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Genre: Pop / Psychedelic
Location Glastonbury , Southwest, Un
Profile Views: 214802
Last Login: 4/24/2013
Member Since 10/24/2005
Website www.flipron.co.uk www.twitter.com/FLIPRON
Record Label www.tinydog.co.uk
Type of Label Indie
Bio
With lyrical inventiveness & surreal imagination right at the very core of their songs & with an unmistakably English sound shamelessly veering between technicolor power-pop, dark, sleazy confessionals & dusty, moth-eaten folk ballads, this is the band hailed by musicomh.com as 'the most original band in the UK' Since they released their debut album Fancy Blues & Rustique Novelties in 2004, which was greeted by the Observer Music Monthly with a glowing 4* review from esteemed music journalist Charles Shaar Murray, they have been steadily fermenting a reputation based around their stunning live performances and a succession of unique and critically acclaimed albums and singles. Their second album, Biscuits For Cerberus was AIM CEO Alison Wenham's Best Record Of 2006 in Music Week. Most recently released was 2008's Gravity Calling, produced by legendary Damned drummer Rat Scabies, which was Album of the Year in THE MICK magazine & Album of the Week in the Belfast Telegraph. Flipron have opened for acts as diverse as the Alabama 3, Donovan, Hayseed Dixie & the Beat, & have played at Glastonbury Festival four years in a row, in 2008 playing a record 6 shows in the one weekend. They've played main stages at Beautiful Daze, Secret Garden Party, Bloom, Endorse It In Dorset, 2000 Trees & Shambala, as well as appearances at Bestival, End Of The Road, Lovebox Weekender, Innocent Village Fete, Larmer Tree, Trowbridge Pump Festival, Lewes Folk & Rock, Strawberry Fair & many others. They have also performed at traditional indoor arts festivals such as the Edinburgh Fringe, Concrete & Glass in London, The Times Cheltenham Literary Festival, Brighton Festival, Dorchester Festival, the Bath Fringe & the Llangollen Fringe. They've played gigs in boats, boxing rings & bars; cider barns, restaurants & cabarets; cellars, tents & strip shows: theatres, ballrooms & colleges. They've entertained skinheads, hippies, Tennessee housewives, New York folkies, Somerset truck drivers, painfully cool London art students, kilt-wearing Edinburgh drunkards & even Holy Grail hunters in the south of France. They have recorded numerous radio sessions on a variety of UK stations, including Mark Lamarr's God's Jukebox on BBC Radio2, (which Lamarr described as "absolutely fantastic" & featured again in his best sessions of 2009) as well as 4 sessions on BBC 6music. Radio DJs who have played the band include on BBC Radio1 Vic Galloway, Huw Stevens & Rob Da Bank, on BBC Radio2 Jonathan Ross, Mark Lamarr & Alex Lester, on BBC 6music Tom Robinson, Phil Jupitus, Mark Riley, Gideon Coe, Mark Lamarr again, Nemone & Shaun Keaveny. There music has also received radio play in the United States, Japan, Australia & much of Europe. In addition their music has been used by BBC television & radio & Channel Four in programmes & trails. In 2010 they released the single "The Coolest Names in Showbiz", played numerous festival dates including a ten date residency at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival & toured across the USA. In March 2011 they were back in the US performing at the prestigious South By South West (SXSW) music conference in Austin Texas. In late June they released a brand new single, "The Stupidest Face in Town", launching it at London's legendary 100 Club. They are currently at work on a new album for release in 2012. For bookings & enqiries please contact Pete Jennison - info@tinydog.co.uk Flipron on FACEBOOK.....see "FLIPRON - HOME" and the group "HUNGRY MONGRELS, FANS OF FLIPRON" FLIPRON on TWITTER: "follow" us at www.twitter.com/FLIPRON
Members
.. Jesse Budd - Vocals, guitar, lap steel, accordion, harmonica, ukulele, mandolin, dobro & clarinet.. Joe Atkinson - Organ, piano, some guitar, accordion, backing vocals... Tom Granville - Bass guitar .. Mike Chitty - Drums, percussion & backing vocals.. Management: Pete Jennison : info@tinydog.co.uk
Influences
'Piper At The Gates Of Dawn', 'Hunkydory', 'Ogden's Nut Gone Flake', 'Bringing It All Back Home', 'Loaded', 'The Village Green Preservation Society', 'New Boots & Panties', 'One Step Beyond'. Screaming Jay Hawkins, Alex Harvey, Van Morrison, Sol Hoopii, Nick Cave & Jarvis Cocker. Kenneth Patchen, Lee Harwood, Basil Bunting, Henri Michaux, James Joyce & Rainer Maria Rilke. 60s psychedelia, 70s punk & ska, old folk songs, chicago blues, 60s RnB, old C&W, 20s & 30s Hawaiian hulas, Dixieland jazz, musical exotica.
