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City: London
Country: UK
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Thursday, August 20, 2009 
Hello all

TBJL have decided to call it a day.

Come and see us play our final ever show on the 28th August, supporting Led Bib, those crazy mercury-nominated jazzers. The show is at the lovely Luminaire in Kilburn

We'll be back with something in the future, not sure what form that's going to take though. It's not the end of our music-making, that's for sure...

X TBJL
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 

Category: Music
We're playing tonight (29th July) at the Lexington in N1 - 96-98 Pentonville Road.

Come along if you can - tickets £5 on the door...

Support from the excellent Lucky Elephant
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www.myspace.com/luckyelephantmusic

Hopefully see you later...
Currently listening:
1944 Swing Band, Vol. 1
By Jan Garber
Release date: 1999-12-25
Thursday, May 21, 2009 
Hi

We are launching our debut album "Darling Bit Me" on June 8th

@ The Luminaire, Kilburn High Road, London

Tickets can be booked here, only a fiver each, also playing is Rose Elinor Dougall, she of The Pipettes who are sadly no more:

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/49579

See you there!

x TBJL

P.S Bring a nice crispy tenner to buy a copy of our album too innit
Currently listening:
Hermit of Mink Hollow
Monday, May 18, 2009 
Hi there

we played a session for cerys matthews on BBC 6Music yesterday (Sunday 17th May), which involved a chat, and live versions of our songs 'sometimes' and 'white sky'

It's available on the BBC 'iplayer' for the next 6 days:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00kgg1y

x TBJL

P.S Forward to 1 hour 12 minutes in
Currently listening:
Champion Sound
By Jaylib
Release date: 2003-10-06
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 


Hello

I write this from Brazil, lucky me. I..m brown as a crispy sausage

TBJL have been made "New Band of The Day" on the guardian website.

Here..s the link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/mar/24/new-band-brian-jacket-letdown

For any people who haven..t visited this page in a while (join the club!) you can PRE-ORDER our album "Darling Bit Me" from the following link:

http://www.thegenepool.co.uk/items/309.htm

That means, come June 8th you..ll have a lovely digipack CD waiting on your doorstep, no need to even leave the house. GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

We will play some gigs soon I promise. May/June we reckon. Rehearsing with yet another new line-up

x dan (ex-drummer; new percussionist)

P.S I suggest everyone google "Molhado De Suor" by Alceu Valença immediately and download it from a blog. I picked up a rare vinyl copy yesterday and it..s bloody great

P.P.S You may have noticed all my apostrophes come out as two full-stops, it..s these crazy brazilian keyboards



Currently listening:
Molhado De Suor
By Alceu Valenca
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 

Hello People

We have a gig this Sunday 31st August at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, on Hoxton Square in London N1

8:00pm- The Brian Jacket Letdown

9:00pm- The Draytones (Psych Garage Rock on 1965 Records)

10:00pm- Portico Quartet (Young jazz band recently nominated for the mercury music prize, two of them play entirely weird and super-rare instruments called Hangs, which sound really good. We'd describe them as Steve Reich meets Kenny G)

Good bill!

Worth a sunday outing we reckon!

Entry is £8, although if you message us with names you can get in for a fiver

Hope to see you there

The Brian Jacket Letdown

Currently listening:
Zalatnay
By Sarolta Zalatnay
Release date: 2007-04-24
Monday, June 30, 2008 
We are give the song "Sometimes" (from our soon-to-be-released debut album) away, huzzah

It's available from 30th June for TWO WEEKS only from:

http://www.thegenepool.co.uk

Click on the link with our lovely name on it, you will see it on the homepage

TBJL
Currently listening:
Reasonable Doubt
By Jay-Z
Release date: 2006-11-14
Monday, June 16, 2008 
Hello to anyone out there who may have at one time enjoyed our music...

It's been a long time, pretty much a year in fact since we've done much to our myspace page.

We're still here! Just about!

Our album "Darling Bit Me" has taken a long time to materialise. Over a year in fact. Work, Babies and Abject Poverty have all been contributing factors to it's delay, but it's very nearly ready. Hurrah!

Hopefully we'll start to play some more shows again soon, we've done very little gig-wise this year...

We also changed line-up last year, when I swapped over to hit the drums very very nearly in time and made way for Alyssa from Scritti Politti to play the bass guitar. Virtuoso sax-blower and also Reed-Organist/Glockenspielist/Thereminist extraordinaire Gemma also joined the fold. Although she lives in France now and only comes over if the gig is an especially good/important one. Not much then HA HA

So yes, final mix tweaks are being done by me after an initial stint in our Warehouse Rehearsal/Recording Space. Big big thanks are due to Ellis Gardiner in general over the last year, his studio Shiftworks is in our top friends. Have a looky if you're in a london band with need to demo. You could even play our Optigan if you're lucky. On second thought, hands off. It's too shit for anyone else.

Then the mixes are winging their way to Alan Douches at West West Side Mastering in NJ for a final tweak and spot-of LOUDNESS MAXIMISING YEAH. It's got to compete with the new Timbaland "joint" on the radio innit. Well, it may come slightly up in volume. We're very pleased to have Alan on board as he put the finishing touches on Sufjan Stevens "Come On Feel The Illinoise" and Animal Collective's "Feels". Maybe some of his magic will rub off on us. We can but hope. The tracks included will be:

Wax Fruit
Sometimes
The Feast
Devil In My Room
Obtain (The Harpoon Song)
Whole Lot of Time
Nearly Us
Too Late
Come On Down
A Light Array
Too Many Stones
White Sky
Wolfie Boy

Maybe they won't all be on there, we've yet to decide...

A UK release will materialise at the end of the year on Genepool Records. Whether it comes out anywhere else will remain to be seen. Any takers?

Meanwhile, we will SOON be offering a FREE download of one of the songs, "Sometimes". You will need to grab it from the Genepool Records website when we blow the whistle. Join our mailing list or watch this space for info. This should all happen within a couple of weeks time...

Much Love from All in The Brian Jacket Letdown. We hope to see you down at a show at least one in your/our lifetimes

x Dan
Currently listening:
Another Thought
By Arthur Russell
Release date: 2006-05-10
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 
Hello!

If you wish to go our show at the Camden Barfly on 19th November, please try and get your tickets IN ADVANCE. They are £6, as opposed to £8 on the door

There are 3 bands supporting, and we'll be on at about 10 or so

Get tickets here:

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=241184&interface=

Cheers

TBJL
Thursday, July 05, 2007 


Also, we've updated our studio gallery with some new pics of some of the nice people we've been recording over the past month:

http://www.thebrianjacketletdown.com/studiogallery.html

75% ready we think!

Dan
Currently listening:
Cut
By The Slits
Release date: 25 January, 2005