The Jacques: International Showcase Fund
For:
CMJ 2015
Event date:
13th - 17th October 2015
Event venue:
Rough Trade NYC
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Four kids, two brothers apiece, all friends from their teens, form a band and start to make a noise – first around the Bristol area where they are based, then, rather quickly, elsewhere. Hyde Park on the day of the big Libertines show sees them metaphorically take down the tent. Then Amsterdam, Glastonbury, and as the year progresses, all corners of the UK will soon be added to the list.
At the centre of this band of brothers, stands Fin Jacques. Lyricist and songwriter at a young age, music is one string to a bow that encompasses fine art and poetry. With the air of Dorian Gray and flanked by the piratical Jake Jacques, slashing at his guitar one part Steve Cook to two parts Wilko Johson and imbued with the looseness of Keef, this centrifugal joint force sits atop the admirable steadiness of rhythm section Oli Jacque and Eliot Jacque, the bedrock that allows these two true romantics to meld melodies of beauty amid words that soothe and bite in equal measure.
Debut EP Pretty DJ spat sonorous bile and earned the band serious kudos from the DJs (Huey Morgan, Chris Hawkins, Don Letts) and the scribes, with Clash offering ‘Ray Davies at his most acerbic, Weller at his most romantic’, Sabotage Times declaring them the band to lead a guitar revival. Follow up Artful Dodger delivered four more tracks that saw Phil Taggart and Huw Stephens climb aboard whilst widening their sonic palette to the dub infused Painkiller and, in This Is England, a proper state of the nation moment via its call and response chorus, dropped amid the wreckage of Cameron’s improbable return to Downing Street.
The Jacques debut album will be with us in 2016, and prior to that, expect a new single to follow the summer’s jaunts and autumn dates across the UK and Europe. The band are really looking forward to their trip to CMJ 2015, and thrilled to be playing the BBC Introducing and PRS for Music Foundation showcase.
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