John Dowie - An Arc of Hives Format:CD clean production without sacrificing intensity

clean production without sacrificing intensity

Teaming up here with Ruben are Jonas Bering (Kompakt)

surviving unscathed

We had already given the award for most introspective song to “Mira Lo Que Se Oye Cuando Estamos Callados”

CD booklet contains detailed band history by frontman Dave Jackson

John Dowie - An Arc of Hives Format:CD clean production without sacrificing intensityAn 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