2010 Line Up... as it Comes!
At long last we are so happy to tell you the details of our new album “The Runaway” and our UK tour this June, which includes appearing at the GoldCoast Oceanfest on the summer solstice weekend 18 19 20 June, 2010.
The Runaway, will be released via our old friends Heavenly Recordings on Monday June 7th.
It was produced by Romeo with Valgeir Sigurðsson, who has worked with the likes of Björk, Bonnie Prince Billy, Múm and many others, and was mixed together with Ben Hillier (Doves, Elbow, Blur) Several of the songs feature string arrangements by our late great friend Robert Kirby, renowned for his work with Nick Drake. It was the last ever project Robert worked on before he sadly passed away in October of last year and we'd like very much to dedicate this record to him. This album also features Angela and Michele taking over lead vocals on 'Throwing My Heart Away' & 'Why Did You Call?' We believe it to be our finest record yet and can't wait for you all to hear it.
SCOTT MATTHEWSScott Matthews released his debut album “Passing Stranger” on the San Remo label, through Island Records to widespread acclaim in Oct 2006. His three singles “Elusive”, ”Dream Song” and “Passing Stranger” have been playlisted on Radio 1, Radio 2 and XFM. His celebrated performance on Later With Jools Holland, had Damon Albarn and Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol among countless others, singing his praises.
In 2007, Scott won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically, with his debut single “Elusive”and in 2008, he supported Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, on their “Raising Sand” European tour.
Scott’s single “Fractured” was released on May 18th 2009 and has received national airplay and his 2nd album entitled “Elsewhere” was released on May 25th 2009.
“The most promising home-grown singer songwriter to emerge in years” Q magazine
‘He’s fantastic…an absolute genius’…………..…Janice Long, BBC Radio 2
Hypnotic and timeless’………..The Guardian
‘Exceptionally good…an absolute blinder!’………Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2
‘Elusive has a beguiling, weightless grace’ ………MOJO
Scott is currently recording his third album and will be appearing live at GoldCoast Oceanfest on Saturday 19th June 2010, supporting the Magic Numbers no less. Wolverhampton-based Matthews compared to such icons as Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley and John Martyn. But Matthews has also expanded his range this time out, with an adventurous approach to writing and recording, incorporating influences as diverse as Nick Cave, David Bowie, Bon Iver and The Smashing Pumpkins.
“Spontaneity is the key,” he explains. “The more you think about something, the more you lose the feeling of it. A lot of the vocal tracks on this album were recorded in one or two takes. I’d finish the lyrics and then record the song right away, just warm the microphone up and go. The performance aspect is something we’ve really gone for – it can be a great take first time.”
Matthews began writing for this album as early as 2006, when the title track was completed just as he was finishing recording Passing Strangers. Several songs were written on the road during a hectic two-year touring schedule that saw him supporting Rufus Wainwright, Bert Jansch, the Foo Fighters and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss. “You end up with tapes marked ‘Dusseldorf, Room 207’,” he says. The remainder of the album was written in Gavin Monaghan’s studio near Wolverhampton, where recording began in February 2008.
“There’s a certain thread running through these songs,” Matthews states. “It became more evident the more I wrote, that there was some kind of connection. There’s a reflective mood to the album. A lot of the tracks fade out, and that was intentional: to give people chance to reflect on what you’ve just heard.”
Equally, Matthews was keen to experiment within the framework of these new songs. He cites Mercury Rev, The Smashing Pumpkins and Hunky Dory-era Bowie as key reference points. “There’s more quirky stuff this time, more electric guitar, which shows a different side to me. There’s a whole range of sounds, like the brass on Suddenly You Figure Out – it’s tuba, trombone, French horn and trumpet, and it’s all just slightly out of tune. It’s a rough and ready colliery band sound, and that adds to the charm of the song. We didn’t care about making it slick – we just thought, that works with that song.”
This anything-goes ethic is reflected in the use of two very different guest musicians on the album. Scott’s brother Darren plays piano on three tracks. “He’s a postman,” Scott says. “He’s keeping it real, man!” And then there’s Robert Plant…
“Planty’s really down to Earth,” Scott says. “He was at Gavin’s studio, sorting out some work experience for his son, and Gavin played him some of my stuff. He’d already heard Passing Stranger and he liked my voice more than anything, although some of the things on my first album had that acoustic Led Zep III kind of vibe.”
