If you were of live-music-watching age in Houston or in the capital city in the late ’90s and early 2000s, you have definitely seen a Blue October show or two in your day. The 20-year-old band, which consists of brothers Justin and Jeremy Furstenfeld, Ryan Delahoussaye, Matthew Ostrander and Matt Noveskey, was a local mainstay for several years, playing Austin and Houston clubs until breaking out with its third album, History For Sale, and 2006 single “Hate Me.”

Ten years later, the band played weekend one of the Austin City Limits Music Festival, which is where we sat down with frontman Justin to take a stroll down memory lane [Editor’s Note: The writer grew up in Houston and knew the band casually.]. Here are five things you may not have known about him.