Cousin Creep

Cousin Creep is the performance name of Australian-born radio presenter, Craig Barnes. He was involved in the local alternative and independent music scenes. In the late 1980s he published a limited run cassette fanzine, Aliens Mutants. From 1989 to 1995 he ran an independent record label, Hippy Knight Records, which released singles by Superchunk. It issued a tribute album for the Go-Betweens, Right Here a Tribute to the Go-Betweens (1995) by various artists, including cover versions by Frente, The Meanies, Snout and Smudge.[1] He worked on radio station, 3RRR, and presented the shows, Trash on a Platter, Paint the Town Clear Gloss, Vindaloo Cocktail and Breakfasters (2000 and 2001).

Cousin Creep
Born
Craig Barnes
Career
ShowBreakfasters
Station(s)3RRR
Websitecousincreep.com

Between 2002 and 2004 Creep worked on a short music documentary, In the Raw (December 2009), about an underground, noise rock band, Lubricated Goat, and their nude appearance on national TV in Andrew Denton's show, Blah Blah Blah in November 1988.[2] The documentary was written and directed by Creep with Janine Barnes as producer for Happening Films.[2]

In late 2004 Cousin Creep relocated to Bakersfield, California where he worked in broadcasting at KKXX and KERN. In late 2005 he started up two MP3 blogs, Short Term MP3 Loss and Black Eye Records Jukebox. In 2006 he established, Interviews Archive, a library which collects and stores audio interviews as a resource for researchers, academics, broadcasting, publishing or for private use.[3]

References
  1. Creep, Cousin (1995). "Right Here a Tribute to the Go-Betweens". Blast Magazine (5). Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  2. "In the Raw (2009)". Screen Australia. Archived from the original on 8 September 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2017.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  3. Baldwin, Peter (2 July 2007). "Sonic Bangs & Interviews Archive". Contentinople. Light Reading. Archived from the original on 14 July 2007. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  • Year Zero Magazine by David Laing (1994 Melbourne Australia)
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