Prolific underachiever, chronicler of lowlives. 

IMPROVISED PERFORMANCES IN WHICH I USED MY VOICE/PLAYED FLUTE: 
2019 Lates, Turner Contemporary
2018 Criss Cross Limbo with Claire Orme, Margate, Athelstan Sound, Arco Barco, Ramsgate
2017 With Athelstan Sound: Venice Agendas Folkestone, 
2016 Electramatronic, Tom Thumb Theatre Margate, Contrapop Ramsgate,  Supporting This is How We Die at Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate, Tarantism, Turner Contemporary, Margate 
2015 Free Range Water Lane Cafe, Canterbury with Martin Tanton, 
2014 Public Information Night 2 Canterbury Sidney Cooper Gallery, 
2013 Public Information Night Canterbury with Andy Birtwistle, Sam Bailey and Ben Rowley.Veg Box Cafe
2012 CSO Canterbury Veg Box Cafe,  
2011 Canterbury Scratch Orchestra Sidney Cooper Gallery
WORKS PERFORMED:
2018 October Berrynarbor St. Greg's Canterbury Martin Outram & David Knotts, May Waxing Waning Waxing St. Greg's Canterbury Splinter Cell
March 2018 Berrynarbor St. Greg's Canterbury Martin Outram & Sam Bailey
2017 May Don't Push Me St Greg's Canterbury James Widden, May Don't Push Me  St Greg's Canterbury  Claire Orme
2016 November Steamtalk Free Range Canterbury, September Steamtalk Tom Thumb Theatre Margate, August Steamtalk Contrapop Ramsgate
2011 Music for Lemon Otter's Menilaism, The Private View Film shown at Canterbury Christ Church University
2010 October London St. Gabriel's Halls Zoli Regency Quartet, April Brighton Friends Meeting House Spinnakers in the Wind Talkestra, January London St. Gabriel's Church Spinnakers in the Wind Talkestra
November 2009 London Drill Hall Osmosis
November 2008 London New Wind Festival Blue Sky Thinking  Piccolo Nancy Ruffer
2005 November HCMF Huddersfield Drought Violin Alice Rickards, September Lewisham Art House Drought Alice Rickards, September Royal Academy of Music Drought  Violin Alice Rickards
2004 December Antithesis, Huddersfield Steamtalk3, November HCMF Huddersfield Steamtalk3, June St. Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield. Steamtalk3 for Instrumental Ensemble & Electronics, May Sonic Arts Network Conference Leicester Osmosis, April Lewisham Art House Whirling and improvisation, March  Electric Spring Huddersfield Steamtalk2, Kirklees International Womens Festival Whirling
2003 November Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, Oren Marshall and Katina Kangaris Steamtalk 1, May Sonic Arts Network Conference Fragile Graffitti, March Electric Spring Huddersfield Fragile Graffiti In collaboration with dancer Lati Saka
2002  June Sonic  Dart as part of Presence Festival, Dartington Osmosis(Electroacoustic), March  Dartington Electroacoustic Concert Osmosis
2001 November  Installation, Liverpool Jump Ship Rat Gallery Mother Nature Walks Towards Imprisonment In collaboration with artist Paul Goff, August Dartington International Summer School Merseyrhythm (Electroacoustic)
EMPLOYMENT
Music Therapy, Margate School for the Deaf
Secretary London Composers Forum
London Sinfonietta Internship
Ensemble administrator for Trittico 
Programme Book Coordinator Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 
Youth Worker, Littlemoor Youth Club Teaching Music
All Hallows After school club, Everton teaching music
Everton Summer play scheme, teaching music
BURSARIES & RESIDENCIES
Summer 2001, Bursary - Dartington International Summer School Advanced Electroacoustic  Music Course 
February 2004 Residency - Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast sponsored by SPNM
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
2004 Huddersfield University, M.A. Music Composition Pass 60%
2002, Dartington College of Arts, B.A. Hons. Music - 2:1
1997, Weymouth College, Dorset, BTEC Music Classical and Jazz, 9 Distinctions 9 Merits Music A level Pass
ABRSM
Grade 5 Theory pass 1975
Grade 5 Piano distinction 1976
Grade 7 Singing merit 1997
Grade 8 Flute pass 1997
PRESS
Wired Up to Wapping
Wapping Hydraulic Power Station.
Ruth Duckworth's Steamtalk was exactly that: a steamy and electronically in- flamed duet between a mezzo- soprano (the excellent Katina Kangaris) and Marshall's heavy-breathing tuba. The Times. November 2003

Psychedelic prog-pop awash with unexpected chord changes, harmonies, black humour and odd time signatures. 

