Alex Lipinski & The Crown Electric (+ special guests Eastertown & Lilac Sundays)
The Electric Banana, Weston-Super-Mare, BS23 1HZ
Saturday 18th July 2026
Alex Lipinski & The Crown Electric play a rare hometown show at Electric Banana, joined by special guests Eastertown & Lilac Sundae.
The first thing that hits you is the voice. Alex Lipinski’s caressing sympathy, full-throated resentment, and raw excitement have grabbed unwary listeners from the West Country to Krakow, Berlin and New York, since the singer/songwriter first left Somerset to become a crucial habitué of Soho’s legendary, lost 12-Bar Club.
Liam Gallagher is a fan, which resulted in Alex belting out Elvis standards within the unlikely domesticity of Liam’s own North London kitchen, in a surreal battle of anthems; the voice of a generation responding with a heartfelt rendition of ‘Acquiesce’ much to the amusement of Bonehead, who just happened to be there because he and Lipinski just happened to be in the middle of the critically acclaimed ‘Phoneys & The Freaks’ collaboration, which saw them perform live together from Rome to Los Angeles.
His last album, the self-titled ‘Alex’ was produced by The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe in Berlin. Hailed by Newcombe as “a young man worth my time and efforts” and also observing that “make no mistake, these songs have all the qualities of timeless music”.
This is not ‘same old, same old’.
No coincidence then that for ‘For Everything Under the Sun’, his recently released third album, Lipinski was sought out by Wolf Alice & Elvis Costello producer Michael Smith who had the same desire as Anton to work with a voice that Rock & Reel magazine describes as “channelling the best tones of Lennon and Orbison and makes them his own”, and songs which BBC Radio 6 legend Tom Robinson declares “sweep you up and carry you along.”
‘For Everything Under The Sun’ is a truly articulate piece of work, from a songwriter who has served his apprenticeship. A lot of miles covered in what he himself acknowledges has been “the only choice he ever had”.
Sir Michael Eavis agrees, and Alex was 2024's Glastonbury ‘Pilton Party’ winner; going on to play alongside The Libertines, and CMAT, in front of the great man himself.
On the strength of his songwriting, and on the back of some stellar live performances (one of which was caught by Marc Almond’s musical director, Neal X) Alex has been playing alongside Marc, as his sole support artist of choice, over the last couple of years across the UK & Europe; from Berlin’s iconic Passionskirche: through a host of other iconic venues including The London Palladium, Birmingham Symphony Hall, The London Coliseum and Dublin Olympia.
The hard work has been years in the getting done. All you have to do now – is listen...
www.alexlipinski.com
"Emotionally expansive, tough & pretty" - Evan Dando (The Lemonheads)
"A collective body of work which many artists can only aspire to" (Louder Than War)
The first thing that hits you is the voice. Alex Lipinski’s caressing sympathy, full-throated resentment, and raw excitement have grabbed unwary listeners from the West Country to Krakow, Berlin and New York, since the singer/songwriter first left Somerset to become a crucial habitué of Soho’s legendary, lost 12-Bar Club.
Liam Gallagher is a fan, which resulted in Alex belting out Elvis standards within the unlikely domesticity of Liam’s own North London kitchen, in a surreal battle of anthems; the voice of a generation responding with a heartfelt rendition of ‘Acquiesce’ much to the amusement of Bonehead, who just happened to be there because he and Lipinski just happened to be in the middle of the critically acclaimed ‘Phoneys & The Freaks’ collaboration, which saw them perform live together from Rome to Los Angeles.
His last album, the self-titled ‘Alex’ was produced by The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe in Berlin. Hailed by Newcombe as “a young man worth my time and efforts” and also observing that “make no mistake, these songs have all the qualities of timeless music”.
This is not ‘same old, same old’.
No coincidence then that for ‘For Everything Under the Sun’, his recently released third album, Lipinski was sought out by Wolf Alice & Elvis Costello producer Michael Smith who had the same desire as Anton to work with a voice that Rock & Reel magazine describes as “channelling the best tones of Lennon and Orbison and makes them his own”, and songs which BBC Radio 6 legend Tom Robinson declares “sweep you up and carry you along.”
‘For Everything Under The Sun’ is a truly articulate piece of work, from a songwriter who has served his apprenticeship. A lot of miles covered in what he himself acknowledges has been “the only choice he ever had”.
Sir Michael Eavis agrees, and Alex was 2024's Glastonbury ‘Pilton Party’ winner; going on to play alongside The Libertines, and CMAT, in front of the great man himself.
On the strength of his songwriting, and on the back of some stellar live performances (one of which was caught by Marc Almond’s musical director, Neal X) Alex has been playing alongside Marc, as his sole support artist of choice, over the last couple of years across the UK & Europe; from Berlin’s iconic Passionskirche: through a host of other iconic venues including The London Palladium, Birmingham Symphony Hall, The London Coliseum and Dublin Olympia.
The hard work has been years in the getting done. All you have to do now – is listen...
www.alexlipinski.com
"Emotionally expansive, tough & pretty" - Evan Dando (The Lemonheads)
"A collective body of work which many artists can only aspire to" (Louder Than War)
