Born 1960 in Stockport, England - living in London since 1979.
John Bisset received training on the piano, but from eleven preferred the guitar, on which he was left to his own devices.
As a teenager in Manchester he made compositions and structures for improvisation, wrote and sang songs with new wave bands, and produced visual art. He has continued to work in these areas: composing for large ensembles (London Electric Guitar Orchestra, London Improvisers Orchestra); improvising freely with the likes of Kaffe Matthews, Rhodri Davies, Burkhard Beins and Alex Ward; and playing songs and tunes with guitar-led groups (Pocket, Country Dad). His visual sensibilities being present in performance and scoring, and most recently in the short films of Twothirteen TV.
In 1991 he founded the 2:13 Club, which presents concerts and festivals of new and improvised music. The 2:13 has sister clubs in Berlin (Burkhard Beins) and Athens (Nikos Veliotis) and has a continued, if sporadic, activity, and a score of issues on the label 2:13 Music/
In 2005 he gave up flying and is consequently more UK based. In fact many of his activities have been confined to his kitchen (Twothirteen TV, The World in my Kitchen, The Wall).
Since 2009 he has produced weekly short YouTube films with Ivor Kallin - as Twothirteen TV.
