Phil Burdett

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Hello - Thanks for popping by my page for a cup of cyber-tea, as it were . I was born in Kent but evolved slowly but surely in Basildon in Essex if that is not too unimaginable a concept. I learned guitar (aged 6) from my older brother's teaching & album collection. Early favourites include John Fahey, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Richie Havens, Son House, Stevie Wonder (especially Talking Book & Music Of My Mind) and other sundry blues & folk recordings. I can remember thinking "Sugar Sugar" by The Archies was the zenith of pop/soul at one point.still do, come to think of it.



After leaving school with no major qualifications other than disillusionment & left-wing tendencies I began writing my own songs & performing in local punk-based clubs around Essex & London. This engendered a tolerance/liking for the idea of noise as art. However, I remained faithful to the more subtle revolution that is inherent in "songs lots of people listen to"believing in sugar-coated cyanide tablets to ease the unlistener into bitterness and vengeful catharsiswhich would be a fabulous theory if "lots of people" listened to my "songs"may as well have joined Einsturzende Neubaten after all.Hi ho, head in the po.



Years on - trials and errors -and I have just released my fifth album, the second in a row that is self financed and I can actually listen to without alcohol. and despite advancing years, a questionable beard and world weary cycnism ("I don't mean to sound bitter but I am and it just comes out that way" - Bill Hicks R.I.P.) I continue to write and (very occasionally) gig and am available for public performance either solo (for peanuts and a sofa bed smelling of cat to sleep on) or with the stellar and quietly explosive Phil Burdett Group (for as much money as you can spare whilst still breaking even). The fifth album titled - 'Dandelion Wishes and Atheist Prayers' is now available via this page. The sixth, the third part of the 'Unrequited Trilogy' - entitled 'By The Time I Get Tomorrow' will be completed early in 2008after which anything goes as i'm moving to the leafy backstreets of chalkwell park to concentrate on turning 23 notebooks, 12 post-it notes and 34 fag-packets into my first novel 'Maledictus'.forming a working group to play my songs, putting scrawled notes in biro stating 'Cello player required' in newsagent windows and generally starting my third adolescent phaseoh and a book of poems too 'Rhyming Vodka With Kafka' that may or may not be incorporated in performances by requestsayonara sarfend!.x



I still live, frugally & in solitary calm occasionally interrupted by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune & the russians in the flat above I'd like to meet John Pilger, Scott Walker, Christopher Hitchens & Snoopy for a hearty meal and beers but only if they're paying.x.



Many images on this page are by by Ian Tomey - thanks for the photo's Ian!



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I was the subject of a BBC documentary by film maker Ray Hough titled (but not by me!) 'GIVE ME MEMPHIS, BASILDON. FIND OUT MORE BY VISITING MY WEBSITE : www.philburdett.com



Last year I was contacted by an indie dvd company to be a talking head on a documentary about Basildon synth band Depeche Mode because of my old connections with Mode head-honcho Martin Gore (see biography page for detail) well, the resulting interview can be seen in all its edited, hungover glory on something called RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY during which I politely reminisce and nothing of any value whatsoever is imparted about a band I care next to nothing for whilst wearing cheap but superb sunglasses. Essential.



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