On this beautiful sunny day when we should all be outside, I’ve decided to stay in and keep you all updated about the world of Jenners Field. (yes I’m something of a martyr).
First of all i should mention that the great minds over at Burberry have decided to use Camberwell Grove for another online advert... this we find very exciting and whilst we’re still not deemed pretty enough to actually be in the commercial, hopefully the music speaks for itself
Soooo its been a busy couple of weeks for us, we played at The Chequer Mead down in lovely friendly Surrey. The venue was amazing and we all got agoraphobia from too much stage space.
We then travelled for 7 hours down to cornwall to play in Truro... i’d envisaged an all-american style roadtrip with sun, laughs and adventures.... instead, everyone slept and laurie listened to MagicFM until the signal cut out.
Nevertheless the Truro show (‘B-Side’ at Bunters Bar) went well... though was a little smaller than we’d imagined.
We also got to paddle on the beach... *photos to follow once we’ve cleaned the sand out the camera*
FIIIIINNNAAALLLLYYYY we had our Shoreditch House gig / Jed’s Birthday celebration.
As our new favourite place i feel we should show you some pictures of Shoreditch House with its roof top swimming pool and fantastic view.
However i can’t actually find any therefore im going to show you this clip of a cat on a tortoise.
Thank you to all those that came to the show and to our lighting engineer Sam for making them flash in time with the music
this wasn’t our light show.
One more thing to be excited about is a our upcoming JF Single Launch Party... more details will by announced soon... however ill not mention them now so as to build suspense.
Many many things happening in the JF camp at the moment, some we can say, some we can't!
Firstly exciting news to report that we'll be releasing our first single "Drunk Drive" at the end of April! Its been a long time coming but can't wait to unleash this one on you guys. We finished filming the video a couple of weekends ago at our rehearsal studio in Surrey and its in the editing stage at the mo, but what we've seen is looking awesome! Also did a new photoshoot with photographer Amber Dixon which we will be putting up the results of very soon. Somewhere on my camera I have some "behind the scenes" esque photos from these things, but at the moment I can't find my connecting cable thing so you'll have to wait for those gems!
We've been having a drive to get out of playing London recently, as we've been deafening people here for nearly 5 years now (we were 15 when we started mind, its not just that we're shit! Honest.....) and so are itching to sell ourselves somewhere else for once. On the back of this I've got some very very VERY exciting news. Yes people in the coming month we will be playing two special gigs in *drum roll please*.........EAST GRINSTEAD! and TRURO!
I know I know, how did we get gigs in these metropolitan and happening areas? I'm actually not sure, but my mate Dave told me that apparently people actually live there, and so entertain them we will! (all those that aren't busy doing that country shiz)
In other news we did an interview for the lovely Natalie at No No CoCo which you can see HERE. Have a look, its kinda funny. We haven't done that many interviews and were pretty worried we were gonna come out sounding about as interesting as your Nan's mate Margaret from Pontyfrid. To combat this we basically talked about nothing. It worked a treat! Go see for yourself anyway, and check out her other posts cos basically Nat's a babe and we love her.
Hmm to end this off I'm gonna leave you with an idea of the wonderful place I live in. For those of you that don't know, I actually live in Brockley, South East London. Its rather jazzy cos its actually quite nice and doesn't cost you an arm and seven dwarves to live in. However on my journey back from Uni today I saw two things which rather summed up the ethos of South London to me. And now yes, whether you like it or not, I will share them with you.
Who the hell eats Eels with Pie and Mash????
Only in this area would someone name their cat 'KILLA'. Seriously......like what? It looks so cute too. If the name is anything to go by though, this is one kitty we're not gonna want to find again.
We're very proud to announce we've been featured as the soundtrack to the new 'Burberry Brights' campaign! SO mega psyched about this right now!
You can also hear the full track 'Camberwell Grove' on their website HERE
And added to this Christopher Bailey, the Creative Director for Burberry, just recommended us on Twitter! Pshhhh I'm getting all a-flustered! Someone get me a fly swat so I can slap myself silly!
