Mr Dylan, Mr Cohen, Billy Bragg, Herman Dune, Billy Childish, Devandra Banheart, The Velvet Underground, Jeffrey Lewis, The National, Mercury Rev, Matt Elliott, Tom Waits, King Creosote, The Magnetic Fields, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Will Self, Graham Greene, JG Ballard, William Blake, Joseph Heller, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Thomas Hardy, Robert A Heinlein, Jon McGregor, Lewis Carroll, Philip Larkin, Lorca, Dylan Thomas, Simon Armitage, Wednesdays
Jetfly is a person and a band. He plays solo as Jet McDonald on guitar, vocal and harmonica and as a band with Jet on Guitar and Vocals, Hannah on Violin, Flute, Melodica and Harmonies, Si on Bass and Harmonies and Joe on Drums and Percussion. Originally born in the New Forest Jet has written hundreds of songs some of which, for lack of careful attention, have escaped and now live wild in the woods.
Jet is also a storyteller who has told his strange contemporary tales in lightbouses, boats, yurts, tipis, bookshops, crypts, theatres, pubs and powerstation youth clubs. In Summer 2008 he toured the West Country telling stories and playing songs in a little bell tent. In February he won the Missouri Review audio fiction award which is odd as he's never been to Missouri.
In Autumn 2008 Jet toured eleven Independent bookshops in the UK from Exeter in the South to Glasgow in the North with his solo music album "Quiet Songs for the Now Time" and story album "Huffing and Puffing" both released by Cleaner Records in Bristol.
The first three songs on the myspace playlist are fromthe 2007 Jetfly Album "Flockabilly", also on Cleaner Records. The songs "Open Hearted" and "Moody Brown Eyed Stare" are from "Quiet Songs for the Now Time". "The Colour of Petals" was recorded on the 8 track Rachael Dadd lent Jet in 2007.
Tom Hodgkinson author of "How to Be Free" and "How to be Idle", has described him as a "modern day minstrel". Jet prefers Revels. The raisin ones.
You can contact Jetfly at ****jetfly@post.com****
You can hear some of Jets stories at www.myspace.com/pencilsnap
Look out for a new recording "Punk Folk Disco" in 2009
Hey! Appologies if this is the second comment we've sent you recently...bit of a mix up in the bands communication :)
Anyway.. we've been a little quiet for the last few months but we are very pleased to announce our new EP is finished and up on our myspace! It's called Bright Lights and has four brand spanking new tracks to blow your mind. Please have a listen and tell us what you think and if you love it, buy it! :)
"Exciting, Striding and assured. It has an energy reminiscant of everything that was good about the Klaxons debut album.." - BBC Radio Bristol
hey jethro, here's a link to jens lekman's black cab sessions - i just listened to it & you sprang to mind. http://vimeo. com/2553603 hope all is well x
Details of how to apply for this years festival can be found in our blog or on our website. Check it out!
We'll be hosting our first fundraising party of the year at the end of the month! You'll get to spend the evening in the company of The Ten Pound Suit Band as they rip through a set of non-stop, rebel rousing fun!
That's right! "The best swingabilly band in town!"
Date: Sat 31st Jan. Venue: La Tasca. The Triangle, Clifton, Bristol. Time: 8:00pm kick off. Tickets: £5adv from Bristol Ticket Shop.
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