Lewis Gill (musician)

Lewis Gill (born 1968) is an English composer and musician, who has worked in the contemporary classical, electronica, art rock and experimental music areas. Career Early years (art-rock and experimental music) Born in Warrington in 1968 (and a long-term resident of the town’s Latchford neighbourhood), Gill initially worked as an electric guitarist in a succession of Warrington-based projects, many of these alongside fellow guitarist and experimenter Ian Simpson. Gill and Simpson initially played together in the art-rock band Cheeky Atom (who released a single mini-album called Jodrell Bank, Here We Come in 1990, blending a fairly conventional guitar-based line-up with avant-garde experimentation including textural work and the incorporation of vacuum cleaners). The record gained the approval of Karlheinz Stockhausen, who wrote back to Gill after being sent a CD. Gill and Simpson subsequently formed the electronic experimental improvising group Psychiatric Challenge. and collaborated with Lol Coxhill. Other group members included Harry Gallimore, Neil Packer, Misha Gray, Tim Lyons, Ollie Brice and Dave Jackson. Both Gill and Simpson were in the art-rock/noise rock project Sebastian