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SiGNED, SEALED, DELiVERED ~ YOUR NEW BEST BAND!!

ADEM

Crud's NOSEY BASTARD pokes and probes the industry mechanics of UNIVERSAL/ISLAND's latest signing, the JACKSON ANALOGUE. Here's how they got signed. Here's how they celebrated. Here's how they intend to f**k it all up. Sign here boys....

02/05/2006

Artist: Jackson Analogue
Label: Island/Universal Records
Label Mates: Bon Jovi, PJ Harvey, The Killers, Sum 41, The Bravery, Elvis Costello, Under The Influence of Giants, DJ Shadow, MOS Def, The Features, Mars Volta, Pulp, The Roots, Keane.

Here's the deal. Here's the BiG DeaL. That shitty four-piece you've been in with your mates since Year 8 eventually managed to get some daft industry type to hand over a blank cheque and to tell you were going to be famous. Very famous. You wouldn't have to talk to your former classmates at school. You wouldn't have to get up early. You wouldn't have to curb your tongue. They only thing they didn't tell you was that music was more than just writing songs and shaking your balls on stage. It was about being there on time. Releasing something on time. Getting hammered on time. It was about being famous on time.

How the Isle of Wight's Jackson Analogue cope with it all is still in the hands of the gods. They've just signed to Island Universal Records, released their debut EP, 'The West Of Here' in March of this year and are currently lugging their gear around the Universities, Voodoo Rooms and Barflies country-wide. Thus far, Jackson Analogue have provided a solid, granite monolith of monster chords and sandpaper vocals. Kings Of Leon, QOTSA, Pearl Jam provides the nearest points of reference but the gentle, moving simplicity of tracks like 'Disco' suggests there's something warm and wonderful brushing beneath the grain.

The press sheet suggests: 'A deep respect for the blues-rock of Muddy Waters, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Credence Clearwater Revival, a classic British sensibility that derives from a love of the Who, Led Zep and Family an appreciation of the '60s R&B sound of labels such as Stax, Chess and King and an affinity with the '90s grunge of their own youth are all mixed and matched to create a sound that is uniquely their own'.

Is it likely to last? Well, whilst we've got them before they were famous, let's risk the wrath of Jackson bassman, James Homes and find out. He's bound to know all the chords.....


1. How did you get signed?
Recorded some demo’s at home, got a manager. The Managing Director of Island Records heard the songs, wanted to sign us, we had a brief affair and the deal was done.

2. How did you celebrate?
By selling some 1210 turntables and going out for food.

3. Did you have any other labels biting at your heels?
I wouldn’t say biting but yeah enough interest off the back of the independent 7” we released.

4. What would you NOT be prepared to do to promote yourselves?
Fill in Q & As, wank-off a tramp, wear tight jeans, appear on Pop World, Big Brother. That sort of thing.

5. How famous would you say you are right now?
As famous as we want to be right now.

6. Live circuit or showcase? Did you do it the hard or easy way?
Both, we did a showcase and then did a bunch of shows. I wouldn’t say it was hard. If a record company likes you then they like you.

7. How did you blow your advance?
Premium Bonds, ISA’s and a new studio. Oh and some crazy plants from Kew that are hallucinogens. Nazi gold. Some slaves.

8. On signing was there anything you were asked to do that you didn’t want to do?
Nope, we never do anything we don’t want to, people know better than that.

9. Who was the last band they said they wanted you to sound like?
Again they never have, but they are having fun trying to fit us in somewhere. It isn’t working though, so Island Records have now resigned themselves to the fact that we are a one off. It took a while but we all got there in the end.

10. How much did getting signed rely on being tied to a scene?
None at all, there is no scene on the Isle Of Wight, although we were tied to a bed and expensive call girls were sent in for a few days in March of this year.

11. Daftest story they’ve ever invented about you for the press?
That we were the sons of U2 and their road manager.

12. Does your label or your management support or discourage unruly rock n’ roll behaviour?
Both, depending on time and place baby..

13. Where’s the strangest place you’ve been asked to do publicity?
In London.

14. Have they made you tour with anyone you didn’t like?
Not yet.

15. Ever burned a copy of an album put out by your label for a friend?
Nope but sold a few. Why would we burn them? Bad for the environment - all that plastic.

16. What was the last major decision your label or your management made that you didn’t like?
Record a set of covers ready for b-sides.

17. If it were all to collapse tomorrow would you go back to your old job?
Nope, we would go crazy on drugs and haunt other artists and make them as unhappy as we could. If we had wife and kids though, we’d probably go and get some job or move abroad. Or both.

18. How many years do you give yourself in the industry?
As long as the industry is willing to behave itself.

19. How dirty a word is the word ‘industry’ to you?
It’s not dirty at all. ‘Cunt’ is much worse.

20. Here’s the deal: you’ve made an excellent record and some unscrupulous hack handling the press release is about to screw it all up with some grotesque misuse of our mother-tongue. What words would YOU use to describe the release?
‘Here it is, bam and you say goddamn, this is a dope jam’ (copyright Chuck D).


'The West Of Here' EP - Out now on Island/Universal Records.

May 11th supporting The Little Flames @ The Barfly
May 12th supporting The Spinto Band @ The Barfly

relevant sites:
www.jacksonanalogue.com
www.myspace.com/jacksonanalogue



Nosey Bastard for Crud Magazine 2006©


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