Biography
What you always wanted to know about the guys, and were afraid when you asked!
The original Eden's End was formed in early 1985 by Jack Goodwin (vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar), Clayton Dickson (drums, vocals), and a series of guitarists, none of whom could be trusted with an unopened can of beer. In a few months the band had lost its Joy Division fixation and acquired a steady guitar-monger in Byron Norton (guitar, vocals). Over the next year and a half, Eden's End composed a healthy set list of songs and played at numerous Calgary clubs including opening night (January 15-18, 1986) at Club Notes with Skinny Puppy, NEOA4, and the Rip Chords. On May 28, 1986, the Eden's End trio recorded 3 songs at the Sundae Sound studio with Doug Faires (RIP) at the console.
Clayton named his own replacement before leaving town in the Fall of 1986 to continue his education. Jim Greckle (drums), Byron, and Jack continued the project for several months and several more engagements. On November 15, 1986, Jack & Byron returned to Sundae Sound and along with Doug Faires, updated the backing vocals and did a remix & mastering of the track titled, "Heaven and Hell", which in early 1987 would be contributed to Writing on Stone: The Alberta Compilation.
Though Clayton played drums on the recording, the revised line-up played shows in Calgary and in Edmonton to promote the album. There was some panic ahead of the Edmonton show when Jim was unexpectedly detained by his fraternity brothers. Then during the show, Byron's amp stack tipped over and fell off the stage during the set. The Calgary show saw greater success.
At this point, it was no longer practical for Jim to continue with Eden's End since he was going to school in Edmonton. Jack and Byron played one more gig at The Beach playing along with pre-recorded drums. The enthusiasm dwindled very shortly after that, and finally when Byron quit the band to pursue his passion for hat-making, Eden's End went on hiatus.
Jack kept the dream alive by writing songs and scrawling rude artwork on the restroom wall at Ten Foot Henry's, but it wasn't until May 1990, with Clayton back in Calgary, that he decided to resurrect the band. Ken Kittlitz (guitar), ears still ringing from his 3 year sojourn with Enemy Mind Feel, and Tim Faunt (guitar), a long time friend who couldn't think of a good excuse to get out of it, were recruited to complete the line-up. Guitarists both, Tim and Ken manage between them to play almost everything that Byron did.
With enthusiasm fully restored, it took the band less than 3 months to amass enough material to record and release (in limited quantities on cassette) the Resurrection EP in July 1990.
1990 through 1993, the revamped Eden's End played numerous gigs at The Republik and The Westward Club, was one of the five bands to share the MacEwan Hall Ballroom stage at the 1991 Rock Against Racism benefit. 
The band was on a roll when they headlined at the 1991 Soweto Day Memorial and Tools for Peace benefits. For Halloween 1991, Eden's End dressed up as Devo and opened the show with a guitar-centric rendition of Whip It.
The crowd surfed on the back of a guy dressed as a bed while Eden's End pumped out their jazzy rendition of the Surfaries, Wipe Out.
In the spring of 1992, Jack worked on a side project with a band called NU-RELIC where he signed on as their vocalist and rhythm guitar player. The band had a short run producing only two tracks: My Reflection and The Worm which got some attention and a music video produced by Red Deer TV.
Meanwhile, traction was gaining for Eden's End when we blew the crowd away at Franky & Johnny's North in May of 1992, hosting opening acts Chixdiggit and Red Autumn Fall.
It was also during this time period that the band set down the tracks for their It's About Time album, which ironically, went uncompleted and was not released publicly at that time.
Halloween 1993 (by now an annual ritual), the band played at the U of C Graduate Students Lounge along with Clayton's other musical excursion The Gradual Stupids.
In early 1994, after playing with Spy Lemon and Sugar Burger at The Industry, Clayton loaded up the rest of the Clampett clan and headed back to the East. Eden's End took a step back once again. This time though, there was no formal breakup. Tim, Ken, and Jack still got together on occasion to rehash the oldies, either playing along with a cheap drum machine or by tricking some garage band wannabe into banging on the bongos. No one spontaneously combusted, or at least that's the story the band is sticking with. 
During the summer of 1996, Eden's End finally discovered a drummer with the right drinking skills and a twisted enough sense of humour to fill the vacancy. Greg Hamel (drums) joined the roster.
From 1996 until 2015, the band was content to simply keep the fire stoked while going through periods of frequent and not-so-frequent jam sessions. No live gigs were sought. Instead, like so many others, the band turned its attention to careers and families. With a reduced amount of time to spend on the band, it is only expected that when the band did get together, focus was on finding the perfect balance between music and consumption of libations.
