With lyrical inventiveness & surreal imagination right at the very core of their songs & with an unmistakably English sound shamelessly veering between technicolor power-pop, dark, sleazy confessionals & dusty, moth-eaten folk ballads, this is the band hailed by musicomh.com as 'the most original band in the UK'
Since they released their debut album Fancy Blues & Rustique Novelties in 2004, which was greeted by the Observer Music Monthly with a glowing 4* review from esteemed music journalist Charles Shaar Murray, they have been steadily fermenting a reputation based around their stunning live performances and a succession of unique and critically acclaimed albums and singles. Their second album, Biscuits For Cerberus was AIM CEO Alison Wenham's Best Record Of 2006 in Music Week. Most recently released was 2008's Gravity Calling, produced by legendary Damned drummer Rat Scabies, which was Album of the Year in THE MICK magazine & Album of the Week in the Belfast Telegraph.
Flipron have opened for acts as diverse as the Alabama 3, Donovan, Hayseed Dixie & the Beat, & have played at Glastonbury Festival four years in a row, in 2008 playing a record 6 shows in the one weekend. They've played main stages at Beautiful Daze, Secret Garden Party, Bloom, Endorse It In Dorset, 2000 Trees & Shambala, as well as appearances at Bestival, End Of The Road, Lovebox Weekender, Innocent Village Fete, Larmer Tree, Trowbridge Pump Festival, Lewes Folk & Rock, Strawberry Fair & many others. They have also performed at traditional indoor arts festivals such as the Edinburgh Fringe, Concrete & Glass in London, The Times Cheltenham Literary Festival, Brighton Festival, Dorchester Festival, the Bath Fringe & the Llangollen Fringe. They've played gigs in boats, boxing rings & bars; cider barns, restaurants & cabarets; cellars, tents & strip shows: theatres, ballrooms & colleges. They've entertained skinheads, hippies, Tennessee housewives, New York folkies, Somerset truck drivers, painfully cool London art students, kilt-wearing Edinburgh drunkards & even Holy Grail hunters in the south of France.
They have recorded numerous radio sessions on a variety of UK stations, including Mark Lamarr's God's Jukebox on BBC Radio2, (which Lamarr described as "absolutely fantastic" & featured again in his best sessions of 2009) as well as 4 sessions on BBC 6music. Radio DJs who have played the band include on BBC Radio1 Vic Galloway, Huw Stevens & Rob Da Bank, on BBC Radio2 Jonathan Ross, Mark Lamarr & Alex Lester, on BBC 6music Tom Robinson, Phil Jupitus, Mark Riley, Gideon Coe, Mark Lamarr again, Nemone & Shaun Keaveny. There music has also received radio play in the United States, Japan, Australia & much of Europe. In addition their music has been used by BBC television & radio & Channel Four in programmes & trails.
In 2010 they released the single "The Coolest Names in Showbiz", played numerous festival dates including a ten date residency at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival & toured across the USA. In March 2011 they were back in the US performing at the prestigious South By South West (SXSW) music conference in Austin Texas. In late June they released a brand new single, "The Stupidest Face in Town", launching it at London's legendary 100 Club. They are currently at work on a new album for release in 2012.
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