Cormac Heron’s Blog
U2 are to have Upper Regent Street cordoned off so they can play a secret gig between 18.00 and 18.15 GMT. It will be interesting to compare the crowds to the time when F1 came to London.
Meanwhile read this to hear U2′s new album Now Line On The Horizon right now!
More importantly however Eggtimer will be playing their improvised rock in the Marlborough in Camberwell, South London. I am going to be at both.
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Hey there! I am doing a Phil Collins by playing two gigs tonight in New Cross. One in Montague Arms, the best rough pub in the country! Come on down! Also I am playing two gigs on Saturday at the Placard Headphone Festival – see gigs section for more details.
Thurs 18 September 2008
Thurs 18 September 2008
Eggtimer play their special brand of improvised rock to celebrate the end of the world as reported here.
Venue: New Cross Inn
Address: 323 New Cross Road, London, SE14 6NF
Admission: Free. (Even if it’s not you can just come and storm the place. So what if you get arrested. We’re all gonna die anyway.)
Eggtimer will be performing their live improv rock on Sat 23 Aug in Spice of Life, London at 10pm. I’ll be on bass with Joe Moon on vocals. Apparently there’ll be a couple of guitarists and we’re still looking for a drummer. Gonna be a great gig!
We are playing in Nambucca, 596 Holloway Road, London, N76LB tomorrow. On at 8.45. Come on down if you are in town. No two Eggtimer gigs are the same. No two Eggtimer songs are the same. All our songs rock though. Don’t believe me? Ok, fair enough.
I read yesterday that by man has all the gadgets he desires by the age of 46. Bullshit obviously but it got me thinking. I play bass every week for my band Eggtimer and I play on a 5 string bass that only has 4 string – one broke. I have always wanted a Rickenbacker bass.
So I thought about it. I play every week. I don’t have a car. Why have I not got one already? Nurse! Where’s my eBay?
The calm before the chaos. Eggtimer this time featured:
Joe Moon – Vocals
Phil Phamous – Guitar
Jim Moon – Guitar
Cormac Heron – Bass
Ben – Drums
As with any Eggtimer gig you never know what you’re going to get. This was the first time the five of us had ever played before. Jim and Ben had only ever played about two songs each on different occasions.
Last song report:
I unplugged one of the guitarists for playing a song I didn’t want to play. He walked off in a huff but then returned – note him in the corner. The singer was spinning about on the floor of the stage like a possessed maniac. I started standing on his belly. The other guitarist unplugged my bass. I gave the drummer the signal to cut it. End of gig.
Even less permanent band members as two of the band have decided to leave. Still every time we take to the stage you can be sure of one thing. We haven’t a clue what we are going to do. Every time therefore it is exciting. Plus I have just bought a new bass. An orange one. Fat with an extra string. One more string for that extra width of welly. Come on down to the New Cross Inn tomorrow night (08.01.08). We’ll be on at about 9ish. It may even change your mind.
I saw a band called The Moon perform in New Cross one time. They blew the place apart. The singer was wired like I’d never seen anything in a long time. I introduced myself to him afterwards and it turned out he was sober! Just in “the zone” apparently. We became friends. Joe his name is.
Joe invited me and a few friends into a studio during the summer of 2007. I thought what the heck and went along. Now Joe, Neil, Phil and I are a band called Eggtimer. We don’t rehearse, we don’t have any songs and we don’t even have any permanent band members. We’re called Eggtimer because we don’t go longer than 4 minutes per song. No prog-rock nonsense here. I love the excitement of getting on stage and never knowing what you’re gonna do. Joe ‘s a great, lyricist, vocalist and entertainer. Phil’s and Neil have very contrasting styles and I’m the glue.
Drummers are a problem in that we never seem to have the same one for more than two gigs at a time. Sometimes we play with a drum machine. Joe’s just uploaded some tracks on our Myspace from a gig with no drummer. Shame we weren’t recorded last night. Steven ‘Dakiz’ Davis played with us and blew the place up. Oh well. Like the Prince gigs, it’s one for memory.
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