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Global Jam News 2009

by on May.18, 2009, under Press

For updated information on Jam Nights in West London – please follow the link to Global Jam as below

Link: Global Jam News

Recent Excerpts
“Now how is that cold snap taking place? Tuesday night at the Drayton, cold snap, schmold snap! We wuz cookin’!
The House Bandits back up to full strength with Jerome back behind the kit, Alex and George letting loose and Graham just clinging on for dear life. Fantastic set lads. J and A funking up The Meters mega mix of ‘Tippy Toes’ into ‘Cissy Strut’ and George catching fire on ‘Don’t Let Go’.”

“…the House Bandits started off at a sensible volume and pretty much managed to keep it there for most of their set.
A couple of new numbers were slipped into the set, Leadbelly (and Nirvana’s) ‘In The Pines’ sung less as a lament to a cheating woman than as a 19th century whaling song, don’t ask why, that’s just how it sounded to me. And a longish, but hopefully worth sitting through reading of Dylan’s classic, ‘Like A Rolling Stone’.
The older I get the more powerful that song becomes. George, Jerome and Alex pounded it into submission and seemed to take great pleasure in the true majesty of rock that it is”
“Mr Moby got out his box of tricks and proceeded to get down to some serious playing with messers, George, Jerome and Alex. It was jazzy but with just a touch of death metal. Nice.”

“During the time that Global Jam has been off the air obviously we have not been able to get reviews out, but one performance that most definitely warrants a mention is that of Jerome, Kris, Lally and Dan, a week or so ago. Powerhouse stuff from J, dextorous playing from K, more ‘Kitty’ based shenanigans from Lally, and a very good performance from Dan who despite playing some great stuff, still felt the need to hide behind the stage pillar”

“Restraint and order were put back into their rightful place by the appearance of Dapper Andy Falcon.
Joined by Gary The Voice, Jerome on the drums and Graham on guitar and saxophone for their first number, ‘Mama Get The Hammer, There’s a Fly On The Babies Head’. Graham was swiftly booed off stage and replaced by Guitar George who demonstrated the lighter side of his ‘trilling’ methods on ‘Hoochie Coochie Girl’ and ‘Flap, Flap and Fly’”

“The House Bandits back up to full strength with Jerome back behind the kit, Alex and George letting loose and Graham just clinging on for dear life. Fantastic set lads. J and A funking up The Meters mega mix of ‘Tippy Toes’ into ‘Cissy Strut’ and George catching fire on ‘Don’t Let Go’”

“Each performance seemed to top the last, and all of this would have been worth paying to see. It would have graced The Ealing Blues Festival. The opening chords of ‘Here, kitty, kitty’ announced Lallys arrival on stage and he cranked it right up. But no matter how hard he cranked, George cranked harder. This was phenomenal. With Jovan, and Jerome behind them keeping the boiler well and truly stoked they knocked out 4 numbers of absolute devastating Blues and Funk power”
“Everyones eyes were glued to these girls and, as we found out later, just a little too glued, and a little too distracted. Incidentally, most people entering ‘The Tune’ this evening were already gobsmacked and double taken by the outfit that the little bar girl was wearing. Modest, it was not. Tongues got trod on.
Just to get back to the performance for a moment, (no, not the girls), it really was a night that never bored. No bummers, no duffers no drunks, no let up, it just rocked. Jerome returned to the stage later to really put it out on ‘Heroes'”

Some audio tracks from the jams in the ‘Audio’ section

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Interview: Route 266

by on Feb.24, 2009, under Press

I recently conducted an interview for Route 266 giving insight to my music background and brief history – click on the following link below to access the interview

Link: Interview: Jerome Marcus (Route 266)


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News Article: Blues In Britain

by on Feb.17, 2009, under Press

Jerome Marcus was recently included in a news update by Sam Kelly for ‘Blues In Britain’

Please click on the following article below for full details:

News Article: Blues In Britain (Sam Kelly e-letter)

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Article from Issue 85 of ‘Blues in Britain’
For more information and to subscribe: Blues In Britain

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