A PIGEON'S GUIDE TO VIC SPANNER

I started writing an official history of Vic Spanner but got bored after two paragraphs, and then thought "who cares anyway"?

So below, please find a list of things, random facts and the odd lie.

Beyond that, just listen to the music, whilst actually doing something constructive with your life.

Vic Spanner started making music in 1998. He wasn't called Vic Spanner back then though. That didn't happen until 2002.

In the old century, Vic did everything on tapes. They didn't have mp3s back then, and independant record shops still existed. Minidiscs were very exciting. Vic got a computer in the end, and went round the charity shops. Wierd vinyl and tapes were also very exciting.

Vic Spanner has used the following weapons:

ACID v1.0

Audiomulch

4 track

Yamaha DJX keyboard

Acoustic guitar

Alan's drumkit

Decks

Kaoss pads

Casio SK-5

Pots and pans

Brush - O - Matic 2005

Drum machine

Korg Triton

Beans

He has never bothered to learn to play any instruments. Musicians are overrated. Instruction manuals are boring.

2001 was a busy year. Vic started playing live in 2004, but all his gigs were shit bar one. That and the Ken Kenkenum gig in the church that time.

He is currently retired from the live arena.

He has recorded under these aliases:

Dog Abuse

The Burro Brothers

Gribble

Ken Kenkenum & The Seacats

Bonehill

callard+bowser

Pastyface & Bloodpawl

They are all dead now.

In 2002, he invented his own record label, Medical Vinyl, so he could number all the cds he was putting out. There have been 42 releases so far. Some are unavailable and will never be produced again. Vic designed the artwork for alot of these releases. He also bought the ink cartridges.

The original artwork for the first Vic Spanner album was lost by Simon went his computer crashed.

Between 2002 and 2006, Vic curated five volumes of "Buffalo Bill's Big Bag Of Baad Jazz", featuring tracks by friends and people he'd met on the internet. Some of them were quite good.

In February 2005, Vic's computer crashed, taking with it a bunch of files and some tracks.

He has collaborated with

Sci / Monobean

ApeGod / Mitsubishi Zero / brokenholmes

Uneven Dots

La Jacquerie

David Bromnick

Nina Clark

David S Browne

Mattrix

Chu Lee

Katie from Tesco

Most of these people exist.

In 2007, Vic was asked to make a piece of music for an animation short by Adam Bailey, called 'Jar'. This was alot of fun. It reminded him of Monty Python.

He has remixed R.S.V.P. and Carnelian, and some other people who didn't release what he'd done.

His one true fan is Reg.

He recently found an album he did the artwork for in a charity shop. That was wierd.