Jim Comic
27-08-2003, 22:56
Twisted Nerve Irish Tour 2003
Misty Dixon/Jukes/Aidan Smith/DJ Andy Votel. Free X amount of Twisted Nerve lucky bags (with cds/7 inch vinyl and other TN goodies) will be given out to the early arrivals.
Thurs 25th Sept- The Green Room @ The Half Moon (Cork)
Fri 26th Sept-Dolans Warehouse (Limerick)
Sat 27th Sept-The Village (Dublin)
Sun 28th Sept-Auntie Annies (Belfast)
The Twisted Nerve Label
Twisted Nerve was founded in late 1997 by Grand Central DJ and designer Andrew Shallcross (aka Andy Votel) and singer-songwriter Damon Gough (aka Badly Drawn Boy). The label was originally inspired by a wide range of alternative influences such as one off soul records, french EPs, a cottage industry, a rebellion to dance music, making something out of nothing, hip hop, b-grade US psych bands, breaking down musical boundries, jukebox records, pushing your luck, music and design in unison, Woody Allen and manufacturing singles in Nashville, Tennessee. Andy and Damon didn't want to set up a business. They wanted to make five hundred 7" records with cheap two colour sleeves and sell them to their friends before the end of the year. They sold the records in less than a month and soon after got embraced, mithered and intimidated by the music industry. They then got another record made and proceeded to put out records by our like-minded friends and then they became a record company, made films, designed graphics and organised events.
Misty Dixon
Based around the songwriting talents of Jane Weaver, Misty Dixon stemmed from Jane's desire to form an all girl group and do something outside of her solo work. Initially Misty Dixon was supposed to be just a studio-based project - darker than Jane's solo work and more influenced by her sad heavy metal past. Jane persuaded Anna Greenwood to sing with her after they were thrown out of and barred from Matt & Phred's Jazz Club in Manchester for singing All Saints songs whilst a jazz band played. The owner told them they sounded like whores.
The first track Jane wrote for Misty Dixon was 'I, So Many Times' which appeared on the Milk Money EP released in Spring 2001. She wrote it on an old Farfisa organ she discovered in a second hand shop under a load of junk - she claims she knew it was there because she had a funny feeling, similar to when Lovejoy finds a rare antique.
Aidan Smith
One fine day late last summer at TN Towers, TN were listening to the usual round of demos when we stumbled across a gem. Several attempts to contact the sender drew a blank until a month later emails were returned and Mr. Smith walked into our lives. He handed TN a CD with 20 songs on it and told them he had "a few more songs" which he would bring in the next week. Since that time he gave TN around 70 songs of home recordings, 14 of which will be released over two 7 track mini-albums, the first of which you should be holding in your grubby little paws sometime in April.
Just 23 years of age and hailing from Eccles, Aidan Smith has managed to soak up most of the best music of the 20th century and make something new that is completely his own. Since his first release, the song 'Bongos & Go' on the Jukebox 45 Singles Club in October he has been snapped up for his debut TV appearance, been tapped by prospective collaborators (we can't name names), and is currently holed up in deepest Lancashire recording his debut album.
Jukes
Tammy Payne was previously signed to Talking Loud in the label's heyday and she plays drums / sings in Jukes. She writes all the songs and produces her records with Jim Barr (Portishead bass player). Jesse Morningstar plays guitar with Jukes and is known as one of the legendary Moonflowers. Mark Barber plays bass and sings with Jukes - he is the man behind Pop Parker, and is an ex member of Bristol guitar band the Chesterfields and also the Experimental Pop Band. Jukes made their first recorded appearance on Twisted Nerve's Jukebox 45s Singles Club (which has also seen releases by Aidan Smith, Mugison, Teenage Fanclub and a host of others) and their debut LP will be released in Spring 2004 on Twisted Nerve.
Andy Votel
You've heard all the other stuff before. He has over 100 pairs of trainers, used to mess around in vague Northern hip hop crews, loves hats and Polish Jazz, lives in Marple and has more records that Ikea can provide him with shelf space for. The 2000 compilation Finders Keepers is a microcosmic sample of his ever-expanding musical worldview. But it's really time for this smokescreen of trivia to be dispersed. Instead, focuspoint on two things that say more about Andy than his caps. In 2002 Andy completed his first LP proper in "All Ten Fingers". Moving on from the promising but still speculative debut mini LP, Styles Of The Unexpected (released in late 2000) this is imbued with a confidence and an organic willfulness which is strides ahead of those still smoking too much draw and sellotaping beats together in front of computer screens. It's gritty and real and funny and human and broken and twisted and completely addictive.
Twisted Nerve Irish Tour 2003
Misty Dixon/Jukes/Aidan Smith/DJ Andy Votel. Free X amount of Twisted Nerve lucky bags (with cds/7 inch vinyl and other TN goodies) will be given out to the early arrivals.
