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
Silver Jews, Eels, Will Oldham, American Music Club, Evan Dando, Elliott Smith, Simon & Garfunkel, Velvet Underground, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, The Pursuit Of Happiness, The Smiths, 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....too many to mention...
Singer-songwriter Lance (or just plain Cusack) has been performing his alt-country/roots-pop in and around London and the South East of England since 2001. His songs have garnered favourable comparisons to Evan Dando, Smog and Simon & Garfunkel all of which he cites as important influences along with the likes of Neil Young, Will Oldham and Nick Lowe. Previously, as well as playing with local heroes The ProTeens and The Adjustment, Lance spent the latter part of the '90s fronting London-based retro-rockers Regentone whose acclaimed 'World Of Sound' ep ("Classy and assured guitar pop' - Time Out) was to be their sole release. During this period Lance also had a stint as musical director on BBC Radio One's pop satire show 'Z Magazine'.
Presently, Cusack can be found hosting his very own intimate showcase 'Shangri-la', or playing in and around town solo, or with multi instrumentalist Matt Boulter (Blue Vinyl Island/Lucky Strikes) or with the four-piece Cusack & the Mildsensations.
The next Cusack release is currently in the pipeline.
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Cusack/Mildsensations have been lucky enough to have songs released on the excellent What's Kickin' CD Compilations on the Stovepony label.
We have a song on each of Vol's 1,3 and 4.
Seek 'em out on ebay or visit our online shop at www.zingg.co.uk
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A coupla nice reviews here...
The Americana UK website said of the What's Kickin' Vol 1 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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Cusack now has an album finished - to be self released pending me finding a wodge of cash down the back of the sofa.
It's called 'mildsensations' and is a mix of solo and band recordings.
You can listen to a selection of tunes from 'mildsensations' on the Soundclick' player below.
Happy listening...
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Thank you for the add! I dig the lap steel on "Friends like me" Your a great writer. Keep it rolling. I hope you had a great show last night. Enjoy the music.
Its been a while and we thought it was about time we updated you on what we've been up to. Our debut EP Little World is now available at our gigs and will soon be available from our myspace and facebook pages, you will also be able to download it from itunes, but we don't have a release date for this as yet.
To celebrate the fact that we have now reached 25,000 plays on myspace, we are giving you a free MP3 of Rockabye Baby. All you have to do is send your email address to queen.elvis@yahoo.ie and we will send it to you.
We have spent the last year rehearsing with a full band and are now ready to bring it on the road. You can get a look at us when we appear on Balcony TV this week with the full line up. We are currently taking bookings for gigs/concerts/festivals and can be contacted on the email above, or through our myspace and facebook pages.
Thankyou for your continued support in what has been a great year for us!
September 1:st our 1:st single, Dare To Lick (Hunter's Red Sleeve), from our upcoming album SILENT REVOLUTION,was released and is available on iTunes but also on our MySpace of course!
The album will be released October 1:st and later that month we go on tour in Germany with The Movements.
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http://www.audiolife.com/store/TheNeat/Albums.aspx