Well there's me mostly on Guitar, Bass, Drums(dont listen to what Tadpole Tuna said, I was drunk) and Vocals, but I got by with a little help from folks like,Paul Eve's Dave Devile,Pete Melling,Mark Harvey,Andy & Mark cooper, Gary Higgs,Flo(when he was Flo)And a hoast of malfunctioning drummers which would take up this whole page(they know who they are).Special mentions to Emmie Schurer,Shaz, Lee Andrews,Rob Fricker, Jay Fortis, Nic Taylor,Mark Elliot, all the Cobwebs and other Bifs, Optics new and old, that includes you Simon.Steve Hooker,Dave Dulake,Fi,Mole for the practice rooms,Audi for the pic's, Steve Pegrum for the Southend punk site and John Jenkins.Oh then there's Red all over this page like a rash. Did I mention me?..
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Im just an old Southend r&b merchant really but here goe's.All things Mod.Northen soul.Stax. 6o's garage. Motown.R&B.Lee Brilleaux,Wilco Johnson,John B Sparks & Big Figure.Marriot, Lane.The Who.Pub Rock.Weller.Nuggets.The Medway sound.Stevie Ellis.Small Faces. Humble Pie.Micky Jupp.Lew Lewis Reformer.Steve Hooker.Deno's Marvals.The Machines.Speedball.Le Mat.Andy and Mark Cooper.Melling.Hawkwind.The Creation. The Action.Nick Lowe.Strummer/Jones.Gypie Mayo.The Damned.The Ruts.Gen X.Pistols.Clash.The Only Ones. Buzzcocks.Hot Rods.Tonight.
When your getting ready to give up, it's hard to remember why or when you started. For me it was The Beatles! I bought a book in a sweet shop that went by the title of The Story Of Pop. I loved the pictures of the guitars and the way the band changed from clean cut to world worn in a short space of time. My sister was into some band at the time called Dr Feelgood, and one Saturday she told me to watch Angila T.V at 3p.m because they was gonna be on the box. Some wannabe Jimmy Turbuck anounced the band and bang! that was it...life changed in an instant." Mum can I have a guitar? ta! now I need an amp and some leads, its only cheap look! battary powered by Vox." Poor woman had no money, but she bought me all I needed to start (much to my brothers's disgust).Time for a band; school mates seemed the best option, so I got Black Nelson in on Drums which I got from one of honkey Tonks famous sales where you sleep outside the shop for a night and exchange a loaf of bread for a hoast of clapped out shit they was gonna bin anyway; just saves them the time of taking it to the tip, and you got to get it back to Southend on a No1 bus. Andy Bartlet came in on Vocals and John Clark on insults. We called ourselves the Cruisers and played in a lot of front rooms round by The Bell in Prince Avenue. It didn't really take off and we only had two songs; Queens We Will Rock You(that was because we only had a bass drum and snare) and something I wrote called High Rise Living (high rise living it aint no fun, they put you up there to hide you from the sun, when you get home and your works all done, your find out that it aint no fun)Like all good bands at the top of our game,we split up. John went down Hadliegh to dig for old bottles, Andy wanted to fight at football matches and Nelson just wanted to grow.Time for a rethink. If I was gonna get real about this I had to learn how to play. So I pretended I had agrophobia so I didn,t have to go to school. It worked, the doctor signed me off and I stayed in for a year or so learning my craft. The thing is if you stay in for a year you really do get agrophobrick and you end up not knowing how to spell.There was some noise about a new wave called punk. Now I stay in for a year and watch crap T.V. all day (when I'm not doing Wilco chops in front of an art deco mirror) And the one day I go out at 6 pm to buy some Fanta is the same night the Pistols do the Today show.I soon got to hear about it though the next day, and felt a strange sensation when all the old folks moaned about this shocking new thing called punk inbetween talking about the price of veg.I now had amassed a Aladdins cave of broken down equipment. Word got round and soon armed with my Steve Hooker boot T shirt and green dayglow socks from vic shoes, I was the talk of Fairview Drive.Steve Miln came knocking on a Monday eve, well that is to say he climbed over my fence and was banging on the coalshed door where I was hiding under a mound of old N.M.E mags. Was he here to hit me with a big rock he found in his garden? or just steal my bike? Do you wanna join this band i put together he asked? oh no does that mean we got to rob the newsagents again for their return bottles I replied, Na you fucking queer! its a punk band and you got all the stuff so your in, but you gotta sit in the corner and shut the fuck up while we practice or I will hit you with this great big rock I found in my garden, oh and where's ya bike you wanker!!In Eastwood school assembly hall I watched as they set my gear up and started to run through the same three nunbers over and over again(Mongoloid,Clash city rockers and Jilted John)There was this small drummer who kept grinning(Dee Dee) a guitarist who kept tuning up(Mark Cooper) and a singer who looked like he wanted to go to toilet(Clive)Someone said "give the boy a chance" so I plugged in, hit a chord ,gave it my best Wilco and run straight off a three foot stage and landed on me knee's,.Ladys and gentlemen..."The Psychopaths"To see what I did next check out Alex Oggs book No more heroes, or look up www.southendpunk.com.Look up the Psychopaths.The Decibels,The Shocks.Capt Strange.The Convicted.Puppets Prey.The Prey.The Burning idols.Anorexic Dread and the Vulture Squadron. See also Steve Hooker.Bif Bam Pow! and a return to form in The Optic Nerves.