Thurs 25th Sept- The Green Room @ The Half Moon (Cork)
Fri 26th Sept-Dolans Warehouse (Limerick)
Sat 27th Sept-The Village (Dublin)
Sun 28th Sept-Auntie Annies (Belfast)
Misty Dixon/Jukes/Aidan Smith/DJ Andy Votel. Free X amount of Twisted Nerve lucky bags (with cds/7 inch vinyl and other TN goodies) will be given out to the early arrivals.
Thurs 25th Sept- The Green Room @ The Half Moon (Cork)
Fri 26th Sept-Dolans Warehouse (Limerick)
Sat 27th Sept-The Village (Dublin)
Sun 28th Sept-Auntie Annies (Belfast)
The Twisted Nerve Label
Twisted Nerve was founded in late 1997 by Grand Central DJ and designer Andrew Shallcross (aka Andy Votel) and singer-songwriter Damon Gough (aka Badly Drawn Boy). The label was originally inspired by a wide range of alternative influences such as one off soul records, french EPs, a cottage industry, a rebellion to dance music, making something out of nothing, hip hop, b-grade US psych bands, breaking down musical boundries, jukebox records, pushing your luck, music and design in unison, Woody Allen and manufacturing singles in Nashville, Tennessee. Andy and Damon didn't want to set up a business. They wanted to make five hundred 7" records with cheap two colour sleeves and sell them to their friends before the end of the year. They sold the records in less than a month and soon after got embraced, mithered and intimidated by the music industry. They then got another record made and proceeded to put out records by our like-minded friends and then they became a record company, made films, designed graphics and organised events.
Misty Dixon
Based around the songwriting talents of Jane Weaver, Misty Dixon stemmed from Jane's desire to form an all girl group and do something outside of her solo work. Initially Misty Dixon was supposed to be just a studio-based project - darker than Jane's solo work and more influenced by her sad heavy metal past. Jane persuaded Anna Greenwood to sing with her after they were thrown out of and barred from Matt & Phred's Jazz Club in Manchester for singing All Saints songs whilst a jazz band played. The owner told them they sounded like whores.
The first track Jane wrote for Misty Dixon was 'I, So Many Times' which appeared on the Milk Money EP released in Spring 2001. She wrote it on an old Farfisa organ she discovered in a second hand shop under a load of junk - she claims she knew it was there because she had a funny feeling, similar to when Lovejoy finds a rare antique.
Aidan Smith
One fine day late last summer at TN Towers, TN were listening to the usual round of demos when we stumbled across a gem. Several attempts to contact the sender drew a blank until a month later emails were returned and Mr. Smith walked into our lives. He handed TN a CD with 20 songs on it and told them he had "a few more songs" which he would bring in the next week. Since that time he gave TN around 70 songs of home recordings, 14 of which will be released over two 7 track mini-albums, the first of which you should be holding in your grubby little paws sometime in April.
Just 23 years of age and hailing from Eccles, Aidan Smith has managed to soak up most of the best music of the 20th century and make something new that is completely his own. Since his first release, the song 'Bongos & Go' on the Jukebox 45 Singles Club in October he has been snapped up for his debut TV appearance, been tapped by prospective collaborators (we can't name names), and is currently holed up in deepest Lancashire recording his debut album.
Jukes
Tammy Payne was previously signed to Talking Loud in the label's heyday and she plays drums / sings in Jukes. She writes all the songs and produces her records with Jim Barr (Portishead bass player). Jesse Morningstar plays guitar with Jukes and is known as one of the legendary Moonflowers. Mark Barber plays bass and sings with Jukes - he is the man behind Pop Parker, and is an ex member of Bristol guitar band the Chesterfields and also the Experimental Pop Band. Jukes made their first recorded appearance on Twisted Nerve's Jukebox 45s Singles Club (which has also seen releases by Aidan Smith, Mugison, Teenage Fanclub and a host of others) and their debut LP will be released in Spring 2004 on Twisted Nerve.
Andy Votel
You've heard all the other stuff before. He has over 100 pairs of trainers, used to mess around in vague Northern hip hop crews, loves hats and Polish Jazz, lives in Marple and has more records that Ikea can provide him with shelf space for. The 2000 compilation Finders Keepers is a microcosmic sample of his ever-expanding musical worldview. But it's really time for this smokescreen of trivia to be dispersed. Instead, focuspoint on two things that say more about Andy than his caps. In 2002 Andy completed his first LP proper in "All Ten Fingers". Moving on from the promising but still speculative debut mini LP, Styles Of The Unexpected (released in late 2000) this is imbued with a confidence and an organic willfulness which is strides ahead of those still smoking too much draw and sellotaping beats together in front of computer screens. It's gritty and real and funny and human and broken and twisted and completely addictive.
Twisted Nerve Irish Tour 2003
Misty Dixon/Jukes/Aidan Smith/DJ Andy Votel. Free X amount of Twisted Nerve lucky bags (with cds/7 inch vinyl and other TN goodies) will be given out to the early arrivals.
Thurs 25th Sept- The Green Room @ The Half Moon (Cork)
Fri 26th Sept-Dolans Warehouse (Limerick)
Sat 27th Sept-The Village (Dublin)
Sun 28th Sept-Auntie Annies (Belfast)