Patrick Brendan Garrigan, with occasional assistance from the universe and it's muses.
Influences
Richard Thompson, Vetiver, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Half Man Half Biscuit, The Velvet Underground, The Grateful Dead, Fairport Convention, Barry Took & Marty Feldman, Goldfrapp, Chuck Berry, Atkinsons of Lancaster, Frank Zappa, Yossarian, Bert Jansch, Morissey's scriptwriter, Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Tony Garrigan, The Incredible String Band, Kinky Friedman, The Smiths, Ian Jesse, The Watersons, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, The Specials, Chris Wood & Andy Cutting, Charles Bukowski, The Pooka MacPhellimney, Elmore Leonard, Sean Maguire (the fiddler, not the Nineties pop icon), Pelvis Arsely, The Memphis Jug Band, Johnny Cash, The Band of The Coldstream Guards, Joe Keane, Jack Powers, Phil Spector, Joni Mitchell, Jerry Lee Lewis, Hodgsons Chip Shop, The Yorkshire House, Jamesons, Flann O'Brien, Susanna Clark, Neil Gaiman, Guiness, The Dubliners, The Albion Band, Super Furry Animals, Devendra Bernhardt
Sounds Like
"Paddy Garrigan is a musical polyglot who could get a piece of music out of a stick of celery": Howard Byrom, Lancaster Guardian [December 2006]
....And I only had to give one CD away to get that quote, too! One recent reviewer said 'Half Man Half Biscuit meets Fairport Convention'. One can only imagine what that meeting might be like, although I'd certainly be up for watching it, and perhaps even helping to get the beers in.
Other insight and enlightenment may be achieved by checking out the music of any or all of the names given above as 'influences', as well as such friends (or should that be 'family'?) as Wierdstring, The Wisemen, New Hawks and so forth.
Faster than a sleeping bullet, more powerful than a ukelele, capable of drinking warm beverages in a single bound: Paddy "Wainscot" Garrigan is a singer, musician, writer and exceedingly amatuerish cyclist. Best known for playing guitar and singing in The Pier Group and The Wierdstring Band (and for doing anything but play guitar in The Wisemen), Paddy has contributed a myriad of instruments to ensembles such as Dan Haywood's New Hawks, Moonstone, The Gokarnas, The Puma Sutras, Colonel Blimp & The Amazing Exploding Bananas, and Sonic Tradition. He also performs as a solo artist, and occasionally as a solo group. Where possible.
Due to an unusual series of operations during the early 1990s, Paddy is in fact half-timbered in the Mock Tudor style. Two thirds of his left hand side (and one third of his right) is covered in faux-wattle & daub. Never one to let adversity stand in his way, 'Wainscot' used his convalescence as the opportunity to acquire new skills, starting by learning to play the spoons and having a feature archway installed. Within years, he was impressing audiences with his mandolin and piano playing, not to mention the delightful conservatory he'd had installed around the back.
Now entering his third decade, Paddy is pleased to show off his virtuosity and manual dexterity on guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, banjo, bazouki, mandolin and what he terms 'other shit'. Recording in his own bedroom (nobody else would let him use theirs), he brings his unique perspective to light on the world through the medium that means so much to him: music.
Paddy Garrigan recently relocated to Colton, near Greenodd in Cumbria. It's extremely windy near my house, within and without.
OoR returns this Sunday 17th January 2010 with a feast of jazz!
Gulli
has played sax in many Lancaster bands from the ska of Guns of
Navarone, avant garde adventures with Steven Grew, and the progressive
sounds of the Band that Time Forgot. He's also played drums for the
psych-folk-rock of the Wisemen, and many other bands. His band are
seriously good jazz musicians so any music fan should try and see this.
The
Limehouse is local musical legends Dave Wright and James Fraser with
occasional vocals by Emma Turzynski. This is a blazing Gypsy Jazz duo
bringing awesome tunes, soothed occasionally by the liquid tones of
Emma Turzynski. Jazz fans, guitar fans, this is a treat.
Homemade Lemonade - Lancaster based purveyers of live electronically enhanced indie folk:
"Loops,
drones and spiralling riffs with mantra-like vocals characterise much
of their live set. Crashing waves of guitar under a chant of ‘I can
walk on water’ … give way to a bleak early-Factory Records sound
updated with electronic effects … reaching an impressive drawn out
climax in the explosive ‘Bliss, Ostensibly.’"(Lunecy Review, July 2009).
Pencil In - Preston-based alternative rock.
Pencil
In are a four piece alternative rock band hailing from the North West
of England. Coupling the incredible vocal clarity of Bill Orrick with
layered, effect soaked, post rock soundscapes and waves of raunchy
balls-out heaviness, theirs is a truly unique sound.
Satellites - 4-piece based in Lancaster Post-rock, ambient, progressive - "a double measure of post rock served with a generous helping of progressiveness."
Quisling
Meat - This is a mystery guest of sorts. He's been in Dry Green, the
Pier Group, the Thens, the Plastic Noons, and more. He's been away for
a while, but he's back in Lancaster. Don't miss this!
2010 sees the 25th anniversary of Lancaster Musicians' Co-op! And to celebrate we want to make the co-op better than ever by improving facilities, providing more and better equipment for it's users and generally celebrating in a kick ass way! But the co-op needs YOUR help!
Please help us out by joining our Facebook group to catch up on the latest news, see photos from over the years, exchange ideas, get involved in next year's improvement campaign as well as find out about benefit gigs and parties!
26th Sept - Uni of Cumbria, Lancaster
campus 27th Sept - Uni of Cumbria, Penrith campus 1st
Oct - The Dry Bar, Manchester 3rd Oct - Uni of Cumbria,
Ambleside campus 10th Oct - The Park Hotel,
Lancaster 24th Oct - Fuel, Manchester 30th Oct - The
Yorkshire House, Lancaster 21st Nov - Carpe Diem,
Leeds
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Electric Free Time Machine celebrate the launch of their debut album: ’mystery with hermit foil’ with a gig at the Yorkshire house in Lancaster.
ELECTRIC FREE TIME MACHINE - Lancaster
recent sound carriers for Damo Suzuki:From fast and bulbous blues stomps and vast experimental krautrock ambient strangeness, to abrasive shambolic metal, strange time shifts and delicate acoustic folk. www.myspace.com/eftm
albums at a special launch price of £4...so thats £5 for an amazing night of music and a brand spanking new bespoke embossed digipack album...have mercy
