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Influences
the beatles, jeffrey lewis, the smiths, the kinks, classical music, themetunes, adverts, jingles, tv idents, public address systems, belisha beacons, small animals, rice crispies...
Sounds Like
Jay Foreman is a comedic acoustician whose unique repetoire falls almost exactly halfway between live music and sit-down comedy. Flitting violently between subtle humour, catchy singalongs and mindless bad taste, Jay is drawing considerable attention even from people who aren't students anymore. Achievements include BBC New Talent Pick of the Fringe 2007, Screentest Best Comedy 2008, Tuborg Musical Comedy Awards Best Newcomer 2009 and one of his songs being covered and played regularly by veterans Kit and the Widow. Jay can't decide whether he's happy about being known on youtube as the "Moon Chavs" guy.
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Hello! My name's Jay. I'm 24, I'm from North London and I like to sing silly songs.
It all started back in February 2005, when I was a student at the University of York. I needed a money-raising project to pay for a hitch-hiking trip to Morocco and making a CD seemed like the best idea at the time, cos everyone at open mic night seemed to like my funny songs. I thought maybe some people would buy them. My first CD sold considerably more than I'd imagined (100 within the first month) and I became known around campus as "The Moon Chavs Guy".
In April 2005, I won Banks Basement Tapes Artist of the Month and over the next academic weeks and months, I did more and more open mics on campus, which soon became proper gigs all over the country. By 2007 I'd made 2 more CDs, so I put the best bits from all 3 albums onto one Best of called "20 Songs".
In August 2007 I did a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe called "20 Songs for Free". The BBC came to see it and they liked it so much, they made this video:
(I said loads more than that by the way. I talked for about 40 mins and they just picked their favourite bits.)
In 2009 I won Best Newcomer at the Tuborg Musical Comedy Awards.
These days I'm getting as many gigs as I can and looking for representation.
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Here's a video we made for my song "Stealing Food"
And here are 2 more films I made at uni. The second one ("Vegetize Me") won the award for "Best Comedy" at the Screentest Student Film Awards 2007! YAAAAY!!!
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This is a song I wrote for Yahoo/Malibu's internet show 'Get Your Island On', 13/3/2009
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Thank you for letting me in I hope you've had a listen and read. Very nice here, cool place to spend a nice morning like this. Cracking songs but then you know that. Be nice to see you on my page again and i'm hoping visa versa your end. Why not subscribe to my blog that way I'll have a more immediate way of finding you. I don't write all the time so you won't be inundated. You can subscribe on my page. It would be nice to hear from you.
A new collection of Comic/Nonsense Verse, For Children, called, ‘Please Do Not Encourage This Nonsense by Purchasing this Book: Poems By Paul H. Tubb’, is available for purchasing.
23 Poems Not about Football, 11 that are about Football and 5 limericks. Paul H. Tubb has put these together, with some illustrations, into a handy book form so that they can be read at anyone’s leisure. Funny Rhyming poems that will delight Children of all ages. Poems about subjects such as Strange Christmas’s, Tone Deaf Dentists and the worlds worst stuntman among others. To learn more, please click on the link below.
Jay has been played on the It's A Frog's Life Acoustic Podcast Show 79 - Comedy Special III - with special guest host Gary Dring from Clever Little Pod. Also on the show is an extra-special contribution from John Bell and Arnie Cunchpard from Bell's In The Batfry.
Follow the link above to this specific show or the link below to the general shownotes page. The show is free to listen to, and you can get it either by using the online player or by downloading the mp3 file. And why not subscribe and get each new episode automatically?..
Hi Jay I need your help... REQUEST MY SONG "We could be one" on Indie104 - iRADIO LA http://www.iradiola.com/ Click on "Request a song" and type my name... Thanks for your support!
Jay you should get fans to video themselves listening to "A certain celebrity" it is absolutely priceless when people figure out who you are referring to.
Thanks for the add Jay, I got into your music when my brother (Tom Stokes, you may know him from comedy soc or something) bought your CD. Stealing Food is my favourite, especially the "Run-awaying without paying" line. Keep the laughs coming! Emily xXx
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Hi Jay. Thanks for accepting my request. Your songs are hilarious!! I absolutely love them! My favorite one is 'Pretend That You Are Happy.' Please keep me updated....
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