John Dowie - An Arc of Hives cs An essential soundtrack to our

An essential soundtrack to our time

We would say post-punk

An enthusiastic Dada activist in Paris between 1920 and 1924

of years-after-the-fact interviews

John Dowie - An Arc of Hives cs An essential soundtrack to ourAn 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