Phil Shoenfelt


Phil Shoenfelt is an English musician and author who lived for many years in New York City and who now lives in Prague, Czech Republic.
In New York, in the early 1980s, he played with punk band The Nothing, as well as with East Village new wave band Disturbed Furniture, and founded together with Barry "Scratchy" Myers and Marcia Schofield the post-punk band Khmer Rouge.
From 1983–1984, Khmer Rouge was managed by noted photographer and Andy Warhol collaborator Nat Finkelstein.
In 1989 his first solo EP, Charlotte's Room, was released by Mark E. Smith's label Cog Sinister. The title track and the b-side "The Long Goodbye" were mixed by Tony Cohen and Mark E. Smith.
One year later Paperhouse Records put out his first solo album Backwoods Crucifixion, and in 1993 Shoenfelt's second album God is The Other Face of The Devil was released by Humbug Records.
Since 1995 Shoenfelt has lived in Prague, where he put together his current band, Phil Shoenfelt & Southern Cross.
With Southern Cross he has recorded five albums to date as well as one EP, Electric Garden.
In 1997 Shoenfelt founded a new band Fatal Shore, together with Bruno Adams and Chris Hughes. They made three CDs - Fatal Shore, Free Fall and Real World - and toured widely in Europe and the USA until Adams succumbed to colon cancer in 2009.
Phil Shoenfelt also collaborated with Nikki Sudden. On Sudden's 1997/1998 European tour, Shoenfelt was the lead guitarist. After the tour ended Sudden and Shoenfelt went into a Berlin studio and recorded Golden Vanity, which was finally released in 2009 by UK label Easy Action Records.
As well as being a singer/songwriter, Shoenfelt is a published author. His autobiographical novel Junkie Love won the "Firecracker Alternative Books Award" in New York. The novel is available in the original English, as well as in Czech and Italian translation.
Phil Shoenfelt & Southern Cross released their fourth studio album Paranoia.com on 1 November 2010. This album contains nine original songs and a cover version of Iggy Pop & The Stooges' "Open Up And Bleed".
Together with the Australian ex-pat musicians Chris Hughes and Dave Allen, Shoenfelt formed a new band called Dim Locator in 2011. Based in Berlin, Dim Locator play a heavy, repetitive, riff-based rock music, inspired by 70's "kraut rock" bands such as Can, Neu and La Dusseldorf."
Shoenfelt's most recent release is a vinyl album called Under The Radar on German label Last Year's Youth. Under The Radar is a partial career retrospective spanning the years 1981 to 1997. It includes previously unreleased rarities, such as Khmer Rouge's appearance at the 1981 White Columns Noise Fest, a nine day festival of New York noise bands curated by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.
On 10th January 2020 Shoenfelt's new solo studio album "Cassandra Lied" was released by German label Sireena Records. The album was recorded between August 2018 and November 2019 in Prague. Shoenfelt was contributed by several musicians such as Kristof Hahn, Marcia Schofield, Chris Hughes and Eva Turnová.

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