He was in the band Shining with fellow Verve member, Simon Jones.

Shining band history

Tong also has replaced Graham Coxon for Blur's live performances, which include a full UK tour starting at Glasgow Barrowlands '03.

Tong has been in rehearsals in London with Damon Albarn, Alex James and Dave Rowntree preparing for live shows later in the year (2003).

Damon Albarn said: "He's not replacing Graham, because he can't be replaced," the source told NME.COM. "He will be playing live with them at shows later this year, and they have been rehearsing for the last few weeks together."

He played the guitar in Cathey Davey's first album called "Something ILK" It's said that Simon Jones had heard one of her early demos, and he got Simon Tong involved.

Tong contributed to the second Gorillaz album, Demon Days as you can see here and is the main guitarrist of Damon Albarn's new band that is going to release the album "The good, the ugly and the queen" in January of 2007.