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Freakin Legend Music Co-operative presents Mr Bones and the Dreamers, Girls That Scream + The Jaays + Jimm Zombie + Mr Cricket
From The Jaayz myspace:
“We got together at the end of 2007 as four mates who had all been out of bands for a while and really wanted to get back to playing music. We have a shared appreciation for good songs and sounds and subsequently share different tastes in music from soul and funk to hip-hop, rock and pop. We think these eclectic influences have given us the opportunity to write songs that are difficult to pigeon hole.
We write about the things that influence us as human beings; from poverty to greed to the injustice and general frustrations of modern life. Ultimately however, we like to write and play music that we hope will be listenable and relevant in x years time. We're not outsiders, we're just not influenced by current trends, fashions or what we're told is cool. Although we are cool”
From the Mr Cricket myspace:
“We are Mr Cricket, we are pleased to meet you. Take a seat over there and we will get you a dose of highvoltage calamity...... then we might play some music. We have checked the figures and stocks are up for this week, this is a good thing, but not if you are the ones crushed by the stock’s unbearable weight! If we have any reason to speak today it is in inaudible slurs crushed by the the ’comfy’ lifestyle, we have beg no reason but reason begs us.
Can music represent anything? Can it represent non-plus-ness? We try to say nothing but have all the winks and good charm of the castle jester to question otherwise To a Sleep Deprived Music.”
From Jimm Zombies myspace:
‘“Jimm Zombie is a living representation of Jekyll and Hyde; he is a coin of contrasting sides. On one side a relationship with music, a natural understanding of melody. On the other side, where the queen should be, where monster manifests, is his insecurity, self-doubt and self-loathing. The beauty and tragedy of his music rests on the balance between the two, without which, Zombie would be ‘just another talented man alone with his guitar’.
Similar minded figures in history have cropped up throughout the years, people with incredible talent and an even more remarkable reluctance of themselves; from Frida Khalo to Elliott Smith. People who, without their talent to mark them firmly on the map of what this world perceives as popular forms of expression, would most likely have struggled through life, un-disturbed, attempting to control their own personal demons.
We are talking here about people for whom it’s all in escape of nothing. Not in the respect of fame, fortune or any of the other bullshit we are fed in the ‘pursuit of success’, but in terms of feeling. People who strive for feeling of any kind of emotion to get by, whether it crippling or enlightening, people of a mind frame outside of normal conventions.
This to me is a key underlying theme in Jimm Zombies music. His words seduce emotions and confuse them, “I still love you, I don’t want to”, his lyrics a treasure map of his head, one surprisingly easy for his audience to follow but not, it seems, for he himself.
The treasure, the solution; a gift to us, frustration for him.
If you are fortunate enough to experience the treasure hunt live, don’t be expecting cosy pretty tunes leading you through jungle to the gold. Expect to shiver, expect to dig; expect to feel. Lifting his head rarely from the escape tunnel he is digging with his eyes, Zombie will make you want more and more of him until there is no more to give.
Expect your own greed.”
Venue: TC’s, Coronation Road, Selly Oak, B29 7DE
Time: 9pm
Cost: £5 All proceeds to Charity
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/mrbonesandthedreamers
http://www.myspace.com/girlsthatscream
http://www.myspace.com/usualguy (The Jaayz)
http://www.myspace.com/mrcrickettheband
http://www.myspace.com/jmmzmb
Coming Up ..... Friday 4th July
Indie_Rock_Punk_Electro
444 Club presents The Gravity Crisis + Big Ice Gem (EP Launch Show) + The Priory + The Subkicks + The Other Women’s Club (in the courtyard)
Main Bar DJ’s – FREE ENTRY: Adam Adam + Dangerous Dave + T-Bird (Whyte Boots) Chris (Chicks Dig Jerks)
Venue: The Rainbow, Digbeth
Time: Doors 8pm
Cost: £4, £3 w/NUS
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/thegravitycrisis
http://www.myspace.com/bigicegem
http://www.myspace.com/thepriory
http://www.myspace.com/theotherwomansclub
Coming Up ..... Friday 4th July
Indie_Rock_Ska_Alternative
Platform Promotions presents The Siege + Geezer + The Dixsons + Dastards
Venue: The Flapper, Cambian Wharf, Kingston Row, B1 2NU
Time: 8pm
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/thesiegebanduk
http://www.myspace.com/thisisgeezer
http://www.myspace.com/thedixsonswayforward
http://www.myspace.com/thedastards
http://www.myspace.com/platform_promotions
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