In 2015, with drummer Greg spending more time in the country, the band was given a bit more focus. This meant more time for practice and more time spent in the studio. In August 2015, the band released the fully remixed and remastered It's About Time album which included 2 bonus tracks.
In October 2017, the band released the howlingly good single The Animals Cry.
In early 2018, the band unearthed some recordings from Ken's time with Enemy Mind Feel and posted videos for the Half-life 10,000 Years EP to their YouTube channel.
On Valentine's Day 2019, Eden's End released the single titled, Diamonds Are Forever. Remarkably, this marked the first publically available recording featuring Greg on the drums. Dare we say it? . . . It's About Time!
On April 14, 2019 the Diamonds Are Forever single was reviewed on the "WHERE TRTLZ LIVES" blog!
In late-April 2019, our guitarist Tim Faunt was diagnosed with Glioblastoma Stage IV Brain cancer. There's no sugar coating it; the prognosis & statistics for this particular disease are grim. With Tim undergoing treatment, we've commited to as frequent jamming as possible & recording as much unreleased material as we can.
On July 29, 2019 (Tim's birthday), Eden's End released the single titled, The Cat On The Runway.
On August 3, 2019, Diamonds Are Forever was featured on "Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore's Saturday Showcase".
On August 16, 2019 a song by Turbo Vice titled, "Home" was released. The song featured lyrics and vocals by our very own Jack Goodwin.
On September 7, 2019, The Cat On The Runway was featured on the "Let's Talk About Indie Music" show and added to the regular rotation on Radio TFSC out of Stuttgart, Germany.
September 18, 2019, The Joker Project; Jack's solo effort starts to materialize.
On November 2, 2019, The Animals Cry was featured on "Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore's Saturday Showcase (1:55:50)".
On November 12, 2019, The Asian was featured on "NSRadio: Jack On The Rock show (30:43)".
On November 29, 2019, back-to-back The Cat On The Runway and Calm Before The Storm (The Joker Project) were featured on The Limbocast out of Regina, Saskatchewan.
On November 30, 2019, This Broken Home (The Joker Project) was featured on the "Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore's Midnight Madness (1:33:52)" show.
On December 3, 2019, Calm Before the Storm (The Joker Project) was featured on the "NSRadio: Jack On The Rock show (51:09)".
On December 16, 2019, This Broken Home (The Joker Project & melodywhore) was featured on "Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore's Situation 47 (20:13)" show co-hosted by Sapphira Vee.
On December 19, 2019, The Limbocast out of Regina, Saskatchewan featured both Eden's End, The Cat On The Runway and The Joker Project, The Calm Before The Storm!
On December 21, 2019, Diamonds Are Forever was featured on "Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore's Situation 47 (20:12)" show.
On December 28, 2019, The Animals Cry was featured on "Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore's Situation 47 RDT 2 Year Celebration (30:40)" show.
On January 1, 2020, Eden's End was interviewed and featured on "The Flipside" a blog by Dizzy Storms."
On January 6, 2020, Diamonds Are Forever was featured on "Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore's Situation 47 (1:43:47)" show.
On January 9, 2020, The Joker Project and melodywhore's This Broken Home was featured on The Limbocast!
Returning to "Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore and Sapphira Vee's Situation 47" show on January 13, 2019, was The Joker Project & melodywhore's This Broken Home (58:45).
On January 20, 2020, The Animals Cry was featured on "Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore's Situation 47 (52:55)" show.
On January 30, 2020, The Joker Project & melodywhore's This Broken Home was again featured on The Limbocast!
Again on February 3, 2020, The Joker Project & melodywhore's This Broken Home was featured on Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore and Sapphira Vee's Situation 47" show (35:56).
On February 28 2020, The Joker Project & melodywhore's This Broken Home was featured on Winter On The Radio show with Jill Winter.
On March 5, 2020, Eden's End was featured on The Limbocast - Music Episoode 15 with The Cat On The Runway (37:36)!
On March 12, 2020, The Limbocast Episode 16 featured both The Joker Project's Calm Before The Storm and Eden's End's Diamonds Are Forever.
On March 13, 2020 (Ken's birthday), Eden's End released the album titled, Slow Moving Clouds.
On Friday March 20, 2020 The Limbocast - Special Episode - Troy and Joe talk wrastlin featured the Slow Moving Clouds album by Eden's End as the background soundtrack.
On March 23, 2020, Eden's End was featured on Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore and Sapphira Vee's Situation 47 show with Here We Go Again!
