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The New Roxette The New Roxette The New www.Aylesbury Showcase.com www.theNewRoxette.com Roxette SATURDAY 11 & SUNDAY 12 JULY ISSUE SIX – MAY 2009 11am – 4pm KINGSBURY AYLESBURY TOWN CENTRE Howard Jones FREE Black Poets Jump Where’s Keith? Music Fan of the Month SATURDAY 11 JULY 2009 SUNDAY 12 JULY 2009 Looking Back at Friars News, Reviews & Interviews . and so much more! The Winner of the AGS Band Competition ACOUSTIC STAGE COVERS STAGE CALLAGHAN CHARLIE DOn’t SurF LOST MINUTE MICHAEL LEE THE OBSERVERS DAVE EASTER also featuring JOHN ZEALEY with IAN MOORE PAUL JACKSON AND DON’T FORGET SUNDAY 23 AUGUST · MARKET SQUARE · AYLESBURY www.theNewRoxette.com Welcome to Editorial: Stuart Robb The New Roxette Judy Pearce WELCOME to issue six of The New Roxette. Rick Pearce This month in The New Roxette, we have an exclusive interview with Howard Jones, who will Advertising: be performing across the UK later this month as part of the ‘Here & Now’ Tour, plus we’re chatting Dennis Hall to the ‘Black Poets’ and also John Dexter Jones from popular local rock band ‘Jump’. Design: Also this month, we have some more exclusive information regarding the very special FRIARS Mike Payne Aylesbury concert at The Aylesbury Civic Centre, which celebrates the 40th Anniversary of this Website: legendary club – as it rises from the ashes once more after a 25 year break, on Monday 1 June Anthony O’Sullivan 2009. Tickets went on sale last month, and this event has already generated enormous interest, and received significant media interest including the BBC, Music Week, Music-News, The Bucks Contributors: Herald, and of course The New Roxette to name but a few! Peter Brockwell Richard Carr Opening the night on stage at 7.30pm will be The Groundhogs. Deborah Dewis Second on at 8.30pm will be Edgar Broughton and headlining the evening’s event will be Leon Gordon The Pretty Things. Michael O’Connor For FULL details and more information visit the Official Friars Website: David Stopps www.Aylesburyfriars.co.uk or online at www.theNewRoxette.com Photography: Since our last issue, has been gaining even more fans and generating even Simon Fowler (Howard Jones) The New Roxette Jez Brown (PHR) more publicity and interest, including that of a certain Mr David Bowie! The New Roxette is Lorenzo Agius (Escala) now being read all over the world, and we are proud to announce a direct link has even been added from the Official David Bowie website to www.theNewRoxette.com J Printing: Driftgate Press Sales of the wonderful limited edition debut EP “WISH” from local singer-songwriter Claire Batchelor continues to grow. If you haven’t already picked up a copy, then you can still buy Contact: this fantastic EP from the official Jam Central Records website or from Claire at any of her e: [email protected] forthcoming gigs; (while stocks last) – www.jamcentralrecords.com t: 07787 910 187 The line-up for this year’s Aylesbury Festival (11 & 12 July) has also been revealed, and this too AND A VERY SPECIAL has already received tremendous support and interest … Visit www.Aylesburyfestival.com for further details. ‘THANK YOU’ TO Don’t forget to check out the Official New( Roxette) Website too for the FULL interviews, plus HOWARD JONES the MYSPACE, FACEBOOK and TWITTER pages for all the very latest news and gossip… www.myspace.com/ Anyway, until then … have a fantastic month and see you again soon … ! theNewRoxette Enjoy! The New Roxette NEWS ROUND UP Popular local record label Jam Central are lining up to release some fantastic new albums and singles shortly, including the brilliant single “Anymore” by Lost Minute, plus the Official FRIARS 40th AnniversaryC ompilation Album. For all the latest information visit: www.jamcentralrecords.com John Otway returns to the Limelight Theatre on 8 May. www.qpc.org Rickmansworth Canal Festival: 16 & 17 May. The Hohodza Band (from Zimbabwe) make a welcome return to Aylesbury Queuing for their FRIARS tickets, on Sunday 17 May for a live music performance and workshop in Kingsbury Friday 17 April 2009 (2pm). Buying the FIRST Friars Aylesbury (Aylesbury). Tickets in 25 Years! Tring Canal Festival: 23-25 May. www.wendoverarmtrust.co.uk New RELEASES Larks by the Lake: returns on 24 May to Watermead (Aylesbury). Slashed Seat Affair – “No Lies” (single) – 04 May 2009 The Maccabees – “Wall Of Arms” – 04 May 2009 Music in the Market: once again this popular local event takes place in the Bloc Party – “Intimacy” – Remixed – 11 May 2009 heart of Buckingham on 24 May. Green Day – “21st Century Breakdown” – 11 May 2009 Lunic – “Lovethief” – 14 May 2009 Jump returns to the Limelight Theatre on 30 May. www.qpc.org Jarvis Cocker – “Further Complications” – 18 May 2009 The Lightning Seeds – “4 Winds” – 18 May 2009 The Harrow, Aylesbury will be hosting a new Open Mic / Jam Session on the Manic Street Preachers – “Journal For Plague Lovers” – 18 May 2009 last Sunday of every month. (31 May, from 6pm). All musicians, All abilities, Escala – “Escala” – 25 May 2009 Escala All instruments welcome! It’s a place to network, meet other musicians and Madness – “Liberty Of Norton Folgate” – 25 May 2009 listen to some fabulous live music… *NOT TO BE MISSED* * All information is correct at time of going to press. 