Juke & Duchess are a versatile guitar and vocal covers duo. Our repertoire spans from the 50's through to present day. Covering a wide range of genres from rock, rock & roll, country, reggae, motown/soul and even some disco too! For more information please email michelle.bennett1104@gmail.com or phone Michelle on: 07735480421...Thanks :-)

Oz has moved to mix cloud dot com / oztvc after having his mixes rejected by soundcloud.
TV Cabbage - Party People
tVC philosophy is:
free parties for free people.
tVC support and condone the free party movement worldwide as a means to personal and spiritual enlightenment.
tVC think the Criminal Justice Act is an unjust law and unnecessarily criminalises law abiding party goers.

tVC sound system was formed in 1986 in Whitstable, Kent, UK.
tV Cabbage or tVC are now a louche collective of artists, musicians, producers, hedonists. artists, technicians, promoters, writers and DJ's who all work together and are dedicated to house music free parties as a means of pleasure, fulfilment, a base for networking and an exchange of ideas. Amongst other things in their lives.  
Well that's what we try to do.  

Pre-house the music played was an amalgam of reggae, hip-hop, American and UK underground guitar music as well as old punk and psychedelic. This was played under the tVC moniker at house parties, free festivals as well as various halls and student venues around the Canterbury area.

As house music exploded in the late eighties, crews, or DJ's from crews, such as DiY (Nottingham), Tonka (Brighton) and The Lazy House Crew (Bristol) began to appear on the free festival circuit. This amalgam of traveller and 'raver' lifestyle began to produce hybrids like tVC and Aphrodisiac in Kent. Inspired by the free party ethos of the travellers the parties began to take the form of gatherings once the free festival circuit had been ‘crushed’.

tVC Sound System was born in 1986 in Whitstable, Kent. They were named after the 'Gaye Bikers on Acid tune' "TV Cabbage" from the album "Drill Your Own Hole" released in 1986 on Virgin records. Before the house explosion and the adaption of the Do It Yourself ethos Drill Your Own Hole kinda sounded like the thing to do at the time. So we drilled. The band had a lead singer called Mary. Paul, Nick and Carl, the founding members, thought that was mildly amusing, and, needing a name for the band promotion 'enterprise' that they had just set up, choose tVC. 'We just wanna get bands into Whitstable', snarled Carl.

During these early days they promoted thrash, American underground and UK traveller bands and anyone else they could. Often badly. Playing their favourite music between bands (reggae, hip-hop, guitar based US and UK thrash) they were forced to buy some decks. Learning the promotion game didn't come easy and it seemed like it wouldn't last long. In fact it didn't come easy or last long. Within two years the band promotion stopped.

In between this hectic promotion schedule they did a few house parties for friends. Started a reggae/hip-hop night at the local Labour Club (on a Wednesday) and went to a few free festivals with the decks and a few little speakers. They saw Hawkwind (several times) Subhumans/Culture Shock, The Dub Warriors: the scene was alive and extremely active. It was a time of enlightenment; of exposure to the traveller values of vegetarianism, individualism, egalitarianism, anarchism. They went to Stonehenge in '87 and saw the police break up the celebrations.

Back home squatters took over several houses in the area. They were always up for a party. tVC always had the kit to do it and, naturally, were always up for a party too. If a band wanted to play; great! Just put 'em through the desk.

Jez's original band, Cirrus, formed early in ’81 with Shaun Mace on bass guitar, John Ensor on percussion and Jez Davis on lead guitar and vocals. Shaun soon left after he and the other band members discovered that he had ginger hair and a moustache.
 
Shaun was replaced (but not before the band had stolen Shaun’s bass guitar) by Finnish bass player Harri Kärnä who came from Finland, and hence was referred to as “Finnish bass player Harri Kärnä who came from Finland”, due to the fact that he played bass (hence “bass player”) and that he came from Finland (hence “Finnish” because that’s what people from Finland are collectively called, not “finish” as in “finish of a race”, or “finish doing something”) and “…who came from Finland” because he did come from Finland. In addition to bringing his bass playing skills to the band, Harri also brought an extensive collection of beer mats. Harri also used to try to ride cows.

The trio soon began recording and gigging. Some critics claim that their performances where spoiled by three things. 

Firstly, drummer, John Ensor, was too tight to buy a drum kit and used to play a selection of margarine tubs, cardboard boxes and a biscuit tin placed on a table, complaining that he’d spent enough money on the sticks (which he had in fact borrowed).

Secondly, Harri Kärnä could not remember how the songs went and so would have to be shown how to play the next song, by Jez, in between numbers. This, some critics say, spoiled the flow of the concerts but did provide an excellent showcase for John Ensor’s jokes which he would tell to the audience between songs along with reciting some of his tone poems.

Thirdly - the singing. A comment made by band associate Mark Cordon must rank alongside the one made about The Beatles that “bands with guitars are on the way out”, by the Decca record company. The comment, directed at Jez Davis, was “you might make it as a guitarist, but you’ll never make it as a singer”. Cordon couldn’t have been more wrong because as of this date Davis has made it neither as a guitarist nor as a singer.

Within four months Kärnä left the band after and argument over a groupie. Jez said she was wearing Harmony hairspray whilst Harri insisted she wasn’t. The two where irreconcilable and Jez and Harri refused to work with each other again. 

Original Cirrus Members

Jeremy 'Jez' Davis - Guitars, Lead Vocals
John Ensor - Pair of Cusions
Harri Kärnä - Bass Guitar

After the demise of CIrrus Jez and John went on to form Rampant Thrust with guitarist Phil Taylor, Jez taking over bass guitar duties. Now Jez plays in his shed. 

Influences:

Spinal Tap, The Rutles, Bad News, Crème Brûlée - well who didn't they influence?

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