Tracklisting:
1. Lights Out!
2. Let The Rain Fall (The Spirit Of Glastonbury)
3. Perky’s Asylum
4. Rianna
5. The Train To Bratislava
My first instrumental album, released 2 September 2016.
Double Denim
6. Too Much Tequila
7. Table For Two
8. Double Denim
9. Stormy Night On The Shamrock Shore
Streaming & Donations
All my releases are completely independent and self-funded. But, as we know, there is little value in recorded music anymore – especially unsigned and alternative records. So, everything is freely available to listen to on YouTube + all streaming platforms.
However, for those who prefer to own their music, my releases are also available to buy (at the lowest price points I’m able to select) through the usual major online retailers.
There is also a donation button below where you can support me directly if you like the music I make. No amount is too small – so if you can spare anything to help me keep a plectrum between my fingers, that would be hugely appreciated.
John O & Papa Bear for being the best rhythm section I could have ever hoped to have behind me, and all of the other BRILLIANT musicians I’ve worked with on this record (you all RULE!); Reuben G for his superb and vibey mastering trickery; my family for putting up with my noise & filth; my awesome friends for sticking by me despite my rants, mood swings & misery; the magnificent nurses and cardiologists in the Bristol Heart Institute for looking after me when I conked out last year; Platform One College of Music; Mike Devine for fixing all the stuff I break; Bare Knuckle Pickups for winding me some truly awesome magnets; Hughes & Kettner for building all the amplifier I could ever need; Steven Slate & Fabrice Gabriel for coding the best plugins I’ve ever used; The Harbour Bar, Bray; Dan & Mick at That Pedal Show for teaching me so much; Shaun & Debs at Wight Rock; and Flat Eric for overseeing all I ever do in the studio.
Oh, and Tom Waits – just for being you.
Perky’s Special Thanks
Album Credits
All tracks written, engineered, produced & mixed by Joe Perkins
Mastered by Reuben Ghose at Mojito Mastering, Toronto
Recorded in a dining room
Drums engineered by John O’Reilly Jr. at Boom Crash Drum Tracks, Pennsylvania
Bass guitar co-engineered by Papa Bear
Trumpets engineered & arranged by Vicky Flint
Cello engineered & arranged by Emily Burridge
Frankie’s acoustic guitar, mandolin, ukulele, electric guitar and Ryan’s cajón recorded at Tyrone School Of Music, Dungannon, Ireland.
Gunshots recorded at Portishead Shooting Club
Cover photograph shot by Hannah Griffiths in Portishead, North Somerset
The Performers
Joe Perkins: Electric, acoustic, 12-string and classical guitars; mandolin, acoustic piano, keyboards & synthesisers, banjo guitar, tin whistle, tenor recorder, xylophone, bodhrán, auto-harp, alto saxophone, pots & pans, jaw harp, additional tambourine and cowbell.
John O’Reilly Jr: Acoustic drums, tambourine, lap-slaps, shakers, spoons, loop programming and general awesomeness.
Josh “Papa Bear” Clark: Bass guitar. (Very good bass guitar!)
Frankie McKernan: Additional acoustic guitar & mandolin, ukulele, electric rhythm guitar and all-round good Irish vibes on Stormy Night…
Jessica Crabtree: Fiddle on Perky’s Asylum.
Emily Burridge: Cello on Table For Two.
Vicky Flint: Trumpets on Let The Rain Fall.
Ryan Muldoon: Cajón on Stormy Night…
Sir Jonathan Weldon Esq: Words of wisdom on Perky’s Asylum.