Lance - songs & vocals & guitars
'Calypso' Mat Boulter - pedal steel, lap steel, banjo, guitar, 12 string guitar and vocals
B - vocals & drums & guitar & just about anything else to hand
Matt 'Fudge Slices' McGain - bass & fuzz & drums
Influences
Pavement, Malkmus, Silver Jews, Eels, Will Oldham, American Music Club, Buffallo Tom, Squeeze, Lemonheads, Evan Dando, Elliott Smith, Simon & Garfunkel, Velvet Underground, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Dylan, Buzzcocks, The Pursuit Of Happiness, the Smiths, White Stripes, Kinks, Billy Bragg, PUB ROCK!, REM, Teenage Fanclub, Karl Wallinger, The Go-Betweens, Prefab Sprout, Tom Waits, Smog, The Blue Nile, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ben Folds, Nick Drake, Tim Buckley, PJ Harvey....too many to mention...
***CUSACK Plays Every Thursday at Shangri-la***
www.myspace.com/shangrilasouthend
A little bit Elliott Smith, a little bit Evan Dando, a little bit Velvet Underground...alt-country, folk-rock, indie rock, some punky ethics
Centred around the songwriting of band-leader Lance, Cusack is the name under which he has traded both as a solo performer and with previous line ups.
Cusack is pretty much me and whoever else turns up...
Cusack's backing band is The Mildsensations who rock both hard and gently, though not at the same time. Inspired by the likes of Neil Young & Crazy Horse sometimes you get the lighter acoustic side of things other times more electric
The four-piece band mix fuzz bass, country-rock, garage-gospel and the sweetest of Bydsian jangle and are currently putting together an LP with some of Lance's solo stuff.
'Mildsensations' are on their way!
Works in progress are included on this page for your listening pleasure.
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!!!Cusack track 'Audrey Hepburn' now available on 'What's Kickin' Vol1 CD!!!
For full details see related blog item above or visit:
http://www.zingg.co.uk - there's a link over there....not there...OVER THERE!
That's it.
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A coupla nice reviews have just come in.
For quick links to read the whole reviews - please see the Cusack Review Blog above.
The Americana UK website said of the What's Kickin' CD:
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'Cusack's 'Audrey Hepburn', a song which Simon and Garfunkel would have killed for in their prime'.
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...and from www.musicomh.com - a review taken from the tunes on this very page:
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'killer lyric's full of self-depreciating wit and longing. The melody is pure sliver, the vocals hushed like a confession. There are shades of the Lemonheads bruised beauty and a hint of the stripped down country of Smog'
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What's Kickin' Vol3 has Cusack back on board with the exclusive full Cusack & The Mildsensations recording of 'Friends Like Me'
Buy a copy now at www.zingg.co.uk
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Please visit our off-shoot rock band over at
www.myspace.com/jawsiv
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We have just (finally) finished our album!
It's called 'mildsensations' and we're looking for a little label to put it out...
It's a mix of solo and band stuff featuring the mildsensations plus other friends of cusack...
You can listen to a selection of tunes from 'mildsensations' on the Soundclick' player below.
Happy listening...
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