Keith Tenniswood, who takes his stage name from Bart Simpson?s favourite comic book hero Radioactive Man, started his musical career at age nine, when his father gave him his first guitar. Destiny took charge when he met up with Andrew Weatherall and The Sabres Of Paradise (Gary Burns, Jagz Kooner and Ricky Barrow) at a night club. He soon joined the band.
After the Sabres split up, Weatherall and Tenniswood formed a duo, calling it the Two Lone Swordsmen. In 1996, they released their first album, entitled ?The Fifth Mission-Return To The Flightpath Estate? on Weatherall?s own Emissions label. Since then, the duo has recorded on the Warp Records label.
The duo?s latest effort, ?From The Double Gone Chapel?, is equal part experimental electronic music and early 80s post-punk. For a tour of Europe, they transformed into a live band, with Weatherall singing lead, Tenniswood playing guitar and bass and a number or drummers playing a kit that earlier belonged to Jah Wobble and Killing Joke.
Tenniswood has pursued a solo career as well, lending his talents to David Holmes for his album ?Let?s Get Killed? and working with The Aloof and Red Snapper as well.
Tenniswood released his debut solo album, titled ?Radioactive Man?, on Weatherall's new label, Rotters Golf Club, in September 2001. Critics praised the album, calling Tenniswood one of the UK?s most underrated DJ/producers, which firmly established his solo career.
Source: port.hu
