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Late 2004, a collision between a bassist and guitarist in a Muso forum hosted by Melband.com.au saw the foundation of what is Festation. These two musicians (Dom and Adam) started jamming and before long had formed a strong musical bond. Early 2005, drummer/cellist Phill was auditioned and his talent was instantly added to the forming band. Phill's progressive style added a very technical edge to the string sections very thrashy feel. Since then Festation has had a various number of changes in band members. First we added Martin "bonesaw" Hanna on vocals, and Andy Hudson on 2nd Guitar. Eventually when Martin was out of the band Andy took over on vocals and the band began to form its own unique sound. Then another change took place with the resignation of Adam the bass player and left Festation without their balls for a while, but luckily they were saved by the introduction of local hooligan Tom. After a while Andy felt he wasn't cut out for the job of festy vocals anymore so we