Wirepony is birthed from the late-night mind of Patrick Dennis // joined by the players in the game // Matt Lynott, Bryan Head, David J Carpenter, Cindy Wasserman, Christopher Hoffee (co-producer), CHAOS Recorders (studio)
For information please contact
Mark Asprey [A&R] // Populuxe Records
Influences
Truckee Brothers, Serge Gainsbourg, Bowie (Especially LOW), The Waterboys, George Harrison (especially Wonderwall), The Clash, Nikki Sudden, Replacements, Louvin Brothers, CS Lewis, Cole Porter, Peter Saville, Frank Lloyd Wright, THE POGUES, Iggy Pop, Joe Strummer, The Fall, Buzzcocks, r.w. emerson, Robert Graves, Wire (of course), T-Rex, Hank Williams, Fluf, Elliot Smith, Al Green, David Lowery, World Party, I Will NOT Follow, October, Victoria Williams, Moody Blues, Vedas, Fado, George Gershwin, Sonny Boy Williamson, Bernini, greenhouses, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, the Bunnymen, Rumi, Everly Brothers, water...rivers of it, REM (first 4 records), AM Radio (late 70's), Led Zepplin, Johnny Cash, Psalms, Alex Chilton, Steve Earle, Factory Records, Pete Townshend, Jung, Camus, Rodin, O, Christopher Hoffee, Dead Rock West, Atom Orr, Stockport Tech, farming, Rothko, Nick Cave, a dickensian towel mill, ELO, Prince, MacAnannys, Frank Lee Drennen, Homer Gunns, Dave Sharp, Siouxsie Sioux, New Order, New Mills, Smiths, Phil Spector, Keith Richards, soil & heat, The Pan Within, Television (the band not the box), Jealous Guy, The other 3 Beatles, Jesus...oh And Mary Chain, Rocket From The Crypt, Woody Guthrie, Screenprinting (as an art), Stink, Tanner, Olivelawn, Capitol Records (RIP), Brit Rail, Gimme Shelter & Monkey Man, Proverbs (and their adaptation as WS' Sonnetts), Lucinda Williams, Leonard Cohen, Martha Wainwright, Harry Nilsson, Rubber Soul, Rough Trade, Bob Dylan, Wilco, N Yorks, Liverpool & The Mersey, tall wet pints & London nights, GnR (first 2 albums), Otis Redding, Nick Drake, Cornish Pasty, the 3 greatest songs (E, A & J), Nashville Skyline, wheat, Until We Have Faces, grapes (fermented), Sun Records, Lorca, Westerberg (again), Amtrak (hell, trains in general), Nashville, Manchester Arms, The Idiot, Queen, Christina Falk, Black Elk, the Manchester back streets, Honor Piper Dennis, Dee Brown, grain alcohol, cold rain and the wet ground, Yeats, The Casbah, William Blake, The WHO, The Undertones, Marsh Hall Farm, The Callahans, Charles Bukowski, Patti Smith, Shane McGowan (himself), Wharfedale, John Doe, X, the Southwestern Desert, Thomas Nashe, Dylan Thomas, Highway 61, Wings, Savoy Truffle, Drowning Man, Northern Soul, Staxx, Marvin Gaye, ...and the 22 books currently on the nightstand.
These are songs written during late nights after gigs, in motels, vans and early mornings in my front kitchen. Mostly live recorded @ Chaos Studios in the music-exploding town of San Diego with a couple mates from a few great bands (John Doe, Grant Lee Phillips, Plimsouls, Ross Golan & Molehead and Abandoned Pools) joining me to be my rythym and magnetize this record in just 3 days. All about relationship, politic, fear, the world around us, hope and discovery...at least that's what's been in my mind all this time.
"I got a copy and got so excited. I just kept thinking, that's it, that's the sound! It's like the sky just opened up..."
- Lisa Sanders : from Union Tribune feature article
"...a penchant for poetry and intricate melodies, and weaves them both into songs that pulse with drama and detail."
- Karla Petersen : San Diego Union Tribune
"[Rock n roll] has got to have a reason to believe. Call it soul...inspiration...the spark that makes a performer an artist. [Wirepony's] new EP has all this and more..."
- Bart Mendoza
"He sounds like he's got a Marshall stack at the back of his throat"
- Gregory Page
"[Wirepony] has the curiosity to experiment, while retaining the roots and longevity of the musical heritage that has proceeded [them]."
- San Diego Troubador
An essay on Wirepony by Frank Lee Drennen
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This is a man and a band full of contradiction.
The music is deeply personal, somtimes anthemic, self assured and tough. It is equally self desroyed and without confidence.
It swaggers, beats its chest.
Whispers a gentle carress.
To me Wirepony's songs and singing do what so
few do today: they span the full human experience.
Love and loss: vitality and fragility.
A father of the U.K., a farmer by trade; mother an American with deep Southern roots.
The music is as influenced by Woody Gutherie as it is
the Who; it's as diverse as Johnny Cash is to the
Clash.
The words are of Old England, Route 66, King Arthur,
and a still young gold rush California.
This is a band
with a strong command of words and a fullness of
heart. This is music at it's best. This is Wirepony.
you are of deepest inspiration to me my friend ! heart soul spirit loss god hope sadness-utterly engaged. your soul cries to the gods and whispers a gentle refrain.
been in manchester/stockport most weekends lately...it still sucks send me some news peaty...where did ya go? Babe Mansions and its occupants miss you x
hi there. we met at dana & bill's LR concert a few weeks back. my first taste of the truckee brothers! from there, i wandered on over here and discovered ... even more brilliant music. i'm glad i met you guys! Jessica (upstate ny)
Crazy adventures in 2007.... Here's to even more in 2008!!
My Wish for You in 2008
May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet of $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires and may happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy. May the problems you had forget your home address! In simple words ........... May 2008 be the best year of your life!!!
