Camera Obscura Biographies





	Patrick was born November 1977 in Murfreesboro Tennessee. Childhood years spent in Huntsville Alabama. Relocated to isolated cattle ranch town Bailey Colorado where his adolescence ran by typically long and lonely. Played drums in dad's biker bar band until age thirteen, soon thereafter began tooling around on vagrant guitars. Formed first group, Neglected Lawn, at age fifteen. Through high school hundreds of self-released cassettes of everything from sloppy existential garage punk to earnest never-seen-an-ocean surf instrumentals. Long nights staring out at dirt road gas pumps sighing to Grant Green, Mississippi John Hurt, the Boo Radleys, Swell Maps. He recorded his first "proper" album, "Reverb Saved My Life", at seventeen, quiet all-night sessions in a dusty basement studio, dead nervous at the record button red, still wearing tie and apron from job bagging groceries at Safeway. A year later he recorded his only collaborative effort, the LP "Reconsidered" by Phineas Gage with Josh Wambeke. He quit music for a long period to work at writing books and seeing the world thru greyhound bus windows. Stints in California, Chicago, Canada, Indiana, Wisconsin, Alabama, and finally New York followed. Two years in the big apple living in a tiny ghetto room, frightened of the bullets and burgeoning on the street below, recorded what has come to be known as his 'NY trilogy': "Lisha Kill", "Maybe Waltz", and "Skylan Mo". In the winter of 2005 he toured London & Scotland. Although he continues to record & tour at his leisure, Porter considers himself primarily a writer and spends most of his time working on books. His best-known works are the four poetry volumes "The Intrusive Ache of Morning" (1999), "Nervous Halo" (2002), "Nott Terrace" (2003), and "A Clunk Supreme" (2004). He has also written two novels, "Kristallnacht" (2001) and "Apocalypse Later" (2005), and a short story collection, "Hemm Haww" (2004). He currently wants to be a catholic saint. Discography: Reverb Saved My Life LP (2002, Camera Obscura) Coconut Killers EP (2002, Nervous Halo) Further Adventures Of The Telepathic Explorers Compilation (2004, Free City Media) Ozone Vol.1 Compilation (2004, Aerosol Records) EP Club #1 (2004, Asaurus Records) Maybe Waltz EP (2004, Evelyn Records) Skylan Mo LP (2004, Asaurus Records) Bittersweet At Best 7" EP (2004, Keep Recordings) Monsters of Mope Tour EP (2005, Hijacked Records) You Already Own Way Too Many CDRs Compilation (Asaurus Records) The GE Bootlegs (2005, Nervous Halo) Lisha Kill LP (2005, Camera Obscura Records) With Phineas Gage: "Kite" on Serotonin Ronin II (2000, Camera Obscura) Reconsidered CD (2000, Camera Obscura) Phineas Gage Anti-Indie EP (2002, Unreleased) Resources: Artist's Web Page CAM071CD - Patrick Porter - "Lisha Kill" CAM049CD - Patrick Porter - "Reverb Saved My Life" CAM034CD - Phineas Gage's "Reconsidered" Check out the free MP3s on this page

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