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WHO ARE YA? (THE EXTENDED 12″ VERSION) – ADRIAN FLANAGAN

Posted by Silent Radio on August 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Silent Radio’s Simon Poole recommends Adrian Flanagan for your audible delectation and your possible bemusement on how a Salford born/Sheffield based man who only a few years ago broke both of his arms so badly that he was told he’d never play an instrument again can be so darn busy musically. ***** WHO ARE YA? “I am one half of The Eccentronic Research Council, my other musical half is Dean Honer from I Monster, we are a non... Read More

Filed under Featured, Features, Interviews, Who Are Ya? · Tagged with Adrian Flanagan, Bird Records, Kings Have Long Arms, The Chanteuse & The Crippled Claw, The Eccentronic Research Council

VIDEO: THE ECCENTRONIC RESEARCH COUNCIL (FEAT. MAXINE PEAKE ) – ‘AUTOBAHN 666’

Posted by Silent Radio on July 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Autobahn 666 is the Opening track from the Debut LP “1612 Underture” by THE ECCENTRONIC RESEARCH COUNCIL (FT Cult electronic outsider artists Adrian Flanagan & Dean Honer from Sheffield’s Chanteuse and the Crippled Claw/Kings Have Long Arms and I Monster/all Seeing I and the Actress/Lancashire’s very own Angel of the North, Miss Maxine Peake. The above video is taken from a short film that will accompany the Album..OUT... Read More

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