Vocals and acoustic guitar: Gavin Osborn (and occasionally some excellent cello, glockenspiel and recorder from the marvellous alex eichenberger)
Influences
influences...
billy bragg
belle and sebastian
bob dylan
ben folds
beatles
bright eyes
(seemingly anyone beginning with b)
oh, and the mountain goats. let's not forget them. phew, i nearly did...
Sounds Like
You can order my CDs from the good folk at Banquet Records. They ship worldwide.
There is also a limited edition split 7" coming out. Dave House is on the other side, he is excellent.
If you order my new album + Dave's new album, you'll get the 7" FREE!
Having put his obsession with Championship Manager behind him, Gavin Osborn returns with his second album, 'Meeting Your Heroes', recorded in London with one of his own heroes, former Hefner frontman Darren Hayman.
His plan was to make an upbeat album, filled with positive songs to perk us all up in these troubled times. But the plan failed, and 'Meeting Your Heroes' is essentially about love, heartbreak and nostalgia. Which is far better. Featuring a collection of live favourites including 'Charlie's 18th Birthday'', '"Sweet Bedford" and 'FM2030', the story of a cryogenically-frozen ex-basketball player.
Previously, Gavin has written for and performed on BBC Radio 4 and Resonance FM. He has done gigs with poet-songwriter-comedian John Hegley, toured with Tellison and Encyclopedia, toured Australia and ended 2008 at a sold out Hammersmith Apollo alongside Jarvis Cocker, Malcolm Middleton and comedians Stewart Lee, Ricky Gervais and Robin Ince. This year, Gavin will be touring the UK, performing three new story shows with the award-winning Daniel Kitson in Regents Park, doing a run of shows at the Edinburgh Festival and will return to the Latitude Festival.
Influenced by everyone from Loudon Wainwright III to R. Kelly, Gavin has written this press release himself and, much as with online status updates, is a little uncomfortable talking about himself in the third person. If you bought 'In The Twee Small Hours' (his first record) you'll know what to expect. If you didn't, this is going to blow your tiny minds.
Funny and touching. Osborn walks a similar tightrope [to Loudon Wainwright III] but remains perfectly balanced - Stewart Lee, The Sunday Times
Simultaneously hilarious and heart-rending songs about the difficulties of love in a modern world - The Independent Weekly, Adelaide
Gavin Osborn showed exactly how to meld erudition, wit and acoustic guitar... a brilliantly accomplished singer-songwriter with touchingly quirky lyrics - Chortle
Gavin Osborn pretty much tells it like it is ... humorous musings on everyday occurrences - YourMusicBox.org
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Hey. things are going nicely here. I live in Melbourne now. I moved here just after comedy festival last year and it's wonderful. Sadly I've no plans to make it over yet.
Really wonderful show tonight; I can't imagine a more perfect thing to watch in a park at midnight. The songs were great, banjo sounded gorgeous, I laughed a lot and cried at the end (inevitably). Magic - thank you.
Hey Gavin, Just wanted to drop a note to say I got the new album today and it's fantastic. You should be downright chuffed! Wish I could make it to the instore at Banquet but alas, I have a degree to finish. Boo. I do, however, have a radio show so I'll make it featured album next week :) Keep up the good work, Paddy :D
thankyou so much! I had a brilliant night! yourrr pretty god dam amazing. your music so loverly, the stories that your songs sing keep happily haunting me! yeaaaaaah see you soon love brigitte xxx
Really fantastic show tonight; I enjoyed it massively (was the high squeaky person in FM 20-30; sorry) and hope you had fun doing it. I've only heard you solo before, and doing one or two songs, so really interesting to hear a wider range of material and with more instruments. Ordered the album the minute I got in and am very much looking forward to hearing it again - great stuff. Thanks, Kate.
I preordered your CD so now you have to tour Australia please. Maybe you could come with Daniel Kitson when he comes out for the Melbourne Arts Festival? Please?
P.s. Crazy idea but i'm doing loads of gigs at the mo with one of my buddies at a time. Fancy it? Maybe we could mix it up and do half and half or sumfink. Love and stuff, Tony.
I've just bought a second copy of your album, to give to a friend as a present for finishing a Masters in Philosophy. I'm 100% sure she'll absolutely adore it. :)
hey gavin, saw you online and thought i'd give you a shout. How you going? hope all is well with you and that you are making a new album, i'd love to hear more. Take care, your friend Rae
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