On Friday March 27, 2020 The Limbocast - Music Episoode 18 featured The Camera by Eden's End as the lead track for the episode.
On March 30, 2020, Eden's End was featured on Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore and Sapphira Vee's Situation 47 show with Face the Complication!
On Friday April 3, 2020 The Limbocast - Music Episoode 20 featured The Camera by Eden's End once again.
On Monday April 6, 2020, our lifelong friend and bandmate of 30 years, Tim Faunt, lost his courageous battle with brain cancer. We will miss his musical artistry, his dark sense of humour, and most of all, his friendship and camaraderie.
On Friday April 10, 2020 The Limbocast - Music Episoode 21 featured Diamonds Are Forever by Eden's End.
On Tuesday April 14, 2020 Synth Redneck Weekly Episode 63 featured The Joker Project & melodywhore's This Broken Home.
On Saturday April 18, 2020 The Limbocast featured "An Evening In Eden"... an interview with Ken & Jack.
To follow up the Limbocast interview, on April 26, 2020 there was an album review of Slow Moving Clouds done by Troy and Joe on The Limbocast.
On Monday April 27, 2020 The Joker Project and melodywhore's This Broken Home was again featured on Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore and Sapphira Vee's Situation 47!
On Sunday May 3, 2020, Clumsy Alien's The Hive Mind Podcast featured an interview with Ken and Jack!
On Monday May 4, 2020, The Joker Project and melodywhore's new single Whims Of The Goblin King was debuted on Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore and Sapphira Vee's Situation 47!
On Friday May 8, 2020, Eden's End's The Asian was featured on Jack On The Rock Episode 28!
On Monday May 11, 2020, both Eden's End Face The Complication and The Joker Project and melodywhore's new single Whims Of The Goblin King were featured on Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore and Sapphira Vee's Situation 47!
On Monday May 18, 2020, The Joker Project and melodywhore's new single Whims Of The Goblin King was again featured on Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore and Sapphira Vee's Situation 47!
Joe and Troy featured both Eden's End, Diamonds Are Forever and The Joker Project and melodywhore's Whims of the Goblin King on May 28, 2020's music edition of The Limbocast!
On June 1, 2020, The Joker Project and melodywhore's new single Whims Of The Goblin King was again featured on Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore and Sapphira Vee's Situation 47!
On June 4, 2020, The Joker Project and melodywhore's new single Whims Of The Goblin King was featured on Limbocast New Music Episode 31!
On June 14, 2020, Eden's End performed a 3 song 'unplugged' set on RadioTFSC's 'Couchella' from the isolation couch! Subsequently, the cover of R.E.M.'s Losing My Religion landed in the #3 spot on the Radio TFSC Daily Top 24 chart.
On June 16, 2020, a new radio show on Cowboy Joe Radio called The Beat, hosted by Steve and Dianne from The Cranberry Merchants featured the Eden's End song, Everything I Tell You.
On June 17, 2020, The Joker Project and melodywhore's new single Whims Of The Goblin King was featured on the In The Moog Show on NCCRradio!
On June 22, 2020, The Joker Project and melodywhore's new single Whims Of The Goblin King was again featured on Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore and Sapphira Vee's Situation 47!
On June 23, 2020, Jeff had some incredibly kind things to say and featured Calm Before The Storm by The Joker Project on The Jeff Vicario show on SLE Radio!
On Sunday, June 28, 2020, Eden's End was featured on Sunday Service with Grunge Noris on SLE Radio.
On Tuesday, June 30, 2020, The Glaring Sun by Eden's End was featured on The Jeff Vicario show on SLE Radio!
On July 20, 2020, Diamond Are Forever was again featured on Radio Dark Tunnel: Melodywhore and Sapphira Vee's Situation 47! This was melodywhore and Sapphira Vee's one year anniversary show and Jack dropped in for a short chat!
On Monday, September 14, 2020, The Cat on the Runway was featured on the debut episode of Limbo Radio on Rock Rage Radio!
People have likened the band's sound to that of Joy Division, R.E.M., Skydiggers, 54-40, The Cure, The Wallflowers, Collective Soul, Eve 6, Third Eye Blind, Seven Mary Three, and Our Lady Piece while its alcohol intake capabilities have earned it comparisons to the Doors.
It's not about the top 100, touring the country, groupies, fart jokes, or getting out of shovelling the side-walk. It's about the music.... True Canadian made original alternative rock and roll! The band only has one future aspiration: to fulfil its dream of attaining the perfect aural blend of Metallica and Barry Manilow. "We write the songs that make the whole world scream."
- Thanks for being a supporter! Greg, Ken & Jack