In other news we've got our first gig of 2011 next Tuesday (1st Feb) at the Buffalo Bar in Islington, check out the facebook event HERE and say you're ATTENDING, cos obvs you all are anyway. No?
One final thing, we just posted up some brand new pics of our glorious selves in star studded action at Proud Galleries. Heres a couple, but go to our facebook to get the full whammy!
Photos courtesy of Arnold Borgerth, check out his website! (http://www.arnoldborgerth.com/)
So lots of very very exciting things happening for JF at the moment, keep checking back to find out more, and remember to 'like' us on facebook, follow us on twitter, stalk us on youtube, hide outside our houses and take pictures of us in the bath....all the usual stuff!
Thanks for all the support, we really appreciate it
So yes the JF blog has been a little quiet of late, but hush my people business will soon be restored as per usual. I simply haven't had time to get the computer since my personal trainer set my 23 hour a day exercise regime in order to ward off the devils of roast dinner.....he says they're attacking my stomach and trying to steal my slender figure. However he's a weirdo, so I think i'll be ok. Who actually wears lycra anyway? As you can also probably tell, everything I just said was in fact made up.
And so onwards! To start off the new year (i know its the 13th or whatever but I'm a slow learner) heres a couple of things i believe you should ALL know about. Because yes people, I believe my opinion is important even though its probably not. I like to pretend that many a person reads this before running in the street to proclaim my musings to the whole community. In reality that doesn't happen....at least probably not anyway. However as a side point I have been reading our stats recently and found out that around 50% of traffic to this blogs come through people searching 'Vajazzle' in google images. Therefore I have realised the secret to online success is in fact to start posting a dirty picture every week.
This is a rad band, HOODLUMS. We've played with them before but I only just rediscovered them. This cover is awesome...plus they're in the Bronx innit and that definitely makes them cool. The only bad thing about it actually is I can only hear it in my left earphone. Hence if i could hear it in both it would probably be TWICE as good.
I didn't really like the original version, but this remix changed my mind. It makes me want to dance in circles in the dark, in slow motion, with some kind of shawl. Oh and this one works in both earphones, double cool!
Finally since this blog is vaguely meant to be about some band I'm in, JF have announced their first show of 2011! CLUB FANDANGO February 1st at the Buffalo Bar, go us!
Last night we played to the glorious people of THE HOW! It was bloody well awesome!
Thanks to Bip and Margot for putting us on, they sure know how to throw a party. See some little videos Bip live streamed from the night HERE........ They're a bit crackly but will do for now! There were loooooads of people taking photos and vids so will post them up when I source them out....
Also hope you guys are all enjoying the FREE limited edition CDs we were giving away, we got rid of tons of them on the night, but if anyone missed out we have a few left so email us at jennersfield@gmail.com PRONTO!
Now we're looking forward to our final gig before christmas, with Club Fandango at the Bull and Gate next Monday 20th December! Go to the facebook event HERE....
AND FINALLY....if my gran was at last nights show she definitely would have been dancing like THIS:
Firstly thanks to everyone that came down to CALL THE LANDLORD at Proud on Tuesday. We had a good turnout, its a wicked venue and I think everyone had a pretty good night (bar the £3.80 bottles!....Ouch) ......I even heard someone was contemplating a bit of pole dancing? Jed can be a bit of an exhibitionist when hes had a bit to drink.......
Some photos and vids will no doubt be materialising soon and will be posted up here as soon as I get hold of them. In the meantime I thought I'd put up the flyer from the night which was only actually made two days before the gig, hence why it didn't go in the last post. Its bloody awesome though! Courtesy of Sash V Zyryaev......
Yes that is David Cameron, and yes he has a dick as a nose. Cool.
Also this week I did an interview with the lovely Sarah at Models1 and they have featured Jenners Field on the Models1 blog for all the world to see! Have a look for yourself.......
I may at some point repost the whole thing on here, but tbh its 3am and I need sleep!
