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Kevin McGrother

LIVING IN AN ENID BLYTON WORLD

About Me

RELEASES
Album - Living In An Enid Blyton World (Now available - released October 2008)
Track listing: I'm Glad I'm Not Like You ... Haircut of the Century ... A Week Of Wednesdays ... Stephen ... Living In An Enid Blyton World ... Summer Starts On Sunday ... Turn Your Life Around ... The Night I Met Tracey Emin ... The Same Old Story ... You'll Never Know
£6.00 & £1.50 postage/packaging
2008 - The Sound Of Leamington Spa (Vol 7) Firestation Records compilation to include You'll Never KnowBACKGROUND
It started back in the early 1990s with Just Like Alice, raw pop songs being belted out in the pubs of North East England - chunky guitars, manic violin and glorious trumpet.
Then, after a few comings and goings and a name change it was Tickety-Boo - 'sweet, not sickly boy girl vocals', more violin and a highly regarded EP.
Then came the court case when Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and his publishers took exception to the Ticketys dropping a snatch of one of his most famous tunes into their anthemic 'Cantona'.
The band taunted the lawyers, the lawyers headed North and it all ended up at the High Court. It ended in inevitable defeat - 'they fought the lord, the lord won' and the band crumbled away.
Ten years on and Kevin McGrother, the man behind both bands has dusted down his song collection and has released a 10 song album, "Living In An Enid Blyton World".

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/25/2007
Band Website: Photography: Boy Sudlow (See top friends)
Band Members: Kevin McGrother (Words and Music, Vocals, Some Instruments); Mary Joyce (Vocals - Same Old Story); Linzi Hunter (Vocals - Living In An Enid Blyton World); Mike Frankland (All Other Instruments, Engineering & Production)
Influences: Edward Elgar ... Eric Cantona ... David Scarboro ... Terry Hall ... Amelia Fletcher ... The Pastels ... Stephen Duffy ... Pete Wylie ... Yeah Jazz ... The Weather Prophets ... Enid Blyton ... Sarah Records ... A House ... Mike McGrother ... The Lovehearts ... Robert Owen ... Elvis Presley ... Dexy's Midnight Runners ... Shandy Wildtyme ... Evan Dando ... Morrissey ... The Housemartins ... Vincent Van Gogh ... Prefab Sprout ... The Primitives ... Arthur Ransome ...
Sounds Like: "an unrepentant indie popster ... Living In An Enid Blyton World sounds like the best of British indie pop from the 80’s ... This record deserves to be blogged about on each and every English music blog, indie pop blog, webzine and fanzine." (Songs Illinois, USA)
"fab debut album ... lovely album filled with intelligent and funny lyrics. With songs ranging from jangly and catchy pop songs in an English 80’s pop tradition to some songs accompanied by only piano or accoustic guitar Kevin McGrother has created a varied album where the great songwriting is in focus." (Fraction Discs, Sweden)
"Bouncy Pop With Brains ... Poppy tunes with a peculiarly English bent (Crack magazine, England)
"Fascinating ... Intelligent and intimate ... a real talent" (North East Evening Gazette, England)

See also:
www.songsillinois.net/2008/11/indie-pop-from-kevin-mcgrother
http://madridmusic.com/360grados/?p=209 (Spanish language)
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Why I Love The Ancients

IT'S a big day for the Norton and Stockton Ancients football club. Lose today and that will be nine defeats in a row, or 'on the bounce' as I think you're supposed to say.The club plays in the second ...
Posted by Kevin McGrother on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:29:00 PST

The Great British Cheese Festival

LAST weekend I travelled down to Oxford for 'the Glastonbury of the food world' - the Great British Cheese Festival.It's a once a year opportunity to lose yourself in the fascinating world o...
Posted by Kevin McGrother on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:02:00 PST