The Auteurs, Be Bop Deluxe, Neil Young, Christo, Magazine, David Bowie, The Kinks, Talking Heads, Baby Bird, Divine Comedy, Charles Bukowski, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Eels, Richard Brautigan, XTC, Billy Liar, The Blue Nile, The Methodist Sankey Hymnbook, Joni Mitchell, Prefab Sprout, The Likely Lads, The Who, Tony Benn, Magnetic Fields, Scott Walker, Sparklehorse, Television, Vic Chestnutt, The Velvet Underground, Will Self, Elton John [before he went all silly], Claus Oldenberg, The Byrds, Leonard Rossiter, Phillip Larkin, Bill Drummond, Roy Harper, A House, Alan Bennet, Jim Wilkes,
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'A songwriter of real quality' ***Q MAGAZINE- Jan 2008
A bracing sourness redolent of Stephen Merritt, elswhere bittersweet basement Bowie of bedit dwelling stripe' **** THE INDEPENDENT Jan 2008
'Like Vic Chesnutt tooled up for an armed robbery' ****'Irish Times',
'Adrian Mole the Opera as scored by Leonard Cohen'****'UNCUT MAGAZINE'
If Tony Hancock had made pop records they would have sounded like this'. UNCUT MAGAZINE ****
NEW VIDEO- SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A KING- title track from the new album.
Nurse of the Year - Manchester Deaf Institute , Nov 2009
BATMAN- Live acoustic version with the Rev Tim Browne, - from the album Goodbye My Angry Friend, Pronoia Records 2007
Live at The Corner - with State Broadcasters 17.9.09
Vinny Peculiar [aka Alan Wilkes] is a Manchester singer-songwriter; he’s released six albums, three EPs, a book of poems, worked as an artist in residence with Bill Drummond [KLF, The 17] and his various bands have included ex members of The Smiths, The Fall and OASIS.
He writes kitchen sink confessional songs that celebrate the nuances of life and loss – from semen donation to suicide dads – the kind of songs that make you blush and weep at the same time. His songs have also been vicariously described as poignant confessional and vaguely disturbing. Lately he’s been writing for fun…but it wont last; it never does.
A regular compere on the Glastonbury Acoustic Stage VP was christened ‘the Tony Hancock of Pop’ by UNCUT Magazine [2003].
The new Vinny Peculiar album ‘Sometimes I feel like a King’ is released on 26.6.09 [digital] and 4.8.09 [physical] on Shadrack and Duxbury records.- the first single from the album is UNIFORM [released 11/5/09- see VIDEO BELOW- single available via itunes
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Edinburgh Festival Live Review
With his flat cap, florid blouse and fidgety nervous energy pitched somewhere between Andy Warhol and Jarvis Cocker, there's an anarchic elegance to Vinny Peculiar which is both at once both thrilling and faintly unsettling. The Manchester troubadour is a veteran from the city's anti-folk circuit specialising in glam-tinged kitchen sink vignettes. Storming through a set of oblique, tortured punk poetry, he wins over an initially skeptical crowd with his animated delivery and taut, frenetic pop hooks. Channeling all that eccentricity and barbed wit into something strangely compelling Vinny Peculiar is the sort of unlikely, heroic pop star they just don't seem to make anymore. *****
21/11/09 Cellar Club - Liverpool 27/11/09 The Mad Ferret - Preston 06/12/09 Fuel Cafe Bar - Withington Manchester 18/12/09 41 King Street - Blackburn 27/12/09 The Variety - Preston 07/01/10 The Imperial - Chorley
"To Hell With Fashion" by Vinny Peculiar & The Blue Poppies of Ambrosia on my radio show, The British Breakfast on WRIR 97.3FM Richmond, Virginia USA this Saturday and streamed live on www.wrir.org from 9-11AM EST which is 5 hours behind UK Time. Be sure to check out my other show, Songs From the Big Hair, all 80's neato stuff from 3-5PM also on Saturday EST and five hours behind the UK.
Ambrosia cries a belated Happy Birthday to you sir, from Liz, Barbara and Councillor think on Duxbury even Shadders wants to dance. Very cool gig at the deaf club by the way and hope you had a top birthday :)
Hey! Thank you so much... My EP, A Moment to Break, is now available on iTunes and Amazon. You can also join my mailing list at www.jamielynnnoon.com-- I couldn't be more grateful for the love and support! :) Always, Jamie -- www.jamielynnnoon.com www.twitter.com/jamielynnnoon www.facebook.com/jamielynnnoon
Le 3 Novembre au Gambetta, grosse soirée à ne pas manquer, 3 groupes: - Pete And Repeat - Cheers --> http://www.myspace.com/wearecheers - Wigwam Squaw --> http://www.myspace.com/wigwamsquaw 21h, 5€
HEY THERE THANX FOR THE ADD , IF YOU EVER GET TIME PLEASE HAVE A LISERN TO MY MUSIC AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK, IM BRINGING AN ALBUM OUT NEXT YEAR TOO , THANX FOR YOUR SUPPORT AVH
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