* solo with vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica
* as a duo joined by bass guitarist Stu Thompson
* as an acoustic band joined by acoustic percussionist Howard Northover
* as a full kit band (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica, bass guitar, drum kit)
Influences
Woody Guthrie Ledbelly The Who The Beatles Billy Bragg Tracy Chapman The Saw Doctors The Housemartins The Jam Michelle Shocked The Clash Elvis Costello Roy Bailey Dick Gaughan Leon Rosselson John Lennon Johnny Cash The Levellers The Pogues The Proclaimers Ewan MacColl Alan Hull
Sounds Like
Very varied so I'll give you some of the people I've been compared to, even if I don't agree with all of them :-)
Dick Gaughan Leon Rosselson Roy Bailey John Lennon Johnny Cash The Levellers The Pogues The Proclaimers Roddy Frame Crowded House REM Aztec Camera Lonnie Donnegan Atilla The Stockbroker David Rovics Neil Young The Waterboys John Denver Paul Weller The Coral Woody Guthrie Ledbelly The Who The Beatles Billy Bragg Tracy Chapman The Saw Doctors The Housemartins The Jam Michelle Shocked The Clash Elvis Costello Ewan MacColl Van Morrison Bob Dylan Phil Ochs Pete Seeger Robb Johnson Alan Hull
"Powerful stuff. There is something essentially Liverpool about the songs and the sound. Songs that address the world we live in now." Roy Bailey, folk legend
"The Liverpudlian songwriter packs more weight in the punch of his folk songs than most acoustic musicians do in a lifetime." Big Issue In The North
"Alun won over the audience with his first few words and held us enthralled with his melodies and perceptive lyrics. Entertaining and thought provoking!" Holmfirth Folk Festival
"Talented songsmith." The Guardian
"Great stuff!" Attila The Stockbroker
"One of the most incisive songwriters on Merseyside." Spencer Leigh, BBC
"If Alun Parry was a politician he'd get my vote" Millenium Arts Magazine
About Al
Alun Parry is Liverpool's most respected radical musician. He specialises in 'slice of life' musical storytelling that has something to say about the world we live in.
His socially conscious folk-pop has earned him the title of Liverpool's most respected radical musician.
Having started his musical life as an award winning Merseyside busker, Parry has since been named as one of the top 30 reasons why Liverpool is culturally great.
Known for his passionate anthems of social justice, his work also has a strongly humorous current, and his storytelling has a distinctly Scouse character.
Firmly on the side of the underdog, Alun Parry's music proudly celebrates the lives of ordinary people through song.
This is music to make you think as it makes you smile and stamp your feet!
Buy The Albums
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Read The Blog
The Alun Parry blog is available from Al's website. Just click here
indeed! We mustn't mourn we must organise :0) Looking back to when I stood for the SA several years ago the proportion of the vote for socialist and those other unspeakables hasn't changed, albeit they were local.. not sure if that gives me hope..or not!
thanks :0) glad you liked them, want to have a go at one of yours, probably "Today's just yesterday" I love that song! At the mo I'm supposed to be writing a comedy song for Mandolin to go in my act but it's bloody hard!!!
The album came today!!!! And thanks so much for including a second one to give to a friend; I'm gonna find someone very special to give it to! Will be listening to it 2night before beddy-bye time! Jann ;)
Here's wishin you a top gig on Fri with Billy Bragg, would love to be there unfortunately can't make this one but you're deffo on my hit list for this year!!!! onwards and upwards always Alun x x x
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