Layin some bass!

Hay Hay Hay!
I'm just about to get stuck into some Bass recording for our new track 'smash and Grab'.
Not started yet so I can't say how well it's going. No dought you'll hear the result and you can tell me! Ha Ha!

Also i'll soon be posting a short vid of me playing a slapstick copper in Dario Foe's 'Accidental Death Of An Anarchist' at collage. So look out for that too!

See you all tomorrow at 'Memory Loss'!

Merry Chrimbo
from Martin (and the rest of the Jelly's)

New Video Diary

Here's a new video diary from The Ferret. Its a new song called ''The Past and I''. Its quite an optimistic song, which is rare.

JLJ make the first page of MeerMusic.com

Jelly's Last Jam have hit 'the top spot' over on http://www.meermusic.com/
Our track 'Checkmate' is the number one track in 'multi-style rock'.
Don't forget you can leave fan-mail and vote for the track on the site.

Watched an awesome film the other night, Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In). It's a Swedish vampire film, and it's a beautiful, subtle and slightly disturbing film. Blonde haired Oskar reminds me a little of Danny Torrance from Kubricks 'The Shining', and both child actors in fact shine with unmistakable talent. Hollywood are remaking it, but I strongly urge you check out the original if you can get hold of a copy.

Here's the website: http://www.lettherightoneinmovie.com/

Andy.

JLJ hit Fame Games once again

Our latest demo, Undefined, has once again been played on online radio and across the states and Europe with Fame Games.
To hear what the reviewers had to say about the track, check out the show right here:
Fame Games 201-Q
and fast-forward to 41:10 for us.

To move up the ranking we really need your help, so if you go to http://www.meermusic.com/content/artists/public/digipres.asp?iid=40630 and vote for us, we may even get 'track of the month' on the site!

Two Video diaries - Oxjam and Memory Loss

Here's footage of us playing at Manchester's Oxjam last Monday at the Night and Day cafe.



And here's last Sunday's Memory Loss; with us, King Kayak and Nice Peter.

Another great Memory Loss event!

Last night we had our third Memory Loss event... it was a great do! King Kayak played an acoustic set as a last minute replacement for The Loungs, who dropped out at the last minute, then we played and finally Nice Peter (Chicago) who we've played with a few times now, and he put on an awesome show, once again singing about what he sees, with a guest performance by some photographs. I ended up jumping up and accompanying him on drums for his final number, 'If you really love me'. Will upload video diary asap.

Andy.

The Jaraf House Sessions Episode I

Here is the latest video diary; following the recording of our first single at The Jaraf House studios in Wigan. Hope you enjoy the new opening credits :)

Busy week!

It's been really busy for the four Jelly's recently. Last Sunday we had the second Jelly's clubnight, Memory Loss, at Matt and Phreds. For this we got our old friends The Uncomfortables and new friends King Kayak to play with us, and it was a great night; not quite as busy as the first but we still had a belting atmosphere! Here's the video diary:



The next one is on October 30th, and will feature The Loungs and Nice Peter. Do not miss it, I've a feeling it's going to be quite a busy do! tickets will be on sale very shortly.

We've been in The Jaraf House recording studio all week, putting two tracks down with a tentative release date of February 2009. Wednesday we recorded the drums and guide tracks, and Thursday was spent recording bass guitar and vocals. On Friday we took the recording gear to Matt and Phreds to record the grand piano parts for the tracks. They sound immense.

Whilst we were in town, we nipped to Jeffrey West shoe shop to choose our shoes (see the previous blog entry / video diary). I got these bad boys:


They're the most comfortables shoes I've ever worn! (and I'm not contractually obliged to say that...)

On Saturday we had an afternoon gig at Preston's Flag Market, for the launch of Preston FM, the community radio station. It was cold and wet, but we still managed to stop a few Saturday afternoon shoppers who watched our set! This gig was a lot better than we thought, and a lot better than it looks on this video diary:



Sunday we were back in the studio working on the tracks, which we're going to finish sometime in the next couple of weeks. I can't wait to get them finished and out there!

I'll put together a video diary of our studio experiences in the next week or so.

In the meantime we're all about Memory Loss, the next one's going to be ace and I urge you all to get tickets!

Andy.

The Shoe Event Horizon!

Tonight we played in a shoe shop in Manchester - it was the launch of a new store for Jeffery West, and we provided entertainment in the form of 'lounge' versions of some of our songs. It was a great night, and we got measured up for our own exclusive pairs of Jeffery West shoes!

