Vinny Peculiar Band

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Thornton Hough Village Club presents Vinny Peculiar Band performing the classic album ‘Silver Meadows: Tales from the Institution’.

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.

The album ‘Silver Meadows : Tales from the Institution’ is a fictionalised account of his time working in a psychiatric/learning disabilities institution. The album addresses the fears and isolation of lives beyond the mainstream, a world fearful of change, impending community care, back-ward misdemeanours and meaningless ‘training’ activities. In pursuit of normalization, patients are moving on, lives are changing but not always for the better. In equal measure poignant,, witty, sad, joyful and shot through with unforgettable melodies and wordsmithery from a man at the top of his game. An album that keep on rewarding with each play.

Vinny Peculiar is described as ‘an under sung national treasure’ [UNCUT] – ‘a warm hearted Morrissey’ [Q Magazine] and ‘the missing link between Jarvis Cocker and Roger McGough’ [Irish Times] past work associations include Bill Drummond [KLF] and 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.

With special guest Greg Oldfield.