Career
Button"s professional musical career began in the early 1980s shortly after he left Leeds University. Alongside his long-term band projects his career includes a range of sessions and collaborations with artists such as Dot Allison, Cathy Dennis, Pete Doherty, and Arthur Baker - he also wrote and recorded the theme for BBC1"s The Saturday Show in 2001. He splits his current work between producing, performing and lecturing in music production.
He has largely switched to drums as his main instrument and is involved in playing, production and recording for a number of projects including the antifolk bands Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences, Lucy"s Diary, Sergeant Buzfuz and David Cronenberg"s Wife, Doctorate.I.V bassist Mat Flint"s band Deep Cut, Robert Rotifer, Picturebox, Darren Hayman, Mary Epworth and Go Kart Mozart (the band fronted by Lawrence, formerly of Felt and Denim).
Other recent projects include a songwriting and recording collaboration with Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby. Since 1993, Button has released his own material under various aliases: Motorcyclone, Ashley Flowers, and The Anthony Anderson Project (he used the name Anthony Anderson as his cr on the first DIV album Dead Elvis).
In December 2011, he began work on material for an album with a new band/project called Papernut Cambridge and, in 2012, began a project to design and build a range of boutique valve spring reverb units.