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Brian Connell

About Me



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*The Sordid* is the first album to be released on Connell’s label, Looky Here Records. The idea for the title track came from the comic “The Sordid,” which was drawn and written by Connell’s friend John Dermot Woods. The artwork for the album includes drawings from the comic. The two have since been working on their first full collaboration, a book of new comics accompanied by an album featuring a song for each comic.Connell's second album is forthcoming. Brian Connell performs "The Sordid" solo at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia, PA. ************************************************************ **********"Brian Connell is perhaps the best kind of dreamboat--one who is already betting on intimacy's work lasting longer than the glitter of high winds and long kisses. His songs hint at the golden lining of beginnings, but focus more fully on the entropy that he insists is where romance can be trusted in its exposure. These are not odes to melodrama or highliving. Connell's voice is plaintive, and he howls and croons not to sweep you off your feet, but to make your gut swing because he can call you on the lost moments of driving your car, standing at a party, cutting coupons, lost in the whammy of the world and one's place in it. Grandiose. Yes. The stuff of literature. Yes. These are odes to our empty pantries--the ones only holding candied yams and rice--that are in most homes, both the happy and the sordid." --Danielle Roderick, *Apostrophe Cast*

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Member Since: 21/01/2006
Band Members: Brian Connell: guitar and harmonica, Jordan Noel: drums, Steve Grubbs: guitar.
Sounds Like: fictions
Record Label: Looky Here Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

forever is not long enough.

There was nothing in the watchmans faceor in the sound of thesaxophone being played in the alley behind us, or in the way the lightfrom the restaurant hit the pavement below our feet, or on the face...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:04:00 GMT

fourth floor, please.

by 2:15 we had spent most of the day in elevators. going up to here anddown to there. sometimes our spirits rose when we were going up, butsometimes, in a reversal, they fell. one time, on our way dow...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:10:00 GMT

Apostrophe Cast

http://apostrophecast.com/authors/brianconnell.html
Posted by on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:07:00 GMT

I am about to put my finger on it...

...There are no Scorpios here. That is the problem.
Posted by on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:44:00 GMT

I Once Believed in You...

...with all of your glorious mirth and mocktails and let's get it on-edness, but you lost me somewhere among the Neil Sedaka record and the winky-winky and the alarm clock. Now all there is is now -- ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:43:00 GMT

There is a Flagpole in Athens...

...and it has written something very nice about me. Click here to get the scoop. 
Posted by on Wed, 09 May 2007 19:50:00 GMT

Everything is Rising

The sun, climbing the sky, caused the flower petals in the box outside my window to stand at attention, freeing a slumbering bumble-bee ('a slumble-bee,' I remarked to myself) who, lifting his wings, ...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:26:00 GMT

Listen to "Get Away from Myself"

Hear that song? I wrote it. I wrote it for you and for me and for Chevrolets and for really beautiful Russian women and for London Bridge. Love,Brian
Posted by on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:04:00 GMT

I am not Speaking

And the things that I'm not saying to you right now would make you blush. They'd make you cover your ears and look at the ceiling. But then you'd look back at me for just a second, to see if I were st...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:35:00 GMT

Preview Track from new album above: You Got Away

I am difficult. I am blind. The blinds are difficult. The difficulty with which I see the blinds is blinding. 
Posted by on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:32:00 GMT