CLIVE GARDNER aka COLE HAMMER
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File No.XZ UB314 The Artist formally known as Cole Hammer - The Man from Paranormal.

Re-incarnation - gives you a second chance or two - or two!

Having survived D-Day, many would call it jolly bad luck to die from septicaemia
after eviscerating one's ring finger on a tin of bully beef.
However, reborn and sharing the same birthday as Tom Waits, things could only get better.
(People born on this day, believe they are weird, even if they are not.)
Alas, the early promise shown by winning the Daily Telegraph Mini Saga Competition
and a radio1 songwriting contest, counted for nothing.

Alone in the Jacques Brel Foundation, one wet wednesday in Brussels
(A wednesday of which even today he will not speak), he experienced a life changing experience
which inspired him to drink from the stream of consciousness until he was unconscious.

Revived by a hallucinatory vision of Colombian record producer and bi-polar explorer Arthur 'Bird' Guano
dancing on a marvellous 7-tiered wedding cake, he reluctantly allowed himself to be rescued
by failed agnostic Jack Pound, who brought him home on Eurostar and nursed him back to madness.

The rest as they say

is Halibut

 
One of the founder members of the British Academy of Songwriters and Composers, Clive Gardner was originally a poet, until he was lured away from his first love by musician Jack Pound with the promise of fame and fortune. Clive has been writing lyrics in his
tear-stained attic since the days of their first album, Low Pool Music.
Rescued from the belfry in 1999, and renamed Cole Hammer by producer Bird Guano, he stumbled forth in double-glazed raybans to collaborate on the experimental Domestic Bliss project with Jack Pound and Colin Gibson followed in 2010 by the dark and disturbing People who are Dead and Don't Know That They Are