Dan Lyons and Body Orchestra - Winter of Discontent Tour

Dan Lyons is a songwriter.He cut his teeth as a founding member and drummer London’s infamous enfant terribles Fat White Family, and has since gone on to perform with countless musicians and bands including The Brian Jonestown Massacre, La Femme, Misty Miller, LuvCat and Asha Lorenz (Sorry) to name a few. He is currently in Lawrence (Felt/Denim)’s band Mozart Estate. He has released two records under his own name, toured the UK and Europe with his band The Tenants and is currently working on his third solo LP whilst conjuring and recording performances due to appear on the debut album for his as-of- yet-unnamed new project under the influence of producer/engineer Nicolas Vernhes (Deerhunter/Silver Jews/ The War On Drugs). On this tour he will be performing a mixture of new material written in Paris during the heatwave of 2026 and songs from his first two records adapted for a more intimate setting on his acoustic guitar.

“If music was scholarly then Dan Lyons

would hail from that of Bob Dylan and Lou Reed…

Dan Lyons is a storyteller. In another life, he’d

find himself living amongst the Beats of New

York’s Greenwich Village or living rent-free as a

poet in Paris’ Shakespeare & Co.” - Clash

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Body Orchestra is the current incarnation of Vincent Curson Smith - a multi disciplinary musician from London. After graduating from Trinity Laban with a degree in Jazz, he worked as a session man providing horns for various bands including Texas, Fat Dog, Fat White Family, Martin Carthy and Pet Deaths. Body Orchestra is his solo project, his brainchild. Performing on this tour with bowed electric guitar and voice, his songs are both haunting and startling in their ruthless honesty. Through effortless mastery, Curson Smith explores improvisation, decomposing themes from folk, classical, jazz and classic pop music and songwriting with an emphasis on sonic experimentation. Body Orchestra's upcoming EP, DANSE MACABRE presents songs of heartbreak, loneliness and the occasional nursery rhyme.