Flour is the nickname of American Minneapolis alternative rock musician Pete Conway who wrote songs and played bass guitar in the bands Rifle Sport and Breaking Circus until the mid-1980s. He released four solo albums on Touch and Go Records from 1988 to 1994 on which he plays most of the instruments himself. Flour toured as a live band twice with a lineup that featured ex-Big Black guitarist Steve Albini on bass and former Breaking Circus percussionist Todd Trainer on drums before they went on to form the band Shellac. In the mid-1990s, Conway was part of an all-bass trio, called Brits Out Of America, along with Dana Cochrane, Amy Larson and Ben Ivascu.
Links To Peel[]
Peel played a few tracks from Flour in the late 80's and early 90's and would have known about the artist due to his connection to Steve Albini, who played bass when they were on tour.
Shows Played[]
Flour ~ Grey
- 1988
- 28 November 1988: Grey (LP - Flour) Touch And Go
- 1989
- 13 February 1989: Grey (album - Flour) Touch And Go
- 1990
- 07 April 1990 (BFBS): Rain Reign (album - Luv 713) Touch And Go
- 11 April 1990: (JP: 'Time to visit the court of Albini.') 'Love Kills (LP-Luv 713)' (Touch And Go) (Peel mistakenly calls the track as 'Flour Kills')