Jack Torera: Lead Vocals,Guitar
Chris Rosales: Drums,Vocals
‘Schmidi’ Schmidiger
: Bass,Vocals
former members: Severin Erni: Bass,Vocals (plays on "Stuck Inside")
The Music Machine, The Electric Prunes, The Monks, Love, The Seeds, 13th Floor Elevators, The Golden Dawn, The Creation, The Who, The Small Faces, The Pretty Things, The Kinks, The Remains, The Sonics, The Easybeats, The Stooges, The MC5, X-Ray Specs, The Buzzcocks, The Undertones, The Damned, The Saints, The Ramones, Patti Smith, Suicide, The Voidoids, The Velvet Underground, The Cramps, The Miracle Workers, The Morlocks, The Gravedigger V, The Pandoras, Paula Pierce, Andy Warhol, Brecht, Camus, Rimbaud, Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Ginsberg, DaDa, Syd Barret, Susan Adkins (Sadie).....
Sounds Like
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BOOKING: Switzerland contact B-Team Booking - www.myspace.com/bteambooking (Danny) -
Germany & Austria contact Westpol Productions - hanno@westpol.org - We are looking for promoters in Spain and Italy! Contact us at mail@thejackets.ch
The story of The Jackets:
FORMATION
Despite being formed in the Spring of 2007, The Jackets are not new to the European Garage Punk scene. Jack Torera (aka Jackie Brutsche) had been playing guitar and singing for the Bernese girl group 'The Mad Cowgirl Disease' and fronting the Zürich combo 'The Fox', who after several years were gaining some success around Switzerland and Germany along with releasing a record on Noi Recordings (Zürich). Chris Rosales, an American who moved to Switzerland in 1994 from Los Angeles, had been touring and recording for over ten years with several Voodoo Rhythm Records bands such as Lightning Beat-Man and the Never Heard of 'Ems, The Super Supers, Reverend Beat-Man and the Unbelievers and The Get Lost (with ex Miracle Workers Gerry Mohr and Robert Butler).
In 2006 Jack Torera teamed up with Chris Rosales to form 'The Trash Department', a two-piece, low-fi noise band. After a year of false starts they joined forces with Severin Erni, former bass player of the Tight Finks and The Jackets were born. Starting with their debut gig and mini tour with the French band The Magnetix in January of 2008, The Jackets have electrified concert-goers throughout Switzerland in cities like Luzern, Solothurn, Winterthur, Zürich, St. Gallen, and Geneva as well as being invited to play at the highly respected Festival Beat in Salsomaggiore, Italy.
Due to other commitments, it became difficult for Severin to find enough time to continue seriously with the band so in November of 2008 The Jackets started playing with new bass player, Samuel ‘Schmidi’ Schmidiger (who also played some guitar on "Stuck Inside"). Schmidi has been setting stages on fire around Switzerland for the last several years playing guitar with The Budget Boozers and picking the bass for Suehiro Commander.
SOUND
Combining sixties garage, mod, '77 punk rock, Psychedelia and their devotion to bands like The MC5, The Monks, and The Music Machine, The Jackets bring a dynamic recipe to the garage rock 'menu'. What is important to note is that the Jackets play songs; their own original compositions that deal with anything from broken hearts (Get Back With You) or popping pills (Vitamin 25) to stories about lost souls (Sadie) and homages to literature (Mr. Stranger- Camus?). All this analysis aside, The Jackets are a Rock and Roll band - but it's the ROLL that makes the ROCK just that little bit better!
NEWS
The Jackets debut album 'Stuck Inside' in CD & Vinyl form OUT NOW!! Twelve tracks to make your heart beat and your head swim! Available through Subversiv Records
Dear friends: Dance your lives away!!! ...what else... Dig some garage freak out in Frankfurt/Main at ORANGE PEEL Sa. January 16. + Moonshake Party: DJ KONRAD, KLEINER & BLACK CAT (spinning finest 60s vinyl) BE THERE!!!
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