11th Hour Happy Millionaire

About Me

Happy Millionaire were until recently known as The 11th Hour, a Rock / Pop / Indie band from North London, UK.
Formed as a basic 4-piece, Happy Millionaire are now a 5.

www.mp3.com/the11thhour
www.mp3.com/happymillionaire
http://www.garageband.com/artist/happymillionaire

Antfest 2007
Happy Millionaire - "Never Trust a Man"

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/20/2006
Band Website: happymillionaire.co.uk
Band Members:

Now:

Mark Bundy (lead vocals)
Gary Pearce (bass & vocals)
Noel Loughran (keyboards)
Michael Gabriel (guitar)
Herman Mendonca (drums)

Then:

Mark Bundy (lead vocals)
Gary Pearce (guitars, bass, keyboards & vocals)
Ben Harknett (bass)
Dave Lancashire (drums)
Ben Puttnam (drums)
Simon Clough (drums)
Steve Horwood (drums)
Mark Gibney (guitar)
Richard Cannon (guitar)
Ian Fraser (guitar)
Simon Ingram (guitar)
James Collings (keyboards)
Ruth Humphreys (vocals)
Anthea Hawke (vocals & sax)

Influences: In no particular order, the band like: Extreme, Queens of the Stone Age, Adam and the Ants, The Wonder Stuff, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Beatles, Radiohead, Elbow, Guns'n'Roses, Queen, The Beastie boys, Supergrass, The Rolling Stones (when they were still good), The Cure, Janes Addiction, Smashing Pumpkins, The Pixies, Nirvana, The Sex Pistols, Damned, Leftfield, Dodgy, Renegade Soundwave, The Jam, Fun lovin Criminals, David Bowie, A-ha, Eurythmics, Killers, Coldplay, Pink Floyd, The Clash, Foo Fighters, Eagles of Death Metal
Sounds Like:

"Within" -
words by M Bundy
music by G Pearce
Lead vocals - Mark Bundy
All guitars & backing vocals - Gary Pearce
Bass - Ben Harknett
Drums - Dave Lancashire
Backing vocals - Ruth Humphreys
Backing vocals & Sax - Anthea Hawke

"Strawberry Shake" -
words & music by G Pearce
Lead vocals - Mark Bundy
All guitars & backing vocals - Gary Pearce
Bass - Ben Harknett
Drums - Dave Lancashire
Backing vocals - Ruth Humphreys & Anthea Hawke

"Second Skin" -
words & music by G Pearce
Lead & backing vocals - Mark Bundy
Backing vocals, guitars & bass - Gary Pearce
Drums - Sim Clough

"Strange" -
words by G Pearce
music by G Pearce / I Fraser
Lead vocals - Mark Bundy
Guitar & backing vocals - Ian Fraser
Bass & backing vocals - Gary Pearce
Drums - Sim Clough

"Aftermath" -
words & music by G Pearce / S Clough
Lead & backing vocals - Mark Bundy
Backing vocals, rhythm guitars & bass - Gary Pearce
Drums - Sim Clough
Lead guitar - Rich Cannon

"Salt In My Wounds" -
words by G Pearce; music by G Pearce / T luxford
Lead & backing vocals - Mark Bundy
Backing vocals, rhythm guitars & bass - Gary Pearce
Drums - Sim Clough
Lead guitar - Rich Cannon

Strawberry Shake arranged by Gary P, recorded and mixed at Barnet Surgery studio by Derek Fudge
Aftermath, Second Skin &amp Salt In My Wounds arranged, recorded & mixed on an old analogue 8-track at Earthworks in Barnet by Gary Pearce

The 11th Hour
Type of Label: None

My Blog

What's in a name?

Looks like we'll be changing the band name. Whilst we all like The 11th Hour, it is quite common in the amateur band land... There's also a film and game coming out with that name soon. Anyhow, we fi...
Posted by 11th Hour Happy Millionaire on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:51:00 PST

Times they are-a changing!

Looks like we may have two new band mambers in the shape of Steve on drums confirmed (temporarily at least), and Noel on Keyboards & sequencers. Fingers crossed. This is good news because we can f...
Posted by 11th Hour Happy Millionaire on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:35:00 PST

Something New

Last night we finished recording "Fuck You". It was recorded on Simon's home studio in his front room. It's a fist cut, a rough mix etc, but we think it's a bit smart Have a listen and let us know wh...
Posted by 11th Hour Happy Millionaire on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:46:00 PST

Welcome back to life

We're currently in the throws of rehearsing and recording the new stuff. Since Simon's joined on guitar the songwriting has been improved by miles - he has brought a lot of good tunes with him (c...
Posted by 11th Hour Happy Millionaire on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:05:00 PST

Songs!

Sorted! Managed to upload 4 tunes. I think it must have been the office firewall (oops). Let us know what you think of the 4 songs, then I can rotate and upload new ones every now and then. A sort of ...
Posted by 11th Hour Happy Millionaire on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 03:36:00 PST

Uploads

For some reason, I can't seem to get any of the songs uploaded. It keeps stopping midway through with an "unexpected error". Yeh, that old chestnut. Some might say it's a blessing for you lot, but in ...
Posted by 11th Hour Happy Millionaire on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:46:00 PST

Well that was an odd week or 2

"Men of music,Girls of the groove,Kings of creativity" Mark is back from holiday, but has gone and got himself the lurgy. And passed it onto his children. Well done Mark. Im sure youll all join ...
Posted by 11th Hour Happy Millionaire on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:30:00 PST

Total Bo||ocks

For God's sake (or your own if you prefer, as I do), don't take the blogs seriously. They're just total bollocks with the occaisional useful piece of info.
Posted by 11th Hour Happy Millionaire on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:27:00 PST