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Paddy Garrigan
Folk Rock

Glad to be grey.




United Kingdom

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Member Since2/14/2006
Band Websitewww.paddygarrigan.com
Band MembersPatrick Brendan Garrigan, with occasional assistance from the universe and it's muses.
InfluencesRichard 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
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"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.

Record LabelSpagBol
Type of LabelIndie


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   About Paddy Garrigan

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.


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Electric Free Time Machine - Album Launch 3.7.09





Jun 29 2009 12:48 AM

ALBUM LAUNCH EXTRAVAGANZA - FRIDAY JULY 3rd
-YORKSHIRE HOUSE LANCASTER - 8PM

Facebook event page: CLICK HERE


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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


SAM AND THE PLANTS - Manchester

Sublime d.i.y pastoral krautrock psyche-folk (twisted nerve / rough trade)
www.myspace.com/samandtheplants


VOYTEK THE BEAR - Manchester

Abrasive grooves, sleazy dub funk and infectious melodies
www.myspace.com/voytekthebear


DAN HAYWOOD (SOLO) - Lancaster

singing the songs of the Puma Sutras, New Hawks and Dutch Desert
www.myspace.com/newhawks


also DRAWING COMPETITION + more

ONLY £1 ENTRY

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

Why would you do anything else?


Facebook event page: CLICK HERE

Lastfm event page: CLICK HERE

Yorkshire House website: CLICK HERE</a
Opposite Of Robot





Jun 11 2009 3:08 PM

A week today!

OoR14 - Suicidal Birds
DTP Clothing





May 26 2009 10:48 AM

Hi, Thanks For Accepting Our Freind Request ..

Check Us Out If You Ever Need Any T-shirts Printing.

Paula @ DTP Clothing

Mad Monks Music





Apr 28 2009 10:21 AM

THE WAREHOUSE, PENRITH, 1st MAY, 2009
Goldmundo





Apr 28 2009 10:04 AM

Hurragh! New tunes sounding lovely! I can finally stop pestering you to record the Honey Mead!? Brilliant.
Scott William Hartley





Apr 18 2009 6:29 PM

Hey Paddy!! Hope all is well!!
Sx
Opposite Of Robot





Apr 17 2009 1:51 PM

This Sunday!

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And in June:

OoR14 - Suicidal Birds

Tickets now on sale, see blog
Words on the Waves





Apr 9 2009 1:20 PM

Hi Paddy,

'Universe Blues' will be going out on 'Words on the Waves,' tomorrow at 11am and 6pm!

Moll X
The Wisemen





Apr 7 2009 12:52 PM

Funnily enough, I was wondering whether to get all the old drummers involved in these 'celebratory' last recordings? There's a kiss at the end of a rainbow...
Mad Monks Music





Apr 7 2009 12:12 PM

contact lenses are a thing of the past, you can now get these things with frames and bits of glass..

keys have arived, thanks.

see ya later
Gulliver and the Travellers





Apr 4 2009 6:48 PM

do you mean one of those shaker things?
or are you trying to convert a certain flavour of yogurt into digital sound?
Stuart Anthony


Online Now!


Apr 4 2009 11:41 AM

Opposite Of Robot





Apr 3 2009 10:15 AM

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Opposite Of Robot





Mar 21 2009 2:58 PM

3D Tanx, TAOL, Joyeux 28/03/09
Joyeux





Mar 8 2009 12:16 AM

Sunday 8th March, YORKSHIRE HOUSE, LANCASTER only £3
GEISHA www. myspace. com/geishanoiseresearchgroup
APES FIGHT BACK www. myspace. com/apesfightback
SHE NEVER SLEEPS www. myspace. com/sheneversleeps
JOYEUX www. myspace. com/joyeuxtohell
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The Balkanics Band





Feb 20 2009 2:58 PM

Opposite Of Robot





Feb 18 2009 2:13 PM

22ndFeb09 - The Winter Journey
Opposite Of Robot





Jan 27 2009 2:22 PM

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3 Ages of Elvis+Stuart Anthony+Unwashed Mass+Benni Beard

Opposite of Robot #9 is on Friday 30th January 2009, Yorkshire House, Parliament St, Lancaster, 8.30-11.45pm, &#163;3 entry. All proceeds to Lancaster & District Women's Aid.

Tickets can be bought in advance here:
http://www. wegottickets. com/event/42830

........

The Three Ages of Elvis are a cracking3-piece band who've recently been bigged up in Artrocker and Organmagazines. And rightly so, they rock, they roll, and they're one ofthe most entertaining bands you'll see, mainly because they seem tobe having so much fun!


Stuart Anthony has almost finishedalbum #2, and has had some great reviews for his debut, 'theColourful Truth' out last year. Influenced by Tim and Jeff Buckley,Nick Drake, and with a hint of Noel Gallagher, he crafts somewonderful acoustic gems.


The Unwashed Mass. Paul Neafcy used toplay in local legends Beef Sharky, and frankly, that should be enoughto get you to see him. The Brian Blessed of Lancaster's music scenesays this about himself:
"The Unwashed Mass is a surly wasterwith a guitar. It sits in squalor and thinks about doing greatthings, like fashioning wigs from shredded wheat, but never getsaround to actually achieving anything. If you want to hear thevacant, echoing sound of apathetic inertia barrelling through emptypipe-dreams, listen up!"

Benni Beard – Benni was going to beplaying this one with the full band (Lexico), but line-up changesmean he's doing it solo again! A big hit the last time he played anOoR, make sure you get down early and don't miss him!
Tongue Tide





Jan 20 2009 9:59 PM

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...for an intimate evening with turned on people!
Stuart Anthony


Online Now!


Jan 11 2009 12:03 PM

Northern Reggae Generator





Jan 9 2009 8:45 PM

The Three Ages Of Elvis





Dec 19 2008 1:35 PM

THE THREE AGES OF ELVIS

TONIGHT - DUKES DT3, LANCASTER (all ages)

SUNDAY - YORKSHIRE HOUSE, LANCASTER (Booze age)

BRING ON THE ROCK N ROLL!
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MOZ





Dec 4 2008 1:01 PM

Tis a good day for emptying things..........
















mOz
Little Hero





Nov 14 2008 12:59 PM

Tonight (14/11/08) will see a solo LITTLE HERO show at the County Bar, Lancaster Uni supporting SHE NEVER SLEEPS and SUPER HOT ROBOT. i'll be on around 9 i would think.
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Thursday 20th November sees a rare LITTLE HERO BAND show with Ben McCabe and Rich Turner. We're on last so probably around 11pm. Also on the bill are UNCLE JEFF, ORPHANS and BENNI BEARD.
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Joanne Levey "Songs My Father Taught Me"





Nov 4 2008 1:30 PM

Hello Friend!! xx
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