Patrick Porter
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Patrick Porter is an American singer/songwriter, novelist, poet, and painter. Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and raised in the isolated mountain town of Bailey, Colorado, Porter began playing music at a young age, often acting as a sit-in drummer for his father's biker bar band.[1]
Musical career
As a teenager Porter began to write his own songs, recording and distributing hundreds of homemade cassettes of wildly varying disposition and sound quality, both on his own and as a member of the hardcore art-punk band Neglected Lawn. Porter's records began to appear internationally after he signed to Camera Obscura, an Australian indie label who released his first proper full-length CD: Reverb Saved My Life (2002) as well as the disc Reconsidered (2001) by shoegazer band Phineas Gage, of which he was a short-term member.
After moving to New York in 2003, Porter recorded a handful of discs:Lisha Kill (Camera Obscura, 2005),[2] Maybe Waltz (Evelyn Records, 2004), and Skylan Mo (Asaurus Records, 2004).
In 2006 Porter signed with
Poetry
Porter is also a poet and novelist. His first book of poetry, The Intrusive Ache of Morning, was published in 2001 by Chicago's Press of the Third Mind. His second, Nervous Halo, was published a year later on the late Paul Dilsaver's Arts and Academic Press. He has also written two novels, Kristallnacht (2001), and Apocalypse Later (2006),[3] as well as a book of short stories called Hemm Haww (2009).
Painting
Porter began painting in the summer of 2006 while living in New York City, selling watercolor/crayon paintings in
Discography
- Reverb Saved My Life LP (2002, Camera Obscura)
- Coconut Killers EP (2002, Ostrich)
- Maybe Waltz EP (2004, Evelyn Records; 2007 re-issue, The Time Is Now)
- Skylan Mo LP (2004, Asaurus Records)
- Bittersweet At Best 7-inch EP (2004, Keep Recordings)
- Monsters of Mope Tour EP (2005, Hijacked Records)
- The GE Bootlegs (2005, Ostrich)
- Lisha Kill LP (2005, Camera Obscura)
- Die Wandaland LP (2006, Greyday Records)
- This Machine Kills Bathos LP (2007, The Time Is Now)
- Secret Teta Disaster LP (2007, Nervous Halo)
- A Swan At Smileys (2009, Greyday Records)
- Cry Me A River, Sing Me A Raft (2009, Greyday Records)
- Darlene Evening, USA (2009, Greyday Records)
- Goodbye Pork Pie Heart (2009, Greyday Records)
- Bachelor Pad Blue; Bent Pants And Stray Cats LP (2009, Vacant Songs Records)