Late Friday is a band consisting of five young, talented musicians all brought together through their classical training. They formed Late Friday in 2012, and later that year they won the Cypress Got Talent contest. The band continued their success in 2013 winning the Shell and Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston Battle of the Bands. Now, only two years later, they have a lot of things going for them, releasing an EP with all of their original songs, and starring in a documentary.

London, a junior, and Brandon Johnson, a senior, both studied at Six Strings Music Academy after being introduced to the school by a friend, where they were taught to play music with people they didn’t know and make friends through the music. That led to them meeting the current drummer of Late Friday, Zach Couger.

Starting off at Six Strings Academy the band consisted of 17 people, they later split up into smaller groups, and at last they separated from the Academy. When they started writing their own songs the Academy became unable to teach them.

Singer London Johnson and guitarist Brandon Johnson, are siblings both playing in Late Friday.
As many people would imagine, being siblings and playing in a band together isn’t always easy.
“Not everyone likes us being brother and sister, but we always make it work” London said laughing, while Brandon added; “Yeah we make it work… After a lot of arguing!”

There’s only 18 months between the two so arguing is inevitable.

“We argue a lot, and it gets pretty intense, but I think it mostly comes out in our song writing, we play a pop-punkish style of music and we like mixing the genres. We both have a very different style of song writing. I like to start off very melodic while Brandon likes the punchier punk, so it is all about finding a happy medium” said London “Usually it’s not a happy medium but it is a compromise, and we always solve in our own special way” answered Brandon. The band actually built a recording studio in their backyard, where they practice and record many of their songs.

Late Friday has released their new EP and you can listen and download now at latefriday.bandcamp.com/releases for free!

Both London and Brandon have been playing music since they were very small. Brandon started playing guitar in the age of 7 and violin at 11. His sister London was only 3 years old when her mom heard her sing for the first time.

Not only have the siblings worked together on an EP, but they are also a part of an upcoming documentary.

“We do not know that much about it, but our marketing agent has a friend who is a film director, he is making a documentary about us and North Til Dawn, another band a little bit older and more ahead of us. It is basically a tale of two bands up and coming. One of the cool things is that we shoot [all of] it ourselves, filming at practice and stuff like that” said Brandon. Late Friday is actually good friends with North Til Dawn and their lead singer Blake McCulloch, who is also Late Friday’s producer.