The James Arthur Band write & play original Pop, RnB, Soul music.

Formed in early 2012 a few months before James auditioned for the 9th series of X Factor UK, the band recorded 2 EP's which were eventually released for a short period as "The EP Collection" & performed a few local shows in and around Middlesbrough.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/the-james-arthur-band/id555345579?uo=4


Rujira McGough: continuing the legacy. John Mc Gough (1965-2018) ( Musician, Writer & Producer )

Atticmonkey recordings formerly AM Recordings - AKA The James Arthur Project, New beginning, Koru.

John started out his music career playing Saxophone he soon started touring worldwide. Performing in some of the worlds finest Clubs, Venues and Music Events including Space (Ibiza & Sydney Aus), Pacha (Ibiza), Manumission (Ibiza), Miss Money Pennys (Ibiza / UK), Ministry Of Sound (Ibiza / UK),  Cafe Del Mar (Ibiza), Home (Sydney), often alongside some of the world's most respected 'A' list DJ's Including Deep Dish, Carl Cox, Eric Morrillo, Roger Sanchez, Danny Rampling, Jeremy Healy, Sonique and Marshall Jefferson.

John felt the need to become more creative so bought a studio set up started playing Piano & Guitar to help with his creative process and had his first release with Universal Music UK in 2002. He then went on to have further releases on various labels such as :

Cafe Del Mar (Ibiza-Spain) , Blanco Y Negro (Spain) , Republica Cafe(Spain).

 John has also been involved with recordings sessions / co-writting and remixing for labels such as :
 
Soulfuric (Miami-USA) , Swank (Las Vagas-USA) , Global Cuts (London-UK) , NOICE! Music (Chicago-USA), Smoking Beats ( UK ) , Shaboom ( UK ) , Paper Recordings ( UK ) , First Recordings ( UK ) , Bush ( Aus /UK )

He wrote for and helped develop James Arthur Prior his X Factor win in 2012. He released The James Arthur Project which has had over 4 Million streams on YouTube.

He is presently writing, producing and developing some new extremely talented singers. Keep listening ...

Musician , Writer & Producer

John Mc Gough has teamed up with the very talented Singer James Arthur.

John has had many releases on various labels Universal, Cafe Del Mar , Blanco y Negro , Cafe Republic and now wants to put out his more pop edged material.
The guys are working on an album starting in 2012.


John has other projects on the go and has recently released an Ep ( K1 ) One of four with KORU. The Ep's are coming out over this year and feature the very talented vocals of Liz Skykes.

A big thanks to all the musicians involved:
 Wayne Pollock, Ste "Snacho " Smith, Joe Devereux, Tim Hilsden, Geoff Keeler, Matt Wanstall.
Photos : Gary Walsh

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