Alex Vann

Alex Vann is West Midlands based Singer / Songwriter / musician who came to prominence in the late 90s as frontman of his band LIFT. The band self published / released 6 great CD collections from 1997 – 2003. In June 2001 Alex teamed up with Liam O’Connell to release the excellent Vann/O’Connell CD which saw the duo gain a lot of local radio airplay and record many radio sessions as well as being invited to perform at the prestigious Songwriters Festival, held at Ronnie Scott’s, Birmingham for 2 years running.

Alex has released solo material frequently throughout his musical career, most notably, Ten Tall Tales 1 and 2 (1996); Stranger Things Have Happened (2000); Open Up (2003); It All Falls Down (2004) and his latest release, Riches Street (2005). Influenced from an early age by the ground breaking melodies and social comments of 60s bands such as The Beatles, The Doors and The Kinks, Alex has always strived to be an individual in the all too frequently bland world of pop music. He has been the opening act for Paul Young’s Los Pacaminos, John Otway, All About Eve and Radio One’s Mark Radcliffe.

Riches Street features Alex on guitars, bass, piano, keyboards and all vocals, as well as engineering, producing and designing the sleeve artwork himself!

Riches Street, is the name of a road in one of the more gritty areas of Wolverhampton and this sense of irony is a common theme in Alex’s lyric writing.

Quote: “Alex Vann just defies reasoning as to why he's not up there with James Blunt and all the new crop of singer songwriters” Brian Dakin, Go-Jo Music

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