Remember that dream you once had of playing in a rock-and-roll band?

The one where as soon as your band started playing you achieved immediate success, adoring fans and critical acclaim within a matter of months.

Until one day you woke up and realized that it just doesn’t happen that way.

Except for Modena Vox.

Just six months ago, music fans could find the rock band at Scully’s – but after only three weeks of playing out, they have perormed at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, spent time this summer playing in Manhattan’s East Village at venues such as CBGB and the Lit Lounge and will be heading to Boston on Oct. 2 to play in the NEMO, or (New England Music Organization), festival alongside such bands as The Black Keys, Keane and The French Kicks.

Hailed by Time Out New York magazine as a “must see up-and-coming band,” Modena Vox will be headlining the Newport’s Welcome Week Fall Fest at 10 p.m.

“We’re really pumped to be playing at the Newport the first night out since school started,” said Anthony Timperman, the lead singer. “We love to play, and we’re excited to turn a bunch of freshman on to our music and we hope some older students will dig our stuff too.”

Six years ago Timperman met Daniel Harris, who plays guitar, at Ashland University, where their dream began.

“I consider myself to be a writer first, and I wanted a vehicle for my words – the band was a natural progression,” Timperman said.

Timperman and Harris began their search for band members and after moving to Columbus they discovered J.J. DeLibera, guitar; Mike Savage, drums; and Thomas Bragg, bass guitar.

Modena Vox was born.

“A band really has to have chemistry,” Timperman said, “If I wasn’t with these guys I wouldn’t be doing it.”

Unlike so many other bands, Modena Vox refuses to perform covers. Instead, the band collectively writes and arranges its own music.

“We’re definitely a rock and roll band, and if people like our sound, we want it to be because they like our music – not someone else’s.”

It’s their own sound-rock with a bit of Brit pop – that Modena Vox wants to share with Ohio State students tonight.

“Any time you get to play, you hope they love you,”Timperman said. “we want to make people dance.”