John Dowie - An Arc of Hives Format:CD Teaming up here with Ruben

Teaming up here with Ruben are Jonas Bering (Kompakt)

clean production without sacrificing intensity

surviving unscathed

" album in 2002

John Dowie - An Arc of Hives Format:CD Teaming up here with RubenAn 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