The Sunset Donkeys is an English/ American Rock Band featuring Chris Constantinou, Preston Heyman, Hal Lindes and Glen Lynch. Their debut single ‘Setting It All On Fire’ is made available TODAY 1st November on Cleopatra Records. The band’s musical history draws upon the hybrid influences of Rock / Punk / Funk, Rhythm and Blues and Folk, Post Punk, Pop Punk, Pop, working class British pub rock/folk.
Their music is summed up as “The bastard love child of British Invasion having a one-night stand with the deep south, and being raised in a Detroit R ‘n B Orphanage”. The Sunset Donkeys offer instantly recognizable, anthemic songs, soaring choruses, catchy punching riffs, melodies that entrance. Lyrics that often reflect English and American culture, lifestyle, social observations, personal / social class experiences, though sometimes anarchist/ iconoclastic the songs are mostly upbeat, positive alcohol soaked, bruised, battered yet laced with eternal optimism.
The songs are often grounded in the very real everyday experiences of the working/ underclass. Songs that sometimes are majestically raw /savage emotionally soar backed by scores that highlight the depth of musical talent and craftsmanship the band possess and carried by the unique vocals of frontman Lynch … intense, soulful sometimes powerful bluesy growling, other times a tender gruffness to a soaring high, dry note delivered with empathy and angst.
With influences taking in The Who, The Small Faces, The Kinks, The Clash, The Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, The Animals, The Sunset Donkeys have emerged with a sound and a swagger all of their own. ‘Setting It All On Fire’ is just the start, with more EPs and an album planned for next year.
ntroducing The Band….
CHRIS CONSTANTINOU is an English musician/songwriter best known as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist for Adam Ant, and his work with Sinead O’Connor, Lou Reed, The Wolfmen, The Mutants, One Thousand Motels with Rat Scabies, RudeGRL + CC, and is also known as Chris De Niro. He performs Vocals, Bass Guitar, Guitar, Flute andHarmonica
PRESTON HEYMAN
Preston Heyman is a British record producer, drummer and percussionist. He has worked with Kate Bush, Massive Attack, Terence Trent D’Arby, Paul McCartney, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Simply Red, Roy Harper/Jimmy Page, Brian Ferry, Mike Oldfield and Atomic Rooster
HAL LINDES
Working alongside Mark Knopfler, Hal was a member of one of the world’s most commercially successful bands, Dire Straits, with worldwide album sales of over 120 million, winning numerous music awards during their career, including four Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards and winning Best British Group twice. Some of the many other artists Hal has worked with include Tina Turner, Johnny Hallyday, Jeff Beck, Fish, Gary Brooker and The Paranoyds.
GLEN LYNCH is an English Vocalist singer songwriter. With a vocal range and delivery that has been likened to Roger Daltrey and Steve Marriott, he is a writer/lyricist of songs that possess narratives and stories of the everyday trials and tribulations, love and laughter of the underclass/ working classes. This collaboration/partnership with Chris Constantinou was formed after a chance meeting, which ended up with the two writing several songs that very night.
