Black Jack Barnet - vocals, guitar, bass, banjo, ukuele, suitcase
Influences
Cliff Edwards, John McKay, Andrew Butler, Dan Melrose, Captain Beaky & His Band, Shel Silverstein, Sam Hinton, Odetta, Sammy Davis Jnr, Serge Gainsbourg
Sounds Like
COMING SOON - musical tours of Manchester Art Gallery (Jan/Feb 2010)
Poet-singer and storytelling songwriter BLACK JACK BARNET performs self-penned witty-ditty’s, naughty nursery rhymes, torrid tales, tongue-twisters and verses of vice and villainy sung to a suitcase stompin', tambourine tappin', banjo pluckin', uke strummin' soundtrack. Bringing to life a cartoon world of prostitutes, pirates, perverts, strippers, witches, and various other comical unsavoury characters, Black Jack Barnet casts his whimsical eye upon society and makes light of its many ills. Black Jack Barnet’s unique performances are uplifting, laugh out loud, sing-a-long’s for grown up boys and girls of all ages to enjoy.
Hey Dave!! Nice surprise to see you the other night hehe!! And a great performance to boot!! Had some really good feedback from people about it too and it was a fantastic start to the night! Brilliant!!! And thanks!!
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Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
This is the poster for the upcoming Pendle LoveMusicHateRacism Event. It will take place on Sunday 4th October at the new ACE Centre in Nelson. Over 30 acts wil be performing over 3 diverse stages. It starts at 2pm and will last allday. £3 for over 9 hours of live music! Under 12 year old's get in free. Please help us spread the word. Hope to see you there www.lmhr.co.uk Check the website for the full line-up. (:
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
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Svarte Greiner (Deaf Center/Miasmah/Type) explores deep into a dark, mysterious and disturbing universe. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Earth, Volcano the Bear, David Darling & Deathprod, the music is draped in Lynchian mysticism and horror film cinematics. "The music of Svarte Greiner is practically perfect. It's like that sound in our heads we've been imagining for ages but had never actually heard." - Type Records.
The Sight Below (Rafael Anton Irisarri/Miasmah/Immune) draws as much on modern genre progenitors like Brian Eno, Robin Guthrie and My Bloody Valentine as it does from the more historic traditions in neo-classicism from Erik Satie and Olivier Messiaen. His album Glider has appeared on Thom Yorke's radar in making the Radiohead's lynchpin's top ten playlist.
His debut album Navigare soon to feature on the Miasmah label, Simon Scott (former Slowdive) is set to be a household name in conceptual music. Simon is the former Slowdive drummer, co-producer of Televise, producer of Seavault, and owner of KESH Recordings label.
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Machinefabriek is amongst the finest experimental/electronic artists of today. His ultra-prolific back catalogue showcases his ability to perfect classical ambience, organic drone soundscapes, electronic minimalism and cathartic noise. He is hailed as one of the most interesting new experimental musicians by the Wire magazine.
Xela is the shady, underworld atmospheres and improv horrors of John Twells, owner of Type Records. "Xela has always been able to pre-empt the shifting tides of electronic music and deliver a statement that's definitively of its time” (Boomkat).
His debut album Navigare soon to feature on the Miasmah label, Simon Scott is set to be a household name in conceptual music. Simon is the former Slowdive drummer, co-producer of Televise, producer of Seavault, and owner of KESH Recordings label.
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