1 When The New Roxette says JUMP . ! JUMP are a six piece band formed in 1990 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. During their career they have released ten independent studio albums plus two live albums and recently have released their first E.P. (reviewed in Issue 3). They have toured Have you heard much about Hobble on the Finally what other plans do the band have extensively both in their own right and as Cobbles and how do you feel about playing for the rest of 2009? an opening act for artists including Marillion, the event this year? Write, record, gig, record, write, gig, record, gig, Fish, Midge Ure, Sam Brown, Wishbone Ash, Oh yes...we were dead chuffed to get the invite.... write.....go down the pub...and then start again.... The Blockheads, IQ, Arena, Arthur Brown and it’s funny ‘cos a few of our friends have played it so John Young. Well many thanks for spending some time we feel connected! Fish did it... we toured with him with us John and we’ll see you at The Limelight We caught up with frontman John Dexter a while ago and guess what... we’re doing a gig for (Aylesbury) on 30th May. Jones following their recent acoustic set him a couple of weeks before Hobble... the wheel supporting Katie Buckhaven at The Limelight keeps turning! For more information on JUMP visit: Theatre in Aylesbury. At HOTC you will be playing in your acoustic www.jumprock.co.uk For those new to JUMP could you explain the guise as ‘John Dexter Jones & The Steven The Quick Fire Five ... JUMP sound? Twins’. How did that come about? Er...no... not really... we’ve been described by Well we’d done some ‘JUMP acoustic’ things opening What was the first gig you attended? Classic Rock Mag as the band that’s impossible to for Sam Brown, Wishbone Ash and Arthur Brown Ginger Baker and Friends, Bangor University pigeonhole... our sound is what we write, what we and the like, and then we got a call asking us to do Refectory. fancy and...er... so that’ll be a bit of rawk... folk... bit some shows with Midge Ure... after a few of those of blues... some (apparently) prog... I honestly don’t we started getting serious requests for an album of Who is your biggest influence? know... we just like it and we’ve recorded 13 albums acoustic stuff so we did the JDJ album when a guy Bill Lewis my old English teacher... developed so it seems a few other folks enjoy it too! from the U.S. dipped into his pocket and financed my critical faculties. it! Really it IS just acoustic JUMP but hey, I’ve got What is your musical high point? For a band that have been together for 19 a fancy long name so we thought it would work Finishing a new song that you know is going to years, how have you managed to maintain better – particularly when you’re getting half hour knock ‘em dead. such a stable line-up? theatre support slots and people can associate your What are you currently listening to? Well we’ve had a couple of personnel changes over name with a forensic scientist TV serial killer.... the years... but the nucleus of the band remains... My son Sam’s ipod which dominates the house. I guess that we understand each other... we can And the New full length CD is due later in the I have no choice. really fizz creatively in a work situation (and we year, what can we expect? Well to be honest What item can’t you live without? certainly DON’T agree about everything) but we you can expect the unexpected! We’ve followed Wales... it’s not an ‘item’ but I’m hardly going to say have built a trust and respect for each other that our noses and seem to be mining a real folk-rock car, pen or Shure SM58 am I...? so Wales... simple! means that by the time we reach the pub/service tinged thing... mind you Ronnie is still crunching station/next day...we’ve learned some more.... out loony power-chords and mind-boggling By Peter Brockwell JUMP is very democratic but has clear cut values solos so I guess the word ‘hybrid’ springs to mind..
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