John Dowie - An Arc of Hives Format:CD With Each Forgetful Step

With Each Forgetful Step

but to call upon his ten noise-tuners to play

Teaming up here with Ruben are Jonas Bering (Kompakt)

500 feet the aircraft dropped its bombs and set course for home

John Dowie - An Arc of Hives Format:CD With Each Forgetful StepAn archive anthology by influential writer and humorist John Dowie, acclaimed by many as Britain's first 'alternative comedian', and an unlikely early signing to Factory Records. Born in Birmingham in 1950, Dowie might have rivalled John Cooper Clarke as a literate punk poet, but an EP recorded for Virgin in 1977 failed to outsell God Save the Queen. Feted by Tony Wilson of Factory as a new wave Lenny Bruce, Dowie went on to record with Martin Hannett