Hellogoodbye from Huntington Beach is a band that uses life size cutouts as stage props and frequently wears disguises. Often traveling with an entourage of friends, the band, crew and friends where costumes and stroll through the audience while performing songs.

Drummer Chris Profeta said costumes and giveaways are part of their shows, such as an annual Holiday Extravaganza at the Glass House  in Pomona on New Year's Eve. Dressed as ketchup bottles, horse's heads, Star Wars Chewbacca and even a banana, the band has been known to run up a prop's bill to sometimes match their earnings for a night.

At the  mtv U Campus Invasion Tour with Motion City Soundtrack, Hellogoodbye band ran up a $400 bill on joke items. Named after a catch phrase in the TV sitcom "Saved By the Bell," hellogoodbye was initially a recording project by fellow high school students Jesse Kurvink and Forrest Kline. Bassist Marcus Cole was recruited and the band officially formed in 2001.

Signed to a recording contract in 2004, Hellogoodbye's self-titled EP and unique videos built a steady audience. Winning MTV2's Dew Circuit Breakout tour contest and MTV's "The Real World: Austin" helped gain additional exposure to put them over the top.

Quirky synth-pop reminiscent of The Rentals and emo rock are the basis of hellogoodbye's vibrant debut disc "Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!"  Zombies! opened at No. 13 on the Billboard 200 Albums as the highest charting debut in Drive-Thru history.

Next month, hellogoodbye heads to Asia for its first trip to Japan and returns to England (where it previously opened for Taking Back Sunday).

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