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Cushion

world's leading purveyors of sleep rock

About Me

Formed thousands of years ago, undergoing hideous transformations until arriving at the present incarnation a year and a half ago, cushion are the greatest mythical band ever.
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Member Since: 11/16/2005
Band Website: cushionmusic.co.uk
Band Members: Mark Acton - guitar, vocals
Matthew Pickles - drums
Tim Campbell - bass
Chris Howard - keyboards
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Influences: Old prog and classic rock bands like Pink Floyd; and, most of all, S Club 7 - influences also include (randomly) Talk Talk, Jellyfish, AC/DC, Bucks Fizz, David Bowie, Elbow, Five Oz of Pigeon, Kiss, Foo Fighters, The Beatles, Nick Drake, Sleepless, Syd Barrett, Trait, Deep Purple, Kate Bush, not George Bush, Iron Maiden, Doves, The Paperhouse, Ladib's Cricket, Radiohead, Sound Marshals, Cathy Dennis, Jesus in India, Without a Reason, The Shadows, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, Faith No More, Virgin Marys, Mr Bungle, Simon & Garfunkel, Van Morrison, Tool, The Kinks, The Who, Underworld, Brian Eno, U2, Olivia Newton John, The Special Brew, Venom, The Void, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, Gary Barlow, Steve Barlow, Ken Barlow, Aqua, Santana, Linda McCartney, Long Shore Drift, Stone Roses, The Thing Upstairs, Name:... and many more but not necessarily all of the above at the same time.
Sounds Like: Pink Floyd or Talk Talk or Prince or Santana or Frank Zappa or some acoustic thing, depending.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

More new stuff

We’ve got some way into completing a new recording of a brand new song this week. As yet, there are no drums on it but it does sound close to being finished. It’s a laid back, country-ish ...
Posted by Cushion on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:13:00 PST

Cushion Covers

We are currently recording some covers with a view to getting a couple of pub gigs - not too many - obviously we don't want to wear ourselves out. So far we have recorded 'Who is He (and What is He to...
Posted by Cushion on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:28:00 PST

Cushion Live

We made our long awaited return to the live arena last night (well, long awaited by us, if no one else) at Rochdale Transport Club, supporting Boneyard Dogs. Boneyard Dogs were fantastic and played lo...
Posted by Cushion on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:00:00 PST

Flaming Skull Artwork

Been trying to sort out a sleeve, booklet and stuff for Flaming Skull over the last couple of days. Had some good, really cheesey ideas but they didn't print very well on my computer and, seeing as th...
Posted by Cushion on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:37:00 PST

Flaming Skull (first draft)

Finally, your favourite sleep rockers have got round to compiling their third (or fourth, or fifth - depending on how you count these things) album. It is stupidly called 'Flaming Skull' and it's thei...
Posted by Cushion on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:50:00 PST

Album Title

I asked Matty if he had any ideas for a title for our new album, which is pretty much ready. He suggested, 'Flaming Skull'. We're looking for someone with a really rubbish homemade tattoo of a fl...
Posted by Cushion on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:00:00 PST

Jerusalem

Just recorded keyboard parts and a guitar solo for Jerusalem yesterday and today. We were highly polished and professional. Chris had no sustain pedal and his keyboard went through a PA while he had t...
Posted by Cushion on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:56:00 PST

All in the same room at the same time!!!!

That's right! The band were all actually in the recording studio at the same time on Wednesday. We played songs that we've not played for nearly two years and some new stuff that we've never ever play...
Posted by Cushion on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:09:00 PST

New Material

It's been about a year since 'Groom of the Stool' was finished and we've been working on lots of new material since then. 'Love Glove', 'Overweight Messiah', 'Humpty Dumpty' and 'Would You' have all b...
Posted by Cushion on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:43:00 PST