Alibi expansion, Dave Spikey feedback and radio interview from February now online

Our distinguished bass player enjoyed a nice pipe at our last practice...

Thanks everyone who has bought the single so far, we've had some great feedback, including this from Dave Spikey:

"Top quality... and up into the premiership [in footballing terms]... Jellys Last Jam are up there and pushing for a place in Europe!"
-Dave Spikey

Alibi has now expanded in terms of availability; you can buy it from play.com here and from amazon.co.uk here so if you haven't got an iTunes account there you go!

Last month my sister and I were the guest presenters for 'Chat City', the flagship show for local radio station Preston FM.

I invited Rob over and we had a short interview where I turned from co-presenter to interviewee. It was Vic's first time interviewing anyone on the radio, but she coped wonderfully, and doing the show together was a great laugh.

I've uploaded the interview to our radio shows podcast, you can subscribe on iTunes here or listen online by clicking here.

And check out Vic's blog here: http://victorias--secrets.blogspot.com/ we both work at 53 Degrees in Preston, and her blog revolves around her job there, working with bands like Kasabian, Little Boots, Airborne Toxic Event... oh and Jelly's Last Jam!

Alibi hits iTunes

Jelly's Last Jam: Alibi
CLICK HERE TO BUY FROM ITUNES!

Produced by John Kettle (The Marble Index, Aiden Smith), and mastered by Mike Cave (Elvis Costello, The Charlatans), this gutsy indie ballad combines atmospheric piano, thumping drums and epic, sweeping vocals to create an uplifting pop anthem.



Alibi was released on itunes today, you can buy it for 79p!
CLICK HERE TO BUY!

The single will soon be for sale via various other websites, we will post links as they come through. So if iTunes isn't your bag there will be other options soon available!

Music Video for Alibi

We are proud to present our new music video for the bands debut single, Alibi:



This video includes footage shot by my granddad in home videos from 1966 onwards! I transferred loads of 8mm footage onto my pc and combined it with recently shot footage of the band in Avenham Park, Preston.
Originally I hoped to shoot the bands scenes in 8mm; I even went so far as to buy a camera and film for the shoot, but unfortunately I just couldn't get the camera working so we ended up shooting digitally and editing the video in post production as best I could to match the effect of being 8mm film.
The result is (I hope) a mixture of nostalgia and childish fun over 40 years in the making!

53 Degrees and the Library

Not really reported much on the last two gigs, which is a shame because they were both stonkers!
On Feb 19th we played at 53 Degrees; it was DIY @ Promo in the club, and though we've played before this was our first headlining slot at 53. Was an awesome night.
One of the kids I teach drums to is called Ant, and he finally got to see us play on the 19th; though he couldn't come to the gig (he's only 13) I managed to get him in for the soundcheck. It made his day, and he brought me some cookies he'd made with his sister. Need to organise some all-ages gigs for us.
Ian Phillip Smith was there on photography duties, and took some amazing shots of us. Think some of these would even work well as album covers!
Check it out:


Then on Tuesday this week I got a phonecall from my sister saying she'd just spoken to the guys behind 'Get It Loud In Libraries' at Lancaster Library, and told me the support band for Everything Everything had pulled out for a gig on Wednesday; were Jelly's Last Jam available to replace them? Hell yes! We did the gig and what a strange and wonderful gig it was. Met Stewart the promoter, and he's such a nice chap; really got on well with him. All the staff were great actually, and agreed to sell our merch for us!
Everything Everything were awesome. Listen to their track 'Photoshop Handsome' on their myspace, it's ace. Nice guys too.

Here's the flickr slideshow of the Lancaster Library gig:



More news to follow, next gigs are:
Wednesday 11th March - Mad Ferret Preston
Thursday 12th March - Night and Day Cafe, Manchester
Friday 13th March - Ryan's Bar, Derby

And the single's out on the 16th. You can still pre-order here.

Last minute gig - Lancaster Library

We've just been confirmed as the short notice support for 'Everything Everything' tomorrow (4th March) at Lancaster Library.

Jelly's Last Jam

Quote:

"By far the best and most exciting band around at the minute" -thisislancashire.co.uk "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" - MeerMusic "Their heavier than expected sound is catchy pop with all the rock and roll trimmings, delivered with the power of a sucker punch" -HedMag

http://www.myspace.com/jellyslastjam

Everything Everything

Quote:

"...a pulsating, genre-defying beauty, filled with inventive, erudite twists and unexpected, thrilling turns. As capable as filling a dancefloor as they are of sparking a thought, they're the sort of band that many an act will forever dream of being. Deeply exciting stuff." (Chris Long - BBC Manchester) "...choppy razor-cut punk-funk and snatches of melody with full-on speed-funk bass... to which I'd add Hot Club De Paris, even Adam And The Ants... rather wonderfully this is strange without any apparent contrivance, impressively original and stuffed with ace tunes." (Cath Aubergine - ManchesterMusic.co.uk) "Future-Thinking-Mother-F*ckers!" (Johnny Lloyd of Operahouse)

www.myspace.com/everythingeverythinguk

http://www.myspace.com/getitloudinlibraries

www.seetickets.com for tickets

Tickets £5 see you there!

