"Since being interviewed in The Wire (#179) in 1999, Richard Hemmings – aka Evil Dick – has been holed up in academia in Leicester, pursuing a PhD on ‘randomness’ as a tool in statistical calculations and contemporary music"... (more)
"In music, intelligence is a misfit component. In pop, rock, industrial and rave, doubly so. It's likely to cause blushes and irritation, interrupt a circulatory system based on flattering social identities and reassuring adolescent egos. Hence the aptly-named Evil Dick"... (more)
"Aping modern music is the key to Coprophagism, which quite literally eats the shit of the pop scene, systematically re-emphasising the gap left by the lost soul of contemporary culture. Evil Dick turns processed cheese into more than a sum of its parts by adding a deliberate, ugly blue vein to the formula"... (more)