www.ecfunk.co.uk Band History

The band were formed when, former Lead Singer Fiona approached Ryan and Matt from Nineteen52, about helping her to get some live experience, to impress a Manager she knew. They then set about looking for a Guitarist which is where I come in. It was an Open mic night at The Shropshire Lad Telford 31st May 2004 and I scraped into the band with some dodgy solo performance, as at that time they hadn't had any offers for guitarists, it wasn't long after that Lee joined the Band on Lead Guitar, then Fiona sacked Matt the Drummer and recruited Graeme who came with Simon on Keyboards, so Earcandy was formed and on the 10th Sept 2004 we made our live Debut at Joshuas bar in Wellington, following that up with further Gigs at the Soho Bar, Brileighs and a couple of venues in Walsall, only doing covers at this time but Jamming at Practise was quite something, then sometime in November it all went Pete Tong and Ryan, Graeme and Lee left the band, Pete and Simon opting for the silent approach?

So we come to the Formation of ECFunk the EC standing for Electric Chair and in January while at a Karaoke at The Pear Tree Bridge Inn, Oakengates I saw Bev and asked her to join the Band . Before this I had already asked Micky to help out with Guitar duties, this was due to Lee having left. After a few Practises Col showed up and showed an interest and consequently joined. It was at Col's first proper practise at Brileighs that Steve joined us on the Sax for a bit of a Jam so I asked him to join and that is more or less up to date, well the beginning of February 2005 anyway, hopefully we'll get enough practise in before our first gig on the 17th March 2005?

1st March 2005