ROBERT RIDLEY-SHACKLETON
Oxfordshires very own performance specialist Robert Ridley- Shackleton was part of the Folter Music collective and the dynamic pop-noise trio Wire Rooms. His own gigs have leaned from frightening intensity to electro-pop bliss at the flick of a switch. His tools are broken keyboards, tape manipulation and primal drum-machines. Robert Ridley-Shackleton’s pseudonyms have included Foetus 502 under which he released x2 quadruple CDRs, a cassete called ‘Greatest Shits’, a cdr he infamously disowned: ‘Cuts Volume One’ and the dld only ‘Endless’. He also completed the visual poem ‘Miracle Of Birth’ which can be seen here featuring his illustrations. He has exhibited at the Tate Modern, self-released 5 albums at his bandcamp page: http://robertridley-shackleton.bandcamp.com/
and is currently about to release a split Cassette with David K Frampton, and has tapes out on Goaty Tapes and ....
Click here for extensive interview with the master of mangled pop from 2009.
L-R Foetus 502’s quadruple album featuring Feast, Torture, Metal Man and Sex Attack.
‘Living’.
