CROWN JULES

Please allow us to introduce ourselves, we're a man of wealth and taste........not Originally formed as the TTocs, we've been playing in the streets, bars, and clubs of Germany and England since 2003. In the past (and sometimes still today) playing with a mini drum-kit and acoustic guitar we've been called the British acoustic White Stripes but our sound is about 10,000 miles away from that of our ancestral rebels across the pond. The Stones, Ian Dury ,Monty Pythons and Mum are more our points of reference. Now enhanced with a plonky piano synth thing, we play Bouncy British Pop on the Bright side of life..... :)********************************************************** ******** THE STORYOnce upon a time in Cambridge, there was this English bloke who didn't care too much to earn his living with a nine to five job and set off as a busker to Europe ............. he met a German girl on the way.... and that ruined everything ( more or less !)....He settled down........ hung up his guitar..... as one does...time went by... a son came along ...... he picked up his guitar (as one does) and started to write songs again...he started gigging... formed a band here and a band there ( Croaking Toad,Poppy Daze,Scott ..) made a cd,was approached by EMI, appeared on radio and t.v. and then just as he was going to give up again Julian started banging HARD on the drums and wanted to join the fun! So in 2003 the TTOCS was formed on the occasion of a strange European Buskers festival and Chris and Julian started doing the pubs in White Stripes style, winning fans from wannabes to have-beens and from grannies to tiny teens ....then they decided it would be nice to beef up the sound a bit and took on CP for the bass.This was in 2005 and in 2006 they changed their name to Crown Jules after everyone kept mispronouncing the Ttocs. 2007 Crown Jules got through to the semi-finals of a the MP3 Germany band competition and recorded their first album "songs of Gus". ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- 2008 and Chris and Jules decided to do a "white stripes" again and go back to just acoustic guitar and drums, so they went into the studio and made a 5 track EP which they recorded in one live session. Then they discovered the "keyboard" and that changed everything....as it does :) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------- Some Quotes: "what makes Crown Jules extraordinary ? The great songs, the unusual line-up, the anti-rockstar attitude, and the juxtaposition of lethargy and carefree dynamic energy..." ............................................................ ........................................................ "Chris sings, speaks and screams about life, the world and the universe. . Julian couldn't care less - he bangs his drums to his heart's, and the audience's content ..." ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------- " Mick Jagger meets George Harrison and Cat Stevens in the UK and goes to Germany for the Oktoberfest..."