Post by phil on Apr 28, 2005 10:53:06 GMT
Thursday 28th April
7:30pm
Adult Tickets are £7 advance or £8 door
01223 511511 or tickets@junction.co.uk
Main Room:
The Broken Family Band
Moe Foe Kill Freeman
Loophole
The Modal Monks
Upstairs in The Living Room:
The Shivers
Emma York
Bailey
Chandy Nath
Meadowman
Remember those days of recording a massively great compilation for your girl / boyfriend? How you put huge amounts of time and effort into getting just the right sound and mood? Well, Cambridgebands.com and Hope Street Music have done just that...
Where rock meets roll, Cambridgebands.com and Hope Street Music have combined their pretty mighty forces to gather together some of the top names on the band circuit for one huge party. They've done it with love, passion and quite a lot of graft...
The Broken Family band are headlining - Folk Fest faves with a remit to create all their songs about Jesus, sex and booze, may just be sticking to that doctrine on the night... Moe Foe will be joining them, with their distinctive dark drum and bass grooves morphing through to their crowd-pleasing chill out style. Also on the bill are The Kill Freeman Faculty, Global Battle of the Bands UK Finalists, who've got that Smiths tussling around with Tool kinda sound mixed up with a small strain of jungle (I guess you have to be there). Lining up next to them are Loophole with a little indie cum Coldplay taste who strike out loud, proud and walk just a little bit on the wild side... Keeping the peace will be The Model Monks with their special brew of 'psyhcedelia blues' and home grown harmonica harmonies.
Upstairs, The Shivers, 'a sexually charged, acoustic rock 'n' roll piece' provide the room with a bluegrass tinge whilst Bailey, a young singer-songwriter from Cambridge gives off a 'Nick Drake meets Leonard Cohen' tone, described by Hope Street Music as 'sublime'.
The Kill Freeman Faculty
Joining them will be Emma York and Galactica who're a brother / sister outfit. The description of Emma's jazz influenced voice supported by classic guitar picking and her bro's human beatboxing number might just confuse the brain a little...but, hey, someone who's created their very own genre can't be all bad...
Finally, there's Sunday Driver's Chandy Nath, who'll be appearing solo at the Upstairs bar. A familiar face at The Folk Festival and The Corn Exchange, Chandy's Cambridge fan base is pretty well sorted...
So, a full on live night awaits. And the boys were so impressed with the line up...that they 'bought the company'. No, seriously, they clubbed together, they toiled long and hard, they got artists in, they got quite stressed, they hounded press and pals alike and they created a CD of the artists above. Then, they created an evening with the artists. Chicken 'n' egg? We think so.
We asked Joel, one of the main men behind the project about the whole chicken theory...
Why have you created the CD?
I wanted to get some attention for the bands and songwriters who I've promoted, played with and seen perform over the last 10 years. Cambridgebands.com gave me an outlet to do this... it's something I've wanted to do for a while, but before cb.com was created there was no real 'brand' to put it under. Also, some of the music on the CD might end up being no more than a demo on a PR man's shelf - I feel a CD compilation is a way of recognising these highly talented musicians. It was extremely good fun to create - like making a tape for a girlfriend when you're a teenager!
How much has it all cost? (financially, emotionally?)
Financially, it's cost £1000 for 1000 CD's- thanks to various sponsorship and Hope Street Music, although with this, and the deposit for the Junction, it has been tight.
Emotionally it took a lot. Firstly, there was picking the bands - having to leave off bands who I wanted to add to the track list, but because I only had 75 mins I couldn't include them, that was tough. Then there were the few awkward situations where a band sent a demo suggesting the use of a particular track, but I would prefer one of their others... Then there was deciding the track order... this took ages, there's plenty of friends of mine who endured listening to the same tracks over and over again whilst sitting in my kitchen sharing a beer. I would take the rough track order out to live nights to play in between bands, this helped me figure out if the order was working - sometimes I'd find myself skipping tracks, so I'd get back home and start again.
So why are you doing the number at The Junction?
Two reasons:
a) To prove to the locals that there's a hell of a lot more going on here than just mediocre rock bands. There's such a wide genre cross over in Cambridge, I thought it would be cool to bring some of them together and make a noise.
b) It's a CD - it has to have a Launch Party!
And, what's in it for you?
I don't want to grow old working in an office, at the moment I can handle it, but I want more for myself - I need to set my goals high, this could all go very pear shaped and leave me in a lot of debt... but I reckon you've got to have ambition in this world, you can't be scared of a bit of debt!
What do you hope will come out of the CD?
I hope we will sell them, pubs will put them on their jukeboxes and some of the acts on there will get approached by radio, A&R and management - and most importantly I hope people like it!