Eamon Hamilton

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Eamon Hamilton is frontman of Brakes and former keyboardist for British Sea Power. Born on 19 April 1974 in Stewart, BC, Canada, Hamilton moved to Brighton in 2000 and in 2002 was recruited to play keyboards for British Sea Power live. Due to touring commitments with Brakes, Hamilton left British Sea Power in January 2006. He has recorded and played live under a number of different guises. One of his main projects was Brighter Lunch, also featuring Matt Eaton, now of Actress Hands. In August 2002, Tom and Alex White of The Electric Soft Parade saw Hamilton performing solo and offered to play guitar and drums, respectively, with him. They were joined by Marc Beatty, of Mockin' Bird Studios and The Tenderfoot, to play bass and Brakes was born. The band's debut single, Pick Up the Phone, was released in 2004 on Tugboat Records and the album, Give Blood, was released in July 2005. In October 2006 they released their second album The Beatific Visions Artist Description from Wikipedia, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license