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OK...think Elliott Smith, the Lemonheads and the Velvet Underground...Centred around the songwriting of band-leader Lance, Cusack is the name under which he has traded both as a solo performer and with previous line ups.'Cusack is pretty much me and whoever else turns up...'Lance hopes that this current band will stand the test of time as he thinks they are capable of rocking both hard AND gently, though not at the same time. We've tied in the lo-fi acoustic-more folky or countryish side of what I do to a band that can also make a hearty garage noise...'The four-piece band where fuzz bass, country-rock, garage-gospel and gutbucket-blues meet the sweetest of tunes are currently not featured musically on this page as yet - but here's some my solo cusack stuff for you...enjoy!!!********************************************** **************************** !!!Cusack track 'Audrey Hepburn' now available on 'What's Kickin' Vol1 CD!!! For full details see related blog item above or visit: http://www.zingg.co.uk - there's a link over there....not there...OVER THERE! That's it. ************************************************************ ************** 'Audrey Hepburn' is also now available for download from www.msoundz.com for a whopping 79 pence. If I get in the Msoundz Top Ten I get a mention in both Q Magazine and the NME...yowzer. Whilst you're there - grab tunes by the fabbo Virgo Intacta and Phoenix Motorcade - ciao f'now, darlings. More info on the blog thingy. ************************************************************ ************** A coupla nice reviews have just come in. For quick links to read the whole reviews - please see the Cusack Review Blog above. The Americana UK website said of the What's Kickin' CD: ********** 'Cusack's 'Audrey Hepburn', a song which Simon and Garfunkel would have killed for in their prime'. ********** ...and from www.musicomh.com - a review taken from the tunes on this very page: ********** 'killer lyric's full of self-depreciating wit and longing. The melody is pure sliver, the vocals hushed like a confession. There are shades of the Lemonheads bruised beauty and a hint of the stripped down country of Smog' ************************************************************ ************** Please visit our off-shoot rock band over at www.myspace.com/jawsiv

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Member Since: 12/1/2005
Band Website: zingg.co.uk
Band Members: Lance - songs & vocals & guitars B - vocals & drums & guitar & just about anything else to hand Matt 'Fudge Slices' McGain - bass & fuzz & drums 'Calypso' Mat Boulter - lap steel, banjo, guitar and vocals
Influences: Pavement, Malkmus, Silver Jews, Eels, Will Oldham, American Music Club, Buffallo Tom, Lemonheads, Evan Dando, Elliott Smith, Simon & Garfunkel, Velvet Underground, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Dylan, Buzzcocks, The Pursuit Of Happiness, the Smiths, White Stripes, Kinks, Billy Bragg, PUB ROCK!, REM, Teenage Fanclub, Karl Wallinger, The Go-Betweens, Prefab Sprout, Tom Waits, Smog, The Blue Nile, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ben Folds, Nick Drake, Tim Buckley, PJ Harvey....too many to mention... Also - for the celluloid inspiration - shout out to Joel & Ethan Cohen, Wes Anderson, Stephen Spielberg, Mike Leigh, Gus Van Sant, Michael Moore, Spike Lee, Zach Braff Peter Cook, Alan J Pakula, De Palma, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen...this is getting ridiculous now.....for the pulp - Nick Hornby, Donna Tartt and about 12000 others thangyew g'night!
Sounds Like: Hear for yourself - Cusack plays EVERY THURSDAY AT SHANGRI-LA, THE RAILWAY HOTEL, CLIFFTOWN ROAD, SOUTHENDCusack sounds like all the above...and like nothing else you've ever heard in your life. Yup, right....ok....let's see....'Intimate', 'Laid Back' and 'Groovy' (thanks Gretchen)! Imagine Simon & Garfunkel singing songs by Evan Dando and Tom Morgan with Spritualized, or the Velvet Underground playing back-up band. I also owe a musical debt to Eels and Peter Buck whose theory of guitar playing I adhere to entirely...'Three Chords and a Cloud of Dust'....
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