John Dowie - An Arc of Hives cs To his ever-growing collection of

To his ever-growing collection of releases under the name THE YEARNING

We would say post-punk

his career was tainted by the Arnhem defeat and he did not gain further promotion beyond the rank of Major-General

Miniature for Organ

heart shredding country & western

John Dowie - An Arc of Hives cs To his ever-growing collection ofAn 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