Band T-Shirt Woes

Our T-shirts, as modelled here by JLJ super-fans Rach and Tonii (in a Martin sandwich), are currently unavailable.

Sorry.

We left our box of merchandise at a gig in Manchester and have been unable to retrieve it. Don't worry, we'll still have plenty of merch for our upcoming gig this Thursday at 53 Degrees but it won't include t-shirts.

Unless, that is, someone finds our box of merch and decides to sell them after the gig, on the floor outside the venue. What do you call those guys? Pavement merchants? Roadside Shirt Vendors? No idea... anyway, our t-shirts just might pass for inexpensive knock-offs that are often sold in this manner. But I don't think we're big enough.

At what stage does a band get to that level of fame? To have entrepreneurial hopefuls make stashes of unofficial merch to sell after the gig?

If someone ever did do that for us, I'd probably pay to get an unofficial t-shirt myself.

Smash and Grab now online!

Just finished mixing our brand new song, Smash and Grab.
This is going to be released on itunes as the b-side to Alibi, out on 16th March.
And it's our first track ever to feature a guitar! We've uploaded the song onto our myspace profile, be sure to let us know what you think.

Been tweeting a lot on twitter lately, initially I set up this account to use to promote the band, but the more I use it the more I realise that twitter doesn't lend itself to relentless online promotion, so it has kind of developed into a more personal account; rather than tweets such as 'check out our new single' or 'buy tickets for our gig' I have been posting things like 'You're never too old to play with Star Wars figures'!

Paul has a twitter too.

Liverpool's Magnet

Last night we played a short notice gig which was originally meant to be at a club called 'Studio', but due to a power failure we were moved down the street to the awesome venue that is The Magnet.
What a great place, and it's steeped in history; I've just read that it's the place where Freddie Mercury first played with Brian May. It's also no.29 of the Best Bars in the World according to GQ magazine.

The gig was organised by two LIPA students, who really looked after us; I don't think I was without a beer in my hand for the whole night.

Here's Rob waiting to soundcheck:

And here's the gig poster, taken this morning on my way home:Hopefully we'll be playing there again soon, the onstage sound was fantastic - it's not often that the drummer gets a monitor that's bigger than the bass player, so it's thumbs up from me!

Setlist was:
Parasite
Undefined
The Past and I
Sniper Smiles
Matter of Time
Smash and Grab
Checkmate
Alibi

Martin's face.

Had band practice tonight. Made Martin make this face:
Worked on a new song then went through the set. Just confirmed a last minute gig at Studio on Hardman St in Liverpool this coming Wednesday. If you're around, pop in! Should be a good do.

Paul says I should stop swearing on this blog. I say only if he stops swearing during radio interviews!

Speaking of which I'm co-presenting the Breakfast show on Preston FM in a few weeks. With my sister. Should be fun, we used to record our own radio show on cassette tape when we were kids. Called it 'The Wacky Show'. She'd kill me if I mentioned that on air, but I might just do it anyway!

Ticket sales for our upcoming gig at 53 Degrees seem to be going well, if you're reading this and fancy coming send us an email at info@jellyslastjam.co.uk or find us on facebook and get in touch. The gig's on 19th February and you can read about it here.

Worst Blogger Ever

Erm, happy new year.
A bit fucking late, I know!
Not been on here for ages; and I've no excuses, especially since we have so much news. Don't know where to start really!

Well I suppose it's best to start with the single release.

'Alibi' is finally ready; we recorded it back in October and it's recently mastered by the genius that is Mike Cave. It sounds amazing; but don't take my word for it - have a listen to the first verse on our myspace page.

The release date is the 16th March, you'll be able to download it on itunes and all other good digital outlets. along with the b-side 'Smash and Grab' which we have recorded ourselves and are just putting the finishing touches to.

This weekend we'll be filming our music video in Avenham Park in Preston.

Also we've been doing a few Radio interviews lately, they're added to our podcast at jellyslastjam.jellycast.com and you can listen to the most recent one right here:


The last one was at Preston FM. Also last week we appeared on Chorley FM but were unable to record it, which was a shame as it was a really good interview! the one on here is ok except we had got all the way through the interview only to discover it hadn't recorded and had to re-record the whole thing which is why I sound a bit bummed out; I was also ill at the time with an ear infection. Which has cleared up now.

In other news - we have been asked to headline diy@promo at 53 Degrees! It is going to be a great gig and if you want a ticket email info@jellyslastjam.co.uk and we'll get one to you!

They're just a fiver.

That's all I've got for now, I will try to post more often.

In the meantime I'll leave you with this picture of me doing my 'POB' impression: