title: The Flowerpot Men
text: # The Flowerpot Men
  
  The Flowerpot Men were a British electronic music group active in the 1980s. This group featured electronic musician Ben Watkins (of Juno Reactor), Paul N. Davies (of Naked Lunch), and cellist Adam Peters.
  
  ## Works
  
  They recorded several EPs including Alligator Bait, Jo's So Mean and The Janice Long Session. The EP Jo's So Mean was produced by Siouxsie and the Banshees' co-founder Steven Severin who described it as "a proto-techno classic". Their most successful and well-known song, "Beat City", was featured in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
  
  Prior to the Flowerpot Men, Adam Peters had played cello and piano parts on some Echo & the Bunnymen tracks including "Never Stop" and "The Killing Moon".
  
  The group later became known as Sunsonic and released the full-length LP Melting Down on Motor Angel in 1990.
  
  ## Post Flowerpot Men
  
  After Sunsonic, Ben Watkins went on to form Juno Reactor, a multifaceted project that has released seven studio albums, scored Hollywood films, and toured with multiple live bands and stage performers.
  
  Adam Peters became a composer for feature films, documentaries, and television.
  
  ## Discography
  
  * Jo's So Mean (1984), Compost Records
  * "Walk on Gilded Splinters" (1985), Compost Records
  * Alligator Bait EP (1987), Compost Records
  * The Janice Long Session (1987), Strange Fruit
  * "Watching the Pharoahs" (1987), Link
  