Phil Shoenfelt

Phil Shoenfelt (born 18 December 1952 in Bradford, England) is an English musician and author who lived for many years in New York City and who now lives in Prague, Czech Republic.

As a musician In New York, in the early 1980s, he played with punk band the Nothing, as well as with East Village new wave band Disturbed Furniture, and founded the post-punk band Khmer Rouge They made three CDs – Fatal Shore, Free Fall and Real World – and toured widely in Europe and the US until Adams succumbed to colon cancer in 2009. On Sudden's 1997/1998 European tour, Shoenfelt was the lead guitarist. After the tour ended, Sudden and Shoenfelt went into a Berlin studio and recorded Golden Vanity, by UK label Easy Action Records.

Phil Shoenfelt & Southern Cross released their fourth studio album Paranoia.com on 1 November 2010. This album contains nine original songs and a cover version of Iggy Pop & the Stooges' "Open Up and Bleed".

Together with the Australian ex-pat musicians Chris Hughes and Dave Allen, Shoenfelt formed a new band called Dim Locator in 2011 The novel is available in the original English, as well as in Czech and Italian translations. An extract has appeared in Erotika – Drogen und Sexualitat by German philosopher Wolfgang Sterneck, along texts by Charles Bukowski, W. S. Burroughs, Nick Cave, Irvine Welsh, Marilyn Manson and others.

He has also written the afterword for the Czech edition of Nick Cave's book And the Ass Saw the Angel ("A uzřela oslice anděla", 1995).

Discography 1988 Charlotte's Room / The Long Goodbye (EP) 1990 Backwoods Crucifixion (LP/CD) 1993 God Is the Other Face of the Devil (CD) 1995 Live in Prague! (with Ticha dohoda) (MC/CD) 1997 Blue Highway (CD) 1997 Fatal Shore (with Fatal Shore) (CD) 1999 Dead Flowers for Alice (CD) 2002 "Electric Garden" (CD single) 2002 Ecstatic (CD) 2003 Free Fall (with Fatal Shore) (CD) 2004 Deep Horizon – Selected Songs of Phil Shoenfelt (2-CD) 2004 New York – London 1981–86 (with Khmer Rouge) (2-CD) 2007 Real World (with Fatal Shore) (CD) 2008 Live at the House of Sin (Phil Shoenfelt & Pavel Cingl) (2008) 2009 Golden Vanity (Nikki Sudden & Phil Shoenfelt) (CD) 2010 "Open Up & Bleed" (download single) 2010 Paranoia.com (CD) 2011 Immortalised (with Dim Locator, download EP) 2011 Setting the Sails for El Dorado (with Fatal Shore) (CD) 2012 Performing Songs by Rowland S. Howard (with Dim Locator) (7") 2013 Wormhole (with Dim Locator) (EP, CD and 10" vinyl) 2015 The Bell Ringer – Live at the Shot-Out Eye (Phil Shoenfelt & Southern Cross, CD) 2018 Out of the Sky – Real World Demos (Phil Shoenfelt & Bruno Adams, CD) 2019 Under the Radar (12" vinyl) 2020 Cassandra Lied (CD)