BACK IN THE DAY: I began making music in school-boy electronica combo Sobek; trying our damndest to imitate Kraftwerk in front of diehard, 13-year-old Ocean Colour Scene fans. After a few, now-legendary, appearances in scout huts across Dorset, Sobek sadly disbanded and I started work on a solo project, which eventually became Eaten By Children. I stopped using computers for a few years and started making noise with all of the debris left over from the band. This quickly developed into an unhealthy obsession with amplified electricity, harsh feedback loops and heinous sonic accidents
LIVE SHOWS: Brighton: Wrong Music, Spirit of Gravity, Totally Bored__London: The Klinker, The Gluerooms, The Bohman Brothers' Night__Leeds: The Termite Club__Sheffield: FREENOISE
I started playing live in January 2004 with Brighton's Wrong Music collective, mostly downstairs at The Volks. Fully improvised and aggressive stuff; these sets tend to end abruptly as soon as my power gets knocked out. Someone commented that he was less worried about damaging his ears than he was that the bass would rupture an internal organ. Diligence and hard work have allowed me to extend my range from horrendous noise assaults to marginally less horrendous noise assaults with some high-pitched screeching sounds thrown in.COLLABORATIONS: In Canterbury I played in joke-band-made-good Noise Tsunami with three guitarists - a post-rock without the etiquette kind of a deal. I've also collaborated on a live remix of Sun Ra's Strange Strings with walkman-manipulator SKUT and a good old feedback knees-up with Brighton misfit and Pipettes svengali Monster Bobby.
SUPER-8 WORK: I've recently been using Super-8 projections in my live shows, sometimes with two projectors running simultaneously. The footage has been shot rather erratically in the tube system or in the local beauty spots of Hackney and Dalston. I've also been experimenting with found film and decay - I cast a long shadow over our family Christmas this year by burying a film of Princess Anne's wedding in my parent's garden.
STATE SANCTIONED RECORDINGS: After a lengthy gestation period, Eaten By Children's debut album is finally completed. "The Sword Swallower's Grave" is available from my CD-R label, State Sanctioned Recordings in a limited edition of 200. Read reviews here: The One True Dead Angel / Freenoise . Releases are also scheduled for Bill Thompson and Lessons Around Us. Please check the website (www.statesanctioned.com) for further details.
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