TFDI (or Totally F*cking Doing It) will be performing at the Maintenance Shop in the Memorial union Friday night.

According to band member Tony Lucca, the band “was kind of a happy accident.” Lucca and Jay Nash, another of the three band members, were touring together when they met up with Matt Duke, who joined them on tour. After recording a four song EP in a recording studio in Chicago that went to number one on the iTunes “Singer/SongWriter” chart, the three formed TFDI.

“We have become most certainly almost like brothers,” Lucca said.

TFDI performs folk-inspired acoustic-pop. The word pop used much to the abhorrence of Nash.

“Don’t say the word pop!” yelled Nash during the interview with Lucca.

They use three-guitar harmonics and harmonies to create their sound.

Where did the acronym TFDI and what it stands for come from? According to Lucca, the name came from that time during their first tour, and the taboo name was one of the first decisions made.

“When we made that first four-song recording, we were in the middle of that tour. I had been doing a series of video blogs documenting our time on the road, really just creating these fake reality TV-show scenarios, and we just started to call [it] the TFDI,” Lucca said. “It kind of caught on. People were really into it.”

“Our various managers and label reps at the time just said, ‘No man, just call it TFDI.’ They all kind of conceded, whether willingly or reluctantly, and it just kind of stuck,” Lucca said.

Lucca, a performer who came from a large, musical family, has always had music in his life. Lucca is thankful for the talent and experience he took in as a kid.

“It became apparent really, very early on, that this was my thing. I was probably going to do this for the rest of my life. Here I am, probably halfway through my life, still at it,” Lucca reflected.

For aspiring artists, Lucca not only said, “Follow the passion where ever it leads,” but he advised new artists to find a mentor who can, “give it to you straight and help you constructively reach high.”

“I look back and find maybe where I struggled early on in my career was because I was so wrought with insecurity in what I was doing that I compensated by maybe being too confident,” Lucca said. “I didn’t want to work with people that might pick apart what I was doing and find the holes in it.”

“I think that if anyone is really going to take this kind of work seriously, you want to establish that early on and allow yourself to be and remain open to input from people that have a more real-life grasp of what you are trying to do,” Lucca said.

The show starts at 8 p.m with doors opening at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $8 with a student ID and $14 for the public.

Tickets can be purchased at the M-Shop box office or online via Midwestix.com.