Nectarine No.9  
 
THE NECTARINE NO.9 BIOGRAPHY

Edinburgh's premier voodoo beat seditionists, The Nectarine No.9, release their 4th album, 'Received, Transgressed & Transmitted' on 30th April. The album is the groups' first for Beggars Banquet/Creeping Bent, and truly realises their ambitious guitar noir on the 12 tracks included. Recorded at Golden Acrid studio in the shadow of Hibernian's Easter Road stadium in Leith, Edinburgh, the self-produced album is imbued with a greatness the group have always been scratching at. Now at last, the time is ripe for the mercurial underground pop of The Nectarine No.9 to surface overground.

'Received, Transgressed, & Transmitted' sees The Nectarine No.9 collaborate with ex-Pop Group majordomo and free jazz spirit Gareth Sager, who apart from co-writing a couple of songs & playing guitar, blows an evil fuzz clarinet that informs the sonic surrealism therein. Regular Nectarine subversive, beat poet Jock Scot, also makes his usual contribution on the agitated 'Bongo Kong'. Whilst critics have often compared The Nectarine No.9 (favourably) to artists like Richard Hell and the Voidoids/The Velvet Underground/ Captain Beefheart/Sun Ra/, the keynotes for this album probably owe more to the immediate post-punk period where the world of possibilities opened up by The Pop Group/ King Tubby/Albert Ayler/The Slits, created a year zero anything-goes ethos. The influence of Vic Godard and the Subway Sect should also be noted, which is particularily relevant as Vic and the Nectarine are also collaborating on future strategies.

Background

Formed in 1993,The Nectarine No.9 are led by ex-Fire Engines frontman Davy Henderson(vocals/guitar). Together with guitarists Simon Smeeton and Todd Thompson, drummer Ian Holford and bassist John Thompson they have produced some of the most ambitious pop music of recent years, from the first two albums which were released on the celebrated Postcard label ('A Sea With Three Stars', 'Saint Jack'), to the most recent 'Fried For Blue Material' on Creeping Bent, they have been consistently brilliant.

The Nectarine No.9 have continually received excellent reviews and radio play, with three John Peel BBC Radio 1 sessions previously recorded. They have also been broadcast live in concert twice on John Peel, once on BBC Radio 3. The group have toured only once (with Edwyn Collins) in their 8 year existence, preferring to play one-off events. They've played London's Royal Festival Hall 3 times, including headlining a Creeping Bent evening as part of John Peel's Meltdown festival, and tend to be invited to play events like Rebel Inc.'s booklaunch for Howard Soames' biography of Charles Bukowski.

Press

NME: "Lots of detail to explore and discover over months, years, and even decades of listening. The Nectarine No.9 are magnificent-I'm in the presence of genius."

THE GUARDIAN: "Guided by ex-Fire Engine Davy Henderson, Edinburgh's The Nectarine No.9 are shaping the most adventurous guitar noir in Britain."

MOJO: " Deliver a fistful of diamonds"

UNCUT: "Epic slabs of weirdness that would hardly be out of place on Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica"
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