Smiths to reform... Well sort of ;-)

Hot news! Craig Gannon has now been drafted in on second guitar. Who will be making his debut with the band on the Janis Long's BBC radio 2 show on Tues 10th May.

Friday 17th June : Manchester Bier Keller 77 Picadilly M1 2BH Doors 9-2 The two fat lovers party, huge ticket price reductions available just email [email protected] for guest places

UK & Ireland Release date 23rd May 2005
Shadrack and Duxbury Records
cat.SADCD003 distributed by Nova via Pinnacle

Available at H.M.V. Virgin.etc

Two Fat Lovers b/w Dirty Old Man 'Louise' is the new single from Manchester's other punk poet and glam-pop maestro Vinny Peculiar; famously christened by UNCUT Magazine as ’the Tony Hancock of Pop’. This landmark release from Vinny is the first to feature the sublime talents of former Smiths rhythm section, Andy Rourke [the bass guitar] and Mike Joyce [the drums] who joined forces with Vinny after seeing him perform at his regular Manchester club night The Kitchen Sink Disco. The line up is completed by Ben Knott [World of Twist] on keyboards. Two Fat Lovers was recorded in Gothenburg, Sweden and produced by Spooner and Kalle Gustaffeson of The Soundtrack Of Our Lives. It's a poignant and humorous take on the daily grind of love lives automated by routine but given an extra twist with it being from the angle of a couple of fatties ! Musically the single has you imagining The Go- Betweens jamming with The Kinks - infectious, driving and melodic. Vinny sings it like he lives it; the song concluding with a typically barbed yet undeniably Peculiar lyric serving as a gentle warning to the comfort eaters of tomorrow they’re going home to bacon and eggs, they can’t buy their clothes off the pegs, and as the years pass them by they get the nasty friction burn to the thigh'.
The band recently completed tours of the UK and Ireland with more dates being scheduled to tie in with the release. A new album entitled ’Kiss Me I’m a Social Worker’ is expected to hit the shelves in the summer.

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