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Corkstone

Heart of the Wild

About Me

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: 7/2/2007
Band Website: corkstone.com
Band 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
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Fun Video with World of Warcraft Theme

A video I decided to do oneday while bored:)
Posted by Corkstone on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:15:00 PST

Thanking everybody for 2007

I'd just like to thank everybody for their support of Corkstone in the year 2007 and the kind comments people have left and said about us. Were currently working on some new songs and starting 2008 wi...
Posted by Corkstone on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:12:00 PST

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everybody have a brill one.................     Corkstone   ...
Posted by Corkstone on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 04:22:00 PST

New recorded tunes due very soon

Hi everybody, Thanks for been patient, our new myspace tunes are almost ready.........    
Posted by Corkstone on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:37:00 PST