Len and whatever muso friends happen to be around at the time
Influences
Life, alcohol.
Sounds Like
The Smiths, Kaiser Chiefs, Buzzcocks, John Cooper Clarke, Grinderman, Morrissey, Lou Reed, The Beatles, Billy Bragg, The Rakes, Loudon Wainwright III, Velvet Underground, Syd Barratt, The Three Johns, The Streets, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Pulp, Freddie and The Dreamers, Chumbawamba, Alan Hull, The Wedding Present, Neil Young, New Model Army, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, The Sinister Cleaners, Jarvis Cocker, Robyn Hitchcock.
The Legendary Len’s EPs were much played by the late, great John Peel on his BBC Radio 1 programmes. How to describe the songs? Observational, Indie guitar noise with off-kilter lyrics? Maybe. Press reviews might sum it up better: “The Legendary Len takes you on a journey through time and styles: from The Buzzcocks, through Billy Bragg and Morrissey to The Streets." - Time Out. “A strange and wonderful noise. Should be up there with Britain's eccentric geniuses along with the likes of Syd Barratt, Robin Hitchcock and John Cooper Clarke. A definite cult figure” – NME. "Len’s everyday observations are whimsical vignettes..." - Q magazine. "...set to beautifully ramshackle musical backdrops” - Guitar Magazine. “He is the bard of the banal, finding poetry in the ordinary, like Alan Bennett with a 6-string” – Classic Rock. “His ‘Songs About Love, Dreams and Domestic Appliances’ album is a sharp, witty, tuneful wake-up call for the nation” – Daily Mirror. Anyway, you've probably got the picture. By the way, in a different guise Len sang and played fiddle on The Wedding Present’s Ukrainian John Peel Sessions and is a founder member of world music/punk folk group The Ukrainians. He was also a member of British, Leeds-based '80s Indie combo The Sinister Cleaners. To get a copy of Len's 'Songs about Love, Dreams and Domestic Appliances' album, all you need to do is send a cheque for £7.99p to Aaz Records, 66 Victoria Road, Wargrave, Berkshire RG10 8AE. Easy.
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eckythump len
we just popped yer myspace's rather red and delicious bulbous cherry.
yum.
hope alls well with you
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theres gonna be a tuesday soon.... june is round the corner...
like your blurb - brings to mind...
do you know that we have opened for Robyn Hitchcock, and Julian Cope next week, and had dinner with John Cooper Clarke and Joh Otway, and get drunk, on occasion, with the Legendary Len.