In a last piece of breaking news we have been confirmed to play Bip Ling's infamous night 'THE HOW' at the Macbeth in Hoxton on the 10th December! Apparently they don't usually have bands on the night so we're pretty psyched for this one. You can check out Bip's blog HERE. Will have more details to follow soon.....
But until then, heres a cat having printer issues........
Soooooooooo haven't posted on here for a little while, but never fear there is much to report!
Firstly I will give you a run through account of our jaunt to Portsmouth last week......
To start with I would like to say that Portsmouth is SOOO WINDY. Oh my god literally I thought my car was going to fly away. And let us just say it didn't do much for my hair either. Bloody Wind. This is kinda how I felt....except less happy
Anyway so once we were inside the venue things began to run a little smoother. The set went great, there was a good crowd and people danced and shizz, generally making everyone feel pretty darn cool. Heres a little snippet of us and some photos:
For afters we went to this 'super cool' club (NOT) called Scandals. Despite the name apparently the only thing scandelous about it was that I couldn't stand fully upright on the dancefloor. Is everyone in this town tiny or something? This is how I felt......but again er....not so happy....or ginger.
So we happily danced the night away, Grant got very very VERY drunk as we can see.....
And we trip tripped off to some party where THIS abomination was taken.......
......and were only forced to leave when someone er......pooed in the sink. Yes ladies and gentlemen, they pooed. in. the. sink. Not only this, when we went to expect said article, there was also a fork inserted into one of the er...... poos. We thought this was hilarious but whoevers sink it was didn't. Hence the party was ruined and we left. Well known disgraced R n B singer Chris Brown was pretty sad about that.
It was at this point that I realised Jed wasn't with us anymore. I hadn't seen him since the midget club, and I didn't see him again that night.....so where had he gone? I would now like to play a brief game entitled "WHERE DID JED STAY?".
Did he stay here....?
Did he stay here.....?
Or maaaaybe he stayed HERE???
At some point I might let you know the answer, and all guesses are welcome!
Soooo next day we wake up.....my head hurts a bit.....I can't exactly remember getting home...I have a condom in my ear....the usual kinda stuff. We were kindly allowed to stay at a friend's cousin's house, and they had generously given us free reign over their kitchen. However being useless, lazy and hungover we set off in Metro the Hero to find the closest, easiest, cheapest food possible. And, like a mirage in a very grey damp desert SNACK WAGON appeared upon the horizon! We absolutely love Snack Wagon, particularly Max.....
We also absolutely adore Tracy who works in Snack Wagon, who definitely has a pretty cool Vajazzle hidden down there somewhere. (I would just like to point out at this stage that we do not know that the lady buttering our butties was called Tracy, or indeed that she has a Vajazzle 'hidden down there', but we'd like to believe that she does, so we're gonna. Oh and if she did it would probably look like this......
EDIT: my original photo of Tracy's Vajazzle has been censored by the evil internet men, so heres a slightly less x rated version.....but its soooooo not as cool
I had possibly the best sausage and egg sandwich of my life (no pun intended), and so three cups of tea and two episodes of 'Brit Cops' later we were back on the road home.
Cheers Portsmouth!
Next i guess I should talk about the gig we have on Tuesday. This is a good'un folks, CALL THE LANDLORD at Proud Galleries and its FREEEEEEEEEE! This is put on by the guys who organised those mega squat thingys and should be proper busy and proper fun. We have no stage time at the moment but will let you know as soon as we get the info!
Also this is just a warning for the future. I have started to consider letting Metro the Hero go. I know you guys are gonna be upset. This is what happened when I told an old man earlier today.....
Oh and a dog......he took it pretty hard....
But, my people, the time may be near.
Just to give you a little nostalgic moment, heres me in Metro earlier this year escaping from an attempted hijacking attempt by a well known countryside terrorist group (they're pretty serious)
And so we have come to the end of todays installment! I hope you enjoyed and I leave you with confirmation that George Bush is an evil man......he eats kittys.....
Laurie -JF-
Oh p.s. follow us on twitter, like us on facebook and all that jazz, otherwise i may be forced to kill this puppy.
Its on your heads guys.....
