project mork

March 1997: U.S. President Bill Clinton bars federal funding for any research on human cloning; An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Japan exposes 35 workers to low-level radioactive contamination, in the worst nuclear accident in Japan's history; The comet Hale-Bopp makes its closest approach to Earth; Project Mork is called in to existence. Starting, like so many legends, with two brothers drawn together by a need to share their genius with the world. With Chris, the elder of the two, playing guitar and Pod beating curious rhythms on his newly acquired drum kit they were soon joined by the great warrior Yomi on the bass. The three played many great shows, recorded many great songs and celebrated many bloody victories not knowing that destiny was about to play a cruel trick and change the band forever. Yomi was called back to his home planet to pursue his birth right as leader of Cronosians and take many beautiful brides. However, the brothers were not to be deterred by the loss of their bassist and soon recruited a young prince by the name of Barney, son of Santa. Although planet Earth was clearly a strange and puzzling place for the young bassist his skills were bettered by none. The three soon became four with the discovery of Pole, whose fret wankery ensured that Project Mork would boldly move in to the future taking the world a long for a wild hard-core punk ride. Or at least this would have been the case if they hadn’t have just sort of stopped a few years ago to do other things. But soon my children, soon, they will be back. Willies out, let’s rock!