About me:
S.Burgess and J.C.'S collaborations began in 1982 when they met at "Suns of Dada", a weekly alternative performance night that S.Burgess had opened in Holborn, at the time he was playing bass guitar for Nikki Sudden, notably supporting rock legend Johnny Thunders.
After a short Summer pause, the event was re-launched as "Evening Falls" eventually moving to a much larger space at the London Musicians Collective in Primrose Hill, where with J.C. as a co-host, they regularly held mixed media events: Poetry, Performance, Music, Film, Dance, Comedy and the beginnings of Kareoke, in a wharehouse setting.
At the same time the pair also performed on the same bill as The Other Man and J.C.1/4 at other prestigious venues such as The Clinker, The Slammer, Pentameters and Brixton's Frontline theatre.
They were also that last acts to appear at the legendry Bridge House, Canning town.
The pair also collaborated on a private release cassette of JC's poetry with music and effects by Burgess and the latters songs.
In the mid-eighties, J.C. moved to Amsterdam, where he embarked on a musical career. As a lyricist and singer, he has fronted Contact Obsession, and in New York, Individual Fruit Pie, a virtual indie super-group that boasted musicians from Ultra Vivid Scene, Nirvana, Lloyd Cole, Love Spit Love and the Psychedelic Furs.
JC has since appeared in much of Europe with "J.C.and Anphibius" , a quirky lounge pop duo.
S Burgess meanwhile, pursued a different creative path after releasing two singles with Metrophase, a bringing sythesised sounds to a Velvet Underground type of rock, he concentrated on visual art and photography. Exhibiting in New York, Bologna, Oxford, Amsterdam, and London including a stint on the organising committee of the famous Young Unknowns Gallery while gaining an Honour Degree.
While working as a photographer with Chelsea Football club, he also picked up the guitar again, teaming up with J.C. in New York, performing a number of solo shows in the Village and in Brooklyn.
More recently, Burgess has co-hosted a "Y Tuesday", a poetry club in Clerkenwell, London, with Danish poet Line' Thomsen, publishing a volume of poetry by some of the clubs best performers entiled "Echoes from the green room".
Burgess and J.C. started writing poetry together by e-mail under the name Radio Hams in Septemebr 2006 and now have well over 20 poems to show for their efforts.
The work is that of two meandering minds, looking back over their formative years in London, recollections and reflections, charting the changes, recording the forgotten.
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