Lee Ashcroft – ‘Persons Underground’
“Moody beats for a post-lockdown hellscape. Contains theremin.”
Now available on cassette and download (only 1 tape left online!)
New music on Cruel Nature Records
Featuring collaborations with Alina Noir, Kö Manafumi, Noah Britton, Rev Simpkins, John Callaghan, Namtao, Jack Burley and Gemma Oakley
Mastered by Daniel Merrill
Artwork by Tim Oakenfull
Upcoming live shows
Friday 27 September 2024, time TBC
Craftwerk, Southend-on-Sea (organised by Tea and Oranges for Hopalooza)
Details TBC
Saturday 19 October 2024, 7:30pm
Weird Garden at Decimal Place, Lincoln (with Vikasati / Ben McElroy / ArtGirlPoet)
Entry by donation
Saturday 7 December 2024, 7:30pm
Colchester Arts Centre (opening for Sh!t Theatre: Sing-a-long-a Muppet Christmas Carol)
Sold out
Latest radio show and writing
Next show on CAMP Radio: 19 August 2024, 4pm BST / 5pm CEST
Depending on who you ask, Lee Ashcroft is either a musician, writer, social care worker, artist, theremin player, autistic man, internet radio host, 2-time loser of BBC’s Pointless, or 1-time member of The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu. He lives with his partner in North Essex, UK.
Among other pseudonyms too numerous and irrelevant to mention, Lee has previously recorded and performed as 00’s bootleg/mashup provocateur/nuisance Mixomatosis, recording for egalitarian netlabel Digital Vomit, Austrian experimental label Hirntrust Grind Media, and Stockport’s legendary V/Vm Test Records, while lip-syncing aggressively to audiences across the East and South East of England throughout the decade. He also recorded and performed as The Nearly, releasing 2011’s ‘Cathode Rave’ for El Perro Rojo Records, a 9-minute album which, depending on which zines you read, either represents “the future of pop music” or makes you “feel physically sick.” ‘Persons Underground’ is the first album he has recorded under his birth name.
As well as performing music, Lee currently writes for American online publication In Spite Magazine and hosts a 4-weekly radio show for French internet station CAMP Radio, both under the name One Man Underground.