Alan Bishop

{{Other people|Alan Bishop}}

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| caption = Bishop at the UJAZZ Festival
(Aarhus, Denmark 2017)

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| alias = Alvarius B.
Uncle Jim

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| genre = Sound collage{{cite web |last1=Heumann |first1=Michael |title=Various Artists - Radio Morocco |url=https://stylusmagazines.com/review_ID_1840.html |website=Stylus Magazine |access-date=August 25, 2024 |date=March 24, 2004}}

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| past_member_of = Sun City Girls

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Alan Bishop is an American musician best known for being the bassist and vocalist of experimental rock band Sun City Girls.[http://www.discogs.com/artist/Sun+City+Girls Sun City Girls Discography], Discogs. Retrieved 11 January 2010 He has also released solo material under the aliases Alvarius B. and Uncle Jim. In the early 1980s Bishop played in the short-lived band Paris 1942 with Maureen Tucker of the Velvet Underground, and was briefly a member of skate punk group JFA. Bishop is now a member of the Cairo-based band The Invisible Hands. He is the co-founder, along with Hisham Mayet, of Sublime Frequencies, a Seattle-based record label focused on collating esoteric music and imagery from all over the world, most notably Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East.