aNNA - drummer, drinker, bodyguard
cARL - guitar, all thing techinical and/or musical, eye twitching
bAZ - words, vox, ego, banned from playing anything, FOREVER!
Influences
What, on thin earth, does NOT influence? Okay, enough of the crafty answers.... I can only speak for myself, but I'd say a key influence must be my over inflated sense of self importance... that or too many beers at least!
It was late last century in a purple room in Stoke that a band called anythingMAN formed. Tired and demoralised by the suicidal, low tempo indie dirge on the radio the band missed the good old days of the early 90’s… And so the band was formed, hell-bent on going against the contemporary; not just ripping off one band, but as many as possible… All they had to do was get some instruments and learn to play; but before any of that they wrote some songs and did some gigs anyway, with truly comical consequences.
If anything can be said about anythingMAN it was probably somewhere in the lyrics of a self explanatorily song entitled Drunk In The Street, though somewhat better would have been Drunk At The Gig methinks.
Perseverance is a powerful thing though and after a year or so the band finally leant how to play and sing together like a “proper” band, so they wrote a whole bunch of new tunes and changed their name to the DELAY. With a newfound confidence and skill, the band looked set to take over not just the world, but the whole of Stoke-on-Trent as well. And then, oh and then, disaster struck….
The bassist left to record a solo bass album (not really) and the band were back to square one, which was nice, but a little square. Never ones to take the easy route they dropped every song and started again as a 3 piece, bAZ moved to Brighton, which didn’t make rehearsals too easy and for the final time they changed their name… and so ladies and gents, jANES wAY were finally born.
After a few years of sheer laziness the band are now set to return to the scene with more recordings, more free music for the world, more gigs and well more more, well, just more actually.
Enjoy the music, download it, pass it on if you like (just be sure people know who we are) and if you can, get yourself to a gig….
Peace, bAZ.
baz,how the divil are ya,massive apologies for not being in touch before now,someone else was running my site and didn't bother replying,anyway i'm on line now,so hope your well,drop us a line.
Oooo brill! A much deserved few days off too i expect?! I'm just working in brum at ze mo. Can't believe the weather we've had this month - crikey! Ahhh I know i thought i'd be ok now but i'm still well & truly gutted about reading! You better save us a spot for next year tho - we wil most defo be camping with ya'll like it or not! Hehe xxxxxxxx
YAY! i got my reading ticket today...was a bit touch and go for a second but made it in the end...im ssooo excited now!
and im pleased to see u were right about NIN also smashing pumpkins!!! awesome!!!
hi lovelys! i just thought i would inform u of mine and lauras wonderful news...we went the eodm gig tuther night and it was fab! best part was when jesse blew us a kiss!! woohoo!!
how are u guys anyway? reading tickets go on sale 19th march too! yay! and i got v tickets so that me and dave can be reunited!
Hi guys hope your doing ok just wanna say I've seen the album cover and it's looking good ~ can't wait to hand out the discs and brag to the world about these hard hits after hard hits, keep on rollin and never give in folks xxxxxxxxx
(to anna) hello! i hope your feeling very rough today...you deserve to be! do u remeber trying to 'set me up' with creepy 'jim'? if that was even his name! possible the single worst moment of my life, i wanted to die! lol!
that night was pretty damn crazy....i dont remember much of it at all :s
when was that crazy stoke: drinking/jam fest? im eagerly awaiting a night out!
also, news on the old 'magic box machine' its all been working but then i noticed some issues with the memory....apparently the Xbox is running on an older BIOS that cant detect so called 'big memory' so its capping the HDD at 137Gb....i think we can sort it tho, but the BIOS is a crazy thing to go messing with (can kill the machine) so im gonna get my mate at work to throw in his two cents and get a spare motherboard just incase!
anyway....enough of this heavy geekor lingo, keep on rocking amigos!
friday? yeh i cant remember anything after going into the emo room and apparently i wondered off for like an hour on me own and no-one knows where i was! can u shed any light? lol! im sssoooo gay!
Word homie G homies. Whats been cracking? Baz man whens the next time you rocking out down our way, and when can we exspect to see all of JANES wAY at reading fest?
It's nice to hear from you.
We have no gigs lined up right now as Baz is in america for a few months and we've been a bit lazy anyway but we should be back soon.
The plans for the cd went a bit tits up but we'll probably just stick them on myspace anyway.
eh up carl i just realised its u. having prob listening to ur stuff cuz my comp is playing up, i can hear tou but can also hear some mad dance track too. will try again tho
