Jazz Insects

Jazz Insects was a post punk/dub band from Oxford, founded sometime in the early 80's. The group only released one single and had Matt Black as member, who was studying at that time (as Matthew Cohn) at New College, Oxford. He later on joined Coldcut, who are credited as pioneers of pop sampling in the 1980s. The other members included guitarist Mark Sinker, who later became the editor of Wire magazine, and singer Dave Piddock, then at the Ruskin School of Art.
;Live Dates (1982) 
* 08/02/1982: Scamps, Oxford; supporting Maximum Joy
* 10/05/1982: Scamps, Oxford; supporting 23 Skidoo
* 22/05/1982: Univ Beer Cellar, Oxford; with The Dream Factory
==Links to Peel==
In an interview with the BBC Keeping It Peel website, Matt Black talked about how the Jazz Insects single got played on John Peel's show:
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"About 25 years ago when I was at college, I was in a band called the Jazz Insects, and we sent a copy of our first single to John. Now, we'd heard it was possible to speak to John on the phone if you called Radio 1, and after a few unsuccessful tries we actually managed to speak to him. He had a very cool manner, and I dried up immediately, but he did play our record that night and we received a helpful £50 royalty cheque. Little did I know that years later I'd be doing a session on the same show." 
It is not known what date Peel played the band's single or how often, but the record seemed to have been released sometime in 1982.
==Shows Played==
*The group's first and only known single, 'Elephants'/ 'Ghost Train' (Rococo Records), was probably played by Peel in 1982.
==External Links==
*Wikipedia (Matt Black)
*Discogs
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Category:Artists