Dannyink: The Art and Music of Danny Hampson » Music

Danny is a founder member of seminal 80’s post-punk band Modern Eon.

2021 saw the 40^th anniversary of the release of Modern Eon’s iconic Fiction Tales album. An expanded reissue including bonus tracks of previously unreleased recordings has been compiled by Cherry Red Records.

Vinyl transfers, audio restoration and mastering for this Cherry Red re-issue of the seminal album by Andy Patterson

Read a track-by-track album review here

“The original album has never sounded better“

The album is the subject of musicologist Andrew Keeling’s book ‘Musical Guide To Modern Eon’. Published by Spaceward (ISBN 978-1-9999613-8-1) it is available to buy from Blip Books

“As far as I was concerned one band always came to mind as standing out from the rest. That band was easily Liverpool’s best-kept musical secret – Modern Eon.”
Andrew Keeling

Excerpts of Danny’s Q&A with Andrew are in the Musical Guide and his full interview can be found here.

‘Child’s Play’ was included in the 2018 soundtrack of the skateboarding video “BLESSED” featuring many skaters. Watch the trailer here and check out Bloby’s Instagram here

Bass guitar: Danny Hampson
Keyboards: Bob Wakelin **
Vocals, lyrics and guitar: Alex Che Johnson
Drums/percussion: Cliff Hewitt
Guitar and saxophone: Tim Lever

**Bob Wakelin sadly passed away in January 2018. He was noted for his art and design work on Ocean Software and Imagine video game covers. Bob’s illustrations also featured in Marvel graphic novels and in numerous publications.