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Max Eider
12+ albums
indie80sbritpopindie popSOLOMUSIKA-British
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Max Eider, aka Maximilian Theodor Eider III (born Peter Millson; died December 2025) was an English guitarist and songwriter remembered as co-founder of The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy and for his solo recordings. Pat Fish and Max Eider formed The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy in Oxford in 1982. Having met at university, Fish and Eider had previously been in bands The Institution (along with Rolo McGinty, later of The Woodentops), and The Sonic Tonix (later The Tonix) (with John Silver). Eider played guitar with Pat Fish (The Jazz Butcher) from June 1982 until 27 November 1986, when, after an alcohol-fuelled altercation with Fish, he left the band. He went on to record a solo album, The Best Kisser in the World, which mixes up-temp indie pop numbers ("Let Somebody Down" and "Quiet Lives") with songs in a moodier, jazz-influenced style. He also played on recordings by others, including Songs from Another Season by David J (Bauhaus). He used the name "Michael Barrere" on a release by The Plymouth Fastbucks. He rejoined The Jazz Butcher for what was billed as the last ever Jazz Butcher gig on 21 December 1995. He subsequently performed and recorded with Fish on the live album Glorious and Idiotic (2000) and the studio album Rotten Soul. 2002 saw the release of a second solo album, Hotel Figueroa, and a third, Max Eider III, appeared in 2007. In 2010 Eider released his fourth solo album Disaffection on Tundraducks Records. User-contributed text is available under the Creative
