CORTEZ PROFILE

MICK TWOMEY    Bass Guitar

Does anyone remember the RIOT ? As chequered a career as a gingham tablecloth Mick began with a £5 warped bass and then forgot how to play. A reserved character who cites other shy and retiring bassists Sid Vicious and Jean Jacques Burnell as influences (All hail Jean Jacques). Past bands include The Bo Gators, Pulse and a three-gig stint with Gina and the Champions, which he describes as like trying to swim across the channel tied to an anchor blindfolded. Accused of liking style over content Mick says all his contents are stylish??

He is the co - founder of CORTEZ with Kieran - they were also the rhythm section behind the first two aforementioned bands. Mick blames his extracurricular activities with LITTLE SISTER and LISA JANE BAND as something he was forced into while on alien abduction who were performing an intergalactic experiment on the resources of the human brain under uncompromising conditions and the results of physical and mental endurance.

BEST MOMENT: It has been said when he turns his amp to off but at a push BAD aint half bad at all.