* 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)
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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
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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!
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al!!!!!!!!!! hi honey!!! been a long time!!! i'm living in new york again, and i fell off the back of a motorcycle on my 5th day and broke my *right* wrist!!! i'm *right-handed!!!* hope you're fabulous!!!
HEY PUT THIS DATE IN YOUR DIARY AND GET YOUR ASS DOWN TO A GREAT NIGHT OF EXPLOSIVE MUSIC AT THE ONE AND ONLY ZANZIBAR IN LIVERPOOL 24TH SEPTEMBER 7.30PM WHEN ROOM21 WILL BE PLAYING HOST TO A SELECTION OF UP AND COMING TOP UNSIGNED BANDS (SEE BANDS FOR FLYERS FOR DISCOUNTED ENTRY) P.S CHECK OUT OUR UPDATED PROFILE ASAP DONT FORGET THE DATE NOW 24TH SEPTEMBER...SEE YA THERE!!!!!
Thought your great "Woody's Song" might interest a lot of protest folk music fans in USA these days, during the current 21st-century historical era of "permanent war abroad and economic depression at home."
Ay up Alun, always said i'd get to see ya play this year and blow me away i was over the moon to be passin by the bombed out church in Liverpool on Saturday and hearing this amazing voice!!! it could only have been the one and only ALUN PARRY!!!! WOW i'd love to have stopped an said hiya but me mate was playing the Cavern. Deffo catch ya again though loved every min!!!! x x x
ST JOHNS GARDENS CITY CENTRE 12PM. 2ND AUGUST.... MEMORIAL AND FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF MURDERED TEENAGER "MICHEAL CAUSER" LETS NOT FORGET THIS YOUNG MAN AND TAKE TIME OUT TO SUPPORT HIS FAMILY AND CLOSE ONES AND SHOW THEM THAT AS A COMMUNITY WE WILL STAND AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA..PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD OF THIS EVENT ON YOUR MYSPACE AND FACEBOOK SITES..SEE YA THERE !!!!
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 ;)
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