According to Scott, it was the producer’s idea to have Plant sing on 12 Harps. “The song was just a sketch, but the more I thought about Robert singing on it, the more it worked. The song is very much steeped in the Zeppelin tradition: it has a strange story, and it’s very mystical sounding. So I sent an MP3 to him while he was on tour with Alison Krauss, and he phoned me from Texas saying he’d love to do it.”
It was only when Plant had agreed to duet with him that Scott started to panic. “I was scared at the prospect of singing with him, singing in front of my idol. That raw energy on those first two
Zeppelin albums, it’s frightening! But when he turned up at the studio, we just started jamming and I began singing to show him the melody and the phrasing, and I forgot who I was singing with. We only did a couple of takes and nailed it.”
Like Plant, Scott Matthews prefers to stay close to his roots in the Midlands. “When I’m writing I never really know where the inspiration comes from, but I like to be in my own space. When I’m alone with my thoughts, that’s when the lyrics take shape. Most of what I write is kind of abstract, but I’m working towards making the lyrics centre-stage. I’ve been listening to a lot of Nick Cave recently, Abbatoir Blues. I’ve been getting into Morrissey’s stuff – it’s so funny and so poetic. And I love the surreal edge to Tom Waits’ lyrics, the way he sets you up for a killer line. Listening to artists like them, it’s very inspiring.”
To coincide with the release of Elsewhere, Scott is undertaking a solo tour of 11 dates across the UK, culminating with an appearance at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre on June 3. “On previous tours I got used to having the other musicians with me. I felt the need to test myself again. And I’m looking forward to playing these new songs for people. I’m really proud of them.”
Scott is also looking forward to the next album: he already has dozens more songs written. “I think the next record could be more minimalist. I could see myself doing something really stripped back, like The Black Keys, or what Beck did on Sea Change, that one mood. I’ve been a musician quite a long time but I’m still experimenting. With this album I’ve learned more about my own voice, and I want to keep moving. I’ve been given this great opportunity to make music. I couldn’t ask for anything more.”
Joe Brooks was 16 and teaching himself how to play guitar in his bedroom. He was fascinated by the instrument but the songs he was playing sounded hollow without any vocals. Having never tried to sing before, he nevertheless decided to put words to music and then recorded his first song, “From the Rooftops” on his outdated laptop. It was just a short, barely two-minute song, but it started Joe down a path that would take him from bedroom guitarist to Universal Music recording artist in just a few short years.
It was through this buzz that he came to the attention of Legendary A&R executive, Jason Flom and his label Lava Records (an imprint of Universal Music Group). Joe was signed to Lava and is currently finishing his debut album that will be released in the early summer of 2010.
www.myspace.com/joebrooksmusic
Jonny Taylor blends sing-along hooks and catchy rhymes to produce lovable songs for the pop generation. Having already supported the Grammy winning Jason Mraz to a bustling Hammersmith Apollo, Jonny has been tipped as one to watch for 2011.
This fresh champion of the London music scene has already secured endorsements from Music Week Magazine, Dave Rowntree of Blur and influential DJs Tom Robinson and Chris Hawkins on BBC 6Music.
The showmanship of Jonny Taylor has elements of the cheeky character of Ian Dury mixed with the daring attitude of storyteller Mike Skinner. Add to this the mass appeal of Lily Allen with a dash of The Kooks and the stage is set for a new male chart topper.
'Taylor pens classic rock-pop that is not short on hooks' Music Week
To hear Jonny’s music check out the MySpace at www.myspace.com/jonnytaylor
“Made with movement in mind. Traditional reggae music slapped upside the head with a party stick.
Stomping bass, dub synths & steady grooves.”
In the short time BackBeat SoundSystem have been together, they have been smashing up the live music scene in the U.K with their unique brand of funky, sexy, party reggae. Blending pop sensibilities, with the undeniable groove of their up tempo tunes, B.B.S.S not only create a perfect party atmosphere, but leave you with infectious melodies that are sure to be in your head for days!
