Tuesday, 15 May 2012

ANT-BEE: A taster for an interview later in the week..

I was scheduled to interview Billy from Ant-Bee this evening, but it has been postponed until later in the week. This is probably a good thing, because my copy of his fabbo new album 'Electronic Church Music' only arrived about half an hour ago, and now I have enough time to gen up on him properly. In the meantime, here is a link to recent feature on him:

His albums are barely known this side of the Atlantic - and they don't sell shed-loads over there either - and yet they are stuffed with brain fryingly psychedelic wonders and feature guest slots by the likes of Don Preston and Bunk Gardner (The Mothers Of Invention), Michael Bruce (Alice Cooper Group, Jan Akkerman (Focus), Peter Banks (Yes) Zoot Horn Rollo and Rockette Morton (Captain Beefheart's Magic Band), Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth (Gong) and numerous other famous names. So just how did the unasuming Billy 'Ant-Bee' James find himself in such illustrious company and did he, we wonder, come from a musical family background?

Read on...

http://www.totalmusicmagazine.com/interviews/Ant_Bee.htm

Billy pictured with Daevid Allen and Michael Bruce of the Alice Cooper group)
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