We present the results of a Very Large Telescope observing programme carried out in service mode using FORS1 on ANTU in long-slit mode to determine the optical velocities of nearby low surface brightness galaxies. As part of our programme of service observations we obtained long-slit spectra of several members of the Phoenix dwarf galaxy from which we derive an optical heliocentric radial velocity of −13 ± 9 km s−1. This agrees very well with the velocity of the most promising of the H i clouds seen around Phoenix, which has a heliocentric velocity of −23 km s−1, but is significantly different from the recently published optical heliocentric velocity of Phoenix of −52 ± 6km s−1 by Gallart et al.
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