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Neil Pritchard

About Me

Hello, my name is Neil Pritchard, a freelance graphic designer and songwriter living on the Wirral near Liverpool where i live with my wife and three ten year old children.
Solo acoustic shows are a loud, energtic, heady mix of original material, covers of songs i'd wished i'd written plus the usual meaningless banter. A jolly, sweat-soaked affair, with crowd participation openly encouraged.
Now currently in the process of writing and recording in the studio with singer/songwriting partner Alan Armstrong as 'Greenbacks' producing a whiter-than-white brand of hook-laiden four minute pop songs, inspired by love, loss, fatherhood, Rich Tea Fingers, the wonderful landscape of Northern England and beauty queens from the 70's.
This page is dedicated more to the acoustic side of my songwriting and live local shows, — take a meander over to 'Greenbacks' page for the band stuff.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 16/09/2006
Band Members: Play mainly solo, but write with Alan Armstrong under the guise of Greenbacks (yes, i know the album’s late...)
Influences: Neil Finn, The Smithereens, Squeeze, The Mutton Birds, Death Cab for Cutie, Cherry Ghost, Neil Young, Aimee Mann, Jimmy Webb, Glen Campbell, The Jayhawks.
Sounds Like: all of / none of the above.
Record Label: Square Lemon
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Never eard of ya mate.....Can ya play any Kooks?

Been very quiet this year on the music/gigging front, mainly due to my heart being broken by the untimely death of my best mate and dad, Roy Pritchard. Also recently been concentrating on setting up m...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:07:00 GMT

Santa does exist...

Well here we are again, The magic night that is Christmas Eve 2007. Kids tucked up in bed waiting for Santa. Our three are nearly ten (triplets) and this year will almost certainly be the last time th...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:28:00 GMT

New Material

The writing with Alan Armstrong is continuing to produce songs which i have to say, are sounding pretty pleasing to my ears. (We finished writing the latest 'What She Leaves Behind' last night in the...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:02:00 GMT

House parties

Played a few house parties recently, which i have to say are great fun. Live music at parties are becoming increasingly popular and the solo acoustic nature of my live stuff, lends itself nicely to th...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:39:00 GMT

Vauxhall Firenzas and Coffee Froths....

Been really enjoying writing a new batch a of songs with Alan Armstrong. The sessions over the last month and a half have spawned (even though i say it myself) some great co-writes and have renewed m...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:53:00 GMT

Folk singing in Glasgow.

Here's the thing. I've spent a lot of time in Glasgow the last five years or so, my wife Karen and me have made some very good friends there. I've come to the conclusion that Liverpool and Glasgow wer...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:26:00 GMT

Lordy Gayton and his new Gibson Hummingbird

Played Terrace C last Friday for the first time... a very stylish bar/resy in Heswall on the Wirral. A stones throw away from my house (ie. within staggering distance after 34 Pints of Magners). A ver...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:59:00 GMT