Neil J Griffiths
Neil Griffiths (b. 1980; Sidcup, England) is a British musician, comedian, reviewer and political activist. Social Ecologist and anti-sweatshop campaigner with No Sweat. From 2007 onwards he has organised the "No Sweat comedy night", London's counter-culture comedy night recruiting acts like Mark Thomas, Stewart Lee, Josie Long and Robin Ince to come along and try something new in the name of anti-globalisation. He reviews anarchist books for print and in April 2009 launched a campaign to turn Peckham into London`s second Transition Town alongside Brixton.
September 2000 to 2004 he was part of the MusicAL collective "Giggy Smile" based in Canterbury and refused a place in a re-invented Soft Machine in 2003. The group lasted in one form or another until January 2007 and were based around the Canterbury scene playing for the Liquid Connective and Stop the War collectives.
He continues to write verse and prose but confines his musical works to sound tracks and scores for independent experimental short films, using collages of loops and reverberation to evoke alter-modernist folk riffs which build layer on layer to conclusion.