44 & Fenchurch Presents... RADIOACTIVE MAN (Warp/Two Lone Swordsmen) Sat 6th Dec

Needless to say this is coming to be massive!
44 return to the Cinema Room for a right good old Christmas knees up with one of the most talented producers of recent years topping the bill.

44 & Fenchurch Presents...

Radioactive Man (Warp/Two Lone Swordsmen)

Mister Sushi (Botchit & Scarper)

Fidge (Infra)

Nizch

Jon Tinning

Saturday 6th December

8pm til 3am

Exclusive visuals from Goodies Corp

Entry: £6

More info: http://www.myspace.com/44breaks

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Perhaps the sleepy town of Chertsey, near Surrey, is not the first place you’d guess as the origins of some of the loudest, rawest, most powerful sounds to come out of electronica. But indeed, Keith Tenniswood was raised on the river side of Weybridge, where much of his days were spent with a guitar in hand and ruffling through his dad’s vast record collection. His mum and dad were both music enthusiasts, though “in the 60’s, she was more Beatles and he was more Stones.” After a youth full of electro, graffiti, mixtapes, break dancing and skating rinks, as a teenager Tenniswood started taking the train up to London every weekend to get lost and found at acid-tinged squat parties. Equipped with crazy bands (with descriptive names like Gaye Bikers On Acid, Screech Rock), crazy outfits and all around general insanity, it was no surprise that the acid house scene had immediate effect on Tenniswood’s day to day life, taking him from London squats to the rest of the country…

Back in the late 90s, as Andrew started DJing more and more around the world, and The Aloof kept on the road moving in other directions, Tenniswood took the many contacts gained from his studio work and began putting them to use. In 1997, for example, he went to Belfast to co-produce David Holmes’ album 'Lets Get Killed.’ In-between recording sessions, Tenniswood used any alone time in the studio trying to encapsulate a certain sound to disc: “I wanted to create something quite heavy, really bass-heavy, upfront. I didn’t really set off to do a solo project, I just started stockpiling more and more music, and I eventually decided to put some of it out as an album. I’d been working on so much music that was other people’s, so I was just really chuffed to have something to call my own at that point.” Low and behold, Tenniswood had much more to share with the world than something to merely call his own– his self-titled LP radically turned heads and turned Radioactive Man into an electronica household name. To this day, nothing quite touches the menacing elegance of the album’s final hair-raising track, ‘Uranium.’ After gaining a handful of quality remixes under his belt as Radioactive Man (including Freq Nasty, Red Snapper, Meat Katie and Tipper), in 1999 Tenniswood decided to start his own label with his cohort Simon Brown (a.k.a. The Dexorcist) called Control Tower. Beyond their own material, Brown and Tenniswood have taken a wide variety of artists under their wings: Bass Junkie, Kansascityprophets, Dead Silence Syndicate, Dirty Hospital, Silvah Bullet, and even a new signing from Lithuania, Moondisco.

Tenniswood continues to enjoy DJing: “I really love DJing. It’s a lot easier than touring with a full band; there’s not so much pressure playing other peoples’ records,” he laughs. It’s a life-affirming love that incessantly takes him around the globe - Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, Istanbul, Budapest, Barcelona, Rome, Paris and even lands as far and exotic as Preston.

And that takes us up to the present where, after four years of seeing different places and meeting different faces, Tenniswood has reached into his bursting archives of musical artillery and put together his first LP since 2003’s inspired ‘Booby trap.’ Arguably his most anticipated album to date, ‘Growl’ is a stunning collection of timeless tracks that break, shake and quake with funk and character. Radioactive Man has once again turned in a direction most unexpected, with the wealth of experience and wisdom grooving his path.

In the meantime, Keith has also started playing guitar in a friend’s band under his own name, Christopher D Ashley, and signed to Sunday Best’s lovely label.

http://www.myspace.com/radioactiveman23

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