Creep Show

Wrangler + John Grant = Creep Show. And Creep Show? “A band of musical misfits who have found a voice or two,” says Wrangler’s Ben “Benge” Edwards, whose Bond villain studio on the edge of a moorland is Creep Show Grand Central as well as home to an analogue synth arsenal that could sink ships.

 Wrangler have known each other for a while. Tunng’s electronics wizard Phil Winter and Cabaret Voltaire’s trailblazing, pioneering frontman Stephen Mallinder go way back. They met through a mutual friend, Rob Collins, who worked at Some Bizzare when The Cabs were on the roster. “I knew Rob from school,” says Phil, “And I obviously liked Cabaret Voltaire before I met Mal so it just sort of lead on from that.”

Phil and Benge crossed paths in the 21st century when they seemed to be increasingly in the same venues at the same times - Benge gigging, Phil DJing. They got talking and it seemed like a good idea to work together. Meanwhile, Mal had been living in Australia since the mid-90s and when, in 2007, he returned to the UK to undertake some academic endeavor his old pal Phil suggested he meet Benge. “I thought I was coming for a cup of tea and to say hello, but within an hour we’d written ‘Sequence On’,” says Mal.