23 February 2012 - the song of the eel @ The Wine Cellar

Noel Clayton, Chris O'Connor, and John Bell will be joined by the wonderful Patrick Bleakley, whose little Bio (not biopsy), follows. They will play tunes mostly penned by Noel Clayton. The eels will also be singing down at Purangi winery on the Friday night if you know of anyone down there that may be interested .!?

Patrick began his performance career with a ‘dream’ apprenticeship as bass player in Bruno Lawrence’s ‘BLERTA’. If you aren’t familiar with ‘BLERTA’ then you could get a quick overview by watching the recent film :’Blerta, the return Trip’ More recently, Patrick has been collaborating with Jonathan Crayford, Noel Clayton and Chris O’Connor (see above) . Most recently, Bleakley has been working with Lucien Johnstone, featuring in Geoff Murphy’s film ‘ Tales of Mystery and Imagination’ (music composed by Johnstone featuring the ‘Village of the Idiots’) and with Johnstone and drummer John Rae in ‘The Troubles.’