John Dowie - An Arc of Hives cs his career was tainted by

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

of years-after-the-fact interviews

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

If Surface Were Depth

primarily guitar and field recordings

John Dowie - An Arc of Hives cs his career was tainted byAn 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