Dennis Greeenidge
Dennis Greenidge, the man, the legend.

Being a workshy musician, I worked for a while at a well known 2nd hand record shop in London. There I first encountered the one-man media onslaught that is Dennis Greenidge. He would shamble in to the shop, buy up the cheapest old tat from the bargain bin, take it back to his lair and...well...create.
Using only a tape-to-tape cassette deck and a microphone, he made the most lo-fi looped backing and then added his own unique vocals over the top, mainly about super heroes, space travel and food.
He would then come back in a few weeks later and sell us back his tape, sometimes making up to 1 pound profit on the whole deal.
Someone (not Dennis himself) has kindly made a myspace page for him, so enjoy.

www.myspace.com/dennisgreenidge

He is also, apparently semi-legendary within the computer game business, inventing such gems as Space Strawberry's in 3D.

www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?t=25530

Dennis Greenidge. Cosmic.
(Pickettywitchfinder General, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 10:16, 2 replies)

Ah, Dennis...
How well I remember the huge great padded envelope that arrived in our office a mere week after we'd answered the barely coherent letter from a chap who thought we'd be interested in his game designs.
How well I remember the faint damp smell of over-ripe fruit that emanated from his design for "Moon Apples", a game which was so revolutionary that the very idea could not be conveyed by simple pictures but required actual apple cores to be taped to the paper.
the slightly surreal cartoon of "Stimpy" (a bloke with a cat's head) and "Tardoz" (a bloke with a dog's head) featuring the tale of the milk trance...

We didn't hire him, and even to this day I have never seen stranger game idea than "The Long Wilson's" or "Torchy, The Light of the Future".
( DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 19:50, closed)

Fantastic!!
Cor, I might have to buy the album! Coo coo coo cumber! Amazing!
(Rumpig, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 2:34, closed)