URL:http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/plc

At 43 years of age, based in Nimbin, peddling an act called the Pagan Love Cult inc., and looking like an out-take from an old Furry Freak Brothers comic, Neil Pike long ago gave up any ambitions for mainstream credibility. Despite this, he's led a colourful and varied career managing to carve out a healthy but highly specific international market for his unique brand of claptrap.

Folk singer and ex-busker, in the 80s Neil worked the Australian pub-rock circuit with the band Secret Society, released the worldís first indie CD and gained notice for his innovative use of an early model macintosh.

In 1996, he released a multimedia CDRom, marketed it via the web and somehow slid onto an international lecture and performance circuit. He successfully toured the US with a period as Nimbin Cultural Ambassador or ìweirdo in residenceî at the Woodstock museum and in 98, was an invited speaker at the 5th Annual International Cyberconf in Budapest. Following this with shows in London and Katmandu, heís also successfully toured India and Amsterdam. In amongst his travels, heís edited and directed several documentaries (one of which recently won an award in a European environmental film festival), been a principal character in a couple of others, maintained a niche net-based market, performed many gigs and recorded an album with his band.

These days, he likes to play with his new G4, using the internet mostly to stay in touch with the various cult members around the globe and to sell CDs and CDRs.