One Million Fuzztone Guitars

Songwriter, composer, musician, engineer, and producer.
Founder member of One Million Fuzztone Guitars and Skin Patrol.
Robert Courtney’s first live performance was with the Group “Cycle Annie” at Trent Polytechnic in 1977.
Second live performance with the Group “The Post Impressionists” at The Boat Club, Nottingham, in 1978, featuring Harry Stephenson of Stiff Records band Plummet Airlines on bass.
Third live performance with the Group “Skin Patrol” at The Sandpiper Club, Nottingham in 1978. Skin Patrol went through many line-ups and stylistic changes before becoming “One Million Fuzztone Guitars”, after a brief rehearsal period known as “The Graveyard”.
One Million Fuzztone Guitars released two singles “Heaven b/w Annuese” and “Men’s Hearts b/w Creepy Crawl” and an LP “(Roman, I Have Some Bad News For You) 26″ on the Manchester-based “Monsters In Orbit” label, and a psychedelic follow up at Radio Trent, unreleased till 2021, before disbanding.
Robert Courtney recorded two One Million Fuzztone Guitars LPs during five separate sessions (later part released as “Everything’s Happening” on Slot Records in 1988 under his own name) shortly before moving to London and recording the “20th Century Box”, “Guitars, Girls and God” and “New York” LPs.
Robert Courtney then went on to record some long improvised One Million Fuzztone Guitars live sessions with Guitarist Phil Bourne, (formerly of sister Manchester band “The Colours Out Of Time”) entitled “Sister Rave”, shortly before forming the Group “Doll” with pam Hogg, as guitarist and composer.
Doll’s demise after18 months was followed up by the long-time rehearsing, but short-lived Group, “Liberty Cushion”, a band fronted by Martin Spear (ex-lead vocalist with Oxford-based MadamAdam), that played obscure cover versions with Robert Courtney on Rickenbacker Bass Guitar put through a separate H&H PA System and a Marshall Guitar Stack, (described by the venue promoter as “either the best or the worst bass playing I’ve ever heard, it is difficult to decide which”).
Robert Courtney relaunched One Million Fuzztone Guitars/Skin Patrol, also recording tracks for the “God of A Small Planet” and “Automatic Kaos Foundation” LP’s.