Geraldine Quinn

Bio:

Musician. Thespian. Comedian. Pedestrian. Geraldine Quinn is a rare blend of chromosomes, lack of breeding, ailments and the electricity of life with some very fine reviews and an award attached. Her work is brutal, original, intelligent, musically cunning and lyrically nimble and has caused pandemonium and glee and an excess of badge-making. Described as the "lovechild of Mick Ronson and Kiki Dee" (The Herald, UK, 2006), this ginge minge has buried herself in the scene up to the neck like Bowie in Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, and she's not coming out until Captain Yonoi takes his mascara off. Hark. Quinn the Eskimette doth speak: I've been making this version of music/performance since 2004, I sing good, play guitar ok, and write funny songs. One day all the serious songs from teenage/twenty-something years will surface in a self-indulgent frenzy of re-issues and bootlegs when I'm living in a palace on the west coast of Ireland with Jarvis Cocker on a pillow in my bathroom awaiting orders, Neil Hannon at a piano in my loungeroom providing background music, while David Bowie whisks eggs in one of my kitchens, but for now I'll stick to gigging around Edinburgh Fringe, Melbourne and Adelaide, making people laugh. For now. Oh, the land of make believe is such a shiny, shiny place... Our dog died on the weekend (that weekend being the end of August 2008). So, bring on Neil Hannon. Possibly my favourite Bowie song (one of) and the finest example of dad-dancing I've ever seen, and in a very fine year - 1975. Stumbled over this and am enamoured of Neil Hannon's lame (with an accent - lah-may), glazzies and oompahpah. Abba and Waterloo? Take this! Hilarious!! "I'm not someone you'll forget, I'm just like riding a bike". You brilliant, handsome, little Irish dynamo! OK, this is one of the funniest things I've seen. My affection for Morecambe and Wise is noted, and I'm also a Tom fan (same birthday, you know). Put 'em together and you get me giggling in a cafe to the confusion of surrounding patrons. And this clip is still up after a while because it doesn't matter what has happened, whenever I see it, I laugh out loud. To paraphrase Ama Zulu, like so much silliness, like so much love.... Here's Dr Who's Assistant (copyright 2005, clip filmed by Planet Nerd's Dan Walmsley & my favourite Rob Lloyd in 2007). Bring it. ..

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.. .. TIM MINCHIN. Yes, YOU. Note the resemblance and ask yourself, can YOU do it in heels, like Gilbert O'Sullivan can? And cross-legged as well! Heh heh x

Member Since:

May 15, 2006

Members:

All tracks vox/guitar/keys/programming by Geraldine Quinn except songs from 'A Quick One' EP (2006 studio versions of Penis Envy, Best of Friends, There's Nothing Wrong With Me, Coincidence, Ladyboy, Sick Pets) Musicians: Geraldine Quinn (all vox & guitar) Christophe Geara (percussion), Lucy Fisher (violins), Mark Jones (Piano), Nick Quinn (Bass & Additional Guitar). All songs written by G.M. Quinn except Coincidence, Ladyboy, No One Cares by G.M. Quinn and N.P. Quinn.

Influences:

Bowie, The Four Tops, Costello, XTC, T-Rex, The Who, Wreckless Eric, Sparks, Loudon Wainwright III, Bacharach, The Smiths, Postal Service, Richard Hawley, Dolly Parton, Kings of Leon, Nina Simone, Beck, Pulp, Radiohead, John Barry, Bacharach & David, Mavis Staples, The Police, Roy Budd, Nora Orlandi, Split Enz, Ian Dury, Kate Bush, The Divine Comedy, Neil Young, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Bobby Womack, Curtis Mayfield, Elliott Smith, DEVO, Joy Division, Lynn Collins, Kenny Rogers, Patti La Belle, The Darkness, Paul Weller, The Fall, Mick Ronson, George Harrison, Those Other Three, Suede, Husker Du, Kirsty MacColl, Billy Bragg, The Pogues, Thelonius Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Roxy Music, The Associates, Malcolm Middleton, Paul Kelly, Johnny Cash, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Nick Lowe, Sarah Vaughan, Astrud Gilberto, The Kinks, My Life Story, The Creation, William Makepeace Thackeray, Nick Cave, Evelyn Waugh, Henry James, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Hardy, Alistair Sim, Television, Arthur Conan Doyle, Morecambe & Wise, Big Star, The Marx Brothers, Charles Dickens, The Mighty Boosh, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Joyce Grenfell, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden & Bill Oddie, French & Saunders, Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmonson, Comic Strip Presents, Fry & Laurie, Spike Milligan, Big Train, Spaced, Man About the House, Barry Humphries, John Clarke, Roy & H.G., The D-Generation, Australia You're Standing In It, Rod Quantock, Terry-Thomas...gawd, it goes on forever...

Sounds Like:

David Bowie, Emma Thompson, Justin Hawkins, Patti La Belle and Siouxsie Sioux making multi-way babies.