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Joey Britton

About Me


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"His songs are sad, melancholy and moving. Watching, you find yourself drawn into the mood he creates, and although these are sad, they don’t leave you feeling depressed and despondent, but touched. It’s not often that you get to see true emotion put across in a musical act in these days of corporate coldness and mass production, and it’s an amazing thing to witness. "
-Jamie Webster, critic and reviewer of gigs at the Plantation Cafe
NEWS: I am currently in the studio with Jack "the Wizard" Matthias working on my first professionaly recorded EP. Updates and tracks will be up as the process continues, but for now all I can say is that it's going really well and Im getting pretty excited.
Mainly a singer/songwriter and saxophonist, straying into the world of guitars was something I had long tried to avoid. However, the lack of any sort of pianistic skills and the inability to ever learn them meant that guitar became the obvious choice for backing the songs I wrote. Hence the focus of this project is vocals accompanied by acoustic guitar, with brief appearances from various other instruments.
My website, Joeyville.co.uk contains much more information and up to date news. Tim Bliss, trumpeter extroadinaire reviewed the site:
"I first discovered Joeyville while I was backpacking through Europe. I came to a clearing near Mount Timitabo; it was a beautiful and poetic combination of post modern neo-classicism combined with a inescapeable Platonic inspiration. Joeyville can only be described as one of the best artistic works to date."
...and I didn't even have to pay him!
The "Two Jack Afternoon EP" is currently in production as a colaboration between Joey Britton and Jack Matthias.News
-Myspace updated finally.
-New songs up; "Faith, Hope and Love", "One" and "Red".
-The new EP, "Two Jack Afternoon" starts its way towards recording.
-Some new gigs planned.
A full album entitled "Hearts and Minds" is planned for the near future.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 05/03/2006
Band Website: www.joeyville.co.uk
Band Members:
Joey Britton - Guitar, Vocals, Sax and curly hair
The Live Band (a.k.a The Sporks)

Olly Freeman - French* Horn, French* Kissing

Dave Davies - Percussion, Funky Head Dancing
*(I have been told rather pointedly by the man himself that the correct term for Olly's instrument is the 'Horn' so it should read "Olly Freeman - Plain Old Horn, Plain Old Kissing")
Influences: My influences are widespread, but this project is guided by the likes of Counting Crows, Ben Jelen, Pete Murray, Micheal Tolcher, Alexi Murdoch, Colin Hay, Claudio Sanchez, The Prize Fighter Inferno, Dashboard, Joshua Radin, Jack's Mannequin, Saves the Day, Jose Gonzales and anyone else who as ever picked up an acoustic guitar and just played...
Sounds Like: A cat in a sack being emasculated with a plastic spork...
Record Label: Currently looking

My Blog

As Told To Mr Mackenzie Procrastination Attempt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdlEJzHaOmE Had a bit of time and work to do so came up with this from videos I found on my hard drive
Posted by on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:06:00 GMT

A Break from the H2OTower

Dear All,A near-the-end-of-the-year update. The summer was great working with Jack. He's currently embroiled in a big project (and I mean BIG...this dude is talented) so work is on hiatus while we bot...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:47:00 GMT

Out at WaterTower Studios

Welcome all from WaterTower Studios (my nickname Im afraid),I am currently in the studio (and a proper one this time, not my home jobby) with Jack "the Wizard" (another of my nicknames) Mathias who is...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:22:00 GMT

What’s coming in 2008

Hey all, Firstly, Happy New Year! Hope Christmas was good and everyone had a nice deserved break. Just a quick little insight on what will be going on in the first quart of 2008:- A couple of gigs com...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:36:00 GMT

Just for Laughs...new songs

Hey all,I've put up a couple new rough recordings (Russian Roulette and Round Here, a Counting Crows cover). Both are a bit rough and a result of me messing around at home but thought I'd share anyway...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:53:00 GMT

Update Nov ’07

Mornin' all,Just a quick update as we near the end of the year:The final gig for 2007 is planned for the 12th December at the Cedar Room in Islington, London. I hope some of you can pop down and see w...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:15:00 GMT

New song up - Faith, Hope and Love

Hey all, it's been a while!Just a quick update and a new song.I've been busy with exams and lots of shiz but the music's been going on well. Played Joshua Radin's "Paperwieght" with Liv Roche at her l...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:49:00 GMT

Review from Plantation Gig by Jamie Webster

Thanks to Jamie Webster for his well written and honest review of the Plantation gig on the 9th Feb. He wasn't too mean about me, which is always nice, so I applaud him! Below is the whole review of t...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:45:00 GMT

One More Day v2

Heya, just a quick one to say that I've re-recorded One More Day, made it a bit slower and added some sax. I prefer it a lot, I hope you do too,Cheers,JK"Cold hearted orb that rules the night, Removes...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:25:00 GMT

One More Day

Heya, Just a heads up. There is a new song on the myspace player that I wrote today called One More Day. It's a work in progress like most of the stuff on there so needs some polishing up. Hope everyo...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:24:00 GMT