Jose Pereira Electric Bass/Double Bass
Paul Sandy on various studio recordings
Callum Sadler Guitar
Meg Slim Drums Stephen Dwane - Drums on recordings
Justin Young Vocals, Saw, Tambourine & Accordion
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Influences
John Lee Hooker Skip James Tom Waits The Cramps Jerry Lee Lewis Roy Orbison Soledad Brothers Captain Beefheart Ry Cooder Marc Ribot Ceramic Dog Kip Tyler Joey Castle Son House Iggy Pop Gabby Pahinui Jimmy Reed Miles Davis Thelonious Monk Strip Records...is all good The Count Five Marsed Marvel Sun Ra Rage Against the Machines The Stray Cats Hank Williams Big Bill Broonzy Gene Vincent
Sounds Like
Blue Bambinos are one of the most exciting bands to have emerged in the last year......Imagine The Birthday Party jamming Sun’s back catalogue in an after hours Soho opium den."
- Not the Same Old Blues Crap
You alienated the audience...I wont be booking you again"
- Promoter
Blue Bambinos are a dirty, twangy, experimental blues, rockabilly lounge jazz quartet. They play a weird party music - if they play at your party it might get weird, but if your part is weird enough they'll play."
- Andy Lowe, 12 Bar Club
Dark & dirty, dust, dance blues"
Embracing old school RnB abd some louche jazz leanings, the BBs invent their own invigorating form of left leaning surf music. Groovesome!"
- Bugbear
London, England– Blue Bambinos publish a new venture in noise, borne of the wish to champion a paradoxically new and yet retro sound. Beat vocals, howling musical saw, lo-fi guitar sounds and a loud dirty primal rhythm pulsate throughout. It is neither blues, garage, punk, real r n’b, rockabilly or jazz, and yet weirdly, and slightly uncomfortably, it is all of them.
Vocals and Musical Saw. Justin Young, charismatic but chaotic. His energy is intoxicating and will either urge you to stand up and dance, or get up and slap him.
Guitar. Callum Sadler, deep dirty rattling blues, a dissident earsplitting player.
Bass. Jose Pereira, brooding dub player with a past of smokey Venezuelan reggae.
Drums. Steve Dwane, old school punk. His endurance is limitless and, like all the Bambinos, the sound is malleable and yet unyielding.
The release of this debut album by the Blue Bambinos is an examination of their various moods and raucous style. It follows their 2007 EP ‘Ethos – Noise from the Thames Delta’ and was modestly recorded on reel to reel audio tape one day in the early months of 2008. For the last two years the Blue Bambinos have played an elemental part in London’s live music circuit, have aired live on Resonance FM, and last year saw them play at Bestival on the Isle of Wight. This year they embarked on a brief tour of Como and outer Milan, Italy.
The album is the ultimate audio flyer for the live feral performance that is the Blue Bambinos. myspace.com/bluebambinos
To all those people that have been down to our nights this year, played them, enjoyed them and to all that are coming down in the future to play and enjoy!
JOIN US on 18TH DECEMBER @ THE HOBBY HORSE, for our XMAS PARTY! and last date of the year...
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"Sounds like it was not only recorded live, but recorded live down a tin can to a tape recorder at the other end of a phone, and sounding great for it!" - Mark Lamarr, BBC Radio 2
The Jim Jones Revue play a special XFM 14+ show at The Barfly in Camden this Monday. The show will be recorded and broadcast on John Kennedy's XFM Xposure radio show throughout November.
September 1:st our 1:st single, Dare To Lick (Hunter's Red Sleeve), from our upcoming album SILENT REVOLUTION,was released and is available on iTunes but also on our MySpace of course!
The album will be released October 1:st and later that month we go on tour in Germany with The Movements.
The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show returns to the airwaves on Resonance 104.4 FM this Saturday 5th September between noon and 1.30pm. Today's broadcast is in conjunction with PESTIVAL * With contributions from the Mosquito expert Dr. James Logan, an essay from the author Tim Burrows (on the subject of insects in rock and pop), plus live music from the London based alt/art duo Plug, who will debut new insect related material especially written for Hello GoodBye.
* PESTIVAL is a festival celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect. Pestival 2009 runs from 3rd-6th September @ The Southbank Centre and is jam-packed with insect-inspired talks and debates, as well as comedy, music, walks, workshops, installations and experiments. For further information, please visit: http://pestival.org
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