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THE JIM JONES REVUE With support from Taurus Trakker + others At The Inn on the Green Ticket Price: £ 8 Door Doors: 8 pm Address: 3-5 Thorpe Close, Portobello Green, London, W10 5XL Tube: Ladbroke Grove (Hammersmith & City Line) Website: www.myspace.com/innonthegreen www.iotg.co.uk The Jim Jones Revue
After selling out The 100 Club last Thursday The Jim Jones Revue return to play an intimate show as part of the inaugural Rock’n’Roll Circus at Inn On The Green in Ladbroke Grove, London on Friday 19 June. This will be The JJR’s last live London show until they tour the UK in October. The ‘Revue totally rammed The 100 Club on Thursday 4 June with a queue stretching all the way down Oxford Street to Tottenham Court Road tube station. Scores of unlucky punters were turned away as the venue was stretched beyond capacity. The JJR played an electrifying set in tropical conditions to a capacity crowd that included Bobby Gillespie, Beth Orton, Andrew Weatherall (who was also DJing) , Jim Scalvunos from The Bad Seeds, Peter Coyne from The Godfathers and Steve Lamacq. In fact Steve was so moved, he gave a glowing report of The JJR performance the next day on his Six Music radio show and demanded that Jack White offer The JJR a support slot immediately! The 100 Club show was also the release party for the new Jim Jones Revue single, “Princess & The Frog b/w Freak on Nature” which was released by Punk Rock Blues Records on June 8. Princess & The Frog has attracted wide spread radio support from Radio One, Radio Two, Six music and XFM with spins by Steve Lamacq, Mark Lamarr, Bob Harris, Tom Robinson, Gary Crowley and John Kennedy among many other DJs. This was a busy few days for The ‘Revue which saw them play dates in Canterbury (attended by the legendary Clash tour manager Johnny Green!), Brighton and then on Monday they played their biggest show so far at the La Musicale festival with Placebo at the historic 2500 capacity L’Olympia in Paris on Monday 8 June. La Musical was organized by France’s leading cable TV station Canal Plus and will be broadcast across France in early July featuring an interview and live performances by The Jim Jones Revue. The Rock’n’Roll Circus has been put together by Martin Muscatt from Taurus Trakker. Taurus Trakker will also play live and the show will launch their new single, “Monks, Punks & Drunks” which is produced by The Clash’s Mick Jones. Mick also regularly plays live on stage with TT…… This will be The Jim Jones Revue’s last show in London before they tour in October and likely to one of the last opportunities you’ll get to see them in an intimate venue like The Inn On The Green. Witness the sonic brutality of The Jim Jones Revue at The Rock’n’Roll Circus at The Inn On The Green on Friday 19 June. “Princess & The Frog” b/w “Freak of Nature” by The Jim Jones Revue is released digitally and on CD by Punk Rock Blues Records on 8 June “Like The Killer smoking the bones of Link Wray” Album of the year # 10 Big Cheese Magazine “If Little Richard had written this, he’d still be boasting about it today” **** Mojo Magazine “This extraordinary debut.......The JJR positively redefine raw, untamed, born-with-a-tail rock ‘n’ roll” 8/10 Classic Rock Magazine www.myspace.com/thejimjonestrevue
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THE BELLRAYS
Wed 8 Engine Room, Brighton Thurs 9 NTSOBC @ The Borderline, London Friday 10 The Musician, Leicester Saturday 11 The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds Sunday 12 The Cluny, Newcastle The Bellrays
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MICHAEL J SHEEHY and The Hired Mourners + Gemma Ray + NTSOBC DJs At The Lexington Ticket Price: £ 7 Adv (+ B.F)/ £ 9.00 Door Doors: 7.30 pm Address: 96-98 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9JB Tel: 020 7837 5371 Tube: Tubes: Angel (Northern Line) & Kings Cross (Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria and mainline rail) Tickets Box office: 08444 771 000 www.wegottickets Michael J Sheehy and the Hired Mourners With These Hands The Rise & Fall of Francis Delaney For his 6th album Michael J. Sheehy has written a song cycle which tells the story of Francis Delaney, a fictional prize fighter whose life unravels after he takes a dive in the most important fight of his career. The story is told through the eyes of Delaney himself and other characters such as the fight promoters, the punters and his opponent. Sheehy is a life-long boxing fan, ‘I boxed as a schoolboy when I was eleven or twelve years old, you need courage, strength, ruthlessness and skill to be a good fighter…..’ explains Sheehy ‘and sadly I was found lacking in every department.’ Despite his brief boxing career, Sheehy’s love of the sport never waned though he was wary of embarking on this project ‘The story of the down at heel, troubled prize fighter has been told many times so I needed to avoid the obvious clichés and find an original way to tell the tale. I’ve always had a love of the perpetual waster, those sports persons who know how good they are but believe the game itself is more important than the prizes and accolades.’ Sheehy continues ‘ I also admire those sports men and women who have that drive to succeed but nine times out of ten those people don’t make interesting stories.’ With These Hands is a rich mix of gothic, vaudeville, blues and folk. The songs are often vicious and Sheehy doesn’t shy away from tackling some of the more unsavoury aspects of the fight game such as racism and homophobia. 'These songs were written for a musical which is set in the early 1960s and the fight promoters are the real villains’ says Sheehy.Crooked-Eyed Engineer is sung from the perspective of a promoter who fancies himself as an East end gangster but is actually a deeply insecure repressed homosexual who regards fighters as nothing more than fodder. Ain’t a White Boy Alive (featuring the amazing Sandy Dillon) is sung by another confused character, an American fight promoter of Irish and Jewish heritage who wishes he was black. As ever Sheehy's gallows humour is prevalent throughout. There are tender moments too such as the beautiful Frankie My Darling (sung by Gemma Ray) and a gut wrenching acappella reading of Goodnight Irene. With These Hands should cement Sheehy's growing reputation as a gifted storyteller and a musician with a unique voice. www.myspace.com/michaeljsheehy
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