David Wrench is an albino pop singer from North Wales. Signed to Manchester based Storm Music, he’s made two albums, Blow Winds Blow (on Ankst Musik of Cardiff) and The Atomic World of Tomorrow, as well as a number of singles. His first group was Nid Madagascar, with whom he recorded “the first Welsh language acid house track” as a 12″ single in 1989.

His first full-length solo album, Blow Winds Blow, can be musically described as reminiscent of Nick Cave’s signature murder ballad sound. The album also showcases Wrench’s multi-instrumentalist talents and is supported by Alan Holmes on violin and Henry Priestman on clarinet. Five of the album’s thirteen tracks were co-written by Wrench and Zoe Skoulding. Another track from the album, “Mad Song” is based on the poem by William Blake.

The Atomic World of Tomorrow and its supporting singles are best described as camp synth pop, with a resemblance to artists such as the Pet Shop Boys and Scissor Sisters. The lyrics are more involved and interesting then one would associate with the genre, subjects include satirising British sexual repression (“Superhorny”) and attacking the Bush/Blair war Jugend in the confrontational “Fuck You (and Your War on Terror)”.

The latter track was to appear on an anti-war E.P. World War IV, which was to include a cover of Radiohead’s “Creep”. The band refused permission so the E.P. was not released. David went to Manchester to confront an irrated Thom Yorke to no avail.

(copy-and-pasted from the Wikipedia entry most recently updated by “David Wrench Is Sex” site-owner, Ruadhan McElroy)