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The Brian Jacket Letdown

Look! A Picture of all 5 of us! At the same time!

About Me

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OTHER CONTACTS:

Management: [email protected]

Bookings: [email protected]

Press: [email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/6/2005
Band Website: thebrianjacketletdown.com
Band Members:

Will Harper: Vocals/Electric Guitar/Ukelele/Mouth Organ


Thomas Phillips: Wurlitzer Piano/Electric Guitar/Kathedral Chimes/Backing Vocals


Alyssa McDonald: Bass Guitar/Backing Vocals


Gemma Ware: Saxophone/Glockenspiel/Reed Organ/Electronics/Various Musical Toys


Dan Radclyffe: Drums/Utters/Flexatone/Vibraslap/Backing Vocals


P.S: We own an Optigan. Don't test us in the twee instrument stakes. We'll take you DOWN



PRESS CUTTINGS



FEATURES

Artrocker , July 2007

Gigwise , April 2007

UKULA , April 2007

LIVE REVIEWS

Frink Music , 2007

Gigwise , 2007

Playmusic , 2007

Disorder Magazine , 2007

Kid Vinyl , 2006

Garbled Communications , 2005

BBC London , 2005

REVIEWS FOR "EAT YOUR FRIENDS" (APRIL 2007)

Gigwise , "a gorgeous dali-dripping-chocolate of the sweetly surreal"

Drowned in Sound , "Do not expect this to be the last you'll hear of them"

Frink Music , "perfect, peculiar, and let's be honest, slightly silly pop"

Losing Today , "totally wired and without doubt stupidly essential"

Disorder Magazine , "a quite mesmerising charm offensive"

High Voltage , "a lively, charming piece of psychedelic-folk-pop"

Music OMH , "a completely bonkers bit of madpop"

Neon Buzz , "infectious psychedelic gibberish"

Rock Feedback , "remarkably pleasant to the ear"

Sounds XP , "definitely has the chinese funk"

Trash Hits , "you can't help but wonder why they aren't all over the radio"


Type of Label: None

My Blog

Return of the Jacket 2008 Baby

Hello to anyone out there who may have at one time enjoyed our music...It's been a long time, pretty much a year in fact since we've done much to our myspace page.We're still here! Just about!Our albu...
Posted by The Brian Jacket Letdown on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:41:00 PST

Barfly Tickets

Hello!If you wish to go our show at the Camden Barfly on 19th November, please try and get your tickets IN ADVANCE. They are £6, as opposed to £8 on the doorThere are 3 bands supporting, and we'll be ...
Posted by The Brian Jacket Letdown on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:41:00 PST

Brian Jacket in Artrocker Magazine this week

Also, we've updated our studio gallery with some new pics of some of the nice people we've been recording over the past month:http://www.thebrianjacketletdown.com/studiogallery.htm l75% ready we think!...
Posted by The Brian Jacket Letdown on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:46:00 PST

We made a Mixtape

We made a new Podcast! Well, I say podcast but it's not really. Nothing to do with iPods. Just 40 minutes of music that you can do whatever you like with... "Online Mixtape" would be a better term. Th...
Posted by The Brian Jacket Letdown on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:50:00 PST

June 6th '07

Hello, I've decided to update our myspace page a bit more...the cunning plan i've devised is just to make sure that whenever I update the band website, i'll make sure I add my new ramblings onto the m...
Posted by The Brian Jacket Letdown on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:32:00 PST

EYF Mistake!

Eat Your Friends... is NOT out yet on Vinyl... Ahh the smoothly run ship that is Brian Jacket Corps sorry, but there's been a breakdown in communication between us and genepool records who are putting...
Posted by The Brian Jacket Letdown on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:31:00 PST

5th March '07

Hello EveryoneAnother monthly dose of jacket news coming up1. Our single EAT YOUR FRIENDS is out today, its available on various download sites, and limited copies on 7" Vinyl (don't you just love it)...
Posted by The Brian Jacket Letdown on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:00:00 PST

Radio Airplay Tonight

Huw Stephens BBC Radio 112am-2amGet everyone you know to text in when you hear it! Make us sound really popular!! haha
Posted by The Brian Jacket Letdown on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:23:00 PST

58 Seconds of Fame

You may have noticed on the page already, but we've managed to get a DVD copy of our TV debut from a month or so ago on BBC2's The Culture ShowLo and behold... now it is digitised and ready for viewin...
Posted by The Brian Jacket Letdown on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 04:47:00 PST

5th February '07

Ahh time for another turtle waxing of the lyrical car bonnet what whatHope you are all well... many thanks to those of you who befriended us or sent us kind messages after you saw us in tellyland. Sin...
Posted by The Brian Jacket Letdown on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:25:00 PST