Sam Whimpenny (6 & 12 String Guitars, Bass Guitar, Vocals & Songwriting) and Simon Meader (Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Mandolins, Anglo Concertina, Harmonica, Percussion & Vocals)
Influences
We have a huge range of joint and individual influences from David Bowie, The Beatles, Roy Harper, Nick Harper, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Lindisfarne, Caravan and Led Zeppelin to Lamella, Armistice & the legendary Eight Macbeths, but we like to think that despite these influences we actually sound like ourselves.
Once there was Porvari! And Porvari! were a spoof band recording great songs, of dubious quality, on a portastudio in a lounge. To make it “real” Porvari! added a crowd and called it a live album. This was First XI.
Then Porvari! realised they could go and sing these great songs for real, live, with just a guitar and mandolin. The exclamation mark was dropped and the gigs commenced culminating in an almost entirely live album. This was Play Something We All Know.
Now Porvari are back with the best of both worlds: the full band sound of First XI plus the live performance of Play Something We All Know. Using the latest technology and a man who really knows what he’s doing, Porvari have recruited numerous other musicians and created a work of breathtaking diversity: from the melodic acoustic (Unconvinced) through reggae (Another Dollar) to real rock roots (Mrs Sayers), The World is Watching is a genuine quality article.
Have a listen and tell us what you think…
Hi from Fruits de Mer Records and thanks for the add. Hope you like our new version of Caravan's 'Love Song With Flute' plus The Zombies' 'Care of Cell 44' - out now on suitably swirly burgundy vinyl, just 300 copies pressed...
If it's too far from your home, if you have better things to do, if you're scared to go out...discover
Jack Dupon's video almost live at a private concert...
Oppression
Si c'est trop loin de chez vous, si vous avez mieux a faire, si sortir vous fait peur... Découvrez la vidéo de Jack Dupon presque en live lors d'un concert privé filmé sur Clermont-1ère en octobre 2008...
........Notre nouveau clip, entièrement fait à la main... PIG MONSTER.
Déjanté, hors normes, expérimental, décalé, théâtral, déglingué.
........Our new music video, entirely handstitched .... PIG MONSTER.
Crazy, non-standard, out of norme, unusual, experimental, out of phase, theatrical, delirious.
Pig Monster
BONNE ANNÉE, GROSSES BISES et VIVE le ROCK...
Hi and thanks for the friendship! We go back in the studio and do the final sessions in our deconstruction of John Dowland’s galliards in December. Material from the September sessions up on the site right now. The Black Bile Galliards/Stefan Östersjö and Natasha Barrett
Roots reggae band - Cry Tuff - live at the Hare & Hounds: Saturday 20th September (opposite the fire station in Brighton). for info; www. thehareandhounds. co. uk ; Tel - 01273 681163
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