teaching profession and Mike Poulin is re-employing. From there the new quartet records new tracks for a 7" split with Touché Amoré , prepares for a winter tour with Transit and Another Breath . and reassorts his We're All Just Living in vinyl by Panic Records. The split comes out in the summer, after the announcement of a new full opus for the popular label Paper+Plastick (vinyl) and still Panic Records for the CD. The first European tour was scheduled in the wake and then postponed to early 2011. Beneficiary of a buzz effect in the readers of Punknews.org and other webzines/blogs, End Measured Mile comes out late October 2010 in a remarkable way and the combo maintains a European tour for January 2011 (no French date), even after the withdrawal of Lemuria . In March they toured in the United States with Balance and Composure and crossed the road of Hot Water Music, chaining in the summer on a tour in Canada (again with Balance and Composure, and La Dispute). It is finally the Hot Water Music themselves that invites them to play the first games on a European tour in August. MDAM will make its first French date at the New Casino in Paris. A few weeks earlier, the heads of floral gondolas had signed with Rise Records. Their offspring will do the same in the fall when they announced in February 2012 that a new opus would be boxed. Meanwhile, on November 22, 2011, they released Part and Parcel, an acoustic EP (mainly covers of their songs) and opened on some of Thursday's last concerts.