Jungle Records 30th Anniversary
Jungle is celebrating this milestone. How did that happen? As an aide memoire, we've inserted a few highlights and amusements to our Timeline on our Facebook page. And added a new music page.
So come over there and slap our backs, give us 'spect, high fives, loves and more appropriately, likes.
When we started out, both CDs and cyberspace were pure science fiction. Here comes the next 30!
The Eden House Timeflows
THE EDEN HOUSE 'Timeflows' mini-album LP and CD
A new mini-album is released on February 27 2012 on cardpak CD and 180g LP from this acclaimed gothic / ethereal rock band. The Eden House are based around the nucleus of former Adoration/NFD/This Burning Effigy guitarist Steve Carey, ex Fields of the Nephilim bassist Tony Pettitt, and twice Grammy-nominated Pink Floyd sound architect, guitarist Andy Jackson.
This release also features The Mission guitarist Simon Hinkler guesting on lead track ‘Neversea’, alongside vocalists Valenteen, Amandine Ferrari and Meghan-Noel Evans. The band will be gigging in both UK and Europe to support.
Anne Marie Hurst
Anne Marie Hurst 'Day Of All Days' new album
Former SKELETAL FAMILY / GHOST DANCE vocalist Anne Marie Hurst releases her debut album ‘Day Of All Days’ after a 20 year hiatus. Backed by original Skeletal Family members plus special guests PAUL WELLER and OCEAN COLOUR SCENE’s Steve Cradock.
Anne Marie has teamed up with Skeletal Family founder members Stan Greenwood (guitar) and Roger “Trotwood” Nowell (Bass) to create ‘Day Of All Days’. It was written and recorded over the last two years at both Paul Weller's Black Barn Studio and Vale Studios, Worcester and mixed by Steve Carey of The Eden House.
Bone Orchard
BONE ORCHARD ‘Stuffed To The Gills & Other Fishy Tales’ CD+DVD
The first time on CD for this cult Post-punk / Gothic / Psychobilly-jazz blues 80’s band from Brighton. A comprehensive 17-track anthology of the best of their series of Jungle releases, PLUS a DVD with seven video promo clips + seven archive live performance tracks, & 12-page booklet with 1,000-word history by Grave Jibes webzine editor, lyrics and photos.
Bone Orchard grew out of an alternative Brighton nightclub run by singer Chrissy McGee in 1983. Their first 4-track demo led to a John Peel session, which quickly led to a record deal with Jungle (and a publishing deal with Mute/Sonet).
THE HEARTBREAKERS return to the UK!
This Autumn, the two surviving members of (Johnny Thunders &) The Heartbreakers return to the UK, some 35 years after they first arrived from the USA for the ‘Anarchy Tour’ with the Sex Pistols, Damned & Clash.
WALTER LURE, guitarist, co-frontman and songwriter of many of the ‘L.A.M.F.’ classic tracks, and BILLY RATH, the bass-player who’s reappeared after over 25 years out of the music scene, have both announced UK tour dates.
But although they’ve played together recently in the USA, their UK dates have been booked separately – coincidentally over consecutive weeks!
Hillbilly Moon Explosion
Hillbilly Moon Explosion - Buy Beg or Steal
· Half a million Youtube views for ‘My Love For Evermore’!
· Five 7” single pressings of ‘My Love For Evermore’!
· Now – their first UK gigs for many years!
The Anglo/ European ‘neobilly’ Youtube sensations return to the UK for a brief series of gigs in February.
It’s their first visit since their ‘Buy Beg or Steal’ album and ‘My Love For Evermore’ single featuring Sparky Phillips (Demented Are Go). The video is a Youtube hit with well over half a million views to date, and the 7” now has a fifth, green vinyl pressing.
Although half the band are English, they’re based in Zurich and have been touring Europe constantly since this, their fourth album release. But these are rare UK gigs; they were last remembered here in 2004 supporting The Stray Cats. Dates are:
10 Feb. 2012 LONDON, Camden Underworld
11 Feb. 2012 STAMFORD, Lincs Voodoo Lounge
12 Feb. 2012 CARDIFF Bogiez
For full European dates, click here.
Tyla Gang - Rewired
Tyla Gang - ‘Rewired’
New album from the unreleased 3rd album and other 1977 & 1978 studio sessions, plus bonus live album. Reformed after 32 years, and touring Europe, coinciding with Sean Tyla's autobiography!
In 1977 former Ducks Deluxe front-man Sean Tyla’s new project The Tyla Gang was the second artist signed to the newly-formed Stiff Records, with the 7” single ‘Styrofoam’. Then came the ‘Suicide Jockey’ 7” on Skydog. Next it was to new US-based label Beserkely Records, home to The Modern Lovers, who issued two albums: ‘Yachtless’ (1977) and ‘Moonproof’ (1978).
Ducks Deluxe - Side Tracks & Smokers
Ducks Deluxe - ‘Side Tracks & Smokers’
New album collecting both early (1973/4) and new (2009) previously unreleased DUCKS DELUXE recordings.
Ducks Deluxe were prime movers in the UK pub-rock scene from 1972-1975, alongside others such as Brinsley Schwartz, Ace and later Dr. Feelgood, etc.
