Cameron Jones: Guitar        Ryan Jones: Drums        Drew Byrne-Englehorne: Guitar        Andy Fortier: Electric Bass

Tic Code started in the Summer of 2003 and ended in the Spring of 2006.

You can go to our label, Sickroom Records.

These recordings were made in January of 2005 at Jackpot! Studios by Larry Crane

and mastered at Kingsize Studios in Chicago by Mike Hagler.

To hear more of Cameron's music, check out Cameron's Webpage.

Shortly after Strappheit had taken form I felt the deep desire to still be in a band where I actually "played bass", meaning that I wanted to play with a guitar player again.  I was starting to see that in order for me to be happy with myself musically, I had to be playing in one context that was more or less under my control, while playing in another context that had more give and take involved.  That, and after a while of just writing and playing your own songs you inevitably go in circles... and once I see patterns in myself then it is clear that I must meet someone other people and allow them to mess things up a bit.  Order... chaos... order... chaos... Repeat until death - story of my life.  So, I ran some ads (actually, I always run ads) and soon enough met what was soon to become Tic Code.  Cameron, Drew and Ryan had been together for a few months sketching out songs, but I tried out, we clicked, and there you go.  It was the first band that I would stay in long term that would have two guitars, heaven forbid.  I had been in several short-lived projects with varying arrangements that exceeded the duo or three piece limits, but usually felt restricted and unable to really be myself in such a crowded environment - both sonically and personality-wise.  Not so with Tic Code - the guitars took on a role that really opened things up for me and thanks to Ryan's tight drumming, we were able to really lock in, which I loved.  We would also have the weirdest jams... almost funny, actually - very funny on many occasions, yet the songs we wrote remained very serious and highly structured.

The guitars interweave to form a rhythmic layer of harmonized texture, while the bass and drums form a rhythm section that both augments and melodically (for the bass) gives the songs context and movement.  To me the songs vary quite a bit, but a lot of the music was written with a very distinct rules, form, and concept in mind.