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A
B O U T
Once
upon a time not that long ago,1980 - Cohen was walking home
from school when he spotted a old bust up guitar in a skip,
so as kids do he took it home even though he did not know much
about guitars he did know that it wasn't going to work without
strings on, so after a visit to a guitar shop in his local city
he eventually had a fully working although not brilliant but,
faithful guitar. So after years of playing it to no avail he
met Steve, Audus as known by his friends taught Rob how to tune
his plank of wood up and together they decided to form a group
"Junkie Bunny" so armed with a Drum Machine, Two Guitars,
Keyboard and a 4track they borrowed from school, they decided
to take on the world.
Unfortunately
the world didn't want them even though they were writing classics
like "When Junkie Bunny Wakes Up
It The Morning" , "Dieing
On A Rollercoaster Isn't Nice Not At All Really"
and "Watch Out Junkie Here Comes
That Nasty Farmer With A Gun". So after enough songs
recorded to make 4 albums and one gig in Steve's house in front
of Sid, Sherene, Piggot and Lisa. Junkie was alas no more and
Steve went on to form Cus Cus with Sid, around this time Cohen
bumped into Piggots brother Steve in a pub and ended up joining
them "Fools Club" was the name of this band and so
Cohen went from jokey Cabaret music to being in a full on thrash
metal band who's roots lay somewhere between Nirvana and The
Cult, through Fools Club, Cohen met Paul Young. No not the bloke
that wherever he lays his hat that's his home, a bassist by
the same name.
Cohen
only managed to stay with the Fools Club team for about 6 months,
and then got thrown out for liking Jimi Hendrix too much. A
few weeks later he bumped into Youngy and another seed was sown,
Paul was wanting to start up his own band an indie band and
knew a drummer called Seb and another band was born "Marmalade
Sun" this is where Cohen learnt his trade, Songwriting,
Touring, Studio Recording, Drinking and generally not getting
paid anything by any of the venues he played just like the majority
of bands out there across the world living the Rock 'n' Roll
dream, during this time over the six years they were together
after various band line up changes it all got too much, and
after the fifth drummer Bruce left they struggled to find another
drummer.
So
they all went their separate ways, in the background during
this time Cohen had been working with another old friend doing
some studio work and writing songs under the project title "Indian
Rope Trick" this is when Cohen realized that maybe if he
got his own studio he could work on his own material, so rob
started recording his debut album "Written In The Sky"
August 1999, after "Indian-Rope-Trick" split. So Cohen
decided he would start something new, so While he was in Cornwall
for the eclipse, He started getting a few ideas about what he
was going to do when he got back to his hometown. "When
You're Turning - R U Still Learning?" So there it was "When
You're Turning" the first penned title wrote from the sky,
for the album.
The
rest as he says fell into place after that, "Honeybees
& Butterflies" was a song wrote in Cornwall sat in
front of a tent with a few friends a few beers and a fire, all
very ad lib into a Dictaphone. But despite it’s rawness
Cohen felt to take the song any further (To re-record) would
spoil the spontaneous feel of the song, so here we are the present
day with three albums in the pan and another one on the way.
From jokey Cabaret, Grunge Metal, indie through to Mufty as
he calls it. Yes it has been a rocky ride but with a little
"Ribbon Red And Confidence", here's to the future
and long may it be bright! |
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