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About Me

The new single 'My Lung' is out now! Its has two beautiful b-sides with it as well: Evaporated by Ben Folds, which Jo recorded live on KCRW with Nic Harcourt and a wonderful and very rare demo, Another Feather.

My Lung: Avaliable on iTunes

And then there is Jo's wonderful debut album...

Paperclips & Sand: Avaliable from
Jo Direct / Amazon.co.uk / iTunes

Both of these records are avaliable on most other download services including emusic , Napster and Rhapsody along with CDs avaliable internationally either through Amazon or straight from Jo (with free shipping!).
I - Jo Mango - like to play! I also like to chill out a bit from all this self-promotion! So for a full-on boasty bio see the official website - www.jomango.co.uk

Otherwise listen to the tunes and judge for yourself buddy!

Your ears would thank you.

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Member Since: 12/2/2005
Band Website: jomango.co.uk
Band Members: Jo Mango - vocals, guitar, kalimba, squeezebox, other various random instruments
Jim Mango - bass, vocals, kalimba, omnichord
Alan Peacock - vocals, guitar, glock
Katherine Waumsley - Flute and harp
Simon Fullarton - guitars, toy piano
Calum Scott - drums, guitar, kalimba, omnichord, cajon, production and engineering
Influences: On the CD player mostly these days are Vashti Bunyan, Stina Nordestam, Joanna Newsom, Bright Eyes, Adrian Crowley, George Brecht, Vetiver, Death Cab for Cutie, Smog, Sebadoh, Kate Rusby, Alvin Lucier, Ben Folds, Alan Peacock, Richmond Fontaine, Ivor Cutler, Adem, El Dog, the list goes on and on and on and on!
Record Label: Lo-Five Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Not the next blog but exciting news nonetheless

Well well well!With Jo now home from trit-trot-trit-trotting around the terrene on her trit-trotty-trotters, the mango team have been working feverishly recently (so feverishly in fact that small inse...
Posted by Jo Mango on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:46:00 PST

what do you get if you cross tokyo with texas?

another blog gap has opened up. this is always frustrating for everyone involved. mainly because you have your wellies on and you have to try and leap between the platform of inadequate word...
Posted by Jo Mango on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:13:00 PST

i feel very tall and yet strangely small at the same time

Oooooooh so much to tell. Ok&.ok&..so&..ok&&ok&&InhaleExhaleInhaleExhaleFirst off, I need to tell you about our last day in Perth. The gig went enormously well. Soundcheck was hotter than a hotpot! Th...
Posted by Jo Mango on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:31:00 PST

what a drongo!

Brisbane came and went with nothing in particular to report. Except that jellyfish were on the menu in the restaurant where I ate my tea. Despite some people's advice that jellyfish don't contain gela...
Posted by Jo Mango on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:51:00 PST

these penguins are small dougal... those penguins are far away

ok so Australian jet lag officially sucks! like a big fat hoover.On Tuesday night, I got so overcome with TNS ("Tired N' Silly-ness") that over dinner I told Gareth he should try to get a job as an ov...
Posted by Jo Mango on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:15:00 PST

mean-ness and jellyfish

It's hot. There's no two ways about it. It is also bright. Thus my dislike of wearing sunglasses "because they make me look mean" simply must be overcome. I thought about actually being mean yesterday...
Posted by Jo Mango on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:17:00 PST

kalimba lessons

well... its been an exceptional few days it really has. north carolina came and went... with no piles of crazy coloured objects. which is a wee bit sad. but we did have a large papermache cow with a ...
Posted by Jo Mango on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:09:00 PST

only a small gap

well... time has flown like an arrow!the zero degrees tour is over. alack and alas. that was possibly the best time i've ever had on tour. the music was so fantastic and the vibe was continually posit...
Posted by Jo Mango on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:58:00 PST

Roundhouses and Handy Slappy

Our first gig in Brighton on Friday. It went a bit like a dream! Tickets had sold out and we were pretty wired to see how the audience would react to such a very different gig format.We were also kin...
Posted by Jo Mango on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:56:00 PST

zero degrees of separation

bloggyblogblogblog!wooo!oh it has been some time since I have seen your face mr blog....I must excuse myself thusly dear reader - despite the fact that I have spent the past week in the hi-tech capita...
Posted by Jo Mango on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:55:00 PST