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,
Sounds Like
'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.
BATMAN- Live acoustic version with the Rev Tim Browne, - from the album Goodbye My Angry Friend, Pronoia Records 2007
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].
He is currently collaborating on a new project incorporating theatre and spoken word-scapes with Salford chanteuse Stella Grundy [Intastella].
The new Vinny Peculiar album ‘Sometimes I feel like a King’ is released on 26.6.09 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. *****
hey yeah the 17th sounds good-you got details for it yet?? Just been offered a new job so waiting to start in an older peoples home, doing activites co-ordinating, thinking of giving them some music workshops and try and steer clear of the obvious (eg bingo) how are you doing? got any notts/leeds/brum/manc gigs coming up? x
WE'VE GOT LOADS ON IN JUNE / JULY SO HERE'S JUST A HANDFUL OF THE GIGS SO FAR - CHECK THE MYSPACE PAGE OUT FOR THE FULL LISTINGS
ADVANCE TICKETS
July 2nd - The Dead Formats - new signings to Visible Noise @ Satans Hollow (16+) - £5 tickets from - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/49825
July 3rd - Decimals - Pennie from The Automatics new band @ Sub 61 (14+) - £5 tickets from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/49265
July 10th - The Heartbreaks - Formerly Seaside Riot and just seen at Academy 1 with The View - £5 tickets from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/49946
Sept 25th - Doll & The Kicks @ Sub61 - fresh from 2 sold out Apollo dates with Morrissey, D&TK returun for a headline show in Manchester - £6 from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/50385
LOTS LOTS MORE GIGS ON THE MYSPACE SO CHECK THE FULL LISTINGS......... IF YOU WANT TO PLAY A GIG FOR US MESSAGE US VIA THE MYSPACE
I've tried a couple of times to post a comment/review on itunes but had no luck. Is there a way of doing it? it could be maybe my work's computer has denied access or something...? hope you're well anyway x
Hey! Appologies if this is the second comment we've sent you recently...bit of a mix up in the bands communication :)
Anyway.. we've been a little quiet for the last few months but we are very pleased to announce our new EP is finished and up on our myspace! It's called Bright Lights and has four brand spanking new tracks to blow your mind. Please have a listen and tell us what you think and if you love it, buy it! :)
"Exciting, Striding and assured. It has an energy reminiscant of everything that was good about the Klaxons debut album.." - BBC Radio Bristol
Cheers Vinny...Things are very slow in Rabbit-world, so out of neccessity a couple of us now have a side project THE SEPARATIONS et voila www.myspace.com/separationsuk
Thank you for speeding me the new album so quickly, and for yet another wonderful chapter in the VP journey... 'Sometimes I Feel Like A King' is just wonderful and is gonna keep me occupied & enthralled for months to come. Thank you for more great music and also for being you Vinny!
SVARTE GREINER + The Sight Below + Simon Scott (former Slowdive)
Date: Thursday 2nd July 2009 Venue: Salford Sacred Trinity Church Tickets: £6 @ www.wegottickets.com/event/49587
Svarte Greiner (Deaf Center/Miasmah/Type) explores deep into a dark, mysterious and disturbing universe. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Earth, Volcano the Bear, David Darling & Deathprod, the music is draped in Lynchian mysticism and horror film cinematics. "The music of Svarte Greiner is practically perfect. It's like that sound in our heads we've been imagining for ages but had never actually heard." - Type Records.
The Sight Below (Rafael Anton Irisarri/Miasmah/Immune) draws as much on modern genre progenitors like Brian Eno, Robin Guthrie and My Bloody Valentine as it does from the more historic traditions in neo-classicism from Erik Satie and Olivier Messiaen. His album Glider has appeared on Thom Yorke's radar in making the Radiohead's lynchpin's top ten playlist.
His debut album Navigare soon to feature on the Miasmah label, Simon Scott (former Slowdive) is set to be a household name in conceptual music. Simon is the former Slowdive drummer, co-producer of Televise, producer of Seavault, and owner of KESH Recordings label.
I am trying my hardest to come and see you next week. you know? God, I hope that I can pull it off. Viva La Vinny x P.S - i am not sure that I am bonding with Twitter.
People of Manchester – we’re playing the delightful, Moho Live on Thursday 21st May. Their will be jugglers, taxidermy, colouring in, advanced sock puppetry…In fairness probably just music – but we may pull a few shapes! So get down! X
Check the full music and arts listings on the myspace blogs now
Day / Weekend Tickets available in person from Piccadilly Records and online from Ticketline, seetickets and wegottickets
CONFIRMED BANDS FOR 2009 INCLUDE... NINE BLACK ALPS KID BRITISH WAVE MACHINES MISTY’S BIG ADVENTURE THE TRAVELLING BAND TEN BEARS THE VORTEX THE MAYBES KARIMA FRANCIS THE JESSIE ROSE TRIP FRAZER KING CASIO KID GIDEON CONN THE GAY BLADES THE WHISKYCATS TEN BEARS ..... with around 200 bands over the weekend
**** CHECK THE MYSPACE BLOG FOR FULL MUSIC AND ARTS LISTINGS ****
hey fella - thanx for accepting our friend request! we dig the tunes and it's an honor to have you as our friend! cheers, mark and rebecca www.koirecords.com
Hello, it's that time of the month again when we add more lovely music to our site. This month's happy foursome are The Barker Band in wistful mode, the summer of love-ish Old Californio, the anything but summer love-ish Christopher Rees and, wait for it..."Travelling Salesman's Young Wife Home Alone On Christmas In Montpelier, VT" from Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, which evenr if it was rubbish (and it's not) just had to be included for the names alone.
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