|
Event
Goner Presents: Wreckless Eric w/ Robby Grant
GONER PRESENTS:
Wreckless Eric
w/ Robby Grant
Thursday, June 19th
Murphy's
1589 Madison Ave
$7 Admission
21+
8pm Doors
9pm Robby Grant
10pm Wreckless Eric
+ Goner DJs between sets
WRECKLESS ERIC
In his thirty-seven year career Wreckless Eric has made seventeen albums and worked with, or had his songs covered by artists as diverse as The Proclaimers, Yo La Tengo, The Blockheads (with and without Ian Dury), The Lightning Seeds, Holly Golightly, Cliff Richard, The Monkees, Ian Hunter, Die Toten Hosen and Two lone Swordsmen, to name a few.
In 2012, the painter Peter Blake named Wreckless Eric as one of the most important pop icons of the past forty years, and included him on the remake of The Beatles Sergeant Pepper's cover where he takes his place between David Hockney and Grayson Perry.
On his last ever radio show, recorded a week before he died, Lou Reed played Eric's Take The Cash and described him as magnificent.
For the past six years and three albums he has worked in partnership with his wife, the songwriter and musician Amy Rigby, under the banner Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby.
Eric has recently signed to Fire Records who started a reissue campaign beginning in December 2013 with the two albums he made back in the mid 1980s with the legendary Medway garage band The Len Bright Combo of which he was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist.
The Len Bright Combo recently reformed for a one-off date in London. A review in Shindig Magazine described the show as: "Sounding like a punked-up Big Three with Syd Barrett on guitar, a breath-taking marathon of garage-pop genius ensues, as the band tear through nineteen songs in ninety minutes."
In April 2014, to coincide with Record Store Day, Fire Records will reissue his 1989 album Le Beat Group Electrique, followed by The Donovan Of Trash in May as part of a celebration of 30 years of Fire Records combined with Eric's 60th birthday.
When not touring Eric lives in bohemian splendour in upstate New York, where he spends his time painting, writing and recording.
http://wrecklesseric.com/
ROBBY GRANT (Memphis, TN)
Robby Grant is a man who doesn't stop. He's constantly involved with music, whether playing with a band or recording at home on his four-track. The Memphis resident was guitarist/singer for Big Ass Truck from 1992-2001. During Big Ass Truck's downtime from touring and recording their third album, Grant began writing songs for himself and recording them on a four-track in his home. While on tour, Grant left a copy of the recorded demos with Yep Roc's Tor Hansen when he stayed at Hansen's house, in whose basement Yep Roc was located at the time. The result was Unleavened Bread, which Yep Roc released in 1997.
Since the run of Big Ass Truck officially came to an end, Grant has focused his time, energy, and musical efforts on two projects -- Vending Machine and Mouserocket. Grant describes Vending Machine as "basically a refinement" of what he started with Unleavened Bread -- what is mostly a solo, self-released project. Grant released three albums in 2000 as Vending Machine, all of which appeared on his own Chocolate Guitar Records. Grant started playing with Memphis indie rockers Mouserocket in 2002. - AllMusic
http://www.vendingmachineband.com/
|
|
 |
LocationMurphy's (View)
1589 Madison Ave
Memphis, TN 38104
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 21 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
|
Contact
|
