Martin Giles - Guitar - Vocals
Eric Young - Bass - Vocals
Basha - Drums - Vocals
Lance Riley - Vocals - Guitar
Lance and Martin met in 1990 when the former was with south coast indie band the Spoons. Martin was to join as guitarist but popped out of the studio to buy some fags and the two would not meet again until 2006 at an Ian Brown gig.
Martin played with Dorset legends Rhythm Method and worked recording and playing live with
several artists before climbing aboard the Jag.
The Spoons signed to Adrian Lillywhites Tunnel label and were produced by both Adrian and Steve Lillywhite. The single Show Me How featured on Radio One selling over 6,000 copies and the Video on MTV. The band split and became the Bewley Brothers. Releasing the Single 'Spinning on a Time Bomb' and the Albums 'Songs from the Cypress Tree and 'Baby Six'. Living and playing in London, the band played with the Kinks, PJ Harvey, Bush, Baby Bird, Dodgy, Tom Robinson etc etc.
Lance also wrote several songs for the Ch 4 TV series 'High Five' and Brit Movies 'Out Of Depth' Starring Sean Maguire, Nicholas Ball and Rita Tushingham and 'Time Bomb' was chosen for the title track to the Movie 'Loop' starring Andy Serkis and Susannah York.
Basha originally played with The Tours, Polly Harvey, Bassinger and Glow (with Lance) Moved back form London around the same time as Lance and joined the band in 2007.
Eric played with The Vapours (Turning Japaneese) and also Hipster, The Tree Frogs and mod rockers the Curtains. Eric joined Bird Jaguar on bass in 2007. Also adding harmonies and production skills.
Good to see you are doing a warm up gig this weekend! You will be rocking at this years Gold hill fair and the suns going to come out….. it's been booked!
are you the bird who nicked my jaguar? nice to be in contact again, lance. good luck with the shaaaooooowwww and hope to see you later this year - yours, andy
Hey Lance... It's getting closer now and cant wait to see BIRD JAGUAR PLAYING ON THE HILL ! ......... GOLD HILL FAIR, SHAFTESBURY, DORSET. 30TH JUNE & 1ST JULY - FREE ADMISSION!
We would be very grateful if you would checkout our new EP, and let us know what you think. Also we all disagree on what the best song is so please let us know what song you think is the best. As it is fresh out of the studio 2 days ago,
Hope everythings going well for you, keep in touch
Hiya bird jaguar hope your ok, we would be gratefull if you could come down to support us this friday at Dylans bar, inside B'mouth uni, we will be on at about 8:00
Hiya thanks for the add, great gig last night, we should do some more gigs together some time, with this band or with whiteroom, take it easy, stay in touch x
good day neighbour
thanks for the fiends request and add
r u going to the wimbourne folk festival feastforall with bad manners orange street 20 camels the toretz and more
Earth shatteringly exciting new songs on the Reg Varney myspace site. Demo versions of A Chairman Had A Hat (now in the past tense) and Calum Hart's Hair.
