Detective Instinct

Side project from Teesside's Oli Heffernan , some may know him as the Lanky one from Shrug, Idiot Savant, British Lichen Society and quite a few more.....

Here's a brief bio from Oli himself

Hailing from Middlesbrough, a small industrial town in North East
England, Oli Heffernan has been making loops, field recordings and
4-track doodles at home and on holidays since the mid nineties.
From early on in his life, he has played with a number of different
groups, and over the years ended up supporting bands like The Fall,
Echo And The Bunnymen, Clinic, John Cooper Clarke, Leaves, Future Of
The Left, Archie Bronson Outfit.
His current Project, Detective Instinct, was born out of a combination
of boredom and a need for distraction
I began by going through old tapes and realizing a lot of it was
good stuff and i needed to do something worthwhile with it so
I wrote to a few friends from bands Id been involved in or had
played with and then we began a type of online exchange of
recordings: Id send tracks out then they'd add vocals and send them
back, Mike Watt heard the songs on myspace and wrote asking if he
could play them on his radio show in LA so i chanced my arm and asked
him if he wanted to get involved, which he did. I then began asking
other people whos work i admired and was surprised by how many people
wanted to contribute, and it went from there
Buried in the mix of the songs are field recordings of haunted buildings, people going about their business, and lots of found sounds recorded while he was on tour throughout Europe with Das Wanderlust.