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This is England

Huw Stephens plays our single This Is England as part of his Reading Festival preview

This is England // Reading+Leeds Preview // Radio 1

Artful Dodger - The Jacques (LIVE at Reading 2015)

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Live Dates: 
September 17: London @ The Black Heart bit.ly/1IH20RH 
September 19: Hitchin @ Club 85 bit.ly/1IH24AU 
September 25: Hamburg @ Reeperbahn Festival bit.ly/1IH2aIG 

The Jacques are the bastard teenage love child of cockney guitar pop and just about anything that came out of New York during the early ‘00s. Two sets of brothers, all 16-21, they charge with their Britpop bayonets against the modern view that rock and roll with clever lyrics is dying. Brought up on a diet of The Strokes, The Ramones, The Jam, The Lemonheads and Elvis Costello, they brought their own brand of noisy pop punk to festival stages across the summer, most recently at Hyde Park in London, where they supported The Libertines. 

Gary Powell, Libertines drummer and label co-founder, signed the band on the spot after seeing them perform in Hyde Park. 

He explains, “There was a really big crowd forming and I was interested to see who was on, and there were these 4 kids up there just owning it. I thought ok, we want this lot on the label.”

Formed in January 2014, and based in Bristol, The Jacques are: Finn Jacques (vocals/guitar), Jake Jacques (vocals/guitar), Oliver Jacques (vocals/bass), Elliot Jacques (drums),

Artful Dodger - The Jacques (LIVE at Reading 2015)

BBC6 MUSIC W/ Chris Hawkins

Release Date - Friday 20th May 2016

Produced by Dan Swift
Recorded at RAK Studios London and Brighton Electric
Mastered by Christian Wright at Abbey Road

Label : Vegan Cyanide

LIVE DATES:
Fri 13th May – l’Alimentation Generale, Paris France
Sat 14th May – Les Nuit Botanique, Brussels Belgium
Fri 27th May – Dot to Dot Festival, Manchester UK
Sat 28th May – Dot to Dot Festival, Bristol UK
Sun 29th May – Dot to Dot Festival, Nottingham UK
Fri 29th July – Kendal Calling Festival, UK
Sun 31st July- Damaris Festival, Amsterdam Holland
Sat 13th Aug – Down to The Woods Festival, Durham UK



Eleanor Ring Me

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Following on from the four track shock of their debut ‘Pretty DJ’ EP, memorably regarded by Clash as ‘Ray Davies at his most acerbic, Weller at his most romantic’, Bristol’s The Jacques return with a second blast of four songs and a host of festival dates throughout a summer sure to see them repeatedly on the lips of those who know that far from being dead, witty, intelligent, challenging guitar driven pop is about to have another one of those moments.

The ‘Artful Dodger’ EP is well named, displaying four tracks that veer from the menace of the lead track that gives the EP its title through the strutting ‘Down And Out’ to the heady psyche of ‘Painkiller’ and the adrenaline rush of ‘This Is England’. If Dickens favourite urchin was in possession of a Strat (probably nicked), this is exactly the music you would expect to come from a darkened corner of his East London slums, unmistakably British and without doubt emanating a non brand controlled explosion of genuine anger, frustration and creativity, currently bubbling under the surface of many of our towns and cities.

The Jacques position in this new explosion of youth music seems assured, recent recipients of a groundbreaking publishing deal with Faber Music, they already number Huey Morgan, Don Letts, Chris Hawkins, and Phil Taggart amongst their most vocal supporters with February’s ‘Weekends’ release scoring the band a first XFM playlist.

‘Artful Dodger’ comes with a video shot by legendary NME photographer Andy Willsher. 



Tracks by THE JACQUES