Over the last year they've shared a stage with many big names including Cypress Hill, Dreadzone, Dub Pistols and Natty, enjoyed a spot at many of the U.K's biggest festivals including Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party and Ireland's Electric Picnic, and Shook up whole clubs with their pumping reggae rhythms. Where ever they're playing, it's obvious that B.B.S.S can transcend musical barriers and do whats most important...make sure that every single person in the room, (or field) is having fun, and dancing their legs off!!
www.myspace.com/backbeatsoundsystem
Alternative by nature, Friday's headliner Gideon Conn's show is breath-taking from start to finish. With a cheeky smile he makes the audience jump for joy and sigh with delight ! If you caught a glimpse of him at the Red Stripe Awards last year you will already know the score...
http://www.kriskendal.com/gideon/
Supporting Gideon, and about time too, many are saying, is Croyde's very own legendary funk-ska reggae outfit - The Universe Inspectors. If you haven't been inspected?... where in Gods country have you been for the last 20 years? Melvin, Nick, Ralph and Marcus will finally grace the Oceanfest stage together, thanks to a swelling local campaign to see the original dubstars united for what will be their biggest homegrown performance to date.
http://www.universeinspectors.com/
ALAN POWNALL
Hugely addictive, new 25-year-old, singer songwriter Alan Pownall’s refreshing formula of sublime and effortless songcraft, added with an obsession for pop perfection is producing irresistible results.
‘Chasing Time’ out April 19th is the opening glimpse of Pownall’s dazzling and enticing sound, with his prolific debut album ‘True Love Stories’ set for release later this summer.
Championed on Radio One by Fearne Cotton last Friday (February 19th), this magical debut single showcases Alan’s unashamedly pop melodies, dovetailing around his unique and timeless vocal. Lyrically his storytelling recalls a young Ray Davies with the flair of Neil Hannon, oozing a maturity that belies his youth.
The video for ‘Chasing Time’ clocked up a staggering 50,000 youtube plays within the first 24 hours of its post and is still growing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpLnTxkua0E
Having cut his teeth on tour with Florence & The Machine, Laura Marling, most recently Marina & The Diamonds and raced through the ranks to support Adele after having only played THREE shows, Alan heads out on a series of dates with new stars Angus & Julia Stone and Paloma Faith. He also plays his very own headline show at The Borderline, April 27th
LAUREN PRITCHARD
Imagine a girl from small town Tennessee, with a burning need to write and sing songs, who leaves the comfort and security of her family to try and make it in Los Angeles. Things go awry, a combination of bad luck, a relationship gone wrong and no money. She's just about to go home when she's offered refuge by her friend Riley Keough, and goes to live with her and her mom Lisa Marie Presley (more on whom later). She sticks around in LA, playing in bands, earning a crust, before heading to New York. There she's signed up to play a leading part in one of the most acclaimed musical theatre pieces in recent years. Suddenly things are moving in the right direction. She signs a deal with a US label but the relationship ends almost before it's begun. Restless as ever her journey takes her to London where she meets and immediately hits it off with Eg White. With a notebook full of self-penned lyrics, she sets about making the stunning debut album that is Wasted In Jackson.
Lauren needed to get the hell out of Dodge. Well, out of Jackson, Tennessee. She'd grown up there, surrounded by a loving family and a busy recreational life revolving around playing piano, community theatre and amateur musicals. But this was small-town, Deep South USA. 'I played rock music and I felt a little bit weirder than everybody else - even though when I look back I really wasn't.'
She wrote her first song aged 14: she met a guitar-playing boy at a camp with her youth group, and after a weekend of singing other people’s songs together, the bereft adolescent wrote Remembering You on her parents' battered upright piano. By the time she was 15, she realised she wasn't interested in anything else and decided to move to Los Angeles where she would meet like-minded people and kick start her life in music. She landed a gig playing keyboards and singing back vocals with a reggae band, hopped round the theatre audition circuit to make money to fund her band activities and fell in love. Then a bump in the road: suddenly and unexpectedly Lauren found herself homeless, and pretty much broke. There seemed nothing else for it but to move back to the comfort of her home in Tennessee. It was then that Riley offered Lauren a bed at her place, but, too proud and not wanting to impose, she declined. Her friend's mum, though, was insistent - she called Lauren's mum and said if Lauren went home, she'd regret it and always think about what might have been. The friend's mum knew what she was talking about. She was Lisa Marie Presley. Lauren took her up on her offer. 'I know that all of the things that have happened to me since then wouldn't have happened if the Presleys hadn't offered me a place to stay,' reflects Lauren.
