Re: The Great British music debate: redux #5 : Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:23 pm  

All I can say about The Jim Jones Review... It was worth the wait. That is what rock and roll is about.

Re: The Great British music debate: redux #5 : Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:32 am  

Scooter Nik wrote:

All I can say about The Jim Jones Review... It was worth the wait. That is what rock and roll is about.

Exactly. 5 musicians who know how to perform onstage. The energy is just brilliant, even though what they are doing has been done so many times before.

I don't know if you caught the 2nd support band (the surf band), I really liked the songs but they need to work on stage presence. It's difficult when you don't have any lyrics and it's instrumental but The Ventures never struggled. I despair sometimes, these kids have been given a great chance to promote themselves on a ten (??) date tour of the UK and they looked like they'd just crawled out of bed. Ditch the t-shirts, jeans and beanie hats, and put on a sharp suit!

Re: The Great British music debate: redux #5 : Sun Apr 22, 2012 10:40 pm  

Spot on... JJR know how to entertain, engaging the crowd, jumping about, gesticulating... proper stuff. And a six song encore? Nice one...
I caught the surf band, and was hoping for better. I'd rather have had Speedball Jr from Belgium, they're brilliant. Three blokes stood watching the drummer is not a stage act.
We also caught the opening act too 'And The Hangnails' who played authentic sounding 70s rock. They played it so well that my (70s rock loving) other half was stood there the whole time going 'but it's just a guitarist and a drummer'. They were very impressive.

Re: The Great British music debate: redux #5 : Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:26 am  

Joe Pug's new album landed through the door today. I'd already heard it on Spotify about 6 weeks back, however, it is even better now.

And I was scared to take the plastic off because I didn't want to lose this sticker.

Re: The Great British music debate: redux #5 : Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:19 pm  

Scooter Nik wrote:

All I can say about The Jim Jones Review... It was worth the wait. That is what rock and roll is about.

Got to agree with you - they were brilliant in Preston. I actually enjoyed Y Niwl a lot. I take what people are saying about stage presence but they just struck me as a bunch of shy lads. I was chatting to the guitarist whiolst buying a vinyl copy of the album and he just came across as unassuming and genuinely appreciative of my positive comments.

I went to see Luke Haines on Saturday and that was also great. He did all the songs from his album about '70s British Wrestling, some old favourites and readings from his latest book. Quite a treat as he doesn't really tour much. He finished really early so it gave me the opportunity to get over to another gig and see the excellent Folks.

Next up is New Order on Friday.

Re: The Great British music debate: redux #5 : Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:22 pm  

Enjoying Frank from the Gallows new project "Pure Love." Not what you'd expect from him. But it's good.

Re: The Great British music debate: redux #5 : Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:32 pm  

Ski wrote:

Enjoying Frank from the Gallows new project "Pure Love." Not what you'd expect from him. But it's good.

Just heard it, it is bloody awful, he trying to be a pop star now?

Re: The Great British music debate: redux #5 : Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:08 pm  

MickeyMo wrote:

I actually enjoyed Y Niwl a lot. I take what people are saying about stage presence but they just struck me as a bunch of shy lads. I was chatting to the guitarist whiolst buying a vinyl copy of the album and he just came across as unassuming and genuinely appreciative of my positive comments.

I know what you mean, they are probably learning their craft still and might not have much experience onstage. The thing is, I really enjoyed listening to them and will be purchasing and downloading some songs, but if they toured again and played, say Leeds or Wakefield (where I live), then I wouldn't go see them as they don't put on a show, and I like to be entertained by bands. Talking to 5 friends who attended the gig, 2 of them didn't like the music anyway so we'll ignore them, but the remaining 3 said the same, they enjoyed the music but wouldn't watch them again. And I think that's a shame as it's very difficult for young bands to break through and I want to see them do well.

It's all a learning curve I guess-there is some footage of Jim Jones Revue's first ever gig on the internet somewhere, and they too looked a little unconfident and a bit uninspiring even though the music sounds ok.

BTW Jim Jones Revue are playing the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge on Friday 1st June. Not many tickets left.

Re: The Great British music debate: redux #5 : Fri Apr 27, 2012 1:22 am  

Is it the house party gig? They'd done one rehearsal and were (according to JJ) pretty much making stuff up on the spot.

If you can get hold of the last issue of Scootering (leaving the shelves tomorrow!) there's a well written interview with him...

Re: The Great British music debate: redux #5 : Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:29 pm  

Have to say I'm blown away by the two tracks released so far from Beach House's new album Bloom which is coming out soon. Check out 'Myth' and 'Lazuli' on the band's official youtube - gorgeous stuff. If the rest of the album is anything as good it bodes very well indeed.