The Permanent Smilers bring you their debut album One Real Big Identity Crisis
An album doffing it’s cap to many musical genres, but with The Permanent Smilers tunefulness and unpredictability threading throughout. Reviewers have readily likened various songs to The Kinks, The Doors, XTC, The Fall, Half Man Half Biscuit,and Richards songwriting talent to Simon and Garfunkel, and Burt Bacharach.
Under the guise of The Permanent Smilers, Rich Lemongrower has written, recorded and overseen several albums in recent years. Despite there being no intention to fully release them, one still crept out to be featured prominently in The Sunday Telegraph supplement. Prior to that, in the early 1990’s, as the songwriter behind The Lemongrowers, he released two albums on the Norwich based Noisebox label. Both were very well received and national as well as international airplay followed, including several songs being aired by John Peel. More recently, Rich appeared several times on Channel M television in Manchester to perform a single. He ended up also reviewing the sport and even the papers! Again, the song was very well received, knocking the Manic Street Preachers off the top spot in the local charts.
The Permanent Smilers are fronted by Rich Lemongrower, who writes the songs, sings them, and is responsible for guitars, keyboards and most of the percussion. Jonny Cole plays bass, and Pete Fraser drums. Dave Land (Starlight Express, Dame Shirley Bassey, amongst many others) guests on a number of tracks playing trumpet or flugelhorn. David Pye (Transgressive) completes the team by mixing the songs.
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