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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'
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If Tony Hancock had made pop records they would have sounded like this'. UNCUT MAGAZINE ****
NEW ALBUM 'Sometimes I Feel Like a King in Spite of Myself' due Feb 2009 [Shadrack and Duxbury].
Vinny has toured with the likes of, Edwyn Collins, British Sea Power, Soundtrack of Our Lives and Durutti Column. A regular Glastonbury compere he was christened 'the Tony Hancock of Pop' by UNCUT MAGAZINE.
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. *****
MOST of the albums are available from itunes ..
'GONE' [Bughouse/album/1998],
'NON COMPLIANCE' [Shadrack and Duxbury/album/2000],
'SUICIDE DAD'[Uglyman/single/2001],
'IRONINGTHE SOUL' [Hug/album/2002],
'JESUS STOLE MY GIRLFRIEND' [Hug/Single/2003],
'GROWING UP WITH VINNY PECULIAR' [Shadrack and Duxbury/album/2004]
'REPLICA SHIRT' [Shadrack and Duxbury/single/2004],
'TWO FAT LOVERS' [Shadrack and Duxbury/single/2005],
'WHATEVER HAPPENED TO VINNY PECULIAR' [Shadrack and Duxbury/album/2005].
'THE FALL AND RISE OF VINNY PECULIAR' [onsong/album/2006]
GOODBYE MY ANGRY FRIEND- Pronoia Records [Jan2008]
Vinny Peculiar and Tim Browne- Live acoustic session,The Happiest Man in the World
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What am I talking about there? Dear me, I've lost it!
Not salfordmusic, was it channel m, or something local? I definitely saw it though, and I've heard some of your material on the radio. I really like it.
But yes, I am doing salfordmusictv next week, so when it's up and running I'd love your thoughts on it!
I listened to 'Sperm Donor' last eve along with a cool glass of white wine. Is a lovely sounding song, love the vocals on the chorus & the haunting organ sound which reminded me of the sound on Procal Harlem's 'Whiter Shade of Pale' which I've always loved & yes,the lyrics were also very relative as you know!!!
Ta Vinny, yeah Judy seems to affect a lot of people when I do it live, one of those songs that came out of the ether, from nowhere. Spain is great, very very hot right now, we spend a lot of time sipping gins in the shade. x
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