SIMONALPIN

Teenage Fanclub and Devendra Banhart collaborator 
releases solo debut 
● Features contributions from Caitlin Cary, Jess Klein and 
members of Grand Drive, Lambchop and Willard Grant 
Conspiracy 
In a career that has spanned two decades, Simon Alpin has earned a 
reputation as one of Britain's most sought after musicians. He's 
played with the likes of Teenage Fanclub, Willard Grant 
Conspiracy, M.Ward and, more recently, Devendra  Banhart and 
The Last Town Chorus. Meanwhile, his production skills  – honed 
under the tutelage of Dave Stewart at the former Eurythmics 
frontman's north  London studios – have found him in constant 
demand for a host of projects,including the aforementioned Willard 
Grant Conspiracy's critically acclaimed Regard The End LP (Alpin 
also co-wrote many of that album's key tracks) and  Danny Wilson's 
Famous Mad Mile. 
The groundwork for On The Wire began immediately after the 
Regard The End sessions in Slovenia drew to a close in 2003. Due to 
to  the nomadic nature of many of the musicians featured, it was not 
until a year later that they were finally able to re-group in London to 
complete the  basic recordings... and with overdubs being laid down 
in between tours in a variety of studios, it was another twelve 
months before the album was completed. 
The eagerly awaited results showcase Simon's skills as a  musician, 
as well as his previously unrecognised talent as a composer and 
arranger. These songs combine a mature beauty with an invigorating 
charm that will surely force him out from the shadows and on to the 
centre of a  stage he's so long given up to others.