Forever the Sickest Kids Came to Dance
Written by Francesca Wahking
Photos byChristina Wahking
Date: May 6, 2008

It watches over Forever the Sickest Kids while it waits in the band’s van. It has black beady eyes, pink plastic feathers and it’s standing on one foot. It’s a pink plastic flamingo that belongs on someone’s front yard than on tour with a band.

This pink flamingo is the band’s rabbi.

“Usually bands have that one person that is in charge of things…that’s the rabbi,” says Caleb Turman says as the rest of the band laughs. They can feel the eerie feeling of the flamingo keeping an eye on them while they’re hanging outside the venue.

Forever the Sickest Kids are a band known for their crazy antics as much as their incredible music. The six-piece band consisting of Jonathan Cook, Caleb Turman, Marc Stewart, Austin Bello, Kent Garrison, and Kyle Burns. They’ve been on the AP tour for a few months now with bands like All Time Low and the Rocket Summer. The band owes much of their success after Jonathan Cook accidentally purchased a front page placement on Pure Volume.

“Everything happens for a reason, everything fell into place. It’s just easier not to think of ‘if’ this hadn’t happened but we made a lot of good decisions that lead us to where we are,” says Cook.


There is always something else that makes a band more marketable and Forever the Sickest Kids know how to step away from the cookie-cutter bands that the labels have been signing. This band has not one, not two, but three singers.

“You know how there’s one lead singer and you’re like yah I love the first album but you kind of get tired of it after the second album, the third album, you’re kind of bored with it? It’s impossible with us. It’s impossible to get bored with our voices,” says Caleb Turman.

Forever the Sickest Kids gives off an excitement that will never leave a boring aftertaste. Just ask All Time Low, while on the AP tour, a prank war has broken out between the two. It all started because someone from Forever the Sickest Kids pooped in All Time Low’s whale pool. At the Toronto show, Forever the Sickest Kids managed to steal Alex Gaskarth’s pet fish. “It’s pretty heated, every time they walk by they smile at us with a wink in their eye and we kind of look at them, they’ve got something up their sleeve, we got something up ours,” says Turman.


“We’ve been working on it [the album] since the day we started the band. So we’re so excited and so anxious to get it out there and for people to hear all the music we’ve been keeping a secret for so long,” says Marc Stewart.

And are they the next heartthrob rock band? Turman had this to say:

“I don’t think we have throbbing hearts”