Our Hero

Pete Hero @ Pete Thomas Crabtree added me in my old MySpace account last year, but I wasn't paying too much attention to their songs, regretfully.

Having made another MySpace account, I added up my old friends, as many as possible, and Pete Hero was included. Just yesterday, something took me by a great amount of surprise: Pete dropped a comment on my page.

No musician has ever done this before, knowing their hectic schedule.

Then again, I liked how much he bothered to interact with fans, or in my case, non-fans.

So I told myself that I have to check out Not Your Hero and when I did, I found out that one of their members, Tim Hero @ Tim Brown, had suffered a tragic death.

Story copied from NYH's MySpace blog:

Before i start i will let you know this is the hardest thing i have ever had to do or say. Some of you may already know, some of you may not.. Tim Brown - Bass/Vocals of Not Your Hero tragically died yesterday (Sunday 3rd September 2006). Tim was rushed into Frenchey hospital on Wednesday 16th August with a brain hemorrhage (A malfunction of an artery in a place in his brain). Tim fought hard for the first week and bit with small signs of recovery but took a turn for the worst last monday. This caused them to operate and find that the initial damage was alot worse than first expected, this put Tim into a very critical condition. Over time the swelling and pressures in his brain kept increasing which was causing more damage to the brain. During this critical period Tim also got severe pneumonia to his right lung. By yesterday morning the damage and pressures in his brain were just too much and despite Tim being one of the best fighters around, he sadly passed away. The hemorrhage happened at random whilst Tim was sleeping at his home in Sturminster Newton at about 2am on the wednesday morning. For all of you who dont know Tim, he was by far one of the nicest and funniest people this world has to offer, always a smile on his face, never a bad word for anybody. If ever with Tim you would know you would have a fun time(i remember being removed from Alton Towers because of his insistance of us pulling our pants down for the camera on the water ride). Tim was also one of the most talented musicians and song writers around, helping Not Your Hero to write and record their debut single 'Ask Away' which is set for release through Universal in a couple months, and video heading onto MTV2 in just a couple weeks. It pains me to know Tim wont be around to experience and see the success of his music. Words cannot describe the way myself, Nick, Jonny, his family, gf and friends are feeling and going through right now. It truely has been the worst 3 weeks of all of our lives. Not Your Hero WILL continue, playing with a session player in Tims position. We intend to try as hard as possible to make this single a success and score a high chart position for Tim, it is his dream and nobody deserves it more. We are going to need everybodies help in getting this single to number one for him! Not Your Hero will never die, and we keep going to become the big name in music Tim dreamed of. We have a show this saturday at Yeovil Ski Lodge, this show is going to go ahead to pay tribute to a guy who had everything going for him, and the best friend anybody could ask for. Would Love to see you there. Please feel free to leave comments (sending messages will fill our inbox and will take us a long time to go though!) Tim - You will ALWAYS be loved by us, and we WILL make you proud and we will reach and achieve your goals you set out to achieve with Not Your Hero. Pete, Nick and Jonny Not Your Hero Tim - We all love you so very very very much! never forget

I greatly admire the band for the fact that they strengthen themselves to go through and overcome this obstacle, if not for themselves, for their dearly departed friend.

Even if you don't like their music, you can't deny their attitude.

Not Your Hero is a band that truly deserves to live on, in my opinion.

ASK AWAY is a special song, Tim wrote it & sung lead vocals & his dream was to get it into the charts. Thankfully we also have the ASK AWAY video with Tim who tragically died not long after recording it & sadly never got to see it. As a lasting memory we are hoping to with your help make his dream a reality.

So? What are you waiting for? Give the song a listen!

Carmen.