Corkstone

Bio:

.. During the year of 2006, Matt Pearson having split from the band Hang the DJ and fuelled with an arsenal of original songs, bumped into an old pal James Harrison who had also recently split from the band Oscar. Matt Pearson and James Harrison had been busking in the streets 6 years previous and had always enjoyed the same style and genre of music, however as life goes, they both ended up going there own ways. It would be 6 years later until they met again. After some discussion in a local country bar they both decided on a new project. The project was to grab the bassist from Hang the DJ Will Haslam and find themselves a drummer and form a new band called the Hunger. After a few weeks of looking for a drummer, they finally came across one, in an old friend singer songwriter Dan Martin.

The four would then practice in an old beat down building working on fast guitar licks, hooky melodies and 60..s style harmonies, After a variety of different gigs of entire original material the band all of a sudden felt that an extra sound was needed in the songs. It would be one night while Matt Pearson was writing the song Love in a Northern Town, that his brother Ben Pearson would show up and start adding some keyboard to the song. Matt was impressed with the sound and asked his brother to join the band, his brother agreed and the band now became 5, and would be named after a local stone on Stanton Moor called the Corkstone.

In late 2007 the current drummer left the band and was replaced by 19 year old wildman Nick Watmore. The band have been performing ever since classic Brit Pop Indie anthems such as Pretty Good Looking and Valentine to Acoustic Ballads such as True Colours and Upstairs Window, with the songs specifically designed for a one listen hook.

Well who knows what may happen in the future for any band, but its sure been one hell of a ride so far for Corkstone. ..

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A short story from our life long friend and fan Mr Lee Hockley

I saw a man yesterday he was driving with the seatbelts on looking for a butterfly girl to ask to be his valentine she said yes but only if you show me your true colours so he went to the flower man bought her some flowers and asked her if she would like to join him on a hippies holiday the butterfly girl said yes so they went and they lived happily ever after. ....ables..

Corkstones True Colours with WoW Theme
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Member Since:

July 02, 2007

Members:

Matt Pearson-Vocals, Acoustic Guitar



Ben Pearson, Keyboards



James (Burger) Harrison, Lead Guitar



Will Haslam, Bass Guitar



Wildman Nick Watmore, Drums

Influences:

Too Many to Mention

Sounds Like:

Corkstone

Record Label:

Unsigned