Question: Which band The Innocence Mission or Starflyer 59 was formed first ?

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Joy Electric is the brand label for a series of electropop/synthpop productions by Ronnie Martin.  Martin began producing music under the Joy Electric name in 1994, after the demise of Dance House Children, a band Ronnie was in with his brother Jason Martin of Starflyer 59.  Starflyer 59 bass player and Velvet Blue Music owner Jeff Cloud joined Joy Electric from 1996 until 2002.  Joy Electric is currently a solo act. The Fashion Focus was the fourth full-length album released by Starflyer 59.  This release marked a significant change in the band's sound.  Where previous albums had focused on loud guitars in the style of shoegazer bands such as My Bloody Valentine and Ride, "The Fashion Focus" had a softer sound, with keyboards playing a larger role.  This album was also the first Starflyer 59 album not to feature a monochromatic cover. I Am the Portuguese Blues is the eighth full-length album released by Starflyer 59.  With this album, the band returned to its past in multiple ways.  The band's earlier albums had been characterized by loud guitars, but later albums saw the band progress to a softer sound, incorporating keyboards.  "I Am the Portuguese Blues" saw the return of the sound from earlier albums, as the band was stripped just to Jeff Cloud on bass, Frank Lenz on drums, and Jason Martin, the only person to perform on all of Starflyer 59's albums, handling guitar and vocal duties.  In addition, the album has a monochromatic cover, similar to those of Starflyer 59's first three albums ("Silver", "Gold", and "Americana").  Many of the songs on "I Am the Portuguese Blues" were written years earlier as demos for an album to follow "Americana".  They were eventually scrapped, as the band decided to take a different musical direction for "The Fashion Focus".  The old demos were refined and combined with several new songs for "I Am the Portuguese Blues".  In regards to the title of the album, Martin, the band's frontman said, Starflyer 59 is an alternative rock band from Riverside, California that was founded in 1993 by Jason Martin, brother of Ronnie Martin of Joy Electric.  While Jason Martin has written nearly all of Starflyer 59's songs, the band has included a number of different musicians over the years, including Jeff Cloud, Frank Lenz, and Richard Swift.  The band's sound was initially identified as an outgrowth of the shoegaze movement of the early 1990s, but the band's music has gradually evolved to the point of little resemblance to that of its early days. Starflyer 59, usually known as Silver, is the self-titled debut album of rock band Starflyer 59, released in 1994 on Tooth & Nail Records.  It has acquired the name "Silver" due to its cover art. The Innocence Mission (stylized as the innocence mission on all releases since 1995) is an American folk rock band centered on husband-and-wife singer-songwriters Karen and Don Peris.  The group, including Mike Bitts (bass guitar) and Steve Brown (drums), was formed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the early 1980s when the members met during a Catholic school production of "Godspell".  Although all members of the band have contributed musically, Karen Peris is its main writer. Bella is a Canadian indie pop band from Vancouver, who formed in 2003, and have released two full-length albums.  The band signed to Vancouver's Mint Records in 2006 and released the full-length "No One will Know" featuring guest musicians Roddy Bottum (Faith No More), Will Schwartz (Imperial Teen), John Collins (the New Pornographers) and Jason Martin (Starflyer 59). Hello I Feel the Same is the ninth studio album by American alternative band The Innocence Mission.  It was released on October 16, 2015, via Korda Records, a cooperative record label founded by The Ocean Blue, a band with whom the Innocence Mission formed a "long and deep friendship that goes back to some of each band's first shows in Pennsylvania and their major label debut records on Sire and A&M".  An edition on translucent green vinyl was released from early January 2016.  It is their first studio album since 2010's "My Room in the Trees", making five years the longest gap between studio albums in their career. Calico Sunset is a Bakersfield, California-based electropop band, comprising Joseph and Jenny.  Calico Sunset is signed to Jeff Cloud's (Starflyer 59 and Joy Electric) Velvet Blue Music.  Calico Sunset's debut album on VBM, "Deep Deep Paranoia," was produced by and featured Frank Lenz (Starflyer 59, Pedro the Lion, headphones) and featured Josh Dooley (MAP, Starflyer 59) on guitar.  Shortly after the release of "Deep Deep Paranoia," Calico Sunset joined Joy Electric on a national tour.  Calico Sunset has also shared the stage with such bands as Moving Units, The Fever, Starflyer 59, Freezepop, Broken Spindles (Joel from The Faint's solo project). Old, the seventh full-length album released by Starflyer 59, was released on Tooth & Nail Records in 2003.  It is often considered one of the best albums by Starflyer 59 , as it reintroduces the band's rock oriented sound.  Many of the lyrics of the songs on this album revolve around the theme of growing older.

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 The group, including Mike Bitts (bass guitar) and Steve Brown (drums), was formed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the early 1980s when the members met during a Catholic school production of "Godspell". Starflyer 59 is an alternative rock band from Riverside, California that was founded in 1993 by Jason Martin, brother of Ronnie Martin of Joy Electric.