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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We made a new Podcast! Well, I say podcast but it's not really. Nothing to do with iPods. Just 40 minutes of music that you can do whatever you like with... "Online Mixtape" would be a better term.

This one's a collection of some of the things we've been listening to in the studio for inspiration and all that good stuff. Features Tom Waits, The Ventures, Broadcast, Stackridge (but of course), Gary Numan and many more BJL favourites. Download it now from our podcast page:

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

Also, we're commencing the recording of our orchestral musicians! Time for some Tuba, it's the hour of the Oboe etc etc. In case you hadn't realised, we've been recording since april, it's all going to become our first proper Album! Hurrah!

First up last Sunday was master saxophonist Saffron Beagley, who put down some 1920s tones on our ukelele song "Sometimes" and also from free-jazz squawking at the end of "Nearly Us" (the song we've ended every gig with since way back when). Saffron's going to join our merry band one day, she just doesn't know it yet... she has a myspace actually http://www.myspace.com/saffronbeagley

We didn't really take any proper photos which was a shame, but we've added a few to the studio gallery on our website anyway

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

Some of you lot probably never visit our website... much better than myspace I suggest you look at it RIGHT AWAY!

http://www.thebrianjacketletdown.com

Yeah!

Hello, I've decided to update our myspace page a bit more...the cunning plan i've devised is just to make sure that whenever I update the band website, i'll make sure I add my new ramblings onto the myspace page too... if you have seen our website recently, the following text may seem familiar...

First things first, i've updated the Shop of our website;

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

It now links to the new Genepool Records online store. You can buy Hooves for £5.99 (bargain!), plus Piratas on Vinyl/CD for £1.99 (uhhh, bargain!) and Eat Your Friends on Vinyl/CD for £1.99 too (double bargain). Huzzah! Visit the Shop now!

Meanwhile, the recordings are going OK, as previously mentioned our sound engineer has gone abroad to do some real work, and we've been left at the controls, fumbling around with mics and guitar amps and generally not knowing what we're doing. It's all sounding good though so it's alreet. If you didn't know, we're recording our debut album at the moment, you can see photos of what we're up to here;

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

Gigs at The Luminaire and Death Disco were fun, we played with some terrible bands, some good bands, and we were a mixture of the two!

In other news, we have a gig lined up at a festival on 8th August, called Mad Dogs and Englishmen... thinks its going to be somewhere just North of London. And more bizarrely, we're playing a gig at a huge Indian music festival in september, I hear that Shilpa Shetty is playing too! We're pleased to announce that she'll be joining us onstage for a moving rendition of Gil Scott-Heron's "Home is Where The Hatred Is". Maybe. Sorry that's poor taste. But funny.

See you soon!

P.S Make sure you track down Hatfield & The North's debut album from 1973. It's Genius, featuring Robert Wyatt and members of legendary intellectual rockers Henry Cow (beloved of Joanna Newsom). If none of this means anything to you... then you need to be schooled in progressive brit-jazz-rock from the 70s. Or, alternatively it may mean you have some semblance of a social life. Bye!