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Jack Shirt

About Me

London based composer, recording artist and occasional lyricist/vocalist, Jack Shirt (aka Christos Fanaras) has self-released two CDR albums on his DIY label Scratch My Back Records, Jack Shirt debut in January 2008 and Silent Beef in January 2009. He is also a member of the Mothlite live band (Southern Records) and has performed and recorded as a bassist with Elsa Drake and as a singer, guitarist and drummer with The Thinking People Society. With TTPS he also recorded the Paid For With Tips album in 2005. He gives regular ramshackle performances of his recorded material at various London venues.

CDR ALBUMS:SILENT BEEF, January 2009Available to buy from Norman Records


PSEUDO IMPROV, 2008-2009, unreleased Drop us a line and we'll send you a copy


JACK SHIRT, January 2008Available to buy from Norman Records


SONGS FROM A NARROW MIND, 2005-2006, unreleased Drop us a line and we'll burn a copy for you


ALBUM REVIEWS

"a weird and marvellous sonic adventure through a kaleidoscope of concise and witty musical adventures" HEATHEN HARVEST

"a fantastic collage of everything in the artist's head, all tumbling out and wired-up wrong. This is an album steeped in the experimentalism of Krautrock and really fucked-up folksike, the sorta thing that would get a release in the mid-70s, leaving everyone completely confused, later to become something of a cult classic" ELECTRIC ROULETTE


"a not so healthy dosage of nonsense" SONIC DICE

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/03/2006
Band Website: www.thejackshirt.com
Band Members: Christos Fanaras
Influences: The Thinking People Society R.Stevie Moore Brian Wilson Tiny Tim Moondog Frank Zappa Houellebecq Nietzsche Ariel Pink Bruce Haack Ennio Morricone Earth The Beach Boys Brian Eno Silver Apples The Velvet Underground Agaskodo Teliverek Vincent Gallo Animal Collective John Maus Henry Miller Smog Bach Sonic Youth Neu The Fall Satie Neil Young and Crazy Horse Joe Meek Faust Nick Drake Cant Blonde Redhead Tom Waits Daniel Johnston Michael Gira Gyorgy Ligeti Battles Syd Barrett The Shaggs Amit Lissack and Associates The Passion Boys Steve Reich Guapo Derek Bailey The Space Lady The Pixies Kevin Ayers Mike Oldfield Fred Frith Gentle Giant Captain Beefheart Lilys The Flaming Lips Mercury Rev Brian Jonestown Massacre Happy Mondays Pinback Air Catpower The Black Heart Procession Walkmen Arcade Fire Interpol Akron Family Portishead Camus The Shadows Bill Monroe Bernard Herrmann Lalo Schifrin Morphine U2 Sebastien Tellier Nick Cave Serge Gainsbourg Radiohead Manos Hadjidakis Aliki Vougiouklaki Socrates The Beatles The Band Beck Billie Holiday Peggy Lee Bacharah Donald Duck Bukowski Elvis Captain Lalofino John Fahey...The Cheapest Lunchbreak_Jack Shirt
..Happy Prog Nightmare

Sounds Like: Probably a lot of things, hopefully in a different way.
Record Label: ScratchMyBackRecords
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Heathen Harvest Reviews Silent Beef!

It took a while but here it is : http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=200903131349 06154 "Its a weird and marvelous sonic adventure through a kaleidoscope of concise and witty musical adven...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:29:00 GMT

A very proud husband!

My wife Alexandra had her debut fashion show on Friday. For the music we played Gang Gang Dance, Moondog, Steve Reich and a short extract of one of my ukulele pieces. The show was a great success. Her...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:36:00 GMT

Electric Roulette reviews Silent Beef!

Pretty much every LP we get our hands on, we can liken it to somethin' else. After receiving 'Silent Beef' by Jack Shirt, we're not so sure....Read the complete review here
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:40:00 GMT

ORGAN review on Silent Beef!

JACKSHIRT  Silent Beef (Scratch My Back)  Second impressive album from selfproclaimed DIY home recordist/song writer Jack Shirt (aka Christos Fanaras).A whole bag of songs and tunes and vocals.....
Posted by on Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:07:00 GMT

Sonic Dice review on Silent Beef!

Can be read in detail here
Posted by on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:39:00 GMT

Collapsed Stars to the Sounds of Light Absorber

Big Thanks to everyone who helped make the show such a success and all who attended. You can view some pictures of the day and the evening here: http://kinetic-image.com/DarkTheatre/
Posted by on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:21:00 GMT

Web Site Update, go see at www.thejackshirt.com

I redesigned the web site and put more tunes and videos plus a BUY button for each of the albums. Also made available a collection of older songs, Songs from a Narrow Mind, recorded in 2005 and 2006 a...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:23:00 GMT

Live footage courtesy of ICA music

Happy Prog Nightmarehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HbqeJbOJFI More videos on this link:http://www.ica.org.uk/Quiet%20Nights+17010.twl
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:16:00 GMT

ICA gig review!

Read  HERE
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:11:00 GMT

Listen to the whole album on Last FM!

Yes I forgot about that. I uploaded the whole thing on Last FM, so whoever might want to have a listen it’s there and it’s free. There is some talk about royalties though but I don’t...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:40:00 GMT