Vanilla Swingers

Music:

Member Since: 03/08/2006
Band Website: www.vanillaswingers.com
Band Members: Miles Jackson & Anne Gilpin

with
Ian Catt
Kramer
Simon Lea
Paul Jeffrey
Steve Blackmore

Guest vocalist
Johny Brown

Influences: Blonde Redhead | Dollar | Don't Stand Me Down by Dexys | Straw Dogs by John Gray | The Kills | Love | Luke Haines | Mazzy Star | New Order | Pet Shop Boys | Talk Talk
Sounds Like: "... a less cynical, more romantic, more fucked over Black Box Recorder (who crossed the road to shake hands with early Heaven 17). To my mind the most exciting band of the year, bar none" - And Before The First Kiss

"If you like your electro-pop in the style of The Dream Academy, Prefab Sprout, Talk Talk, earliest Magnetic Fields and Heaven 17 then you'll dig their album" - Some Velvet Blog

"Vanilla Swingers exist in a lineage of sophisticated, imaginative and slightly leftfield British pop music that has been overly neglected for about fifteen years in favour of dumbed-down alternatives. Think Pet Shop Boys, ABC, and The The; literate, eclectic, auteur-ish popstars, slick and professional. Probably their closest contemporary reference point, if you’re desperate for one, is Stephen Merritt’s Magnetic Fields." - Nick Southall

"Dreamy prog-popsters" - The London Paper

Record Label: Radio Ballads
Type of Label: Indie