In 2003, a band from St. Peter’s College, Auckland – Incursa (from Latin, meaning “to strike against”) – entered the Smokefree Rockquest. Among the five members were Arts and McCarthy. According to McCarthy, their friendship began in an English class where “as an icebreaking exercise we were told to bring in our favourite song. Everyone brought in Limp Bizkit, but the thing that linked Jordan and myself is that we were wanky enough to bring in Jimi Hendrix songs. We were both trying to be as cool as possible so we rummaged through our parents’ CD collection as opposed to our own.”
Sam McCarthy - vocals
Jordan Arts - keyboards, sequencing
RCA
Dryden Street
East City Records
Sony