Charlie Finke - Vocals, Conceiver of the cesarian principal, Finke suffers-so you don't have to. Credits include 7 years with the seminal proto new rockers Penthouse and two broken legs with ex Parkinsons, Blood Safari
Justine Armatage - Piano, Toured heavily with gothic monsters Christian Death, would prefer readers to remember her work with Luke Haines' Baader Meinhoff. Her prolific contribution to surf noir deviants Gretschen Hofner is well documented in the cybersphere
Jan Noble - Drums, A true cesarian and our only section. A muscular intellect forced into a drummers body. Perhaps best known for Tudor-core anti-art punksters Monkey Island
Alison Beckett - Clarinet, Owns every note she blows. A steally stage presence underpins her sublime classical composure. This is measured excellence.
Suzi Owen - Trombone, True troubadourian finesse. Poached from rich orchestral origins. When she blows you hold her breath and your own
Beverley Crome - French Horn, Vocals. More soon ..!
Not since The Birthday Party crashed and burned in Berlin, have the twisted sounds of old style decadence been pumped so intensely through distorted amplifiers. London scenesters looking for a scene free of recycled rock, have found expression in The Cesarians cabaret world.
Had rock and roll been born in 1930's urban Europe, and not 1930's rural America, it would have been like this; part Kurt Weill, part Jacques Brel, part Ernst Kirchner, part klezma. Looking like a band formed in the mind of Geoge Grosz, The Cesarians capture the urban zeitgeist via the junk shop instruments of old Europe . In their hands, a clarinet, trombone, piano, and drums beaten in waltz time, make raw and raucous rock and roll.
Over this beautiful chaos Charlie Finke preaches his own intense message. "I wanna be a woman" he screams on his knees, the grease in his Weimar haircut forming a quiff.
The Cesarians are playing the city's night clubs. Rock and roll's demons are loose.
Johnny Dark
CESARIANS 1 - Debut Album Out Now
Available instore from HMV or download from iTunes
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.
Je n’sais pas si t’es au courant mais en 2010 c’est la fin du monde !!! Alors profites en vite, sors toi les miches de ton canapé et viens assister à nos messes d’enfer. Une chance ultime de sauver ton âme d’un paradis chiantissime
Hey Rockers! The Jim Jones Revue celebrate the release of their new album “Here To Save Your Soul” with a release party at Cargo on Thursday 1 October. “Here To Save Your Soul” collects all the JJR singles together in physical format for the first time (Vinyl and CD).
Bring your hard hat and help us blow the roof off Cargo next Thursday!
Click on flyer for tickets Here To Save Your Soul is released by Punk Rock Blues Records on October 5
Hey People! Delta Blues legend David Honeyboy Edwards plays The Luminaire tonight at the incredible age of 94. This show kicks off another round of the 5 Years of NTSOBC Festival which continues with shows next week by The Handsome Family, Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir, Kelly Joe Phelps and The Jim Jones Revue . Click on flyer for tickets..... "> Five Years of NTSOBC Festival Schedule
September
Friday 25 David Honeyboy Edwards @ The Luminaire,London, NW6 Monday 28 Handsome Family @ Bush Hall, London, W12 Tuesday 29 Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir @ The Luminaire, London, NW6 Wednesday 30 Kelly Joe Phelps @ The Union Chapel, London, N1
October
Thursday 1 October The Jim Jones Revue @ Cargo, London, EC2A
Tuesday 27 October Oysterband @ The Union Chapel, London, N1
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