With renewed energy and determination, Lauren kept plugging away on the LA gig circuit, and finished her high school studies six months early. The week of her graduation she reached the final auditions for a new musical, Spring Awakening, to be mounted on the New York stage by the Atlantic, a repertory theatre company founded by storied playwright David Mamet. Duncan Sheik, the show's composer, was staggered by a voice unparalleled amongst the other auditionees.
He cast Lauren immediately in the part of the supporting female lead. She liked LA but what the hell - initially there was only a six-month commitment for the show…. Then the show blew up. Spring Awakening became a theatrical phenomenon. The show, based on a 19th century German play, is about teens discovering their sexuality. Lauren starred in the original production for two years, playing llse, the '15-year-old runaway outcast kid', before leaving in February 2008. She left because she realised that although she really enjoyed acting, it was the music where her heart and passion really lay.
She’d also left because she had landed a record deal. It quickly became clear however, that the label had a different vision for Lauren to the one she had for herself and so they went their separate ways. But out of that period came an introduction to the work of Ivor Novello-winning songwriter Eg White. Lauren covered Who I Am, which had been a hit for Will Young in the UK. White, signed to the same publishing company, loved her version of his song and asked to meet her. After a few trips to London, she and White's collaborations really started producing some amazing songs and before long word was getting out that there was a really special talent emerging who was unsigned with a catalogue of incredible songs. Lauren signed with Island Records in spring this year.
The deal signed, Lauren set about creating her new musical world. But that world owed a lot to her old world. So her debut album, and one of its stand-out tracks, are named Wasted In Jackson. It's a soulful ballad about how she felt before she left. 'I remember writing the song and thinking, "oh my town's really gonna hate me..." But it really isn't necessarily meant as a backhand to my town. You could insert any town name anywhere in the world and you can be sure that there’ll be kids who feel the need to move away, to escape what's comfortable and head out into the land of the great unknown. 'I love where I'm from so much. But I needed to get away from that place, to get to the place where I am now.'
Wasted In Jackson is the brilliant result of Lauren's striking out on her own. Produced by Eg White in his west London studio, highlights include the raspy, R&B-meets-gospel swagger of Not The Drinking and When The Night Kills The Day, a haunting, bluesy shuffle featuring the eerie sound of an ancient piano belonging to Ed Harcourt (who co-wrote the song) and the elegant playing of hip young folk-slingers Mumford And Sons (whose frontman Marcus Mumford produced the song). In Not The Drinking, Lauren sings that it's "not the drinking, not the drugs, not the money" that's driven her away from love. Who, then, is this loser guy? 'Actually, that was mostly written from my perspective. So I'm actually that loser guy, mostly! But it was written from both perspectives - it was me as the loser guy but it was also the other person that I was referring to.'
Did the truism apply - that writing these songs made her feel better about the split?
'It did, yeah!' she says brightly. 'The break up, the relationship, gave me this piece of work. Looking back it was a great thing because it broke my heart and I bounced back from it. It didn't absolutely kill me.' Stuck, she says, is the oldest song on the album, and is the only one that makes her feel overly emotional. A retro-soul classic in the making, it's also the song that reminds her most of the music she grew up listening to courtesy of her parents: Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, The Spinners, The Temptations.
Since then Lauren and White, with occasional input from Ed Harcourt, have been writing and recording Wasted In Jackson. 'We all share the same twisted sense of humour,' she notes, and are all equally up for messing about in the studio, letting Lauren play the Hammond even though 'I'm kinda useless at it'. This spirit of inspired abandon, coalescing around Lauren's staggering voice (check her ear-tingling, sassy holler on the epic, strings-enhanced Hanging Up), makes for an album - all the lyrics penned by Lauren -stuffed with big, bold, confessional soul belters.
Lauren has come a long way in her short years to be here. The hard showbiz lessons learnt during her graft on the stage in New York and on the LA bar circuit - and in the music biz pop factory - have stood her in great stead. And so have her experiences in her small-town hometown.
