Eamon Hamilton

Eamon Hamilton
Eamon live with Brakes in Liverpool, September 2004
Background information
Birth name	Eamon Peter Hamilton
Born	Stewart, British Columbia, Canada
Origin	Brighton, UK
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Vocals, keyboards, guitar
Labels	Rough Trade, Fat Cat, Tugboat Records
Associated acts	Brakes, British Sea Power
Website	Brakes Official Website

Eamon Hamilton is frontman of Brakes and formerly played keyboards for British Sea Power.

Eamon Peter Hamilton is the singer and songwriter for the band Brakes, born on 19 April 1974 in Stewart, BC, Canada and raised in Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK.

Hamilton moved to Brighton in 2000 and in 2002 was recruited to play keyboards for British Sea Power live. The band were reportedly impressed that—without warning and during a song without keyboards—Eamon went off into the crowd banging a drum. Due to touring commitments with Brakes, Hamilton left British Sea Power in January 2006.

Hamilton has recorded and played live under a number of different guises. One of his main projects was Brighter Lunch, also featuring Matt Eaton, now of Actress Hands.

In August 2002, Tom and Alex White of The Electric Soft Parade saw Hamilton performing solo and offered to play guitar and drums, respectively, with him. They were joined by Marc Beatty, of Mockin' Bird Studios and The Tenderfoot, to play bass. Brakes was born. Their debut single, Pick Up the Phone, was released in 2004 on Tugboat Records and an album, Give Blood, followed in July 2005. In October 2006 they released their second album The Beatific Visions

On 1 September 2008, Hamilton married the American author Koren Zailckas in Romainville near Paris.