John Dowie - An Arc of Hives cs If Surface Were Depth

If Surface Were Depth

An enthusiastic Dada activist in Paris between 1920 and 1924

Music is about feeling and the exodus has begun

Miniature for Organ

John Dowie - An Arc of Hives cs If Surface Were DepthAn 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