Schnauser are based in Bristol, UK and are about to self-release their seventh album "Altra Seccatura" in early 2022.

Band members are: Alan Strawbridge (Bass, Vocals), Duncan Gammon (Keyboards, Vocals), Jasper Williams (Drums) and Dino Christodoulou (Tenor Sax)

"A failsafe combination of melodious, inventive songwriting, energetically airtight musicianship, neo-psych bendiness and an irrepressible classic pop sensibility." Marco Rossi, Record Collector magazine Nov 2010

I'm an ex-pat muso from Northern New England now based in the UK (how did I ever end up here?) . My interests are composition and improvisation and combinations of the two. Plus mildly obsessing about 2-wheeled conveyances and Beat poets. 

Oh, hello there! How are you? I hope you like my songs. Why not have a nice sit down and listen to them? You can also follow the link to my Facebook page, where you can click 'LIKE' if you like what you hear here..

If you want to get in touch, call 07768 044714 or email info@samflastichughes.com
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"One of the most inventive minds in pop music today." - Louder Than War

"File in the buried treasure bin alongside XTC, Robyn Hitchcock, Julian Cope and The Bevis Frond." - Stewart Lee, The Sunday Times

"Anton Barbeau is a true contemporary psychedelic pop guru. A tireless artist with more than 20 albums published, he was born in Sacramento and currently resides in Berlin. In these years he has worked with members of XTC, Bevis Frond, Cake and The Soft Boys. His music combines psychedelia and luminous pop in the best tradition of Syd Barrett , Beatles , Robyn Hitchcock and Julian Cope ." 

"Cerebral, memorable, melodic but also adventurous and inventive." - Monolith Cocktail

Anton Barbeau is one of the most insanely talented and creative people currently making music in the undercurrents in the world of music. - babysue

"If you like the cosmic rock, and love to dive into the lyrics of the songs but do not get you a trip as space, Anton Barbeau is ideal to feed your mind and awaken your next poet Beatlesque."

"Anton Barbeau is simply a genius bursting with melody, whimsy, beauty and weirdness." - Clive Dee

"Prolific, pretentious, precocious, intelligent, quirky, nasal, amusing, annoying to some, pop genius to others, and never ever boring—this, my friends, is the cumulative description of northern California's musical auteur Anton Barbeau." 
—PopMatters

"He's a genius like Julian Cope" - Johnny Normal

A feeling of swimming through a Monet landscape – Acoustic Magazine

This record is a questioning and challenging, living and breathing nervous system of an album – Maverick Magazine

One for ardent lovers of classic songwriters like Peter Gabriel and even more modern artists like Elbow, Quiet Rebellion is the brainchild of Award winning Yorkshire-based songwriter Shaun T Hunter. Turning his back upon a potentially lucrative production deal in the late 90’s, Shaun chose to plough his own musical furrow and forge his own path, resulting in a series of highly acclaimed albums while at the same time playing show case shows at Hospitals, benefits and prisons around the country.

Recorded and produced entirely by Hunter in a variety of unusual locations, including a reputedly haunted Industrial Mill, ‘Still Talking Scribble’ see’s Shaun taking his next musical leap. Having played every instrument on the record, there’s an incredibly personal feel throughout. With Hunter’s mesmerising voice yielding an incredible power, quite often he seems to recoil himself back in from the edge.

In ‘Still Talking Scribble’, Shaun has created another startlingly honest piece that takes the listener on a journey from the darkest corners of the mind, to the deepest recesses of the soul. 
Tracks like the urgent, mesmerising “From Cathedral Cities To Dark Northern Towns” and the wondrous “Beneath The Wings Of A Dragon” are both exorcisms and affirmations of the spirit’s undying ability to persevere.
To hear, and find out more about Shaun go to 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47W6nAOeTAg
http://www.quietrebellion.co.uk 
http://www.myspace.com/quietrebellion09 



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