Hello! My name is Patrick L. Hayashi. Im a 35 year old Asian-American who is born, raised and currently living in San Francisco, California. Thank you for visiting my page (e.g. YouTube, Facebook, etc etc) and taking the time to listen to my music or watching my videos. I sincerely and definitely appreciate it! I hope that you enjoy the music that I post on here. If there is anything about my work that resonates with you, whether it be the lyrics or the compositions themselves, I am truly grateful and honored that it did. I hope to connect with many musicians and listeners across the world, regardless of musical genre, race, color, creed, sexual orientation or religion. My music is Patrick Lew Band. And right now. You are reading and listening to my story on social-media.

Jump, rattle and roll to our rock and roll freak show. CURRENT MEMBERS: Patrick Lew - Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar, Sound Design (2001-2012; 2015-2019; 2020-Present) Madeline Lew - Bass Guitar, Virtual Band Member (2015-2019; 2020-Present) ALUMNI: David Arceo - Drummer (2006-2012; 2015-2016) Eddie Blackburn - Lead Guitar (2001-2005; 2007) Tommy Loi - Drummer (2001-2004) FILL-INS & FOOTNOTES: Jeremy Alfonso; David Hunter; Greg Lynch; Zack Huang; Augusto Hernandez; Shawn Blacharski. HIS STORY... In 2001, Patrick Lew-Hayashi formed a band under the banner Patrick Lew Band in his hometown of San Francisco, CA, when he was just 15 years old. Most of Hayashis early years in the indie music circuit was playing in a garage band. In 2005, Hayashi was attending City College of San Francisco and was briefly signed to an indie label based in La Jolla, CA. After he was dropped from his developmental contract with the label, Hayashi decided to book studio time with the help of his friends. Most of the time, Hayashi was on the Internet putting his bands music out there. On November 15, 2006, which was also Patrick Lew-Hayashis 21st birthday, the Patrick Lew Band released their debut album JUMP, RATTLE, AND ROLL on CDBaby. Patrick Lew Band would begin to sporadically play small shows in the San Francisco area by 2007 with a frequently changing line-up. Their first single AZN GIRLS was posted online during late 2007, leading to a critical backlash among the band on social-media over unbeknownst reasons. Around this same period, the bands chiptune rearranged cover of the Nirvana song Drain You was published on Nirvanaclub.com. During 2009, Patrick Lew Band began making their strides in the regional music scene and on the Internet. Their song Everyone Loves Ashley brought them to notoriety and initial indie-level fame. Between 2009 to 2012, the band would write and record up to as many as 60 songs per year in their home studio.To have something to fall back on, Hayashi taught himself the fundamentals of the indie music business and being his own entrepreneur. During this period, Patrick Lew Band had aborted plans to tour locally. However, the group would perform live in the Antioch area occasionally during some of 2011. Some of these performances can be found and since leaked on Patrick Lew- Hayashis official YouTube channel. Between 2009 to 2012, the Patrick Lew Band self-released their music online: Let It Rise And Against (2009), Murder Bay (2011) and the EP Angry Yellow (2012). On February 4, 2012, Patrick Lew Band performed at Dolores Park in San Francisco. After taking a few years away from the indies because of a failed common-law marriage and very well documented personal problems, Hayashi made his return to music with the Patrick Lew Band by the beginning of 2015. Embarking on his most profitable and memorable run in the indie music circuit. 2015 began with Hayashi being appointed the Ambassador for Antennas Direct. And conducting a televised interview with the 24 HOUR K-POP music TV channel in the San Francisco Bay Area. Around this same period, Patrick Lew-Hayashi introduced a crossdressing M2F alter ego by the name of Madeline Lew into the band. Created from digital special effects, CGI and Photoshop. In a music marketing storyline, Madelines role in the band is described as, the long lost younger sister of Patrick Lew. And saving the band from failure and bringing his band and his music back to prominence. Madeline Lew-Hayashis introduction into the Patrick Lew Band as a virtual band member and mascot brought Patrick Lews profitability back to prominence in the music scene and helped Patrick Lew Band achieve publicity and moderate indie-level success that he did not accomplish prior to 2015. The success and exposure that the Patrick Lew Band received during this period included a couple music blogs writing about the Patrick Lew Band online and being mentioned on-air on Bay Area rock FM radio station 107.7 THE BONE. The band was mostly recording in their home studio in San Francisco. By 2016, the band launched their own label and multimedia start-up Lewnatic HQ. The band was often working on new music in their home recording studio between 2015 and early 2017. The Patrick Lew Band would release their album OAKLAND on Valentines Day 2017. He and his alter ego Madeline Lew would perform at Brick & Mortar Music Hall on October 8, 2017. By the end of 2017, the Patrick Lew Band no longer was a full-time responsibility as Hayashi began working a stable full-time job at Chocolate Heaven Pier 39. He also began only sporadically making studio recording appearances with the band as he branched his talents to other outlets and playing music with local bands outside of Patrick Lew Band.On June 7, 2019. Patrick Lew-Hayashi received the 40 Under 40 award at his alma mater CSU East Bay. He would become the first major Japanese-American male to receive the high honor. The Patrick Lew Band because of popular demand would eventually relaunch in March 2020, but for limited and sporadic one-off or once-in-a-while studio appearances and in- house performances.