Led by vocalist Sean Tyla and guitarist Martin Belmont, they got a strong live following playing well-honed good-time rock’n’roll, and issued two albums on RCA as well as releases on French indie pioneer Skydog Records.
Boyd & Wain
BOYD & WAIN - Ain’t No Fairy Tale
Debut album from modern folk singer-songwriter Katy Boyd & violinist Benny Wain, produced by Neil Brockbank (Nick Lowe) at Goldtop Studio
Boyd and Wain are an award winning Anglo American Americana/Folk duo. Their music is pure roots and rhythm and the songs are compelling, home grown tales of every day life… Katy pokes fun as easily as she tells a story of unfulfilled dreams. The sound is honest and original, the vocals are passionate and Benny’s fiddlin’ is just plain brilliant.Sid Vicious - timeline: - www.sidviciouslives.com
Sid Vicious 'Sid Lives' 2xCD and 2xLP
This Sid Vicious timeline history below, from his beginnings to Sex Pistols and beyond, is taken from the 'Sid Lives' CD's 24-page booklet and LP gatefold sleeve of the double-album.
It's the full recordings of four of Sid's last performances from Max's Kansas City, September 1978, with guitarist Steve Dior and New York Dolls rhythm section Arthur Kane and Jerry Nolan.
Also included is Steve Dior's fascinating recollections of life with Sid, and the background to each song, only available in hardcopy in the 2xCD and - out now, a Limited Edition of 300 in red vinyl, 2xLP gatefold sleeve versions (almost sold out).
FREUDCD095 / FREUDLP095.
Buy the CD here for only £5.49!
Read more: Sid Vicious - timeline: - www.sidviciouslives.com
King Kurt
King Kurt
'Ooh Wallah Wallah' CD + DVD
King Kurt release for the first time on CD, their debut, break-through Stiff Records album ‘OOH WALLAH WALLAH’.
It comes with seven extra tracks, being all the early singles, including their chart entries Destination Zululand, Mack The Knife and Banana Banana; plus a DVD – featuring all the video promos, documentaries and much more.
In 1983 King Kurt hit the Top 40 with ‘Destination Zululand’ on Stiff Records. They’d already built up a frenzied following at their riotous gigs, famously strewn with all sorts of muck thrown both at and from the audience whilst also offering haircuts and drinking competitions!
The Eden House
The Eden House 'The Looking Glass' DVD + CD.
The Eden House have a new release 'The Looking Glass', coinciding with a European tour. It's a 2-disc set: a DVD with 9 songs filmed at Goldtop studio, plus a CD with five new recordings of interesting covers.
As on their debut album 'Smoke & Mirrors', it features a number of female singers: Julianne Regan, Evi Vine and Amandine Ferrari, plus new guest vocalist: Tallulah Rendell.
This is the first release to feature Andy Jackson on guitar (he's Pink Floyd's twice Grammy nominated recording engineer), alongside Bob Loveday on violin (of Van Morrison and Bob Geldof's bands), Simon Rippin on drums (ex NFD and Nefilim), and the core duo of guitarist Steve Carey (Adoration/This Burning Effigy) and bassist Tony Pettitt (Fields of the Nephilim).
MARTIN BELMONT - The Guest List
Martin Belmont - The Guest List
Guitarist Martin Belmont is reunited with many of the singers he’s played with: - all new recordings with Paul Carrack, Nick Lowe, Carlene Carter, Graham Parker, Sean Tyla, Geraint Watkins, Hank Wangford, Johnny Nicky, Barbara Marsh & Reg Meuross.
Geraint Watkins
Geraint Watkins 'In A Bad Mood' - deluxe edition
Geraint Watkins has released a deluxe, expanded version of his ‘In A Bad Mood’ album. It follows the numerous radio sessions and appearance on BBC TV’s ‘Later… with Jools Holland’ that greeted the release of the original version late last year. It features five new recordings.
‘We’ve Only Just Begun’ is The Carpenters classic with an orchestral arrangement by Kate St. John; ‘Wonderful Life’ is an early and unavailable Geraint song given a new styling; ‘Bouffant’ is a brand new song from the Watkins lab. Nick Lowe has been covering ‘Only A Rose’ as a duet with Geraint in his live shows – this version was recorded in Zurich last year. The album now finishes with ‘Soldier Of Love’, the much-covered Watkins classic, here in a touching solo piano version.
Glasgow's Park Lane Studio
Park Lane Archives
From the vaults of the legendary Glasgow studio - previously unreleased outakes and demos from TEXAS, DEL AMITRI, BLUEBELLS, DEACON BLUE, PRIMAL SCREAM, ALTERED IMAGES, GUN, HIPSWAY, LOVE & MONEY and many more!
PARK LANE STUDIO in Glasgow was host to many young bands in the 80’s, some making their first recordings and still seeking a record deal. Some did become successful, and a vibrant scene soon developed centred around the studio.Now the studio archives have been prised open, and a treasure trove of fascinating and unreleased tapes discovered. This album offers a unique glimpse into the history of the studio and the bands that recorded there.
