Uncle Peanut

A man wearing glasses is singing into a microphone
An unusual man who spits words out of his mouth

(Here Are The Young Men &) Uncle Peanut

Uncle Peanut frequently collaborates with label mate Here Are The Young Men, so how did this Reading duo find each other?

 Here Are The Young Men (Jay) & Uncle Peanut (Pete) met through a joint fascination with British Public Information films of the 1970’s, the cover art of classic Look-In magazines and an appreciation of a wide range of music: Splodgenessabounds, Tom Waits, ATV, The Fall, The Rezillos, Public Enemy, NWA, Sauna Youth, Viv Stanshall, Evil Blizzard..........

In early 2014, Jay discovered that Pete had a way with words, not to mention excellent diction and so played him a load of instrumental bits and bobs he’d been working on. Pete liked them, summoned his alter ego, Uncle Peanut, and set about writing tales of grimy, dirty characters who inhabit small fictitious suburban towns.

In less than a year, the ‘boys’ somehow already managed to write and record their first two long players, stage their own immersive (and frankly disturbing) performance show and played some blistering gigs with the likes of Sleaford Mods, Bad Guys and Evil Blizzard.
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