Vinny Peculiar returns to London with a full band career spanning retrospective show. Singer- songwriter Amanda Thorpe opens the night,
Vinny Peculiar [aka Alan Wilkes] grew up in Worcestershire and trained as a nurse before signing to Manchester cult label Ugly Man records [former home to Elbow]. He’s since put out thirteen albums of literate autobiographical pop music over a twenty-year career and has regularly toured band, solo and duo shows.
Variously described as – ‘an under sung national treasure’ [UNCUT] – ‘a warm-hearted Morrissey’ [Q Magazine] and ‘the missing link between Jarvis Cocker and Roger McGough’ [Irish Times] previous work associations include Bill Drummond [KLF] and his various bands have included ex members of The Smiths, OASIS, Aztec Camera & The Fall. He’s also written toured and recorded as Parlour Flames, the band he formed in 2013 with ex OASIS rhythm guitarist Bonehead.
New album How I Learned to Love the Freaks is out now..
‘Wilkes is also one of those few songwriters that can wring genuine smiles and pathos out of ordinary memories’ IRISH TIMES
‘If Tony Hancock had made pop records, they’d have sounded like this’ UNCUT MAGAZINE
Part Pulp, part Kinks, and very much part Peculiar, this is observational, punk-tinged songwriting at its best. HOT PRESS
Wildly witty with abject sadness and pathos in swathes, like a warm-hearted Morrissey no less’ INDEPENDENT
‘The missing link between Jarvis Cocker and poet Roger McGough and some of the wittiest lyrics this side of Wreckless Eric’ DAILY MIRROR
Crashing poppily through Vinnys world of nostalgia and insight every song stuffed to the gills with melody and eccentricity, clever, funny and wonderfully weird’ R2 MAGAZINE
Amanda Thorpe
Opening for Vinny Peculiar, Amanda, Serena & Dan will share the stage to present a range of their work in solo and combined form.
Amanda Thorpe is a sultry, emotionally engaging vocalist who combines folk, pop, country, and jazz into her own unique style that subtly challenges our expectations of familiar forms.
Serena Jost is a dynamic singer and cellist who writes songs that are seductive, affecting and otherworldly, “the Elizabeth Barrett Browning of avant-classical folk” (Stereo Embers)
Dan Machlin is a poet, musician and designer from New York City, “Machlin writes with virtuosity and counter-intuited beauty” (Rain Taxi)