Member Since: 10/9/2006
Band Website: therealkeithwilson.com
Band Members: Keith Wilson : Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Harmonica, Vocals, Verbals and the best part of an hour. Roddie Gilliard : Bass humour and prawn crackers. Jay Irving : All things all-bang and equestrian statue. Mikey Smith : Regular Sax, Flute Cake and Hammond Eggs. Additional roughage provided by an electronically-tagged parcel of rogues, vagabonds, free transfers and loan deals from the dank and unsavoury end of Mockbeggar Wharf. All things considered, a cool, satisfying, multi-faceted pigeonhole-defying proposition and no mistake.
Influences: Thomas James Wilson, Jonny Wilson, Syd Barrett, Big Star, Spike Jones, Velvet Underground, the kumquat, Wreckless Eric, Bill Shankly, John Peel, Viv Stanshall, rare cheeses, The Small Faces, Bowie, Grimms, Japan, Ian Dury, horned-rimmed glasses, Lou Reed, Dwight Twilley, those Beatles, pink-rimmed Island records, The Flaming Lips, Dr. Strangely Strange, Captain Beefheart, flip-flops, Stiff Records, Jeff Buckley, Led Zeppelin, muffins, Marc Bolan, Adrian Mitchell, Stan Laurel, Vivienne Westwood, Leonard Cohen, wooden coathangers, MC5, Neil Innes, Alex Harvey, liquorice, The Kinks, The Pink Fairies, Catweazle, tippex, John’s Children, The Only Ones, Bill Nelson and the city of Liverpool.
Sounds Like: Mariella Frostrup encouraging a Byronesque fop to assemble a rather troublesome deckchair on the Royal Iris during a freak snow storm .......
Record Label: STUFF Records
Type of Label: Indie