Dada Paradox + Band in Oxford, EN

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Progressive Retro-Pop: i.e. guitar pop & rock with psychedelic & folk-ish tendencies.

“...slacker pop with an Anti-Folk edge for the anti-Trump movement” - Nightshift magazine

“Brilliantly lyrical, darkly funny”
"Ray Davies channeled through the prism of peak-era, mid-90s Blur...""Majestically Jangly" - New York Music Daily

Lucid Culture says "(Ian Roure is) a sort of missing link between Ray Davies & Robyn Hitchcock"

Screen name:

ian411477

Member since:

Mar 11 2022

Active within 24 hours

Level of commitment:

Very Committed

Years together:

20

Gigs played:

Over 100

Tend to practice:

1 time per week

Age:

62 years

Influences

60s psychedelic pop: Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd, The Byrds, The Pretty Things, the Zombies - also Kinks, VU. 70s New Wave/Post Punk: Elvis Costello, Wire, Squeeze (songwriting), Slacker: Guided By Voices, Pixies, Pavement
Folk Rock: Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Richard Thompson.
Other: Dada, Auden, Larkin, Cleese, Palin etc.

Members Of Band

Ian Roure vocals, guitars - on recordings: bass, percussion, mandolin, bouzouki
Liza Roure vocals, melodica and other keyboards

EQUIPMENT

Fender Telecaster, Rickenbaker 12 String, Hohner Melodica, Yamaha keyboard, loads of pedals and assorted percussion.

MUSIC