Just when y'all thought you can peg AT for putting out punky, noisy rock oddities and intellectually pregnant spoken word, here we go again throwing you for a loop!

The FLAMING STARS have remained an elusive band stateside despite their 5-year career in England. And what do they sound like? Imagine cavernous Phil Spectorish production, reverb'd guitars, and velvety baritone vocals over vaguely tropical rhythms and lazy rockabilly beats: suave, sophisticated, seductive...oh, yes! If you dig MICK HARVEY's (of the BADSEEDS) solo output of SERGE GAINSBOURG covers, the FLAMING STARS will be the perfect drug for you.

The Flaming Stars - Ten Feet Tall

The Flaming Stars - 3 a.m. On The Bar Room Floor

Batcast - 057 - The Flaming Stars

Ham fisted single deck edit to accompany forthcoming dates in Berlin:
FR. 22.7.16 SOULCAT BAR
SA. 23.7.16 BIER BARONESS
SO. 24.7.16 WHITE TRASH

Charlie Harpoon's Safe Place For Tigers - Old Reggae Mono Edit

Written & recorded in 1998 by JF Whitney (perc/guitar/bass) The Flaming Stars also recorded a version that appears on their album "Pathway" (Vinyl Japan 1999)
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Sing Sing - JF Whitney

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Molly Leigh, Molly Leigh, chase me 'round the apple tree
Molly Leigh, Molly Leigh, Molly Leigh, you can't catch me
Molly Leigh, Molly Leigh, chase me 'round the cemetery
Molly Leigh, Molly Leigh, follow me into the holes I see

Cursed with birth in 1685
That was when I started to die
Cast a hex within my first hour
To turn all the beer and milk sour

Molly Leigh, Molly Leigh, chase me 'round the apple tree
Molly Leigh, Molly Leigh, Molly Leigh, you can't catch me
Molly Leigh, Molly Leigh, chase me 'round the cemetery
Molly Leigh, Molly Leigh, follow me into the holes I see

1746 when I died
My blackbird was buried alive
Alongside me in my north to south grave
East to west for the ones who were saved


Music and words by She Rocola & JF Whitney

Recorded by JF Whitney

Photo of She Rocola by Karla Da Silva

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Released by http://ayearinthecountry.co.uk/  September 2014

Recording archived at The British Library

Molly Leigh of the Mother Town ~ She Rocola

At the time of recording this song Ben had just moved into his comfy Crouch End crib having left behind his shabby chic Stoke Newington bedsit forever!

On the day, he requested I pick up a packet of Co-codamol on my way over, "if it's no trouble", adding he'd have whichever tipple I required ready and waiting  on arrival.

We nailed the vocals fairly quickly then settled into a cozy, boozy chewing the fat session, always a joy with Ben! He was excited about us making a "pop vid" to accompany the song where I could maybe stride around Highgate Cemetery wearing an old fashioned orthopaedic shoe to emulate his lopsided "jack boots crunching on gravel” backing track. We came up with a lot of ridiculous ideas that day!

Sadly we never made our film but hey ho, we've still got the song...so here it is…

I’d like to dedicate “He Needs Me” to Estelle Riviera. x

 R.I.P Ben Golomstock. x



Written by Harry Nilsson, recorded and performed by Ben Hell with vocal by She Rocola.

He Needs Me ~ Ben Hell & She Rocola

Written by Arthur Hamilton, Recorded & performed 1997 by JF Whitney (guitar)& She Rocola (vocal)
Released on The Tropics Of Cancer album "Under The Covers" (Rim Records 2007)
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Cry Me A River - JF Whitney & She Rocola

Written by She Rocola from forthcoming CD "Six of the Best" by The She Rocola Six. 

A jazzy ditty with a lyrical nod to the great Slim Gaillard.  Composed with the assistance of his famous Vout Dictionary! 





Wherever we wend on this wav~o~ree~nee road
Well I'll still be your web stomp and you'll be my toad
What's a~jumpin' baby on the way~zoo
They'll know that you're my wolf
Get on the track, tile and dance!

Yeah you and I
Way out and up high
They'll hear our sighs
Beneath the sea and over the sky
Baba~diby do~bi

Let's go down to Vout~ville and grab us some joy
Caresser in caresser, one girl and one boy
I'll put on some cray~a, you'll see
You press your tho~kee, we'll be
Two twinklers in the night sky

Yeah you and I
Way out and up high
They'll hear our sighs
Beneath the sea and over the sky
Baba~diby do~bi

Vouterooney baby        (him) !
Vout~o~reenee baby     (her) !


Voutville ~ The She Rocola Six

Welcome kind stranger, to a selection of musical peculiarities I have been recording since 1992...
"Absolutely crazed but beautiful"   The Village Voice
"Sultry, seductive and entrancing"   Maverick
"Ace"   NME
"Jazzy, quirky and thoroughly bohemian"  Penny Rimbaud
"A fine mutilation!"  Jello Biafra
"The last of the true English bohemians"  Greg Foat (Author of "Gigolo")
"Amazing musical scientist and experimenter of genres"  Jamboree
"The best beatnik in the world"   Yvan Serrano Fontova
"The Eric Ambler of the drums"   Jake Vegas

Mr Whitney has played live shows all over the world and appeared on 70+ recorded releases, while having performed & collaborated with:
The Flaming Stars, The Urban Voodoo Machine, The Tropics Of Cancer, Billy Childish, The Sting-Rays, Minxus, Jello Biafra, Jake Vegas, Glen Matlock, Paloma Faith and many others.

​BBC Radio sessions/broadcasts include John Peel, Radio 6, Clive Anderson,  Marc Riley, Mark Radcliffe, Mark Lamaar, Sean Hughes, Resonance FM, GLR. 

TV: BBC2, ITV, C4, MTV, Rockpalast (WDR Germany)

​Music compositions in own short films and feature films "Bruna Surfistina" (Brazil)& "Playing With Pihranhas" (Australia)

Sing Sing - JF Whitney

Fly To Whitney's Moon (Side 1)

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