Alan Rider - Stress, Dance Naked & Attrition

Alan Rider - Stress, Dance Naked & Attrition - in conversation with David Eastaugh

Alan Rider is a musician and editor of iconic 1980s Coventry post-punk fanzine Adventures in Reality.  He also co-edited 1980s Coventry Agit-Zine Not The Jobhunter, produced one off Coventry fanzines Certain Substances, Sticky Fingers, and Negative Response as well as contributing regularly to national music publications including Spiral Scratch and NME.  Alan and Adventures in Reality were featured in the 1983 Channel 4 documentary ‘Enough is Enough’.  He also ran the 1980s Adventures in Reality Recordings independent record label, releasing albums by a wide range of underground acts internationally, including Coventry bands such as Attrition, Furious Apples, and his own electronic band Stress. Stress went on to record and release four albums and numerous compilation album appearances on labels across the world.  His other band Dance Naked, released albums in the UK and Germany.