JUST JACK DJing @ THE FOLD, GPO, GALWAY SAT DEC 8TH

GPO

THE FOLD PRESENTS
JUST JACK DJ SET, KC & FERG

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SATURDAY DECEMBER 8TH
@ THE FOLD / GPO NIGHTCLUB, GALWAY
GALWAY
DOORS 11PM / TICKETS ON THE DOOR
TICKETS €12 / €10 MEMBERS
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Saturday December 8th sees JUST JACK pay a visit to the guys @ THE FOLD in GPO, Galway. Jack will be performing a DJ set on the night alongside residents KC & Ferg - Tickets are available on the door on the night. For more info read on . . .




Just Jack - Biography

Just Jack: Part 1 begins in 2002, with a young Londoner feeding sounds between two tape decks in a bedroom to produce a much-loved album and a savvy little touring operation. It ends shortly after with the tiny record label that unearthed his talent going bust. Every cloud has a silver lining? Possibly. Just Jack: Part 2 begins in 2005, a little more auspiciously, with him signing on Mercury Record’s dotted line. Where does this one end? Over to you...

Just Jack is possessed of a local charm ready to go international. Neither bound by musical restrictions nor the notional idea of cool, he has taken the sum of his individual influences and turned them into a unique, genre-hopping, jump-up album - the hook-laden, space-disco odyssey ‘Overtones’.

He has steadily collated his teen experiences as a bad breakdancer and better skateboarder, through his years as an errant raver, DJ and off-kilter musical maverick and set them against his lyrical ear for the specific experiences of his unsung generation. You know the guy that weathered acid house and came out the other end beaming, fully realising that parties might not necessarily be the answer, but had a whole lot of fun finding that out? That’s Jack Allsopp.

'Overtones’ is a joyous, zeitgeist-leaning slice of intuitive songwriting. While it fits into the new school of British storytelling, it isn’t ashamed to wear its party heart on its sleeve. Just Jack isn’t angsty or self-regarding. He knows that a delicious, sly groove is the best way to access the soul. You know the guy that tells you a funny, idiosyncratic story, slightly off his head in a small, sweaty, darkened room at 2am with a mirror ball twirling in the background? That’s Jack Allsopp as well. He’s a born communicator.

Just Jack’s music is the conduit to his laconic life philosophies. Jack’s experience of the night-time began at a time when house DJs would be unafraid to throw in a bit of hip-hop or pop if the mood felt right. As he points out with his trademark disregard for bandwagon jumping, when an era throws up something as thoroughly groovy as The Jungle Brother’s ‘I’ll House You’ and Carly Simon’s ‘Why’ to Joey Beltram’s ‘Energy Flash’, why not celebrate the diversity of it?

Not that Jack is in thrall to retro sounds. His music is something that hasn’t been heard before. Whether it be on the balls-out house shimmy of ‘Starz In Their Eyes’ - his questioning ode to the Heat generation - or the muted, pulsing melodies of ‘Disco Friends’ (who hasn’t got one of those?) he is armed with a backpack full of anthems in the waiting. Just check out ‘Glory Days’ – a prime glimpse into the laid-back flare of the world of Just Jack.

A North London boy by birth and now choice, Jack was going to be a furniture designer but having completed a degree, realised that his designs should be moving rather than static. His five-year apprenticeship as a bedroom dabbler chopping up obscure records, led to debut album ‘The Outer Marker’ receiving a rapturous reception from press and fans alike.

A voice tuned directly to his moment in enviable way with a good-time tune, Just Jack is here to brighten a cynical and pasty British musical landscape, still attempting to make sense of drug addicts, nostalgists and class-confined storytellers. Just Jack isn’t hip-hop, he isn’t house and he isn’t lush singer-songwriting. He’s a bit of all of them.

“Is it wrong to call what I do interesting pop music?” he says, still delightfully unsure as to where his unique take on the adolescent experience might fit in. Nope, Jack. It sounds Just about right.



Jack Allsopp (born North London in 1975), known by the stage name Just Jack, is an English stage musician.

Background
Jack grew up on a diet of dance music including, breakdance, Electro hip hop and house. A wannabe breakdancer at eight, his love of dance music led him to start DJing at the age of 15 and he soon became submerged in DJ culture and US garage. After completing a degree in Furniture Design, Jack enrolled on a community music production course, which heightened his awareness to the potential of sampling. This inspired Jack to concentrate on perfecting his sound by night and to take on a series of unfulfilling jobs by day.



Spotlight
Jack's debut album, titled The Outer Marker and released in 2002, was a collection of songs about modern life, relationships and the pressures of social situations. Originally released by the independent label RGR Records, the album received fantastic reviews despite criticism of his lyrics. Although his big break was in 2002, he didn't gain fame until 2007, following his TV debut on BBC2's Later with Jools Holland, and then on the Channel 4 show The Friday Night Project, where he performed the single "Starz In Their Eyes"; this reached No.2 in the UK charts, the following three singles didn't make the top fifty. The song "Starz In Their Eyes" was also featured in the Dolce Gabbana Summer 2008 fashion show. Recently Kylie Minogue did a collaboration with him, I Talk Too Much, for the American release of his new album. He has a huge cult following in Holland, were he is considered "a god amongst men" (The Holland Times). His set at the prestiguous Lowlands Festival won numerous awards, including 'The best thing to ever happen in Holland'.



Discography
Albums
The Outer Marker (2002)
Overtones (2007) # 6 UK
Singles
"Snowflakes" #164 UK
"Paradise (Lost & Found)"
"Triple Tone Eyes"
"Starz in Their Eyes" 2007 #2 UK
"Glory Days" (2007) #32 UK
"Writer's Block" (2007) #74 UK
"No Time" (2007) #76 UK

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GPO

garthv wrote: »

You sure you got the right just jack myspace there?
Think you are looking for http://www.myspace.com/justjackuk

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