Jack Mountain

Poster/Flyer for 16th December

16th December gig

I'm putting this show on, which is one way to guarantee that you'll play a non-shitty show:

Bubble Pipe Presents...

Come put your feet up and take a break from drunken work colleagues with....

Hank Haint:

He lives in a shack and makes music. Hank Haint is a one man band from the south of England, mixing garage rock with blues music and playing it Loud.

http://www.myspace.com/hankhaint

The Hills Have Riffs:

The first live outing from David C W Briggs... /woodland walks alone/ bedroom space rock/ free folk/ free shoe gaze/ pedal manipulation/ acoustic sounds/ psych rock/ lonely walks into the inner wilderness/ bringer of light.

http://www.myspace.com/hillshaveriffs

Jack Mountain:

A return to the stage, smelling of the sea and aided & abetted by the princeling.

http://www.myspace.com/jackmountain

£3 on the door, good tunes on the stereo, friendly people, smiles.

Jamboree is at 566 Cable Street, it's real close to the Limehouse DLR station, go to Bank and take the DLR two stops, easy.

Conquest of the Planet of Rockers

It's arrived, the last in the unholy pentalogy of Jack Mountain albums.

12 tracks of goofy-footed goodness all in tribute to rivers and beaches - as in the sandy places, not the film. It's mellow, mostly improvised and full of wheezes and whooshes. I have 50 of them which I'll be giving away at gigs, or you can get one directly from me (akzincke ATATATAT gmail).  Peace to you and yours. Hang tough, hang ten.

Here's a duo of tunes:

Coconaut

Waywade

2 unvarnished pebbles

Conquest of the Planet of Rockers is now in hand. Whilst I'm waiting for that to come back, here are two jams that never got worked up into something for the record. Heavy Weeds is just one big riff, Come Sea is kind of a Supremes rip off, submerged in fuzz and wazz.

Heavy Weeds

Come Sea

Starving Weirdos mastering new Jack

Starving Weirdos are an awesome band out of California's pacific northwest. Check em out, they make beautiful/scary music and I've been listening to them loads. Turns out that Brian in the band does mastering and since my buddy Doug is away I asked Brian to take it on. I'm listening to the tracks now and he's done a bang up job. Check em out.

Demos in progress

The Cougar Is Loose - DJ action here:

My drinkin' buddies Hired Geeks are putting on this monster, I'll be playin' some rekkids.

Za-ohm-bies

I've been writing songs. In my head. They all sound like The Cranberries on Tamiflu. 

That's How You Rule Balls

Here's a song that we played at Silver Rocket a couple o' weeks back. We're not doing it tonight and maybe never will again but I'm pasting it right here.

It's called That's How You Rule Balls

The title comes from something the band Friends Forever said in the film about them. The words are about 3 bands and their contribution to rock n' roll. The verse about Half Japanese is mostly from quips they made about how to play guitar.

Seeing as the whole Jack Mountain enterprise has in many places been about my love/hate/slap/tickle relationship with rock n' roll then this seems a fitting song to close out the current punk phase of Jack Mountain.

This was jammed in practice, the words are barely there so they're here:

What about Geeee Fugazi? 

Man I love how you dance

Your songs have so much passion

I dig forensic scene

Ian gets all the cred man but he dances worse than me

What about Half Japanese?

Bring the world to its knees

If you wanna go fast play fast

If you wanna go slow play slow

Sure you might need some chords, if you wanna plug those guitars in

That's how you rule, rule balls, alright

That's how you rule, rule balls, alright.

What about Beat Happening?

Taught the world how to sing

They went on tour with Black Flag

The hardest band around

But Calvin's got more punk attitude than Henry had in his damn life

That's how you rule, rule balls

That's how you rule, rule balls, alright.

XZ

Jack Mountain albums >> going, going gone >> taking a break

Hello,

This show on the 3rd of March will be the last Jack Mountain gig for the foreseeable future.

Almost all the albums are gone, I only have 10 copies of the red one left, hopefully people will take those on the 3rd. 

I still plan to do a 5th album at some point and have some songs already written but I'm taking an extended break soon so I can't see it happening for long time. 

Thanks for listening, we'll catch up soon.

JM/AZ