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Plus 44
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+44, is pronounced as "plus forty four", is an alternative rock band formed by former blink-182 members Mark Hoppus on bass and vocalist and Travis Barker plays drums and keyboard. Also playing in the band are former Transplants touring guitarist Craig Fairbaugh and the lead guitarist of The Nervous Return, Shane Gallagher. The band released their debut album When Your Heart Stops Beating. They name +44 is inspired from international dialing code for United Kingdom, where Hoppus and Baker first discussed the project.
The blink-182 was a pop punk band from San Diego, California formed in 1992. the founding members of the band were Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Scott Raynor, in the northern San Diego suburb of Poway, California. Travis Barker was the replacement of Raynor on drums in 1998. In February of 2005, the blink-182 disbanded but both Hoppus and Barker wished to continue working on music and began writing and recording new songs together in Baker's basement and Hoppus dinning room and living room became their workplace. The duo in the starting were using electronic drums, keyboards, samples and direct computer recording. While working on demos, the two invited punk rock vocalist Carol Heller to sing a song. Impressed with her performance, the trio began working on other songs also. During the spring of 2005, guitarist Shane Gallagher joined the league.
In October of 2005, Barker and Hoppus purchased a studio. Hoppus considers this move as the turning point for +44, as the band started working in that studio exclusively, which gave them the freedom to play live drums and loud guitars and vocals. The electronic component of the band became less prominent, but remained to be the key element of the band's sound. At this point of tome Heller found the change in direction of band not suiting her frame of mind and was more interested in starting her family so she quit the band. Hoppus conformed that there are no differences and hard feelings between the band and Heller, and band is in full support of her decision. The proceeded to work on their first record, and about the three-quarters of the way through recording, Craig Fairbaugh joined to play second guitar and backup vocals.
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Artist Biography - Plus 44
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 In context to the lyrics of the album, Hoppus stated that "the +44 album is by far the most lyrically personal music I have ever written. The words are everything I have inside me put on a CD. This is the most personal album any of us have ever written. You want to know who we are, what we think, or how we feel? Listen to the +44 CD." The album references the brake up of blink-182, and "the ugly feelings that were left over afterwards," according to Hoppus. The song "No It Isn't" was specifically written by keeping blink-182 in mind. On December 13th 2005, the band released their demo song No It Isn't.
The +44 played their first ever live show at the Roxy Theater in Hollywood, CA on September 7th. The audience was distributed free shirts that say "THE FIRST SHOW SEPTEMBER 7,2006 LOS ANGELES, CA THE ROXY THEATER." The band will be busy filming a video for their first single "When Your Heart Stops Beating" on September 8th and 9th. This video is tentatively set to release on September 21st. Liz Friedlander is the director of the video.
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For more information , enjoy the official homepage of Plus 44
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