John Greaves (bass)
Peter Blegvad (guitar, voice, songs)
Chris Cutler (drums)

Off & on & in various combinations, Blegvad, Greaves & Cutler have been making music together since the early 70s, when they were in the English research group 'Henry Cow' working on the Cow/SlappHappy classic 'Desperate Straights'. To date the trio has completed 3CD’s for ReR Megacorp and has appeared at festivals or toured on rare occasions in France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, America, The Czech Republic, Belgrade, Britain. and Japan.

“Chillingly good tunes are matched with an elegant irony.” NME

“One of the great storytellers of rock” LE MONDE

"Peter Blegvad¹s work contains some of the most oblique and poetic wordplay to ever make its way to song." Trouser Press Rock Guide

“Blegvad’s most recent CD gathers all his strands together brilliantly - a mix of wry balladry and pared down Lennonesque rock.” THE GUARDIAN

Trio photo by Jim Donnelly.

PETER BLEGVAD

Singing, Guitar

In Europe, during the 70's & 80's he co-founded the legendary Slapp Happy, recorded and toured with Faust, toured with the Art Bears, and worked with Henry Cow and Andy Partridge.

In America he was recording and touring with, amongst others, The Golden Palominos, John Zorn, Arto Lindsay, Jack Bruce, Andrew Cyrille and Carla Bley.

He made three solo LP’s for virgin records during this period, and one for ReR.

Since then he has made four more solo CDs and written the libretto for the television opera ‘Camera’, as well as a authoring (and performing – with the trio and a theatre company – multimedia show ‘Imaginary media’.

He has been a regular contributor to the ReR Quarterly and in 1994, published a slim volume of his writings and drawings (Atlas Press, London) under the title "Headcheese." He also produced two weekly cartoon strips, "Leviathan" and “THE PEDESTRIAN for ‘The Independent on Sunday’ (Leviathan is now available in book form) and he continues to illustrate book reviews for the Spectator and other publications. For the last 10 years he has recorded and presented a series of aural cartoons (Eartoons) under the title ‘Static in the Attic’ for BBC Radio 3.

He teaches at the University of Warwick and has lectured at The Royal College of Art, Norwich School of Art, The Ruskin School, Oxford University Hull (University of Humberside), and The British Council, Beograd. He has exhibited artworks in galleries on both sides of the Atlantic.

Peter Blegvad discography

JOHN GREAVES

Bass

Between 1969 and 1976, as a member of Henry Cow, John Greaves made 5 LP’s and toured continually throughout Europe. During this time he also recorded and toured with Robert Wyatt, Mike Oldfield and LINK WRAY. In 1977 he made Kew:Rhone in New York with Peter Blegvad, Mike MantLer, Carla Bley, Lisa Herman and Andrew Cyrille.

Since that time he has recorded and toured with The Lodge, National Health, The Pedestrians (David Thomas, Anton Fier, Richard Thompson) The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Lol Coxhill, Peter Gordon, Michael Nyman, Nick Mason and Jack Bruce. He also released four solo albums - most featuring Robert Wyatt as a vocalist - as well as composing for theatre in the UK, Paris and Avignon and participating in Mike Mantler's opera with Jack Bruce and Don Preston in Copenhagen.



CHRIS CUTLER

Percussion, Electronics, Lyricist, Composer

At the start of the seventies, Cutler co-founded The Ottawa Music Company - a 22-piece Rock composer’s orchestra - before joining British experimental group Henry Cow, with whom he toured, recorded and worked in dance and theatre projects for the next 8 years. Subsequently he co co-founded, recorded and toured with a series of mixed national groups: Art Bears, News from Babel, Cassiber, The (ec) Nudes, The Science Group and p53 and was a permanent member of American bands Pere Ubu, Hail and The Wooden Birds. Outside a succession of special projects for stage, theatre, film and radio – and dozens of short-lived groups, he still works regularly with Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Jon Rose, Tim Hodgkinson, David Thomas, Peter Blegvad, Daevid Allen, Daan Vandewalle, Stevan Tickmayer, Annie Gosfield, the Hyperion Ensemble and spectralists Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana Maria Avram. He is a permanent member of The Bad Boys (Cage, Stockhausen, Fluxus &c.), Artbears Songbook, Comicoperando, Vril and Lotte Anker’s What River is This? And he can be found with all the usual suspects in all the usual improvising contexts. He has performed just about everywhere as a soloist with his extended electrified kit.

Othert projects include commissioned works for radio, various live movie soundtracks, pieces for the Hyperion Ensemble, Signe de Trois for surround-sound projection, a daily year-long soundscape project for Resonance FM and p53 for Orchestra and Soloists.

He founded and runs the independent label ReR Megacorp and the art distribution service Gallery and Academic, is editor of the occasional sourcebook Unfiled, author of the book File Under Popular – and many articles and papers published in 16 languages. He was on faculty for a while at the Museum School in Boston and lectures irregularly on theoretical and music related topics worldwide. He appears on over 160 recordings.

Chris Cutler website