| Senior Discount | |
|---|---|
| Background information | |
| Origin | Warren, Rhode Island, USA |
| Genres | Punk rock, pop punk, ska punk |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Labels | None |
| Website | Official website |
| Members | |
| Chuck Staton Alan Sousa Tom Wells Christian Staton |
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| Past members | |
| Kevin Silva | |
Senior Discount is a punk rock band (with some ska influences) based out of Warren, Rhode Island. In addition to playing music, the band is also highly involved in the production of film. The band consists of Chuck Staton on vocals and guitar, Alan Sousa on bass and back-up vocals, Tom Wells on guitar and back-up vocals and Christian Staton playing the drums.
As of January 2009, Senior Discount (often shortened to "S*D") had won Best Punk Band in the Providence Phoenix Best Music Poll two years in a row (2007 and 2008), and they were also chosen as semi-finalists in the 2008 95.5 WBRU Rock Hunt. They had come in 3rd out of 807 bands in the eight-month long RI section of the Emergenza Festival in 2007, and they sold out a 350-person capacity movie theater in Providence for the one time showing of their full-length documentary/comedy, "VBW Attack: The Senior Discount Movie," which is now out on DVD. They've also garnished at least 15 positive reviews of their debut album, "There Were Four Who Tried..." including positive reviews from AbsolutePunk.net and Maximum RockNRoll. Most recently, their film won "Best Comedy" in the 2008 Indie Gathering Film Festival (which is one of the top 25 film festivals, as rated by MovieMaker Magazine), and the network G4 has bought footage from the film, and has aired the clips in late 2008/early 2009.
Senior Discount released their first full-length CD in August 2006, titled "There Were Four Who Tried...",[1] and released their first movie on DVD on August 5, 2007. It is entitled "VBW Attack: The Senior Discount Movie"