Vinny Peculiar
Thursday 12th June 2025
West End Centre
Queens Road, Aldershot, Hants, GU11 3JD
Tickets £12 Adv from westendcentre.co.uk or seetickets.com
Doors 7pm Bar Opens - Show starts 8pm
Vinny Peculiar [aka Alan Wilkes] grew up in Worcestershire and trained as a nurse before signing to Manchester cult label Ugly Man records [former home to Elbow]. He’s since put out fourteen albums of literate autobiographical pop music over a twenty-year career touring band, solo and duo shows in the UK, Ireland, Europe and the US
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Part Pulp, part Kinks and very much part Peculiar, his various bands have included ex members of The Smiths, OASIS, Aztec Camera & The Fall. He’s written and recorded as Parlour Flames, the band he formed in 2013 with ex OASIS rhythm guitarist Bonehead.
His latest Album "Love Freaks" is out now
Vinny will be solo for this show
‘The missing link between Jarvis Cocker and poet Roger McGough and some of the wittiest lyrics this side of Wreckless Eric’ IRISH TIMES
‘If Tony Hancock had made pop records they’d have sounded like this’ UNCUT MAGAZINE
‘Vinny Peculiar songs make you laugh and cry and think all at the same time’ TOM ROBINSON BBC 6Music
'A treasure trove of timeless pop brilliance’ The Big issue