Four Eyed Personnel;
Heza - Guitar and Tractor,
Richie - Vocals,
PT - The Bass,
Gop - Guitar,
Rock'n'Roll - Drummer.
And a Kinder Egg
Influences
The Replacements, Ramones, Husker Du, Descendents, Compulsion, Weezer, Supersuckers, Bad Religion, Lemonheads, The Clash, Soul Asylum, Undertones, Rancid, Killdozer, Dinosaur, Big Black, Chixdiggit!, Macc Lads, Motorhead, Skids, Stiff Little Fingers, Camper Van Beethoven, Diesel Boy, Strike Anywhere, Bracket, Social Distortion, Guided By Voices, ALL, The Queers, Dropkick Murphys, Bouncing Souls, Tilt, US Bombs, Kraftwerk, Cheap Trick, Pussy Galore, RFTC, Rush, JSBX, The Gun Club, Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead, Butthole Surfers, The The Stutters, J Church, NOFX, Elliot Smith, The Muffs, Swans, Ween, Banshees, Pennywise, The Jam, Tom Waits, Snuff, Gang of Four, Against Me!, Babes In Toyland.
“To be four eyed sometimes,” said vocalist Richie in 1992, “is to wear glasses occasionally”, quite forgetting that the only glasses drummer Rock’n’roll Minnsy, ever saw, were the bottom of beer glasses.
Formed 14 years ago in Bishop Auckland, Four Eyed Sometimes, (Richie, Heza, PT, Gop, Rock’n’roll) started out as any band starts out – five people fresh into their twenties, wanting to make music to express their feelings, and vent their frustrations. Over the next couple of years they honed and tightened their approach, playing in small local venues like the Queens Head, the now deceased McFly’s Bar and the Cumberland Arms in Newcastle, culminating with the release of their first, cassette only, album, ‘Shovels Out’ in 1994. (Actually it's their second album - they had a live cassette called "Live at the Queens Head" before "Shovels Out", but as there were only a handful of copies released it's rare of the rocking horse shit variety!) After it’s release, and their biggest gig supporting the-then-big(ish) indie band Cecil, the band split for a while, getting back together in 1996 at the request of their hard-core fanbase.
Since then Four Eyed Sometimes have played sporadically in and around Bishop Auckland and released another EP, ‘An Ice Cream or a Flake or…’ in 2002, which due to their increasing popularity has gone on to sell hundreds of copies. Punk rock fanzine Fracture called it “really pretty good, shows some potential”, so with that recommendation, you can’t go wrong.
With a new album promised for sometime in the next millenium, Four Eyed Sometimes are as essential as ever, and remain on the scene to show the new generation of pop-punk bands how it is done.
As mad-as-a-fish indie punkers Stump used to say:
Lights! Camel! Action!
Just stopping by to say hi and give you some news. The new album 'Welcome To Murraysville' from Phil Murray and the Boys From Bury is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
Gabba gabba hey! Teddy.
