Phil Lectrum Quartet
An obscure experimental jazz band. No one else in the industry even agreed that they were actually a jazz band at all. A slackerish band, they spent much more time reading books, watching movies and chatting then they actually spent rehearsing or preforming. The band's leader Phil Lectrum was a weekend nudist and Emokian magician. He recruited his old high school buddy Erms Coyloo to play drums. Erms was a lazy drunk with a heart of cheddar. They had three gigs over a sixteen month period at the Infected Scar Tissue, an industrial/goth club. During this time they were called The Textfiles and as a two-piece band they played distorted heavy staccato art noise that few liked. Gan Phemps, an electric bass player and part time fishnet fetishist, however, loved their stuff and he chatted them up and was soon a full on card carrying member. The most ambitious of the band, he also made sculptures out of ice cream and yodelled on a late night pirate radio show. Now they were the Phil Lectrum Trio, with Gan influancing them towards a smoother less distorted jazz sound. They were the first of the Infictive County jazz scene. Later comers to the scene such as The Shunting, and The McFing 6 would be the musical trend that put Infictive County on the radio map. They played as the P L Q for several months before hooking up with Ross Kantner, an angry cokehead with a heart of Sausage. The band was finally in it's album heard line up. Since Ross was the new comer, he was stuck with beer run chores and he had to sleep in the worse cot during they're tours.
The First Phil Lectrum Quartet album: Masked Festival ⤓