Lord Prosser
Record Label: Die Laughing
Hail from Paris, France
The Band is:
Lord Prosser - Vocals, Guitar,
Percussion, Full Creative
I am Rodney Prosser and I’m 52 born seven weeks before Sergeant Pepper was released. I come from Knowle near Birmingham. My father had a factory and a few Jamaicans worked there and when I was around 8-10 years old I used to go to the factory on Saturdays and I got into Reggae. I went on to start a fanzine “Pigment” when I was 15. Through this I got to meet bands and slept under the Silver disc for Squeeze “Cool for Cats” whilst sleeping on Squeeze bass player Harry Kakoulli’s sofa. I recorded under the name BOTH! playing synth music and formed a duo and then formed a thrash band playing three gigs in 1986 in Birmingham - band was “ Blow by Bronson” and then a few years later in 1990 after recording an unreleased single here and another unreleased single there (one was hip hop with Fuzz Townshend from Pop Will Eat Itself and another with Robert Doku from Osibisa) I then sort of managed a band called “Seize The Time” in London and through this was offered a job managing the bookings and equipment in Premises Rehearsal Studio in Shoreditch London. One day BLUR played a few songs to just me and Suede asked me to be a sort of manager to them and I gave their demo to CBS who became Sony (who signed them).
I moved to France in 1992 and started a guitar & drums and vocals duo which had bass players sometimes (the drummer Bertrand “Vic” Vicaire also played in Gendarmerie Band and for World Cup 1998 was seen by 1.5 Billion people!
Living in France was difficult for music and I waited 8 years until 2000 to get signed to a label Kung Fu Fighting and released a few songs on a couple of compilation albums. I recorded six songs for Vegomatic and “French Up Song” was on the radio thousands of times. I formed Shendly Movedo with Fabrice Bottini (bass) and Guillaume Rossel (drums) Guillaume and I also recorded as LARAYURE (soundcloud). Fabrice Bottini and I also recorded as Chocolate Leg ( Coldwave band). I also worked with KOBY MASTER who did some slam in my studio. In 2005 I became more confident playing alone and as Lord Prosser played hundreds of small concerts and open mics. I released an album of my songs produced by Stephane Mellino (Les Négresses Vertes) - album was Lord Prosser “Traces of Yesterday” 500 copies are now in different people’s Cd collections around the place. I then recorded under a few different names including “SCRUB FLOWER” releasing an album “Connectivity” in 2011. That was electronic. Then I stopped doing concerts to concentrate on a new project “The Distance”with Ben Leach (The Farm) and came to Le Bikini in Toulouse to see Les Négresses Vertes and Stephane Mellino said this is for Sophie (my lady) and Lord Prosser. I then decided to call the project with Ben Leach LORD PROSSER because I had stopped using the name for the other projects ( I played between 2010-2018 in different bands with a total of 18 musicians in all ranging from all styles.
Lord Prosser songs were heard by Die Laughing Records in 2018 and Rob Trisler asked me to send a song for the show. That was november 2018 and I became an ambassador three weeks later. Since then I have promoted Die Laughing Records artists every yes EVERY day.
Lord Prosser spoken word album is currently being recorded.
Probable release September 2020 on Die Laughing Records
