Slaughter Joe

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Cover sleeve for Slaughter Joe's 1985 single, I'll Follow You Down
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Slaughter Joe, (AKA Joe Foster, is a musical artist, historian, former child actor, and record producer, active from the 1970s through to the present, who was part of the Creation Records roster, and indeed one of the founders of the label. Previously he had been a member of The Television Personalities and several other bands. His was the main brain behind Rev-Ola. Much like the early work of The Jesus and Mary Chain, for whom, in 1984, he produced the debut single, 'Upside Down'. He was also responsible for producing Felt's 'The Pictorial Jackson Review' album for Creation in in 1988. In 1986 he released the album 'All Around My Hobbyhorse's Head', and in 1991 a second album, Pied Piper of Feedback. His complete sessions, with material worked on by his band, which featured Dave Musker (ex-Television Personalities), Tony Barber (ex-Buzzcocks) and Francis Sweeney (from The June Brides), were released as the CD Zé Do Caixão in 2003. Joe Foster continues to run the critically acclaimed Rev-Ola record label (originally a Creation subsidiary). He is currently working with a number of artists including Eugene Kelly, BMX Bandits, Norman Blake, The Fine Arts Showcase, Zoe, Control Freak, The Cake, Roger Nicholls and A Small Circle Of Friends, Evie Sands, The Wondermints, The Ecstasy Of St. Theresa, The Telescopes and The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Richard Olsen.