Eddie Cole

It started when I was seventeen years old in a band called The Avenue in the pub scene of Melbourne Australia.
We were a four piece, very ambitious, writing our own material and gigging regularly.
But as so often happens, within a year differences emerged and our group imploded.
I was then a solo artist with no real artistic identity, grappling with personal issues and totally uncertain as to what the next step would be.
I began going to folk clubs, open mics and busking.
But in truth I was lost.
On my nineteenth birthday I headed to the UK for a period of hitchhiking, soul searching and more busking.
When I returned I was able to put together a good quality demo.
A hundred cassettes were mailed far and wide and to my elation EMI and WEA in the UK replied with requests to hear more and for more information.
I met with a local label as well.
It was heady time ripe with possibility but through a combination of immaturity, emotional insecurity and an unwillingness to heed advice the leads weren’t adequately followed up.
The opportunities went begging.
But this was just the start.
Life never goes the way we think.
www.eddiecole.com