About Homeless House....
"Fourth album from neglected Brighton singer-songwriter… Luminous voice, effortless band, and a short but sweetly melancholy collection of understated pop pitched somewhere between Robert Wyatt at his most accessibly fragile and The Beatles at their most quietly winsome." Sylvie Simmons for MOJO Magazine. .................................................................................................................
"A couple of years back, Joe Pernice bent my ear about Cunningham being the freshest blast of pop air he'd heard in aeons. On his fifth album it's easy to see why. Those his early-90s career was kickstarted by ex-Housemartin Stan Cullimore, 1998's beautiful Homeless House was the first inkling of star-on-the-up. Happy-Go-Unlucky come similarly draped in velvety pop smarts, those this time fuller and tonally richer. Set atop woodwinds, gently dipping strings, stabbing pianos and reedy guitars, JC's voice owes as much to McCartney as contemporaries Kevin Tihista and Richard Davies, with arrangements worthy of Curt Boettcher. A latterday chaser to Emitt Rhodes' eponymous 1970 debut."-UNCUT .................................................................................................................
About Happy-go-unlucky....
"Cunningham specialises in the sort of tiny,aching wonderful moments..that will have you returning repeatedly to each song." NME 8/10...........
"Could really have been recorded any time since the mid 60's..lovelorn, organic and rather reminiscent of The Beatles in fact." LOGO........"With his...baroque production touches, Cunningham hews closely and superbly to the balladic side of Revolver-era Fabs."-UNCUT, Jim Allen.................
"One of the best pure pop records of 2002."-MAGNET, Patrick Berkerey..................
"Happy Go-Unlucky is a rainy-day album for pop dreamers who are chasing that elusive smile through strawberry fields (forever)."-SOUND & VISION, Parke Puterbaugh
Hope all is well. Thought I'd let you know that Gemma & The Wasters (now known as The Daybreaks) have a recording of Say Goodnight on our myspace, you should check it out
US dates!!! WTF!!! are you back in action? new tunes? whats going on??? Im telling my US mates to go and see you. If you get slobbered over by by a 6ft ginger jersey boy (the channel islands version) thats my man. he's a harmony nut. and has the best high harmony voice in the business. up there with garf and nash and JC!!!! love to u ol chap C
Hi john. Hope all is going well. Would be really nice to see you before we move to manchester (september 28th). Let us know a day that would be good for you and we'l go for a drink one.
Don't know if you've heard but we will be supporting The Jam (minus paul weller) at the morecambe dome on the 28th august. I see you will be playing in california then though so i wish you the best of luck.
It is a rarity that happy go unlucky is removed from my stereo and that you are absent from our conversations. We look forward to listening to your new stuff when you get round to recording it and good luck in the states.
Hey Mister C, how the hell are you and how are things up north?? Myself and J have often talked about coming to visit you sometime, assuming of course the thought of that doesn't fill you with horror! Failing that, maybe see you back in Bri-town sometime??
