Savage Pencil
Savage Pencil is a comics artist, and is the nom de plume of English music journalist Edwin Pouncey.Biography
As Savage Pencil and otherwise, Pouncey has contributed to magazines such as Sounds, Forced Exposure and The Wire. He has illustrated record sleeves for bands such as The Fall, Big Black, Sonic Youth and Rocket From The Crypt amongst others. Savage Pencil was also a member of The Art Attacks, a band who released two 7"s; "I'm A Dalek" b/w "Neutron Bomb" and "First & Last" / "Punk Rock Stars" / "Rat City".
He is currently a member of the "improvising drone-rock noise band" Pestrepeller, along with Peter Hope-Evans, Ed Pinsent, Harley Richardson, Nick Neocleous and Rob Brown. They released their third album in May 2006 on Important Records, entitled Isle of Dark Magick, described in the press release as "a gem of free-improvised-found-sound-collage enriched with dark pagan folky vibes and supernatural horror noise dedicated to H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Austin Osman Spare."
