All tracks vox/guitar/keys/programming by Geraldine Quinn except songs from 'A Quick One' EP (2006 studio versions of Penis Envy, Best of Friends, There's Nothing Wrong With Me, Coincidence, Ladyboy, Sick Pets) Musicians: Geraldine Quinn (all vox & guitar) Christophe Geara (percussion), Lucy Fisher (violins), Mark Jones (Piano), Nick Quinn (Bass & Additional Guitar). All songs written by G.M. Quinn except Coincidence, Ladyboy, No One Cares by G.M. Quinn and N.P. Quinn.
Influences
Bowie, The Four Tops, Costello, XTC, T-Rex, The Who, Wreckless Eric, Sparks, Loudon Wainwright III, Bacharach, The Smiths, Postal Service, Richard Hawley, Dolly Parton, Kings of Leon, Nina Simone, Beck, Pulp, Radiohead, John Barry, Bacharach & David, Mavis Staples, The Police, Roy Budd, Nora Orlandi, Split Enz, Ian Dury, Kate Bush, The Divine Comedy, Neil Young, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Bobby Womack, Curtis Mayfield, Elliott Smith, DEVO, Joy Division, Lynn Collins, Kenny Rogers, Patti La Belle, The Darkness, Paul Weller, The Fall, Mick Ronson, George Harrison, Those Other Three, Suede, Husker Du, Kirsty MacColl, Billy Bragg, The Pogues, Thelonius Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Roxy Music, The Associates, Malcolm Middleton, Paul Kelly, Johnny Cash, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Nick Lowe, Sarah Vaughan, Astrud Gilberto, The Kinks, My Life Story, The Creation, William Makepeace Thackeray, Nick Cave, Evelyn Waugh, Henry James, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Hardy, Alistair Sim, Television, Arthur Conan Doyle, Morecambe & Wise, Big Star, The Marx Brothers, Charles Dickens, The Mighty Boosh, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Joyce Grenfell, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden & Bill Oddie, French & Saunders, Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmonson, Comic Strip Presents, Fry & Laurie, Spike Milligan, Big Train, Spaced, Man About the House, Barry Humphries, John Clarke, Roy & H.G., The D-Generation, Australia You're Standing In It, Rod Quantock, Terry-Thomas...gawd, it goes on forever...
Sounds Like
David Bowie, Emma Thompson, Justin Hawkins, Patti La Belle and Siouxsie Sioux making multi-way babies.
Musician. Thespian. Comedian. Pedestrian. Geraldine Quinn is a rare blend of chromosomes, lack of breeding, ailments and the electricity of life with some very fine reviews and an award attached. Her work is brutal, original, intelligent, musically cunning and lyrically nimble and has caused pandemonium and glee and an excess of badge-making. Described as the "lovechild of Mick Ronson and Kiki Dee" (The Herald, UK, 2006), this ginge minge has buried herself in the scene up to the neck like Bowie in Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, and she's not coming out until Captain Yonoi takes his mascara off.
Hark. Quinn the Eskimette doth speak:
I've been making this version of music/performance since 2004, I sing good, play guitar ok, and write funny songs. One day all the serious songs from teenage/twenty-something years will surface in a self-indulgent frenzy of re-issues and bootlegs when I'm living in a palace on the west coast of Ireland with Jarvis Cocker on a pillow in my bathroom awaiting orders, Neil Hannon at a piano in my loungeroom providing background music, while David Bowie whisks eggs in one of my kitchens, but for now I'll stick to gigging around Edinburgh Fringe, Melbourne and Adelaide, making people laugh. For now. Oh, the land of make believe is such a shiny, shiny place...
Our dog died on the weekend (that weekend being the end of August 2008). So, bring on Neil Hannon.
Possibly my favourite Bowie song (one of) and the finest example of dad-dancing I've ever seen, and in a very fine year - 1975.
Stumbled over this and am enamoured of Neil Hannon's lame (with an accent - lah-may), glazzies and oompahpah. Abba and Waterloo? Take this! Hilarious!! "I'm not someone you'll forget, I'm just like riding a bike". You brilliant, handsome, little Irish dynamo!