Here's the video diary:

Jelly's Last Jam on Fame Games

Thanks to 'Fame Games', we've been played on the following radio stations:

KGHP-FM 89.9 Seattle, WA
WFNX-FM 101.7 Boston, MA
KFFG-FM 97.7 San Jose, CA
WRVE-FM 99.5 Albany, NY
WZEW-FM 92.1 Mobile, AL
WXEG-FM 103.9 Dayton, OH
KWMT-FM 92.9 Tucson, AZ
WKRH-FM 106.5 Syracuse, NY
KENZ-FM 101.9 Salt Lake City, UT
WVOD-FM 99.1 Norfolk-Portsmouth NC
KVSF-FM 101.5 Albuquerque, NM
KPTL-FM 106.3 Des Moines, IA
WCYY-FM 94.3 Portland, Maine
WQKE-FM 93.9 Burlington, Vermont
KKMG-FM 98.9 Colorado Springs, CO
OCI-FM 101.6 Costa del Sol, Spain
OCI-FM 94.6 Costa Blanca, Spain

Our track 'Checkmate' has appeared on the Fame Games show a number of times, most recently the 'Reviewers Picks' show of Sept 4th, which you can download RIGHT HERE (right click and choose 'save target as' so save the show to your computer). Go to 41:45 in the show to hear us.

Reviewer Ken Morrison had this to say about the track:

"The song is brilliant, as is the playing; all capped with an enormous vocal performance. There are elements of Queen and Muse happening throughout here, also something very original at the same time, so the effect is that both originality and familiarity boxes are well and truly ticked, making the result both exciting and comfortable, rather like a vibrating armchair, only louder. Hope these lads get in tow with a dynamic producer really soon cause they have a huge talent to offer the world and I do hope it gets heard the way it deserves to be"

If you go to our page on fame games you can add your own review, or vote for our track to be played on the show again.

I must admit I am very suprised with this website, there are lots and lots of sites online where you submit your track to be voted for, with some kind of 'record deal' as a prize, but in this case members of the public do seem to be visiting and reviewing, and we've received airplay as a direct result! Score one for the internet!

Andy.

Feeling Fresh?

It's freshers week... already!
Where did the Summer go?! Lots of new faces to see in Preston, hopefully will be getting them to some JLJ gigs.

I recently tracked down an album which I play drums on... it's by the late Larry Norman, and called 'The Norman Conquest'. Recorded live on his UK tour of 2001, I play drums on three tracks on the CD... uncredited! My band at the time was playing support and backing Larry at the end of his set every night. It was a great experience!

You can listen to some clips here. that's me drumming on tracks 2, 21 and 22. Honest.

Looking forward to recording our new single in October... it's drawing close!

Jelly Does Dallas

Welcome one and all to the new Jelly's Last Jam blog.
It's after midnight on a school night. Just listening to the Police 'Live!' album... not heard this for years, it takes me back to when I first heard Copeland's masterful drumming whilst I was at high school. I was playing for a band called Strange Weather back then, and we ended up playing 'Message in a Bottle' live at some gigs we did in Nice. Anyway enough remeniscing it's time to carry on with the blog.

On Sunday I finished editing the latest video diary, now with a snazzy new title sequence lifted from 'Dallas'. Check it out:




Now we just need to make the rest of the content as great to watch as the opening sequence! I may just bring the video camera to the practice room this Thursday, not done that for a while.

Speaking of practices, we're hoping to have a new song ready for the next 'Memory Loss' night in Manchester. Last time we debuted new track 'Smash and Grab', and we have a couple we're working on at the moment, entitled 'Same Old, Same Old' and another with a working title of 'Into The Breach'. hopefully we'll get at least one finished this week.

Thanks to everyone who came along to 'Memory Loss', it was a brilliant night, fucking stressful at times but for the most part enjoyable... how hot was it?! I think we've been promised more air conditioning for the next one.

Speaking of which, it's on September 28th, at Matt and Phreds in Manchester. We've invitied our close friends The Uncomfortables to play with us, we always have a good laugh with them so it's going to be a great gig. Also King Kayak are playing, they're from Manchester and I'm really looking forward to watching them play.

If you go to our facebook page (the link is on the right of this blog) you'll see the event I set up, please RSVP and invite your friends too. I invited Tom Hingley of the Inspiral Carpets and I bet you any money he clicks 'attending'... seriously he'll accept a facebook invitation to anything! As to whether he turns up or not that's another matter...

So far Aidan from Vencidos and Chazz from The Uncomfortables have accepted the invitation. Along with me that makes two and a half drummers.

Just had an email from Paul, he's finished editing the flyer we're going to use to promote the next Memory Loss. Here it is:


The image was by my wonderfully talented girlfriend Natalie. She's off in Liverpool at the moment preparing for her third year of uni at JMU. She's doing fine art, if you hadn't guessed.

Right it's time for me to skidaddle. I should go to bed, but I'm going to watch episode one of The Prisoner first. Always meant to watch it, and I've recently been spurred on by reading Paul Draper's wonderful Six Blog.

Nighty night.
Andy.