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The Jake Flowers Scandal

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About Me


"Did you ever go to a gig where you were totally pumped and psyched for seeing the headliners and the opening act completely blew you away? Well, that's how The Jake Flowers Scandal hit me! They started out their powerful half-hour or so set like Folk-Rockers on steroids and slightly turned the intensity up with each successive song until it was all pounding drums (courtesy of Ed Gauden), hotwired electric guitar and the lead singer's emotion drenched vocals and impassioned lyrics! WOW!" Stornoway Gazette (gig: 13/04/07 - live review whilst on Highlands & Islands Tour w/The Wallbirds
"One of the best songs we've ever had, it's just unbelievable, it's unbelievable. It's so good." BBC Radio Shropshire (on 'Sticks & Stones')
"Metaphorical, romantic and contemplative... there is genuine poetry within Flowers’ imagery and observations. An unadulterated pleasure from start to end." Whisperin' & Hollerin'
"They played a great set at The Green Man Festival (2006), making a welcome change from the sensitive types we'd had previously. It's a good rough sound that goes down well with good rough cider!" Partly Porpoise
"A two-piece rock 'n' roll band with a stadium sized sound" BBC Hereford & Worcester.
"Flunker-flamencan twisted folk-billy rockin’" Americana UK (what?!)
"This is brilliant!" BBC Radio Shropshire
"We played with The Jake Flowers Scandal. They were wicked at Halcyon. Jakes guitar work is really tasteful, but dirty, and he's got a really nice English folk voice. And he had a really nice pair of boots on." Taken from a Slow Club blog... three cheers for Slow Club!
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/12/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/jakeflowers
Band Members:
Jake Flowers - Guitar & Vocals
Ed Gauden - Drums

Influences: The wilderness of South Shropshire; The Fighting Cocks, Stottesdon; the sorrows of satan and the angels that walk amongst us; Yorkshire Tea; the times when we don't care at all what the other people in the room think; the best memories we've lost; the hope we have for better memories we might be able to keep...
Sounds Like: We've been busy?!
The story so far...
Some of the bands we've played with: THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND, TINY DANCERS, HUSH THE MANY, SLOW CLUB, MARISSA NADLER, EILEEN ROSE, BONEBOX, THE WALLBIRDS, SHADY BARD, DUSTIN'S BAR MITZVAH, TUNGG, THE BE BE SEE, BEN WETHERILL, MARTHA TILSTON, METRO RIOTS, MOJAVE 3...Some of the places we've played: THE GREEN MAN FESTIVAL 2006, A FISTFUL OF TWISTED FOLK (London), NIGHT & DAY (Manchester), 93 FEET EAST (London), BAR ACADEMY (Birmingham), BARFLY (Birmingham), LITTLE CIVIC (Wolverhampton), DQ (Sheffield), OLD BLUE LAST (London), TAYLOR JOHN'S HOUSE (Coventry), FIRED ART (Fort William), MARKET BAR (Inverness), McNEIL'S (Stornoway), CAFE DRUMMOND'S (Aberdeen), THE TROUBADOUR (London), UNDER THE BOARDWALK (Sheffield), VARSITY (Wolverhampton), BETSEY TROTWOOD (London), OPORTO (Leeds), HALCYON (Sheffield), FIGHTING COCKS (our local), SH*TFEST...
If you want to find out more, book us to play in your venue, or send us naked pictures of yourself, you can reach us at: [email protected]
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My Blog

Notes on a Scandal: Highlands Tour Diary - April 2007

Highlands mini-tour with The Wallbirds 11th - 15th April 2007 DAY ONE: ABERDEEN Felt great entering the city which would see this little tour kick off. The first ever Jake Flowers Scandal gig in Scotl...
Posted by The Jake Flowers Scandal on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:59:00 PST