Welcome to Vyvienne Long's official website.
2008 has been a busy year so far, writing and recording new material because Vyvienne's EP "Birdtalk" Has Completely SOLD OUT!!
So it's time to get an album together!
Only iTunes has proven capable of keeping up with the demand for "Birdtalk"...
Long Wave 31.05 - Radio City..
Vyvio Billed To Radio Star...
Vyvienne gives Revolver a spin in Radio City, Store Street, Dublin.....
Revolver in Association with Becks Vier presents Vyvienne Long, The House of Cosy Cushions and More Tiny Giants followed by guest DJ set until late
Date: Saturday 31st May 2008
Doors: 8.30pm
Tickets cost €12 - available through www.ticketmaster.ie from Friday May 9th...
Shoestring Quartet...
Vyvienne and Co. played in the intimate surrounds of Dublin's James Joyce Centre on Saturday, April 26th - what a groovy place it is indeed!
Many thanks to The Shoestring Collective for a most enjoyable night. Everyone who was there left with "Happy Thoughts".
Colm Keegan, who also played there that night, displayed his impressive literary prowess with a review of the evening on his blog. See here.
We intend to reJoyce once the album is done and dusted! More progress reports on that soon, we hope.
Stay tuned! (B Sharp)
EP Birdtalk released on an ususpecting public
and completely sold out!!
More news on the album to come soon - come back to find out more...
Vyvienne at Glastonbury 2007
EP Birdtalk released on an ususpecting public. Available in all groovy record
stores
Get it on iTunes!
General contact
audience@vyviennelong.com
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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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