OK, this is one of the funniest things I've seen. My affection for Morecambe and Wise is noted, and I'm also a Tom fan (same birthday, you know). Put 'em together and you get me giggling in a cafe to the confusion of surrounding patrons. And this clip is still up after a while because it doesn't matter what has happened, whenever I see it, I laugh out loud. To paraphrase Ama Zulu, like so much silliness, like so much love....
Here's Dr Who's Assistant (copyright 2005, clip filmed by Planet Nerd's Dan Walmsley & my favourite Rob Lloyd in 2007). Bring it.
I used to live in Adelaide .... but I'm not quite classy enough to be Melbourne based. So i live in Northern Victoria now, but i do like to visit Melbourne every so often. I would come to your closing show in Melbourne... but i will be in Adelaide again that weekend. Hmmm.
Hey Gerry, Got "A Quick One" in the mail safe and sound. Thank you so so much! Loved all the songs...especially the one about the bunny with mixymitosis (or however it's spelt)...("it does matter, because it's wrong") Thanks again, Love Loz xxx
Thanks :) Recently read your bio from your site and saw that you played Charlotte Corday in Marat/Sade. You scored massive points for that :) It's my favourite play :) x.
Hey Gerry, been listening to some of your tunes. How long until I can buy your cd or download it from iTunes? Great songs. Can relate to the housemate one. "Who cares?" should be our anthem. You rock! KC x
Saw "Hex In The City" Sun night...fabulous as always. Thanks for putting on a spectacular show! Despite what "jesus" says don't stop being misanthropic...that's why I, and many others love your humour :) All the best, good luck for the rest of the Fringe. Oh, btw, quick question - do you have anymore of the "what would david do?" pin badges left...we seem to have misplaced ours ... somewhere. Thanks hun xxx Lauren.
Welcome to 2009 (abit belated). What lays in store? Flying Cars, monkey butlers, jet packs, advance sexy robotic maids? Well sadly none of that (sexy robo maids are still in their sexy infancy), what we do have is a new episode of the rogues gallery! Jacky and Richy return for your listening pleasure to talk about the usual crap; including worst jobs in the world, life according to a Dungeons and Dragons fanatic and the Inaugural Brisbane Comedy festival.
Anyway promises to be fun. So visit us and spread the mirth!
Hello, we're playing our first show in over a year and our first with our new lineup! Hope you can make it!
Thursday Nov 6th - 8pm - $6
The Empress (714 Nicholson St, Nth Fitzroy)
with The Fakes & Winter Migration
Also, visit www. triplejunearthed. com/theweekendpeople and download our new single 'Murder on the Mind' free, and while you're at it, give us a rating or a review. That'd be ace.
Just dropping by to give a heads up that Ep 5 of the Rogues Gallery is up. If you hated waiting for forever and day to download the podcast, you can now stream it live directly via our myspace. Just go to our myspace to listen to a new podcast each week. Listen in during the Christmas break for our special Adelaide show with Jason Chong, Gordon Southern (UK) and other comedy delights.
Merry Christmas and Happy Listening.
Richy The Rogues Gallery
P.S We are going to be in Adelaide for next years fringe. It would be good to catch up for an interview. :)
This is Richy here from the Rogues Gallery. Just thought I should give you a heads up that Episode 1-4 are now up on the myspace. Enjoy them all in their lackluster glory. Hopefully like a fine wine it will be matured, have character and all traces of poo jokes eliminated.
Check by our myspace this Monday coming when we have Tripod on for a special Rogues Gallery podcast.
Hope you've been well. Thanx 4 the add, means heaps 2 me. Just popping by your page to send my love...& hugs & Jareth...thought you'd like that ;) Just wondering if you could direct me 2 some information about how I would pay for/order merch - cds etc for your dear self?
Thanx 4 any assistance u can provide. Can't wait 2 cu back in Adelaide sometime (or Melbourne, when and if we get there :D)