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.. GRAVITY CALLING ...... what a great album...they are a talent!.........Alison Wenham (CEO, AIM)....... ...Glastonbury's macabre funsters are at the top of their game ... great writing.........Music Week...... ...music hall punks enlist Rat Scabies and go rock! ... like a more ramshackle Madness or a punk era Elton John! .........Uncut...... ...the best thing I've heard all year. ....Rat Scabies - ..Mojo....... ... Stunning. This man's songs are contagious! .........www.mickmercer.com. Album of the Year....... ... Flipron hint at both Madness's Everyman lyrics and Ray Davies' whimsicality.......Q...... ... a brilliantly upbeat collection of musical dolly mixtures that instantly lifts any doom and gloom in a way that few new albums can accomplish.......Belfast Telegraph. 5/5 CD of the Week...... ...their third and best album to date. Hail the kings of zombie pop. ......www.artrocker.tv...... ...mad as wasps yet brilliant at the same time. ......www.getreadytorock.com......... a damn near perfect record. ......www.musicomh.com...... ...Fantastic. With lyrics to die for and music to live for, Flipron get it absolutely spot-on, nailed, done-and-dusted. ......www.toxicpete.co.uk........ .. BISCUITS FOR CERBERUS ...... the best record of 2006. ......Alison Wenham (CEO, AIM) in Music Week....... Flipron could become the house band on the ghost ship in the next instalment of Pirates of the Caribbean. Someone tell Johnny Depp. ......The Independent...... woozy bohemian pop massacre...brilliant but frankly unclassifiable....... Daily Telegraph...... in 1972 this would have been seen as eccentricity of the highest order - in 2006 they might as well sticker this record with "Don't buy this - it's a bit mad." Good work. ......Classic Rock....... a recipe of psychadelic instrumentation and fairytale-like lyrical rhymes leave a strangely addictive taste in the mouth. an increasingly infectious listen.......Music Week...... if Syd Barrett were still alive, he'd probably be in this band.......www.theirishworld.com...... a refreshingly mind-expanding experience with tunes that stick in your head like Velcro on a particularly well-made pair of trainers.......www.soundsxp.com....... the best wordsmith in the UK...immerse yourself in their world and celebrate a true national treasure.......www.mickmercer.com...... the album that Paul McCartney might have made if Linda had let him stay on acid.......www.unpeeled.co.uk...... one thing's for sure, there won't be anything like this in your music collection. ......www.gigwise.com ...... mixing Hanna Barbera with Tim Burton, you'll struggle to find a band as original and fascinating as Flipron.......www.musicomh.com...... an outstanding piece of work by a band truly unafraid of the unconventional.......www.neonbuzz.net...... perhaps the first truly eccentric figures of the 21st century.......www.classicrocksociety.net...... this is a fabulous record...essential listening.......www.shakenstir.co.uk........ .. FANCY BLUES AND RUSTIQUE NOVELTIES .. .. ..its a treat to encounter a genuinely uncategorisable group... .. Charles Shaar Murray - ..The Observer Music Monthly 4/5.... .. wonderful, a mini-masterpiece, like Madness produced by Joe Meek. Flipron are one of those bands that I cannot believe are not blasting out of radios and appearing on Top of the Pops and Popworld. Heaven knows, the whole music scene would be a much brighter and interesting place if they were. ......www.musicomh.com.... .. Tom Waits doubtless has this album on his iPod. .. ....www.robotfist.com...... a modern Alex Harvey, get this now, its stunning... ....www.mickmercer.com...... like The Auteurs meets The Small Faces, a seriously funny record full of wicked tricks... .. ..www.playlouder.com...... I love this album, the songs are great... go out and buy it... ....www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk...... brilliant! you want tunes, you got tunes, there's a disregard for creative limits going on here... ....www.artrocker.com...... a joyous realisation that being eclectic does not necessarily involve a pretentious pre-planned approach to music-making... ....www.angryape.com...... all in all the most creative collection of enigmatic delights I have heard this side of Halloween... ....www.spillonline.com...... that rarest of things, an inspired pop record with haunting yet witty lyrics. This is a marvellous album... ....www.themindsconstruction.com...... truly quite a find, which all discerning music fans need to hear... ....www.whisperinandhollerin.com........

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New album out now!

Firework Shoes out now! We are so very happy to announce that the fruit of our long labours, the new Flipron album 'Firework Shoes'...

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    Here's some footage of us recording it... x http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E6ofSx3RMw
    
    6 months ago
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FLIPRON "Mavis" at farmer Phil's... http://lnk.ms/Th18n
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    ...and some more studio footage... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwrvNaWOaqQ&feature=plcp
    
    6 months ago
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    Remember remember, the 5th Novemeber ..."Firework Shoes", the new Flipron album is out!
    Here's us recording some of it...x
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The New Single...out Septemebr 12th

Dear friends, We are very excited to announce the release of our new single next month. Its called "The Comet Returns" and featu...

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