BLACK ARROWS are proud to announce that we will be returning once again to the RAILWAY HOTEL in Southend on:
SATURDAY the 28TH of NOVEMBER!! (UPSTAIRS in the FUNCTION AREA)
After the success of our previous band event we are happy to inform you that SATURDAY the 28th will include not ONE, not TWO... but THREE LIVE METAL BANDS for your headbanging enjoyment!!!
Be sure to check these bands out online as it would be a shame to miss such an opportunity when it arises locally in Southend!! All the bands have truly refined sounds and we are expecting a great evening of Metal entertainment!! Also by supporting events hosted by BLACK ARROWS you will guarantee the continuation of LIVE METAL and TRUE METAL club nights in and around Southend!! Which is nice :)
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.
We are proud to announce that BLACK ARROWS, Southend's TRUEST metal night, will gloriously return to Southend on Saturday 24th October at the Railway Hotel - our finest venue yet!
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
THE RETURN OF THE BAT
Specimen will bring their special brand of glam mayhem, The Batcave to London again.
After last year’s wildly-successful 25th anniversary Batcave event, The Batcave returns to its original spawning ground of London’s West End on Sunday July 19 for another night of blasphemy, lechery and blood.
Specimen (Fresh from a fantastic show at Leipzig’s Waves Gotik festival), the original Batcave instigators will headline the lurid frolics at the Embassy Club, (29 Old Burlington St, London W1S3AP) Also on the bill are original Batcavers Sexbeat, with DJs Hamish and Cavey Nick, cavorting from decks to decadence with the usual brutal, trouser-dropping surprises & suitably confronting & barbaric entertainment.
The 2009 Batcave will feature installations from exciting new artists of the ‘Dark London Underground’ and visuals from the upcoming ‘Welco
After selling out The 100 Club last week The Jim Jones Revue headline The Rock’n’Roll Circus at Inn On The Green in Ladbroke Grove this Friday (19 June). This will be our last London show until we tour the UK in October......
Tickets on the door only so make sure you turn up early in your best rockin' shoes!!!
Just stopping by to say hi and give you some news. The new album 'Welcome To Murraysville' from Phil Murray and the Boys From Bury is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
THATS RIGHT WHERE BACK IN OUR OLD STOMPING GROUND OF SOUTHEND AFTER NOT PLAYING HERE SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER!!! WE'VE BEEN ON A FEW MINI TOURS AT THE END AND BEGINING OF THIS YEAR AND HAVE BEEN PLAYING REGULARLY UP IN LONDON AND WHERE LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK PLAYING IN OUR HOME TOWN! IT SHOULD BE AN EXCELLENT GIG AND I CAN HONESTLY SAY ALL THE REST OF THE BANDS ARE EXCELLENT ON THE BILL AND I KNOW ALREADY THAT THERE ARE ALOT OF PEOPLE PLANNING TO COME DOWN FOR THIS GIG SO MAKE SURE YOU GET YOUR ARSE DOWN THERE AND GET THERE EARLY AS WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU THERE!!..
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