Right now because of COVID-19, we are hosting and live streaming Quarantine shows in our home studio and rehearsal space in San Francisco. Sometimes, we work with our promoters/booking agency Afton Shows to get them set up! Before that. Patrick Lew Band rarely toured outside of NorCal and only occasionally played live. We weren't really much of a live band during most of our music career. But it wasn't until the mid-to-late 2010s where we actually began playing more shows outside our rehearsal space at the local dive bars and all here in the Bay. We also have toured internationally in our homeland Japan back in August 2019 for a few low-key gigs. We usually perform with just Patrick onstage using his guitar, voice and backing tracks through his laptop connected to the venue's sound system through an AUX cable. Madeline is there with us in spirit for sure! The musical arrangements and tech setup is very different and more streamlined as a live band compared to our more intricate studio recordings and production. LIVE CONCERT TIMELINE: Aug 05 2020 Lewnatic HQ in San Francisco, CA Jul 26, 2020 Lewnatic HQ in San Francisco, CA Mar 26, 2020 Lewnatic HQ in San Francisco, CA Mar 22, 2020 Lewnatic HQ in San Francisco, CA Aug 22, 2019 ESP Guitar Shop / Akihabara Street Corner, Tokyo, Japan Aug 20, 2019 Shibuya Street Corner, Tokyo, Japan Oct 08, 2017 Brick & Mortar in San Francisco, CA Aug 06, 2017 Brick & Mortar in San Francisco, CA (CANCELED) Jul 30, 2016 Best Buy in Colma, CA May 10, 2016 Promisedland Inc in San Francisco, CA Jan 11, 2016 Promisedland Inc in San Francisco, CA Oct 28, 2015 Music Touch at Shops At Tanforan in San Bruno, CA Aug 14, 2015 Cafe International in San Francisco, CA Sep 13, 2013 Mama Art Cafe in San Francisco, CA [billed as The Steel Lions] Feb 04, 2012 Dolores Park in San Francisco, CA Aug 05, 2011 Chichibu Park in Antioch, CA Jun 25, 2011 3700 Pieta Ct in Antioch, CA Jun 12, 2011 Barnes & Nobles in Antioch, CA Jun 04, 2011 3700 Pieta Ct in Antioch, CA Feb 09, 2011 California State University, East Bay in Hayward, CA Aug 30 2010 University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, CA (CANCELED) May 10, 2010 3700 Pieta Ct in Antioch, CA Sep 01, 2009 California State University, East Bay in Hayward, CA Oct 10, 2007 City College of San Francisco in San Francisco, CA Aug 11, 2007 Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA Aug 10, 2007 Bazaar Cafe in San Francisco, CA May 25, 2007 San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA May 02, 2007 City College of San Francisco in San Francisco, CA Apr 13, 2007 Glen Park Recreational Center in San Francisco, CA Mar 25, 2007 City College of San Francisco in San Francisco, CA May 08, 2006 Vibo Music in San Francisco, CA Feb 04, 2006 Skyline College in San Bruno, CA Feb 13, 2005 Balboa High School in San Francisco, CA Sep 12, 2004 Promisedland Inc in San Francisco, CA May 27, 2004 Raoul Wallenberg High School in San Francisco, CA May 04, 2004 Raoul Wallenberg High School in San Francisco, CA Jun 16, 2003 Ocean Beach in San Francisco, CA Dec 08, 2002 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA Jun 30, 2001 Pier 30/32 in San Francisco, CA

The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Beyond (HK), X Japan, Metallica, Guns N Roses, Bon Jovi, Oasis, Guitar Wolf, Yutaka Ozaki, Danny Chan, Nine Inch Nails, The Dead Kennedys, AFI, Jim Johnston, The Fall, The Sex Pistols.

Epiphone Les Paul * Fender Telecaster * 2008 iMac * 2014 MacBook Air * Apple GarageBand * Apple Logic Pro X * Apple MainStage 3 * Vox AC50 * Line6 TonePort * Digitech RP50 Multi-Effects * Boss DS-2 * Fender 25 Watt Frontman * Marshall CODE50 * Boss Dr. Rhythm Drum Machine * PreSonus Audiobox iOne

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