These are songs written during late nights after gigs, in motels, vans and early mornings in my front kitchen. Mostly live recorded @ Chaos Studios in the music-exploding town of San Diego with a couple mates from a few great bands ( John Doe , Grant Lee Phillips , Plimsouls , Ross Golan & Molehead and Abandoned Pools ) joining me to be my rythym and magnetize this record in just 3 days. All about relationship, politic, fear, the world around us, hope and discovery...at least that's what's been in my mind all this time. Co-Produced and engineered by Truckee Brother and Atom Orr mastermind, Christopher Hoffee we're nearly at the starting line with the new WIREPONY release ready to put into your hands. It will all be coming in October '07... : P
PRESS SHORTS
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"I got a copy and got so excited. I just kept thinking, that's it, that's the sound! It's like the sky just opened up..."
- Lisa Sanders : from Union Tribune feature article
"...a penchant for poetry and intricate melodies, and weaves them both into songs that pulse with drama and detail."
- Karla Petersen : San Diego Union Tribune
"[Rock n roll] has got to have a reason to believe. Call it soul...inspiration...the spark that makes a performer an artist. [Wirepony's] new EP has all this and more..."
- Bart Mendoza
"He sounds like he's got a Marshall stack at the back of his throat"
- Gregory Page
"[Wirepony] has the curiosity to experiment, while retaining the roots and longevity of the musical heritage that has proceeded [them]."
- San Diego Troubador
An essay on Wirepony by Frank Lee Drennen
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This is a man and a band full of contradiction.
The music is deeply personal, somtimes anthemic, self assured and tough. It is equally self desroyed and without confidence.
It swaggers, beats its chest.
Whispers a gentle carress.
To me Wirepony's songs and singing do what so few do today: they span the full human experience.
Love and loss: vitality and fragility.
A father of the U.K., a farmer by trade; mother an American with deep Southern roots.
The music is as influenced by Woody Gutherie as it is the Who; it's as diverse as Johnny Cash is to the Clash.
The words are of Old England, Route 66, King Arthur, and a still young gold rush California.
This is a band with a strong command of words and a fullness of heart. This is music at it's best. This is Wirepony.
f. l. drennen.
Los Angeles