Gigs Summer 25
And getting banned again!
We've been heads down these last few months meeting in perfect world studios as often as possible to build up a body of eleven tracks thus far for our forthcoming release. Other down to earth activities such as yard work, earning cash(selling our labour to Moloch), growing vegetables, keeping Muntjac off said vegetables and taking care of family and friends. This is all part of the wild rock n' roll lifestyle we at JPTB lead.
So the release won't be ready for our summer gigs. But here's where to find us gigging soon. The Harlequin Fayre, West Acre, Norfolk. We're onstage 7.20PM Saturday August 2ND, nice to be asked. While your there check out Hodmedod Ceilidh Band who will put the Disco back into folk earlier the same day. Les, Brian and I will provide the rhythmic spine for that enterprise.
August bank holiday we go on a road trip. Saturday 23rd we play just off the beach at Waxham a funky event organised by singer Anna Mudeka. We’ve secured a few “genre” checks on the poster for the audiences confusion. Dub Zen and Slack Rock and maybe the punk thing too. If you haven’t heard us yet, we’re in that ball park, sort of! Sorry I cannot find a link. Hopefully there will be time for a swim after our set, then off to Battle in Sussex to Play the Hope Freedom Festival. A community project that has been roundly smeared by the likes of the Daily mail, what more of an endorsement could you wish for?
That's it for now. Being off faceache and messenger likely means we are missing a few events. Who knows? So will try to reenter the faceache hellhole just to share waffles like this and info regarding website development in collaboration with our "Greenroom" homies. And of course we will be spinning and hyping the monumental CD/Vinyl/download release. As a flood of new groove laden antagonisms enter the global marketplace for your passive consumption.
In the meantime to stay in touch do become a free or paid subscriber to this substack for news, rants and waffles. Waffle production has been slow as songs have been occupying the mojo most. Les suggested "one more song" to complete the album, that set me up for frantic scribbling in an attempt to write THE song that envelopes the whole recording adventure we've been on. A stupid idea! Verses we're knocked out. The odd line I liked, but nothing hanging together. You can't force it. Then a Little gift turned up out of the blue. A simple riff and my interest in the super creepy Peter Thiel had something to hang on. I think it has legs but it has to run by quality control yet.
A bizarre ban came our way earlier this year. In the early days we were banned for singing “No Incinerator” (A heated local controversy at the time), at Downham Carnival just before the Girl Guides did their set. West Norfolk was being steamrolled into "waste" slavery to a dirty US trash burning consortium. Which means we pay them to burn our trash, breathe in the particulates and dump the ash down a hole in Stoke on Trent. All dim witted masonic town councillors, borough councillors and burocrats we're obliged to support yet another bad idea. Sometimes the machine doesn't get it's way, we were pleased to be able to inject our slant into the discourse. The incinerator plan got binned. But i believe council tax payers are still paying off the compensation settlement to said US company for cancelling the deal. That's justice. Eat it.
Then Swaffham Free Festival accused us of "ramming left wing propaganda down babies throats!" Causing ex Tory MP Gillian Shepherd to storm off. Our "cancellation" at Jam43dom festival last year was a bit of a mystery. Of course my recent account suspension with facearse fits the picture, read my experience here.
However our most recent ban was for offering a few helpful suggestions during a soundcheck to some young musicians we were gigging with. I think we would have not got involved but hearing this band do their third number, a crunchy version of Cameo's "Word Up" the vocalist was still inaudible. We had skin in the game as words matter and we want to hear them and ours to be heard. So a friendly intervention seemed called for. And it helped immediately, the band sounded much better, more balanced. But this apparently provoked an unnoticed "walkout" during our set. Seems you have to be careful what you say folks, being helpful could trigger some kind of woke paranoia. At the time this "furious" protest was not visible to us. It took a loose lipped, intemperate rant on the phone from the project leader a few weeks later to put me in my place. As the automated voice message says "We thank you for your feedback". I did offer my feedback to the feedback we were offered, but it didn't appear welcome. I guess I’m hopeless at going with the “official narrative” thus the feedback loop got "cancelled".
So if you would like us to come and "trigger" folk in your community and know a venue that would tolerate us. Please get in touch.
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See you in field soon..X John