THE EPONYMOUSLY TITLED DEBUT ALBUM FROM MANCHESTER BAND PARLOUR FLAMES IS ABOUT TO BE RELEASED ON CHERRY RED RECORDS. PARLOUR FLAMES COMPRISES GUITARIST PAUL ARTHURS – LIKELY TO BE FAMILIAR AS BONEHEAD, ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF EARLY OASIS – AND VINNY PECULIAR, THE POET AND MUSICIAN ONCE DESCRIBED AS “THE TONY HANCOCK OF POP”.
Their album is a surprisingly broad-sounding record which twists a variety of classic influences: West Coast sun-pop on debut single MANCHESTER RAIN, late-1960s lava-lamp psychedelia on GET IN THE VAN and Simon & Garfunkel shimmer on POP MUSIC, FOOTBALL AND GIRLS. In The Mouthcast Bonehead touches on his time as part of the biggest band of the ’90s, and Vinny discusses a collaboration which has resulted in the first Parlour Flames album, to be released next week.