Vyvienne Long's Official Website

audience@vyviennelong.com

Welcome to Vyvienne Long's official website. - Tour Thanks - Thank you to everyone who came out to support us on the tour over the past couple of weeks... A brief but beautiful tour of the southern counties, Vyv's still scraping off her make up and the memories of nights musical.. We enjoyed a different experience each night, culminating in a superb "Happy Thoughts" audience chorus in The Village, Wexford St. Thank you to everyone who turned up, tuned in and sang out. Hope to see you again in September when we'll set off again with the new album! We have some great memories from the road, the people we met and laughs we shared. Like the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show on TodayFM, for example - see here... If you were at one of the gigs and have some memories you would like to share, we would love to hear from you at audience@vyviennelong.com - send them in please and we will post up a selection. Looking forward to hearing from you - check back for progress! - Happy Thoughts Released on iTunes!! - After much work and a lot of thought (happy and otherwise), we are excited to announce that "Happy Thoughts" is now available on Amazon and iTunes (scroll a bit to find it, please!). Like with any recent delivery, we are simultaneously delighted that the fruits of our labour have turned out as we hoped, but also a little nervous about letting it out into the big bad world. Please handle with care. Thank you. Stay tuned! (B Sharp) More news on the album to come soon - come back to find out more... Vyvienne at Glastonbury EP Birdtalk released on an ususpecting public - and completely sold out!! Get it on Amazon and iTunes! General contact audience@vyviennelong.com
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April FooldayFM What better way to herald the arrival of spring and the end of winter time than to get up extremely early (for a musician) and broadcast some Happy Thoughts to the nation? Thank you to The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show team for having us on (not like "You're havin' me on - it's April Fool's Day"). The Tall Guy and The Long Gal On Feb 17th, Vyvienne and trio of violas and violins (but little or no violence) were guests on The Ryan Tubridy Radio Show. Click here, and check out the "Tuesday February 17th 2009" show. If you don't have the time to listen to Ryan's whole show, he's a nice guy and won't mind if you skip ahead to 34mins 40seconds. Air on a ShoeString A Review by Dublin Poet Colm Keegan, at The James Joyce Center ... "Finally we had Vyvienne Long, oh yes, Vyvienne..... A true headline act.. top of the bill and the type of woman that men love to pick up, literally, and run away to live with in a cabin in the mountains. Like Bjork or Joanna Newsome (I love them both), Vyvienne is petite, quirky and almost elfin but without the journo bashing nuttiness and over squeaky sonics she still displays an incisive wit and elemental femininity in her lyrics. Her quirkiness showed in her very funny songs and inventive cello playing as she played a delectable set, even banging out her version of Seven Nation Army as her support cellist burst in late to join in midway through. It was acoustic, but it was electric if you know what I mean. The whole audience was enamoured so much that Vyvienne became the first ever performer to give an encore at TSC. Getting this act in was a real coup.. she's the real deal (her whelans gig got 8/10 on www.Cluas.com). Check out her site. Her album will be out soon; keep an ear out for her unusual musings, especially 'Random Man on the Motorway' a song close to my heart, we were all that man once – I know I was"... TeleVyvienne See Vyvienne & Co on RTE's "The View" - Click here if you have RealPlayer, or see RTE's website - (scroll down here) Click here to see Vyvienne on RTE's Other Voices Irish Independent Article "... Her music is extravagantly baroque, as if fished from the subconscious of Tim Burton or Edward Gorey... Long flirts with cuteness but pulls back just in time on a tune that urges us to stay happy no matter what life has in store ..." Click here for more.... Hotpress Article Curated by Damien Rice, The Big Tree Stage proved one of the Electric Picnic's Highlights" Kim V Porcelli Hats off to Damien Rice and his big idea: to throw a festival with the best of everything, where no corners are cut and everybody performers and audience alike is treated to the gig of a lifetime. We also got career-best performances from two performers in particular who, for our money, were the undisputed king and queen of Big Tree. Having long threatened, via the sly cover version here and there, to be a great frontperson in her own right, Vyvienne Long is today joined by a full band, plus several extra cello players; we're at first given and impression of breathy Nouvelle Vague girlieness, but it soon develops into something much weirder if anything, she's a kind of cello-playing, book-reading, boy-fancying Eartha Kitt. A song apparently called "She Can't Wait To Get Her Hands On The Inheritance" (chorus: "it's mine its mine it's mine it's mine") is the eccentric goddaughter of the surreal posh-Anglophile pop The Divine Comedy used to produce; a cover of "Yoshimi Battles Pink Robots" is delivered tenderly, with mournful piano, as if in sympathy for the Japanese superlady and her Kill Bill-style extreme workouts; and a satisfyingly arse-shimmying take on N.E.R.D.'s "She Wants To Move" grooves like a motherfooker and also offers us the opportunity to hear Vyvienne growlingly enunciate the line "His a55 is like a spaceship that I'd like to ride" in her plummily perfect diction, like Audrey Hepburn after several glasses of champagne. We've already bagged our spot on the forest floor at Big Tree 2007."

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