Charm School (Bishop Allen album)

The band had already begun to tour by the time Charm School was released. Their first live performance was on October 27th, 2002.^[7] In May 2003, after the Charm School booklet had been printed, Margaret Miller decided to leave the band to focus on her career in children's publishing.^[8] She is now a speech-language pathologist for the American Institute for Stuttering.^[9] After the band's first tour, Bonnie Karin also decided to leave the band to become a 2nd grade teacher.^[10] They were replaced by friends of the band Jack Delamitraux (or Woodhull) on drums and Christian Owens (C.O.) on bass.^[10] C.O. would be with the band until early 2006, and Jack was with the band until early 2007.

In November 2003, the band began to work on the follow-up to Charm School.^[11] They began to record demos, which attracted the attention of the Polyvinyl Record Co. label.^[12] They had a close friendship with Polyvinyl signee Mates of State, touring with them in 2004.^[13] Bishop Allen would wind up on the Polyvinyl 2005 Sampler, with the track People You Meet.^[14] This is the only officially released studio recording to feature C.O. on bass and backing vocals. After this, the band began to record more demos, and continued to perform live. At some point before April 2005, a portion of these demos were leaked to the internet, because the index page of the site was deleted and anyone was able to browse the site's directories for files.^[15] This leak, along with another leak later in the year^{[citation needed]}, caused the band to decide not to release the album.^[16] Most of the songs were re-worked into tracks on the EP project.