Eamon Hamilton

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Eamon Hamilton is frontman of Brakes and formerly played keyboards for British Sea Power.

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[edit] Biography

Eamon live with Brakes in Liverpool, September 2004
Eamon live with Brakes in Liverpool, September 2004

Eamon Peter Hamilton was born in Stewart, BC, Canada and raised in Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK. Eamon, a journalist (often using the pseudonym Hungry Hamilton), moved to Brighton and in 2002 was temporarily recruited to play keyboards for British Sea Power live. The band were reportedly impressed that—without warning and during a song without keyboards—Eamon went off into the crowd banging a drum, and hired him fulltime.

Eamon is also a songwriter in his own right, and has recorded and played live under a number of different guises. One of his main projects was Brighter Lunch, also featuring Matt Eaton, now of Actress Hands. Eamon also performed in Reykjavík with Georg and Orri of Sigur Rós as his backing band.

In August 2002, Tom and Alex White of The Electric Soft Parade saw Eamon performing solo and offered to play guitar and drums, respectively, with Eamon. They soon were joined by Marc Beatty, of Mockin' Bird Studios and The Tenderfoot, to play bass. Brakes was born. Their debut single, Pick Up the Phone, was released in 2004 on Tugboat Records and an album, Give Blood, followed in July 2005. More recently, in October 2006 they went on to release second album The Beatific Visions

[edit] Selected discography

[edit] Brighter Lunch

  • "Going My Way" - 2001, self-financed
  • "Call A Medic" - 8th October 2001 on Monkey Tennis

[edit] Brakes

[edit] Albums

[edit] Singles and EPs

[edit] External links

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