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.