'Wasted In Jackson is the song that's dearest to me because it pays homage to a place that I love - not everyone who hears the song may agree with me! But also because it refers to what inspired the whole record. Being wasted in Jackson - had that not be the case, nothing else would have happened.'
www.laurenpritchard.com
www.myspace.com/laurenpritchardmusic
Little Fish
Little: Adjective – small in size, amount or degree
Fish : Noun – (with adj) a person who is strange in a specified way.
For a band, Little Fish are indeed small; there are only two of them; she’s JuJu who sings and plays guitar and he’s Nez who plays drums. As for strange? Maybe just a little bit. According to JuJu, “I think I’m quite odd which is why I find it quite hard to relate to myself as a musician. But when I get on stage I am at my most free and I feel really confident. When I sing I give it everything. “
“When I was young I wasn’t into music at all,” says JuJu. “I found it hard to listen to it. Music was over powering, over bearing and it affected me emotionally so I ran away from it.” Then one day, she borrowed an old guitar, got a chord book and wrote a song. It took two years to create Little Fish – JuJu, who as well as singing writes the songs, met Nez in an Oxford fish and chip shop – not the obvious place to search for the glue that will hold a band together. Nez is far more disciplined. He’s been playing drums since he was 5 and has developed his unique style by playing everything from big band jazz to rock. He’s JuJu’s backbone.
For JuJu music is a love/hate thing, it really affects her emotionally. Emotion is a word that is ever present when listening to JuJu delivering her poetic lyrics over their stripped down, ready to rock music. Her songwriting comes from her French mother who wrote songs when she was younger and from her granddad who wrote them while a prisoner of war. For JuJu doing other people’s songs was never an option.
It’s only now, having completed their first album with Linda Perry in Los Angeles, that she even feels ready to listen to other people’s music, confident in the knowledge of who she is and who they are. It was an unconscious need to keep it original. “I would hear music coming from the kitchen – a lot of blues because my father loves Ray Charles and BB King while my mum played Jacques Brel. It kind of seeped into me veins.”
It’s been said that JuJu’s spirit reminds them of Patti Smith, while others have mentioned Grace Slick; JuJu’s voice haunts and mesmerizes in a similar way. What’s in evidence throughout the band’s music is passion and intelligence, maybe even a little anger, but it’s melodic and true to the song. The Little Fish album is all real drums – half of it is live – no click track, no over dubs. Linda Perry gave JuJu a really hard time in the studio and pushed her with her writing. According to JuJu, Linda is a, “Fearless, bolshie, American rock star/super star who believes in herself.” It’s rubbed off on JuJu helping to create music with serious attitude.
“She would send me away to a room and say don’t come out until you’ve got it finished. She told me she has never been so tough on any artist that’s she’s worked with, but she showed me what I have inside of me and brought the best out in me.” Listening to their music you can hear this creativity in all its glory. “I have to be by myself in a room when I’m writing so no one can hear me shouting and screaming like an exorcist. Some people can write in public, but not me. For me it’s a solitary experience, so I can unlock my lyrics and bare my soul and inspiration.”
Their first album is due out on Custard Records/Island in October 2010. They have been performing around the UK and Europe and have recently supported Them Crooked Vultures at The Royal Albert Hall,in a busy last year of touring they have also supported Supergrass ,Dave Matthews Band ,Doves ,Placebo,Alice In Chains,Hole,Juliette Lewis,Eagles OF Death Metal and Spinnerrrette .
Three of their songs are available for download to the Rock Band game
The name Little Fish is the result of Juju's daydream "Feel free, I wake up in a head spin. I am me. I am just a Little Fish. I see what I see..."
Strange but true. . .
