KEITH WILSON : GOBZ n' STRUMZ - Electric and acoustic guitars, ukulele, harmonica, pneumatic drills and organic verbal remedies.
JAY IRVING : BINGZ n' BANGZ - Drumz, claw hammer, all things all-bang and equestrian statue.
MIKE SMITH : PLONKZ n' BLOWZ - Vital organs, casual Sax, two-man wood saw and moveable arms and legs.
RODDIE GILLIARD : PLUCKZ n' SLAPZ - Bass, turk's head, origami sushi and time-served undercoat.
ALEX BARANOWSKI : STRINGZ n' THINGZ - Orchestration, Xmas cake and three bar electric fire.
Whichever way the wind blows the grit of absurdity, this handsome pick n' mix assortment continue to produce cool, satisfying, multi-faceted, pigeon-hole defying, enigmatic aural pleasure for ears of all shapes and sizes.
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Influences
Thomas James Wilson, Jonny Wilson, Syd Barrett, Big Star, Spike Jones, Velvet Underground, the kumquat, Wreckless Eric, Bill Shankly, John Peel, Viv Stanshall, rare cheeses, The Small Faces, Bowie, Grimms, Zappa, Ian Dury, horned-rimmed glasses, Lou Reed, Dwight Twilley, those Beatles, pink-rimmed Island records, The Flaming Lips, Dr. Strangely Strange, Captain Beefheart, flip-flops, Stiff Records, Jeff Buckley, Led Zeppelin, muffins, Marc Bolan, Adrian Mitchell, Stan Laurel, Adrian Henri, The Liverpool Scene, Vivienne Westwood, Leonard Cohen, wooden coathangers, MC5, Neil Innes, Alex Harvey, liquorice, The Kinks, The Pink Fairies, Robert Calvert, Patti Smith, Catweazle, tippex, Sparks, John's Children, The Only Ones, Bill Nelson, Deaf School and the city of Liverpool.
Sounds Like
The Ruts and The Bonzos assembling a rather troublesome deckchair accompanied by The Banana Splits, a pair of kazoos and a steam driven ukelele.
Chipperfield's Circus, Led Zeppelin, Girls Aloud, Take That and Sooty – these are some of the people Keith has never worked with. Undisturbed, this handsomely-wrapped guitarist, poet and author of peculiar songs has seen active service with the MUTANTS, GEISHA GIRLS, AFTER A FASHION, THE EXPLODING HAMSTERS, SPIDER MONKEYS and most recently THE LOVETONES. Keith is also a co-conspirator and occasional member of cult 60's Liverpool band THE SCAFFOLD with JOHN GORMAN and MIKE McCARTNEY.
Sharp-tongued poet, musician, playwright, presenter, philosopher and performer, Keith is colloquial, cantankerous and erudite. Lyrically smart, his words are drawn from life's warp and weft and straddle an art-rock backdrop nestling somewhere between Zappa’s improvisation and the The Bonzo Dog Band’s post-musical hall vibe. He’s funny and sad. Angry and incisive. He’s Hancock without the hangdog; Lenny Bruce with a loaded Telecaster. His live work constantly shifts between stand up and stand out ferocity.
As a headline act (both solo and with his band THE METHYLATED SPIRITUALISTS), he has toured extensively throughout the UK and Europe, and during a hailstorm of former lives has opened for numerous acts including the Jam, the Buzzcocks, Ultravox, the Police, Steve Marriott, Big Country, Nik Turner, Paul Weller, Elvis Costello, The Damned, Blondie, The Stranglers, Joe Strummer and Billy Bragg.
No stranger to the dressing-up box, the lad has written and performed a veritable smorgasbord of eclectic delicacies for theatre, television, film and radio and has worked for every major broadcaster in the UK and Ireland. He has put words into the mouths of numerous actors including Steven Berkoff, James Nesbitt, Colin Salmon, Paul Kaye, Danny Dyer, Phil Daniels, Kevin Whately, Paul Barber and Leo Gregory. He has racked up over three hundred television credits - his most unusual probably being his gig as co-presenter and comedy stunt man on Channel FIVE'S hidden camera crime-busting series 'McINTYRE'S BIG STING' (2006/7) with undercover reporter Donal McIntyre.
In parallel to the glitz and glamour of tv and showbiz, he managed to squeeze out the debut solo album 'SLIP OF THE TONGUE' with producers Roddie Gilliard and Steve Powell (2008 FinMusic) featuring musicians who’ve worked with Jools Holland, The Magic Band, Arthur Brown, Ike Willis, Napoleon Murphy Brock and Steve Winwood. Guitar driven parables and cheeky sarcasm snogs acoustic subliminal new-man sensitivity before your very ears. Including an a la carte menu of moans, groans and rhythm methods more usually associated with the Karma Sutra, 'Slip Of The Tongue' is a seductively assembled pot pourri of well-versed aural stimulation.
Also fragrant and provocatively turned out, the well stacked follow up album 'RAPSCALLION BOP' (2009 FinMusic) is now out on the streets looking for business. This esoteric long player contains full frontal brass and a sizeable dose of heavy orchestration. Ukelele driven, piano clad, saxophone moist and riddled with verbal clever-dickery, it's cool on the lobes and inoffensive to the nostril.
Both records are a must-have for those who are, those who probably will be, and those who have been for most of their lives.
In addition, as well and also, the eagerly-anticipated travelogue soapy-doc-opera almost poetry book 'IRRITABLE VOWEL SYNDROME' (SEE BLOG) will be blowing its cover and tingling its spine during the first flushes of 2010. Tuck in your shirts and prepare the rubber gloves - 'tis a warm handful indeed.
A more buxsom biography and a curious selection of horse linament, exotic flowers and candles in jars can be found casually scattered across the lavishly-tooled website http://www.1keithwilson.com
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To celebrate the arrival of Producer Russ to the Fallen team, we're offering a massive 35% discount off all weekday recordings between 10am till 6pm until the end of December !!
Listen, it's all well and good showing us the rehearsals with the stunt body double, but when are you gonna get Mr Jump to do the shots for real in my daughter's spandex leotard??? I hope it comes back untainted & unstained, by the way.
Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
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