Winter of Clowns

WINTER OF CLOWNS.

steve phillips,(drums)

mark beal (drums)

dan plummer(guitars)

greg X (bass and kaoss)

paul eastham( vocals, piano, synth)

WoC started out as a solo electronic project

undertaken by Paul Eastham.

Through lack of the right musicians he set out on his

own in his tiny bedroom studio with a synth a 4 track

and a six string guitar tuned down to A ,writing and

recording songs like SYSTEM and all other synth

electro industrial tracks. The orchestral side of

things happened when he wrote the arangement for

DESIESE, a lush melody that builds and builds until

you feel like fucking yourself.

After realising that performing his material live

would suck without a band , He recruited his old

drummer from a band called ORPHEUS Steve Phillips

,which gave the drum parts something very special.

When paul got pressured into joining a band called

milestone based up in winsford where he met up with

drummer Mark Beal for which their styles clicked from

the word go!

Although soon after the completion of their debut

album Paul very angrily stormed out in the middle of

the night and hiked back to Southampton, leaving Mark

to complete the launch shows alone. Mark then went on

to play two more shows himself and after refusing to

sign contracts with the band he quit.

One year later... Paul received a phone call from Awen

records which was the label behind the milestone

project. Asking if he would be interested in co

writing some tracks for a welsh singer called Aimee

Duffy with mark on drums again and engineering. Paul

said yes to the project and made his way up to

pentreth north Wales to begin production.

Paul decided to recruit the bassist Greg Latham from a

limp bizkit tribute band for which paul was the singer

two years previous.

January 2004. Mark moves to Southampton to join paul,

steve and greg , becoming one of two drummers in

Winter of Clowns.....ooohhhh yeahhhhh!!!

WoC setup their studio and began rehersing the

material composed by Paul and WoC for the bands debut

album with paul playing 7string guitars..

April 2004. WoC found guitar prodigy dan plummer in a

local Southampton paper. After one week of playing

with the band they new he was the guitarist they had

been hoping for.

woc is born

we have our first showcase concert coming up in october

rock the fuck on!!!!

fuck knows but.......

tool,dream theatre,NIN,runrig,fear factory,sex pistols, Rachaninoff,beethovan,metallica,korn,anal cunt.

here is some of our studio gear........

mac g5,motu 24i/o,allen and heath 40 ch,tl audio processors,mesa/boogie triple recto,s.roland v drums,korg kaoss pad, acces virus,korg ni emu samplers,tc electronic offboard, ibanez 7 strings, thats about quarter of our shit!!!!!

winter of clowns have released a solo piano album by thier singer.it isnt metal in any way shape or form but it shows that they really are musicians who know thier shit.

the reason for releasing the classical album first is so that they dont get accused of being (sellouts) 10 years down the line when the singer goes back too his roots of being an ex concert pianist.

there will be a demo on here very soon.

check out....

http://www.winterofclowns.com