THE QUAILS
Formed on a whim over a pint three years ago in a Teignmouth pub, the Quails earned their stripes gigging in pubs in the South West, building up a loyal army of fans who were rewarded at the end of last Summer when the band were chosen to open for Muse on the first night of their Resistance Tour and were featured as part of a BBC3 documentary about the gig. They also supported The Kooks at The Eden Project and Motorhead on the main stage at The Bulldog Bash. As yet unsigned, these gigs were all as a result of them being spotted in smaller venues. The Quails have already been confirmed this Summer on the BBC Introducing stage at Reading. They will be supporting Newton Faulkner at the Altitude Festival in Meribel in March. They’re headlining at Dartmouth Festival following Ruby Turner and will be supporting The Hoosiers and Seth Lakeman at Chagstock. There are further exciting announcements to be made in the near future. Last year the band also played at festivals in Turkey and Jersey and headlined a number of smaller music festivals; they played on the Britbus in Bristol and for the Jack Wills sponsored varsity polo party in Windsor. A TV production company followed them to Turkey where they made a documentary about their invitation to play at an EU funded festival just 50 miles from the Iran/Iraq border. The documentary is currently being entered for national film festivals. The Quails are genuinely impressive live. They are fronted by prolific and talented songwriter Dan Steer who has a distinctive and powerful voice and is a charismatic performer. Rythmn and energy is supplied in buckets by Sam Banks on Bass and Chris Prentice on drums. The music is on the rocky side of indie, and although there are countless nods to the greats such as The Beatles, Queen, Pink Ffloyd, Zeppelin and The Killers to name but a few, The Quails have very much developed a distinctive sound. Dan’s voice is instantly recognizable, and Max Armstrong’s guitar riffs have to be heard to be believed. Dan’s keyboard playing combines with good old rock guitar to create a perfect fusion of old and new. Topped off with sublime harmonies, it’s no wonder this band are attracting so much attention! The Quails have just left the wonderfully atmospheric Sawmills studios on the River Fowey in Cornwall after recording their second album. Producer Simon Honywill who is the head of department for sound for The Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury said after the recording “I have just finished recording and producing their album, and it is absolute dynamite. This band is the most exciting thing I have encountered in ages.” The album, called “Master of Imperfection” will be released in May, with the first single Argentina coming out on the 3rd May. There is also a campaign afoot to get another local, unsigned band into the charts. Download Argentina in the week following the 3rd May. The Quails will be doing a National tour to support the album launch starting at The Riviera International Centre on the 8th May. “www.myspace.com/thequailsband
MATTHEW P
Somewhere out east, pretty much as far as you can go without leaving this isle, is the Suffolk coast. Its eccentric shoreline is battered by the kind of gales that give you earache and the horizon is dotted with asphalt beach huts, raging waves and a shiny pier. It’s a mystifying place – equal parts picturesque seaside town and desolate, barren frontier – where the collective mood is largely determined by how kind the weather is feeling.
In a beach hut offering welcome respite from the chill wind, you'll find 27-year-old songwriter Matthew P and his makeshift recording studio. He’s been there, on and off, since he picked up his dad's £40 guitar, aged 11, and began strumming. He did spend a few years in Oxford at one point, but it wasn’t too long before he found himself drawn back to his hometown. And that coast. “Nothing makes sense if you’re not near the sea,” he explains simply.
Every day he sings, surfs, swims or goes for a long walk. “My average day is not that planned,” he offers, with no little understatement. “A lot is based on the weather and so long as I do one of those things nothing else matters."
The day job, fencing in a local nature reserve, has taken a back seat in recent months as he put the finishing touches to the five songs of the Swimming EP, the first fruits of the beach hut recordings and Matthew’s debut release following his signing to Fiction Records in October 2009.
The EP is Matthew’s sketchbook. It’s him and his guitar, and the waves crashing outside the hut. What little embellishment there is comes in the form of some piano played by his brother Jack. The sleeve is a drawing of Matthew done by a friend. He made videos for two of the tracks himself. Some of its songs may appear on his debut album, which is due later in 2010. If they do, expect their etched outlines filled in with colour, and the stark acoustic spaces filled by a full band. If they don’t, then simply cherish the EP versions in their hand-rendered beauty.
contact adrian.read@umusic.com / 0207 471 5390
www.myspace.com/matthewpmusic
JIM JONES
Jim Jones has played music on the UK scene since his early teens. His latest album Daylight & Stars is his first solo project and arguably his best work yet.
The album has captured a lighter side of Jim’s journey, tipping its hat to the things he loves while still acknowledging the fragility of life and the occasional testing twists it can throw up.
D & S has already received a four star review from the nationally acclaimed music magazine “Q” and was placed in the top ten albums of the month in the July edition of “Mojo” magazine. It continues to gain momentum as the self released home produced album from a small corner of South West England starts to make a big mark in the music scene.
Jim is currently writing and recording his next album and is about to release a 6 track download EP recorded live at The Borderline in London.
www.jimjones.co.uk
www.myspace.com/jimjonesuk
