MOTHER EARTH - THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF MOTHER EARTH - AJX CD 162
 
Acid Jazz superstars Mother Earth have some great news to impart this month...Amid a plethora of rumours, the band have announced that they are re forming to do some gigs culminating in a European Tour to promote their forthcoming album 'The Further Adventures Of...' Acid Jazz News can reveal that the group met up for the first time in over a year last week to plan their forthcoming shows. The lineup can be confirmed as MATT DEIGHTON, (vocals and lead guitar), NEIL CORCORAN, (bass guitar)
BRYN BARKLAM (Hammond and Wurlitzer) and CHRIS WHITE (Drums), former female vocalist Xan Aberatne resumes her position and a number of other past members have expressed an interest in getting involved. The band intend to start with a warmup at a private festival in Oxfordshire this month and then play some UK shows in September and Europe later in the year. A US tour (the bands first) is being arranged for the new year. The eagerly awaited new album (released on the 26th of JULY) has already recieved a rave review in Record Collector with many more to come over the next couple of months. BBC 6Music (the London based digital and internet station) have been heavily behind the album (which features 6Music presenter TOM ROBINSON on a version of his POWER IN THE DARKNESS track). The album features some of the great unreleased moments from the bands career, with guests like the aforementioned Robinson, Paul Weller (on harmonica), Andy Bell (from Ride and Oasis), Bernardo Custarde (Santana), Graham Day (from The Prisoners), Dee Cee Lee (whose vocal features on the first ever remix from Weller's producer Brendan Lynch - the as yet unheard Jesse Gospadelic Dub mix) as well as a host of other unreleased material with the likes of vocalists Matt Woodman, Xan and the now infamous Kym Marsh.
   
ANDY LEWIS & KENI BURKE - LOVE IS ALIVE IN MY HEART - AJX 147CD/S
   
Released at the beginning of the year following great reviews from Jazz FMs Richard Searling and many other faces on the northern and crossover soul scene's, this limited edition 7" (in pink vinyl) sold out after only 4 days!!! We are pleased to announce that our European partners (ZYX records) have decided to release the single as both a 7" and a CDsingle. Consequently a repress (in boring old black vinyl) is now available throughout Europe. There is no plan to make any further copies of the now
collectable pink vinyl version available. As the former BLOW UP mod dj puts the finishing touches to his long awaited debut Long Player, "BILLION POUND PROJECT", we are thrilled to announce the scheduling of Andy's next single.
   
ANDY LEWIS & BETTYE LAVETTE - LAUGHTER EVER AFTER - AJX 159S
   
Andy Lewis releases new single "Laughter Ever After" featuring vocals of soul goddess Bettye Lavette - a wonderful modern take on the classic northern soul sound (with a little bit of funk thrown in too!!!). The single is due to be released in September and is backed with the deliciously funky title track of his debut album,"BILLION POUND PROJECT". Check out Andy's choice of tunes as he DJ's as special guest of "Casino Royale" at the Barfly (aka the Monarch) Camden Town on Saturday 7th August.
   
SMOOVE - COMING BACK AJX 169T
   
Following a storming London debut for his band at East London's RHYTHM FACTORY this month - Smoove gets ready for the release of his brand new 12" featuring the awesome vocals of Geordie siren Jess Roberts - COMING BACK...The follow up to his popular THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED, the single has been getting hammered on Radio One and Capital...(making it to number 5 in the Capital Dance Chart and number 4 in the DMC breaks and beats chart!!!)..........what some dj's have said:
My Pick Of The Week - Andy Smith (Portishead) A Real Breath Of Fresh Air - Paul Godfrey (Morecheeba) An Absolute Storming Monster - Craid Charles (The BBC Funk Show) One Of The Records Of The Year So Far - Ali B (Capital Radio Dance Show) An Immediate Crowd Pleaser Which Will Be The Staple Of My Set For Many Months To Come - Strictly Kev (DJ Food) Classic New Funk - Norman Jay (BBC Radio) The single was released at the end of July and should not be missed...The album 'Dead Mens Shirts' is out at the end of the year!
   
JARVIS HUMBY EP AJX170S
 
Our fave northern modsters JARVIS HUMBY are releasing a new EP next month...called GARAGE 4 ROCK (AJX170S) it comes on limited 7" vinyl and includes versions of BLACK CAT (from Brian Auger) plus three of their own songs...to celebrate the release they have announced a one-off gig in conjunction with Little Steven's Underground Garage Show...For those of you who aren't up on the garage rock scene...Little Steven Van Zandt is a dj and actor who once made his living by playing guitar for Bruce Springsteen in the E Street Band and later
in Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul...He currently appears in cult show THE SOPRANOS as a wiseguy BUT more importantly he hosts LITTLE STEVEN'S UNDERGROUND GARAGE - a syndicated radio show (102 stations and counting - the biggest rock show in the States) a slice of psychedelic mod freak that blasts out of Stevie Central...Stevie is putting on a festival to end all garage rock festivals in New York on August 14th...Headlining are THE NEW YORK DOLLS and IGGY POP AND THE STOOGES along with THE STROKES, and our own Humby's have been invited to appear as the only English guests at the Festival...a great honour indeed. They've now been picked up by US Indie label Hard Soul Records for release of their debut album "ASSUME THE POSITION" (AJXCD166).
                                   

JARVIS HUMBY Album  AJXCD 166

It’s time to put on those clumpy white stack heel shoes, pull down your American tan tights half-mast and reveal those carpet burns, assume the position ‘cos it’s Jarvis Humby. For those of you who are not familiar with these suburban Casanovas, Jarvis Humby are the lovers of women and women love the Humby.  When not writhing in the snake pit, they enjoy playing musical equipment. Starting life as an out & out Garage / R'n'B outfit, about 5 years ago, playing material inspired by the likes of Bo Diddley, The Rolling Stones circa ‘64, Dr. Feelgood & The Prisoners. The band name was borrowed from a bloke the first drummer worked with at the M.O.D., who dressed exactly like Mr. Benn (bowler hat & all) but with a ginger Afro (true). After playing around with the line up, searching for "their sound". They hit gold and released their debut single on Detour Records, which became extremely popular right across Europe especially in Bulgaria where the members are known as Jarvis “Flukinburger” Humby.

Active gigging, the length & breadth of their own country from Ramsgate to Aberdeen & everywhere in between (excluding Halifax and Chipping Onger) has built up a solid live following. Playing this kind of music because its the sort of stuff that turns the band into trouser arousering love Zebras regardless of whether it’s in vogue, the band have found themselves in the middle of a garage punk revival.

Seen on the psych scene as the debauched cohorts of Zodiac Mindwarp due to their aftershow drink fights. The lanky four-piece now play a raw hybrid of demon soul & punked-out garage, with screaming Hammond, guitar fuzz, bloodthirsty vocals & a rhythm section that's tighter than Tom Thumb's arsehole!  

                                         

                                                          Sweet Snarl Music!!

                         

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