Vinny Peculiar
at West End Centre, Aldershot
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Vinny Peculiar [aka Alan Wilkes] grew up in Worcestershire and trained as a nurse before signing to Manchester cult label Ugly Man records [former home to Elbow]. He’s since put out fourteen albums of literate autobiographical pop music over a twenty-year career touring band, solo and duo shows in the UK, Ireland, Europe and the US
Part Pulp, part Kinks and very much part Peculiar, his various bands have included ex members of The Smiths, OASIS, Aztec Camera & The Fall. He’s written and recorded as Parlour Flames, the band he formed in 2013 with ex OASIS rhythm guitarist Bonehead.
His latest Album "Love Freaks" is out now
Vinny will be solo for this show
‘The missing link between Jarvis Cocker and poet Roger McGough and some of the wittiest lyrics this side of Wreckless Eric’ IRISH TIMES
‘If Tony Hancock had made pop records they’d have sounded like this’ UNCUT MAGAZINE
‘Vinny Peculiar songs make you laugh and cry and think all at the same time’ TOM ROBINSON BBC 6Music
Vinny Peculiar
With his flat cap, florid blouse and fidgety nervous energy pitched somewhere between Andy Warhol and Jarvis Cocker, there's an anarchic elegance to Vinny Peculiar which is both at once both thrilling and faintly unsettling. Storming through a set of oblique, tortured punk poetry, he wins over an initially skeptical crowd with his animated delivery and taut, frenetic pop hooks. Channelling all that eccentricity and barbed wit into something strangely compelling Vinny Peculiar is the sort of unlikely, heroic pop star they just don't seem to make anymore.
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West End Centre
Queens Road
Aldershot
GU11 3JD
- Website:
- westendcentre.co.uk
- Disabled Booking:
- 01252 330040
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West End Centre
Queens Road
Aldershot
GU11 3JD
- Website:
- westendcentre.co.uk
- Disabled Booking:
- 01252 330040
See all events at West End Centre
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