Wankers Bring Britpop to The States Just In Time For Oasis 2025 Reunion
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / October 8, 2024 / If you're amongst the myriad of music fans who are sick and tired of paying $300 a pop - not including the Ticketmaster fee- to see your favorite original artist, and you're sick and tired of seeing the same cover bands playing Don't Stop Believing and Living on a Prayer, over and over everywhere you go, and you've plum lost track of how many Yacht Rock tributes are out there, have no fear, The Wankers are here. And they just might save the day.
Combining Austin Powers'-style outfits, with faux Brit banter, and an incredibly diverse repertoire, New Jersey's ‘The Wankers' have only been around a year, but -for better or worse - they're starting to turn heads.
Fronted by vocalist/guitarist David Fagin (aka Damon Gallagher), this surprisingly fun quintet, who bill themselves as ‘The Best of Britpop and Beyond' will suck you in and have you singing along, even if you're not entirely familiar with the genre.
Just ask the nearly three thousand people they recently played to at Musikfest, Bethlehem, who came to see a Beatles tribute, then wound up gobbling up every piece of Wankers merch they could get their hands on. "It was quite amazing," says the band's co-founder, bassist Helena Holmes (aka ‘Hellie O'Riordan). "Even folks who weren't familiar with Keane, Stereophonics, Supergrass, etc., were going ballistic. I think it has to do with the fact we don't just stand there and play our instruments. We put on a show. A very fun and funny show. We're kind of like a combination of Spinal Tap and Monty Python. And our onstage fights make Oasis look like choirboys."
Performing the requisite classics from U.K. supergroups such as Oasis, Blur, Coldplay, The Cranberries, etc., The Wankers take you on a ride that not only encompasses the best the 90s had to offer, these pretentious pretend Brits also rock 80s New Wave legends like The Cure, The Smiths, Echo and The Bunnymen, Duran Duran, - even Wham and Bananarama...
