Member Since: 10/24/2005
Band Website: flipron.co.uk
Band Members:
Jesse Budd - Vocals, guitar, lap steel, accordion, harmonica, ukulele, mandolin, dobro & clarinet
Joe Atkinson - Organ, piano, some guitar, accordion, backing vocals.
Greg Shepheard - Bass guitar & producer/ engineer of Flipron recordings
Mike - Drums, percussion & backing vocals
Management: Phil Taylor - [email protected]
Influences:
In no particular order & in a constantly revolving heirarchy, the following artists, albums, writers, composers, situations & objects have had a definite, conscious influence on the songwriting, arrangements, playing & presentation of Flipron:
Sopwith Camel/The Miraculous Hump Returns From The Moon, Zombies/Odessey & Oracle, Nick Cave/The Good Son/Let Love In, Modern Lovers/Modern Lovers & J.Richman generally, Incredible String Band/Liquid Acrobat As Regards The Air & most of their other albums, Scott Walker/Scott 2, Damned/Machine Gun Etiquette & Strawberries, Pink Floyd/Piper at the Gates of Dawn & Syd Barrett & early Pink Floyd in general, Kaleidoscope/Side Trips, S.Wonder/Innervisions, Beefheart/Safe As Milk/Ice Cream For Crow, Bowie/Hunkydory, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown/Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Tom Waits/Swordfishtrombones/Alice & Waits generally, Leonard Cohen/I'm Your Man & early stuff, Violent Femmes first three albums, Morricone/Fistful of Dollars, AC/DC,Grateful Dead/American Beauty, Byrds/Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, the writings of Kenneth Patchen, the Kinks, Ian Dury, Jacques Brel, Os Mutantes, Magazine, Naftule Brandwein, Sol Hoopii, John Fahey, Them & Van Morrison, everything the Velvet Underground ever touched, the Sonics, Thelonious Monk, Lee Hazlewood, the poems of Lee Harwood, Giant Sand/Howe Gelb, Pali Lakatos & his Gipsy Orchestra, Willy Dixon, Go-Betweens, Roy Smeck, Gram Parsons, Madness, Michel Legrand, the poems of Anselm Hollo, F.Garcia Lorca, Rimbaud, Kurt Schwitters, Georg Trakl, & L.Ferlinghetti, New York Dolls, Basil Henriques, Dexys Midnight Runners, Toots & the Maytals, Durutti Column, Perez Prado, Bob Dylan, Bob Brozman, Henry Mancini, Specials, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Stray Cats, Ray Manzarek, Billy Preston, Camper Van Beethoven, Wout Steenhuis, Jim & Bob the Genial Hawaiians, Small Faces, the Animals, Rory McLeod, Charles Trenet, to name some of our most special favourites....
In general we love Chicago Blues, Klezmer, Chanson, Romanian Gypsy Accordions, Tangos, Bollywood themes, Western Swing, finger-in-the-ear-folk songs, almost anything Hawaiian -from crazy 1910s & 1920s hulas to the pre-digested cheese records of the 60s & 70s, & you'll find charity shop records, old books & hats, crumbling antique taxidermy, graveyards, hospitals, zimmerframes, expensive wine, pets & ostentatious shoes informing the Flipron aesthetic. But it won't give you indigestion....
Sounds Like: BISCUITS FOR CERBERUS
the best record of 2006.
Alison Wenham (CEO, AIM) in Music Week.
Flipron could become the house band on the ghost ship in the next instalment of Pirates of the Caribbean. Someone tell Johnny Depp.
The Independent
woozy bohemian pop massacre...brilliant but frankly unclassifiable.
Daily Telegraph
in 1972 this would have been seen as eccentricity of the highest order - in 2006 they might as well sticker this record with "Don't buy this - it's a bit mad." Good work.
Classic Rock.
a recipe of psychadelic instrumentation and fairytale-like lyrical rhymes leave a strangely addictive taste in the mouth. an increasingly infectious listen.
Music Week
if Syd Barrett were still alive, he'd probably be in this band.
www.theirishworld.com
a refreshingly mind-expanding experience with tunes that stick in your head like Velcro on a particularly well-made pair of trainers.
www.soundsxp.com.
the best wordsmith in the UK...immerse yourself in their world and celebrate a true national treasure.
www.mickmercer.com
the album that Paul McCartney might have made if Linda had let him stay on acid.
www.unpeeled.co.uk
one thing's for sure, there won't be anything like this in your music collection.
www.gigwise.com
mixing Hanna Barbera with Tim Burton, you'll struggle to find a band as original and fascinating as Flipron.
www.musicomh.com
an outstanding piece of work by a band truly unafraid of the unconventional.
www.neonbuzz.net
perhaps the first truly eccentric figures of the 21st century.
www.classicrocksociety.net
this is a fabulous record...essential listening.
www.shakenstir.co.uk
FANCY BLUES AND RUSTIQUE NOVELTIES
its a treat to encounter a genuinely uncategorisable group.
Charles Shaar Murray - The Observer Music Monthly 4/5
wonderful, a mini-masterpiece, like Madness produced by Joe Meek. Flipron are one of those bands that I cannot believe are not blasting out of radios and appearing on Top of the Pops and Popworld. Heaven knows, the whole music scene would be a much brighter and interesting place if they were.
www.musicomh.com
Tom Waits doubtless has this album on his iPod.
www.robotfist.com
a modern Alex Harvey, get this now, its stunning.
www.mickmercer.com
like The Auteurs meets The Small Faces, a seriously funny record full of wicked tricks.
www.playlouder.com
I love this album, the songs are great... go out and buy it.
www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk
brilliant! you want tunes, you got tunes, there's a disregard for creative limits going on here.
www.artrocker.com
a joyous realisation that being eclectic does not necessarily involve a pretentious pre-planned approach to music-making.
www.angryape.com
all in all the most creative collection of enigmatic delights I have heard this side of Halloween.
www.spillonline.com
that rarest of things, an inspired pop record with haunting yet witty lyrics. This is a marvellous album.
www.themindsconstruction.com
truly quite a find, which all discerning music fans need to hear.
www.whisperinandhollerin.com
Record Label: www.tinydog.co.uk
Type of Label: Indie