Sunday 24 June 2012

SJI: All The News That's Fit To Print

There's a lot of stuff going on in the SJI camp at present, and while each of them deserves their own blog entry (and will get one, eventually), consider this a place-saver until I can do each of them justice.

ALMANAC 3.0 RETURNS
After a hiatus last year due to several unavoidable and unignorable life events, Alamanac picks up where it left it off with numbers 3.6 and 3.7. These have already gone out in physical CDR format to those folks on the mailing list, but the rest of the world will have to wait a little bit until I can get them uploaded to Bandcamp. It will happen, watch this space. In the meantime, why not take the opportunity to catch up on what you missed by heading to Bandcamp.

SINGLE RELEASE - EIGHT FOR A FIVER
Everyone's favourite anthem to the thirsty underclass will be released in the summer of 2012 on Dibble Records. Watch out for it on limited edition CD and unlimited edition digital download.
Read about Dibble Records here.

LIMITED EDITION CASSETTE RELEASE - ANIMATE
We are currently in negotiation with an excellent local record label to release a limited edition (100 copies) cassette of previously unreleased SJI tracks. More news to follow, hopefully!

UPCOMING GIGS
Festival season is almost upon us, and SJI are pleased to have been invited to play at the following:

13th - 15th July 2012 - The Three Horse Shoes Beer and Music Festival.  FREE ENTRY

20th - 22nd July 2012 - Woodhorn Lane Music Festival. FREE ENTRY

17th - 19th August 2012 - RecFest Music Festival. £5 per day.


SJI: The Bridge Hotel, Newcastle. 23rd June 2012



We had a whale of a time at The Bridge Hotel last night, with three excellent local artistes: Girls Afraid, Trev Gibb, and The Gospel According to Jonathan Lee.

I'm not sure whether our set was videoed, so YouTubes may or may nor be forthcoming, At least some of the set was videoed, so YouTubes will be along in a bit. The above photo was posted to Twitter by @antmacari.

Setlist:

01 - D (E for Andrea)
02 - NickyNack Guest House
03 - Red Coo Coo
04 - Tapes
05 - Eight For A Fiver
06 - Anthem For The Squeezed Middle
07 - Matty Cabbage House

Personnel:
g.w.lang (Gtr, Vox, Cornet), Tony Bennett (Dr), Bing Bongo (B), Mark Oliver (Gtr), Andrea Woodyer (Sax).


Thanks to Ian Evans for putting this on and inviting us to play.




Tapes:










Mid-gig rest:





Saturday 16 June 2012

Upcoming Gig: Saturday 23rd June 2012.


SJI's next public outing will be at The Bridge Hotel, Newcastle on the 23rd June.


FREE ENTRY!





More details here.

SJI: Star and Shadow, Newcastle. 4th June 2012.



After our early appearance at Hoult's Yard, SJI continues and ended their Jubilee Mini-Tour of Newcastle with a set at The Star And Shadow opening for the legendary R. Stevie Moore.


Setlist (Click to watch on YouTube):

01 - The Fence
02 - I'm Off The Team
03 - Beneath The Blue Star
04 - Notorious Cottage
05 - Northumbrian Psycho
06 - Dogs

Personnel:
g.w.lang (Keys, Vox), Dawn Furness (Vox), Matt Selman (Vox), Tony Bennett (Vox), Bing Bongo (Vox), Mark Oliver (Vox), Simon Foster (Vox), Andrea Woodyer (Sax, Vox) .

Video footage courtesy of Keith Thompson.


Northumbrian Psycho



SJI: Hoult's Yard, Newcastle. 4th June 2012


SJI began their Jubilee Mini-Tour of Newcastle with an early appearance at Hoult's Yard, opening for CUD.





Setlist (Click to watch on YouTube):

01 - Weel May The Keel Row / Nickynack Guest House
02 - Anthem For The Squeezed Middle
03 - Let's Wallow In Despair (Like We Did Last Summer)
04 - See Monkey See, See Monkey Do
05 - Thin
06 - Eight For A Fiver
07 - Matty Cabbage House

Personnel:
g.w.lang (Gtr, Vox), Tony Bennett (Dr), Bing Bongo (B), Mark Oliver (Gtr), Simon Foster (Gtr), Andrea Woodyer (Sax).

Video footage courtesy of Keith Thompson.

Photos by You Press Here:



Anthem For The Squeezed Middle