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Clive Product

Clive Product (born Chalfont St Giles, UK 1963) is a "new wave-folk-pop" performer. When Billy Bragg stood in for John Peel on BBC Radio 1, he ended the show with "...And for those of you who have written to me asking for The Smiths, who are a bit worried about what records you're going to take away to college with you when you go away for the first time, this is my candidate for your turntables. Singing a song that also expresses a lot of my sentiments: Clive Product, Songs From An Untidy Bedroom". Thus it was that Clive Product became the second artist after Billy Bragg to appear on Utility Records. Billy's 1983 album Life's A Riot with Spy vs Spy had been the label's first release (UTIL 1), but there wasn't a UTIL 2 until Financial Suicide in 1989. By then Utility was owned by Billy and Peter Jenner and they were trying to showcase independent acts which had tried hard, but so far failed, to break through. Clive fitted the bill perfectly, having already released four albums, to no appreciable commercial success. Since 1990 Clive has lived in Berlin, Germany. Clive currently spends much of his time working in music therapy, as well as drawing and writing the occasional song.