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Sunday, May 4, 2008

Featured Artist on Liverpool Acoustic

Hi all,

I'm the featured artist on Liverpool Acoustic this month. To find out more visit Liverpool Acoustic, run by the tireless music champion Graham Holland, on www.liverpoolacoustic.co.uk

Enjoy

Al

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Saturday, March 29, 2008

Listen Up At The Merseyside Derby

If you're going to the Liverpool v Everton derby match on Sunday then keep your ears open while you are there.

A dickiebird that was stood upon a grapevine tells me that The Alun Parry Band will be played at half time!!

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Friday, March 21, 2008

Carling Gig: Thank You All

Just wanted to thank everyone who came along for our first Liverpool gig of the year at the Carling Academy last night.

You lot were fantastic! What a great crowd! We had loads of fun.

Thanks to you all from The Alun Parry Band.

P.S. Great nah nah nahhhing.

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Friday, March 14, 2008

These little town blues....

A note for your internet diaries my fellow geeks and nerds of a musical persuasion: I'll be played to the good people of New York City on Saturday night as part of Rock Land World Radio's Liverpool Zone show.

Links between the Big Apple and the Pool of Life have always been strong so tune in and have a listen to New York's regular tribute to all things musically Scouse.

It's on Saturday 15 March at 7pm our time, its at www.rocklandworldradio.com and is hosted by Jann Turner - and if you miss it there's even a listen again feature so you can hear my dulcit tones across the New York airwaves at a later date.

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Friday, February 22, 2008

New Lineup For The Alun Parry Band

The Alun Parry Band has a new lineup this year, with a reluctant departure and some fab additions.

First of all, 'bassface' himself Chad Draper is sadly no longer with the band. Chad has been with us for most of last year, and played bass on the Liverpool 800 EP. You'll also hear him tinkling the ivories on the Coming Home track, and he pitched in with some guitar work and additional engineering on True Love Of Mine too.

Reluctantly on our part and his, Chad has moved on in order to focus on his studies. We all wish him well. A good mate and a hugely talented musician.

Happily, we have been very fortunate to find Stu Thompson so quickly, who is the new bassist for The Alun Parry Band. Stu is an excellent bassist with many years experience who has learned the songs quicker than any of us expected him to. He's also very quickly become part of the band in an offstage sense too. It's always important in a band to play music with people who you get on with.

Thankfully, Stu is a top bloke as well as a top bassist. So this is his official welcome aboard. Stu played his first live gig with the band last night at The Dry Bar in Manchester. For pics, visit the gallery

In addition we have two new additions who will be guesting with us at as many gigs as they can make. Barry Briercliffe is joining us on backing vocals. Barry is an accomplished singer songwriter in his own right, and has recently released an excellent album 'When All You Need Is Answers.' My voice and his seem to blend really well, and he's good fun too!

Gina LeFaux is a fiddler of such ability that no superlative would do her justice. An exiled Scouser who we have managed to lure back for gigs and rehearsals, Gina is another who adds to the fun inside a practice room, and again is a singer songwriter in her own right too.

You'll be seeing a lot of Barry and Gina at forthcoming gigs, and of course you'll be seeing Stu at them all, so I felt it was time to formally introduce you all. "How do you do."

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Friday, February 8, 2008

Named in Top 10 Liverpool Bands

The well regarded Music To Die For blog has named The Alun Parry Band in its Top 10 of the best current Liverpool bands, alongside the likes of The Zutons and Candie Payne.

We're number 7 in fact. Just like Kenny Dalglish!!

To read the full blog and see who else made the list click here

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Sunday, February 3, 2008

A Blue Plaque For A Working Class Hero

Browsing away on the LabourNet UK website today brought a story that grabbed my interest. Robert Tressell, the author of the fabulous Socialist novel 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' has had a blue plaque officially dedicated to him today on the anniversary of his death.

The book is a Socialist classic that has sold at least 1.1 million copies. It is also my favourite book of all time by a country mile. Every time I read it, it gets better. If you haven't read it yet then you really must. Some of the talks from the main character Owen are so well explained that the world has the fog effortlessly lifted from it.

Robert died in Liverpool in 1911 at the age of 40 and is buried at Walton Park Cemetery in a pauper's grave. He died from TB at the Old Royal Liverpool Infirmary.

I knew that Robert had died from TB (my paternal grandfather died of the same illness, also at a similarly young age). Yet I didn't realise that he died in the very place I used to work.

The Old Royal Infirmary was later used by the University of Liverpool, and when I worked there my office was in one of the old wards. I remember the open day that was held, when elderly people wondered around the building, pointing at my desk and yelling "ooooo that's where my bed was!!"

Isn't it odd that this hero of mine should have died in the place where I used to earn my living, and I didn't even know it until now.

Liverpool TUC are running a project whereby funds are raised so that a hardback copy of the book is available to any Merseyside school that wants a copy. For any parents or teachers reading this, make sure your school takes full advantage.

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