Phil Shoenfelt (born 18 December 1952 in Bradford, England) is an

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musician and awarded

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who lived for many years in

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and who now lives in

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.Alexiou, Evi (16 May 2020)
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As a musician

In New York, in the early 1980s, he played with punk band The Nothing, as well as with East Village new wave band Disturbed Furniture, and founded the post-punk band Khmer Rouge23 October 2018
"Phil Shoenfelt & Baron Anastis στο Tiki bar Athens!
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) and Marcia Schofield (future keyboard player of The Fall).From 1983 to 1984, Khmer Rouge was managed by noted photographer and

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collaborator Nat Finkelstein. They were frequently performing in the

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and have opened events for Alan Vega,

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. In 1989 his first solo EP, ''Charlotte's Room'', was released by

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's label Cog Sinister. The title track and the b-side "The Long Goodbye" were mixed by

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and Mark E. Smith. He also opened events for The Fall. One year later Paperhouse Records put out his first solo album ''Backwoods Crucifixion'', and in 1993 Shoenfelt's second album ''God is The Other Face of The Devil'' was released by Humbug Records. He also opened events for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in UK. Since 1995 Shoenfelt has lived in Prague, where he put together his current band, Phil Shoenfelt & Southern Cross. With Southern Cross he has recorded five albums to date (''Blue Highway'', ''Dead Flowers For Alice'', ''Ecstatic'', ''Paranoia.com'' and ''The Bell Ringer'') as well as one EP, ''Electric Garden''. In 1997 Shoenfelt founded a new band Fatal Shore, together with Bruno Adams and Chris Hughes (both ex-members of

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"Reactionary Sentimentalism Part 3: Prague"
'' 3:AM Magazine''. Retrieved 6 February 2021. They made three CDs – ''Fatal Shore'', ''Free Fall'' and ''Real World'' – and toured widely in Europe and the USA until Adams succumbed to colon cancer in 2009. Phil Shoenfelt also collaborated with

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. On Sudden's 1997/1998 European tour, Shoenfelt was the lead guitarist. After the tour ended Sudden and Shoenfelt went into a Berlin studio and recorded ''Golden Vanity'', which was finally released in 2009 by UK label Easy Action Records. Phil Shoenfelt & Southern Cross released their fourth studio album ''Paranoia.com'' on 1 November 2010. This album contains nine original songs and a cover version of Iggy Pop & The Stooges' "Open Up And Bleed". Together with the Australian ex-pat musicians Chris Hughes and Dave Allen, Shoenfelt formed a new band called Dim Locator in 2011 – named after a Rowland S. Howard song on The Birthday Party's Junkyard LP. Based in Berlin, Dim Locator play a heavy, repetitive, riff-based rock music, inspired by 1970s

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bands such as Can, Neu and La Düsseldorf. Shoenfelt's most recent release is a vinyl album called ''Under The Radar'' on German label Last Year's Youth. ''Under The Radar'' is a partial career retrospective spanning the years 1981 to 1997. It includes previously unreleased rarities, such as Khmer Rouge's appearance at the 1981 White Columns Noise Fest, a nine-day festival of New York noise bands curated by

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of Sonic Youth. On 10 January 2020 Shoenfelt's new solo studio album ''Cassandra Lied'' was released by the German label Sireena Records. The album was recorded between August 2018 and November 2019 in Prague. Shoenfelt was contributed by several musicians such as Kristof Hahn (

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), Marcia Schofield (ex- The Fall), Chris Hughes (

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& The True Spirit) and Eva Turnová.

As an author

As well as being a singer/songwriter, Shoenfelt is a published and awarded author with books translated in several languages. His autobiographical novel ''Junkie Love'' won the "Firecracker Alternative Books Award" (2002) in New York. The novel is available in the original English, as well as in Czech and Italian translation. An extract has appeared in ''Erotika – Drogen und Sexualitat'' by German philosopher Wolfgang Sterneck, along texts by

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, W. S. Burroughs, Nick Cave,

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, Marilyn Manson and others. He has also written the afterword for the

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edition of Nick Cave's book '' And the Ass Saw the Angel'' ("A uzřela oslice anděla", 1995).

Discography

*1988 Charlotte's Room / The Long Goodbye (EP) *1990 Backwoods Crucifixion (LP/CD) *1993 God Is The Other Face of the Devil (CD) *1995 Live in Prague! With Ticha dohoda (MC/CD) *1997 Blue Highway (CD) *1997 Fatal Shore (with Fatal Shore) (CD) *1999 Dead Flowers For Alice (CD) *2002 Electric Garden (CD-single) *2002 Ecstatic (CD) *2003 Free Fall (with Fatal Shore) (CD) *2004 Deep Horizon – Selected Songs of Phil Shoenfelt (2-CD) *2004 New York – London 1981–86 (with Khmer Rouge) (2-CD) *2007 Real World (with Fatal Shore (CD) *2008 Live at the House of Sin (Phil Shoenfelt & Pavel Cingl) (2008) *2009 Golden Vanity (

& Phil Shoenfelt) (CD) *2010 Open Up & Bleed (Download-Single) *2010 Paranoia.com (CD) *2011 Immortalised (with Dim Locator, Download-EP) *2011 Setting the Sails for El Dorado (with Fatal Shore CD) *2012 Performing Songs By Rowland S. Howard (with Dim Locator 7"-Single) *2013 Wormhole (with Dim Locator EP-CD and 10"-Vinyl) *2015 The Bell Ringer – Live at the Shot-Out Eye (Phil Shoenfelt & Southern Cross, CD) *2018 Out of the Sky – Real World Demos (Phil Shoenfelt & Bruno Adams, CD) *2019 Under The Radar (12" Vinyl) *2020 Cassandra Lied (CD)

References

External links

Phil ShoenfeltPhil Shoenfelt & Southern CrossFatal ShoreDim LocatorThe Bruce Wellie Band
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