A Brief Biography

pStan Batcow has been working in various aspects of the arts since 1983, when he was concentrating on performance arts, specifically music. He has played in many bands and done countless public performances (also performing in a solo capacity on occasion), which continue to the present day. He has also performed in a variety of non-musical ways at various times and in various places, predominantly as a member of Spit & Polish Community Drama Team from the late 1980’s up to the turn of the millennium.

He has released many albums of his music (and that of collaborators / other like-minded folk) on his own record label Pumf Records, as well as writing and publishing many booklets of various styles and subjects through his own Stanzine Publications imprint. Further information about both of these can be found, alongside his Facts About the Number Seven archive, at www.pumf.net (which is, essentially, an online catalogue with descriptions, pictures and reviews of the albums and artistes - also with ordering details for the products).

He is currently working as a freelance Community Artist, leading arts sessions in schools, community groups, private organisations etc. He works in a wide range of subjects such as circus skills, drama, movement and music, as well as more traditional arts such as mosaic, glass painting, batik fabric painting, junk sculpture, soapstone carving, pyrography, plaster moulding and sculpting, spin painting, mask making, collage, marbling and more. (But not all at the same time).

He is the musical director of Poco Loco, the Blackpool School of Samba, an open-access Brazilian percussion band that rehearses weekly and regularly performs throughout the North-West of England. For more information visit www.pocoloco.org.uk. He is also one of the team running Tidal Beats (African drumming and drum circles) - see www.batcow.co.uk/tidalbeats to find out more.