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House that Jack Built

About Me

This is the house that Jack built.Formed in early 2008, Mark (bass/vox), Paul (guitar/vox), James (percussion/vox) and Aaron (guitar/vox) are House that Jack Built. They are not a Metallica album track, nor in fact are they an Aretha Franklin song, the name is, typically, taken from an old English fable written by an author whose identity is oft discussed over good coffee (something the band enjoy every bit as much as an anonymous work of literature). Despite having somewhat lofty lyrical influences House that Jack Built’s musicality is rooted firmly in pop, taking influences from contemporary melody makers like the Young Knives, Field Music and Futureheads. Floundering in the below average bracket of basic arithmetic skill, math rock was always out of the question. Instead, a large part of the band’s artistic influences comes from words and ideas leather bound in the annals of English literature (where does that leave us… Lit rock?!)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/11/2007
Band Members: Mark - speech and bass
Paul - guitars , keys and speech
Aaron - guitars
Jim - drums and speech

For bookings etc contact
[email protected]
or message us via this myspace.

Influences: Clash, Talking Heads, Young Knives, Futureheads, 28 Costumes, Weezer, Voo, Fieldmusic, XTC, Hot Club De Paris, Pixies, Descendents
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Just like buses

Hi everybody,Have you missed us? Well we hope so because we've bloody missed you. It seems like an eternity since our last gig (congrats Jim on finishing your degree, best of luck come results day) bu...
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2009 10:18:00 GMT

Last Fm Hurrah

Hey HoFirst things first, We'd like to thank everyone who came to see us last week in Liverpool. We had two awesome gigs @ Bumper and the Cali and hope you had even half as much fun as we did. Cheers ...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:47:00 GMT

News and Tributes

Hey there, Sorry it's all been a bit quiet lately but we've been very busy bees indeed since the new year. As you will no doubt know we spent some time in the studio before christmas with legendary li...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:24:00 GMT

A year in the House that Jack Built.

Although the time has flown by (it always does when you're having fun) and it only seems like yesterday that a couple of guitars and more than a couple of cans of Peterman Artois led to the conce...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:32:00 GMT

What are we looking so pleased about?..

.. Well, since you asked.Our Christmas schedule gets a little busier, a little earlier this year as we prepare to record our second demo with ace engineer, producer (and all round nice guy) Rob Whitel...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:04:00 GMT

All quiet on the western front......

Hi everybody! I know everything has been a little quiet on the Myspace at the moment but we do have a very good reason. For any one who doesn't know, Sharpie has been having a little problem with his ...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:40:00 GMT

Fuck off glastonbury

This week/weekend House that Jack built becomes 'flat that jack built'... Yes the band is split in two as guitarists Paul and Aaron are away having a whole world of fun at Glasto, probably the best co...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:25:00 GMT

Tunes at last!

After a slight delay due to conflicting schedules the tunes are finally up. We hope you like them. They were recorded in March 2008 at the 'Dashbar' studio in huyton with good friend Andy Do...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:36:00 GMT

2008 DEMO

Hello all, Just to keep you posted on the demo situation, Recording is almost finished (just a few overdubs to add) and hopefully we should have some tunes for y’all to listen to some time in th...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:51:00 GMT