Waterparks
is a pop rock band from houston texas consisting of awsten knight (vocals, guitar), geoff wigington (guitar), and otto wood (drums). formed in 2011, their first ep release and members solidified in 2012, most of the history of waterparks has been lost to time and funny lies that warped into lore.

As they wrote and recorded their second full-length album Entertainment [Equal Vision Records] out January 26, 2018, a wise prophet’s words stuck with Waterparks… “Tina-motherfucking-Fey once said, “Everything that’s good comes from honesty’,” repeats lead singer and guitarist Awsten Knight. “When you’re being that open, others connect. We’re not vague and subtle in our songs. I want everything to feel colorful and real. This band embodies that idea.”

Since their emergence in 2015, the Houston trio—Awsten, Otto Wood [drums], and Geoff Wigington [guitar, backing vocals]—have kept it real and catapulted to international renown as a result of a signature style that seamlessly slips-n-slides between rock, pop, and alternative. Their full-length debut, Double Dare, earned a rare 4.5-out-of-5 star rating from Alternative […]

The origins of waterparks lie in a band before it. jawn rocha and awsten knight had befriended each other through the houston music scene when they were in middle school. the blue poptarts (later renamed over 9000! following the addition of a new drummer) was jawn and awsten’s high school band. the aforementioned drummer as the band rebranded was otto wood, who had auditioned after contacting them on myspace.

In july 2010, over 9000 flew to detroit for an opportunity to record an album, but unfortunately this turned out to be a scam and caused otto to start drifting apart from them. on december 10, 2010, over 9000 had their last show, otto driving off in silence afterwards and not talking to them anytime, ending the band and their friendship with otto. ...