Cousin Creep is the performance name of Australian-born radio presenter, Craig Barnes. He was involved in the local alternative and

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scenes. In the late 1980s he published a limited run cassette

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, ''Aliens Mutants''. From 1989 to 1995 he ran an independent record label, Hippy Knight Records, which released singles by

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. It issued a tribute album for

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, ''Right Here a Tribute to the Go-Betweens'' (1995) by various artists, including cover versions by Frente,

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, Snout and

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. He worked on radio station,

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, and presented the shows, ''Trash on a Platter'', ''Paint the Town Clear Gloss'', ''Vindaloo Cocktail'' and '' Breakfasters'' (2000 and 2001). Between 2002 and 2004 Creep worked on a short music documentary, '' In the Raw'' (December 2009), about an underground,

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band, Lubricated Goat, and their nude appearance on national TV in

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's show, '' Blah Blah Blah'' in November 1988. The documentary was written and directed by Creep with Janine Barnes as producer for Happening Films. 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.

References

* ''Year Zero Magazine'' by David Laing (1994 Melbourne Australia)

External links

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Black Eye Records Jukebox
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