Vinny Peculiar - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Vinny has toured UK and European theatres with the likes of Malcolm Middleton, Edwyn Collins, British Sea Power, Soundtrack of Our Lives and Durutti Column. A regular Glastonbury compere he was christened 'the Tony Hancock of Pop' by UNCUT MAGAZINE.
MOST of the albums are available from itunes
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'GOING GOING GONE' [Bughouse/album/1998],
'NON COMPLIANCE' [Shadrack and Duxbury/album/2000],
'SUICIDE DAD'[Uglyman/single/2001],
'IRONINGTHE SOUL' [Hug/album/2002],
'JESUS STOLE MY GIRLFRIEND' [Hug/Single/2003],
'GROWING UP WITH VINNY PECULIAR' [Shadrack and Duxbury/album/2004]
'REPLICA SHIRT' [Shadrack and Duxbury/single/2004],
'TWO FAT LOVERS' [Shadrack and Duxbury/single/2005],
'WHATEVER HAPPENED TO VINNY PECULIAR' [Shadrack and Duxbury/album/2005].
'THE FALL AND RISE OF VINNY PECULIAR' [onsong/album/2006]
New Album- GOODBYE MY ANGRY FRIEND- release date 10.3.08 on Pronoia Records www.pronoia-records.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/11/2006
Band Website: vinnypeculiar.com
Band Members:
Vinny Peculiar-Singer songwriter + amateur instrumentalist

past and present creative associates include Mike Joyce [the Smiths], Rob Ferrier [Record Producer] Tim Metcalf [designer], Craig Gannon [Aztec Camera], Bonehead [Oasis], Ben Knott [Jeep], Tim Browne [Producer and Multi Instrumentalist], Bill Drummond [KLF, Soup Artist], Andy Rourke [the Smiths], Neil Carter [Two Way Street], Nick Robinson [Instant Karma], Stevie O Owen [Film Maker, Photographer, Musician], Leah Wilkes [Singer],

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Influences: The Auteurs, Be Bop Deluxe, Neil Young, Christo, Magazine, David Bowie, The Kinks, Talking Heads, Baby Bird, Divine Comedy, Charles Bukowski, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Eels, Richard Brautigan, XTC, Billy Liar, The Blue Nile, The Methodist Sankey Hymnbook, Joni Mitchell, Prefab Sprout, The Likely Lads, The Who, Tony Benn, Magnetic Fields, Scott Walker, Sparklehorse, Television, Vic Chestnutt, The Velvet Underground, Will Self, Elton John [before he went all silly], Claus Oldenberg, The Byrds, Leonard Rossiter, Phillip Larkin, Bill Drummond, Roy Harper, A House, Alan Bennet, Jim Wilkes,
Sounds Like:
A songwriter of quality who deserves to be taken seriously' ****Q MAGAZINE- Jan 2008

A bracing sourness redolent of Stephen Merritt, elswhere bittersweet basement Bowie of bedit dwelling stripe' **** THE INDEPENDENT Jan 2008

'Like Vic Chesnutt tooled up for an armed robbery' ****'Irish Times',

'Adrian Mole the Opera as scored by Leonard Cohen'****'UNCUT MAGAZINE'

' If Tony Hancock had made pop records they would have sounded like this'. UNCUT MAGAZINE ****

Record Label: shadrack and duxbury/pronoia
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Check out this video: The Happiest Man in the World

Check out this video: The Happiest Man in the World From a session Tim Browne and I recorded in Blackburns Media Centre in January 2008 'whatever makes you happy?'...
Posted by Vinny Peculiar on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:17:00 PST

Lazy Bohemians

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=amSMTemqQMo ...
Posted by Vinny Peculiar on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:50:00 PST

Fully House Trained

The hottest day without sun seems to have triggered latecomer's hay fever, I mean, I never used to suffer, but my eyes are so watery I can hardly see out of them and I'm sneezing all the time. Well, s...
Posted by Vinny Peculiar on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:18:00 PST

The Prestwich Papers

The gig is close by, five minutes down the motorway and you're sorted so hoorah for that says the lazy driver to the mineral water drinker, or in tonight's case a pint of tap and some ice will do nic...
Posted by Vinny Peculiar on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:40:00 PST

hairy car theft audio classic

My cars up the creek without a gearbox and its costing me an arm and a leg to fix it, you might well know this already as I am prone to moan when it comes to anything mechanical. My sense of mechanic...
Posted by Vinny Peculiar on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:55:00 PST

Connected

I was doing one of those random Google searches the other day, you know the kind, when you find yourself wondering what happened to the girl you lost your virginity to, or some kid you did awful th...
Posted by Vinny Peculiar on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:39:00 PST

Music on a Saturday

I love to listen to music every now and then, as opposed to fretting and whinging about creating the stuff which I seem to be doing more and more of late. I like to listen in the car but also when I...
Posted by Vinny Peculiar on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:25:00 PST

Manchester Radio

Tonight's directions from John, studio manager at mancheseter radio online are so good I could have driven here with my eyes closed, kind of. There's nothing like a good old chin wag noting down the ...
Posted by Vinny Peculiar on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:23:00 PST

Willard Grant

I'm in a café called Love or Cup or something equally abrupt, its one of the newer ones in the northern quarter that sells bric-a-brac from the 70's. It feels like a San Francisco thrift store...
Posted by Vinny Peculiar on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:36:00 PST

Cleaning up My Act

I am cleaning up two weeks worth of home life mess as my partner returns from overseas tomorrow and I want to impress her. I always feel like this when she goes away. I wonder if she does when I do, ...
Posted by Vinny Peculiar on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:51:00 PST