vocals, voice, song, Heavy Mental : serious humor,
spirit outsider, Fortean, weird, strange, paranormal,
everyday, satire, political, food, desserts, snacks
IOW Folok = Folk-Lofi-kookie-serious songs

we’re from the Mid Atlantic coastal region of the long ago surfing paradise  mountain range known as Sandbridge , of course when the touristas arrive and we point to our mountains , they say it’s nothing but a few sand dunes,

 but we’re Visionaries !

I’m not sure what’s happened to the Mikes, but they might be in jail in “The State of Arkansaw” (if you know the song you know what I’m saying’ ).

I’ve been havin’ to hold down the Forte since we started posting here.
all of our stuff is with them in the camper - all our recordings and musical instruments ( if we had any, can’t remember, couldn’t play ‘em even if we did ! ). So all we can do for now is let me entertain myself as much as i can until they get back from whatever planet or Time Zone they’re lost in ….

what’ll you find here ?
All kinds of Food for Thought - like when all the hippies finally left Woodstock and the left behind began singing to the trees.
Let me clarify something right now about that event- almost no one but some of the bands from Europe and the Far East and their roadies ever used ANY drugs there- 99% of the people didn’t even have a beer ! I’m not kiddin’- I was there !! straightest group of people I’ve ever been with in my whole life ! Total CIA bullshit propaganda just to advertise their drugs so they could raise money for orphanages.

But Don’t look Back ! 

Hold onto your hats and your heads ! Lift OFF!!

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we love everyone of course, but trying to like everyone is difficult

[For enquiries about my BBC Radio Wales music show, please email my BBC email address... you can easily guess it. Music submissions for the show should be sent via the BBC Introducing Uploader (please). I can't guarantee that I'll see messages sent via Soundcloud - thank you.]

The Immediate are a three-piece indie, power pop band from Mold in north Wales.

We release our Mold EP on Friday 3rd March 2017. The EP will be available to buy on limited edition CD and digitally via bandcamp / iTunes etc.

Mold features 4 brand new recordings, 3 of which are exclusive to the EP.

Lead track, What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?, is a song about some of the kids we went to the Alun School with, who weren’t as fortunate as us and didn’t make it into their 30’s. 

Light Dimensions is the first song we wrote when we reconvened after a long hiatus.

Manbuoy is the title track of our forthcoming debut album, however it does not feature on the album itself. It’s a mostly spoken-word piece that exaggerates all of its writer’s worst qualities.

Mold was recorded at Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr, North Wales by Russ Hayes, who has worked on recordings by Peaness, Campfire Social, Kidsmoke, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Billy Bibby and the Wry Smiles.

The sleeve design was done by Paul Maurice from Wrexham. It’s a detail of Shire Hall, the brutalist former seat of Flintshire County Council that sits on a hill, above Mold town centre.

The Mold EP will be launched at a hometown gig at Theatr Clwyd, Mold on Friday, 3rd. March. We’ll be joined by our friends Campfire Social and Skellums. Tickets are £7 and available here:

https://www.theatrclwyd.com/en/whats-on/headliner-rock-night/

Mold EP tracklisting (r/d 3rd March 2017):

1.	What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?
2.	Light Dimensions
3.	Tremble
4.	Manbuoy

If you have any further enquiries, please contact:

theimmediateband@gmail.com

http://facebook.com/theimmediate
http://twitter.com/the_immediate

There is a YouTube video telling the story of the band so far, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtERsE3ihDg

We originally split in 1997 due to frustration, an argument over a mouth organ and the success of Stereophonics.

We released one single (unaccountably popular in Sweden), made every conceivable mistake in the How To Be A Successful Indie Band handbook, toured with some excellent bands (Mansun, 60ft Dolls, Dodgy) and flickered out, leaving behind the memory of some great gigs, a few fine songs, and little else.

In March 2016, we reconvened to repair friendships and renew tinnitus. New songs came much more easily than the old ones, probably because we are playing to please only ourselves - with no thoughts of success or acclaim - for the first time in our existence.

There is more truth and resonance in our songs now than ever before. And power. And invention. We write songs about hope and love in the face of the moribund, daily grind. 

You will possibly hear fragments and echoes of the following artists in our sound (The Jam, Wire, XTC, Pixies, Badfinger, REM, Dr Feelgood, Small Faces, Husker Du, The Who, Ride, Big Star, The Cure, Joy Formidable, The Go-Betweens, Teenage Fanclub), but nothing has been plagiarised or misappropriated to mask a deficiency of our own ideas.

I am Jon Ian Clarke , J . I . C Aka ‘ The Genie ‘ please listen to my music ... for more information ; please check out 

https://www.jonianclarke.co.uk

J9 & beSRK are Janine Levinson (@janinelevinson, @janineandtheproblem) and beSRK, a mysterious stranger from the north @beSRK

One Song, Every Month, til the day i die ._ .


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I sometimes sing sad songs with a ukulele (on YouTube). 

Soundcloud is for the day when I record some of my songs in HQ, alas, this day hasn't come yet. 

:D

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