Member Since: 10/21/2006
Band Members: orlando seale: vocals, guitar;pete blythe: guitar;martin radford: cello;michael cw: keyboard;bob collins: bass;neil penny: trumpet;nick kingsley: guitar;rhiannon tripp: kazoo;e g: inspiration
Influences: folk i love include...eliott smith, the white stripes, pulp, piaf, vincent delerme, bowie, jeff buckley, dylan, belle and sebastian, the shins, inara george, george brasens, nick cave, the libertines, fiona apple, led zepplin, joni mitchell, the arcade fire, inara george, the ditty bops, squeeze, laura marling, shakespeare, chaucer, coleridge, marlowe, donne, baudelaire, flaubert, balzac, villon, the underground, my bicycle, london, paris, france, sea, hills etc etc...
Sounds Like: "The perfect end to the evening was Orlando Seale, a
singer songwriter who specialises in songs about
suicide and other tragedies. The fact that his show is
highly entertaining could be a reflection on what a
sick lot we are. Then again, it could be that the
songs are superb and his backing band of piano,
trumpet, guitar, cello and violin are equally so. I
saw him last November at the Troubadour, and he did
many of the great songs again; notably “Christmas
Songâ€, “I Have Forgotten†“Beautiful Moron†(assisted
by Lady Anatomica!), “Devils Bathâ€, and “Melancholy
Shop Girlâ€; all dark comedy masterpieces to which you
could either laugh or cry. This man combines Noel
Coward, Gershwin, Cole Porter, Randy Newman, Tom
Waites, David Byrne and Morrisey, and succeeds in
being different to all of them. See him and his
amazing band at your earliest opportunity."' masterpieces of the macabre'
Peter Coulston (seatwave)
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None