Slaughter Joe

Joe Foster (born Joseph James Foster Ruiz, 9 August 1960, often known as Slaughter Joe) is an English musician and record producer, who, with Alan McGee and Dick Green, formed Creation Records in 1983.
Foster formed the Kaleidoscope Sound label in the mid-1980s, and Creation's subsidiary label Rev-Ola Records in the early 1990s. McGee, Foster and Green were also in the band Biff Bang Pow. He is a former member of the post-punk band Television Personalities.
Along with school friends at the London Oratory School Edward Ball, Dan Treacy, and John and Gerard Bennett, Foster was a member of The Television Personalities. He went on to play in Biff Bang Pow.
He had two UK Independent Chart hits in the mid-1980s with "I'll Follow You Down" (no. 11, 1985) and "She's So Out of Touch" (no. 22, 1986).
As Slaughter Joe and the Modern Folk Quintet, he released All Around My Hobby Horse's Head in 1986 on Kaleidoscope Sound. 1990 saw the release Pied Piper of Feedback on Creation Records. In 2003, he put out Zé Do Caixão which is a compilation of his past work on Rev-Ola featuring Dave Musker (ex-Television Personalities and The Jasmine Minks), Tony Barber (ex-Buzzcocks) and Francis Sweeney (from The June Brides).
==Links to Peel==
Peel played Slaughter Joe's solo material in the mid 80's and Foster is noted for producing The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, and My Bloody Valentine, all bands that Peel played on his radio shows. Foster also formed Rev-Ola Records, which had many artists that Peel played on his radio programmes.
==Shows Played==
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*29 April 1985: I'll Follow You Down (12") Creation
*17 July 1985: I'll Follow You Down (7") Creation
*02 November 1985 (BFBS): Surely Some Of Slaughter's Blues (12" - I'll Follow You Down) Creation
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
Category:Artists