Gigs and album info

Hello,

Just a quick note  about some gigs we have coming up, and a bit more information about our new album, T-shirts with arrogant slogans.

Our next gig is next Friday, May 4, at the Portland Arms in Cambridge. It’s a charity fundraiser, with all proceeds going towards Leukaemia and Lymphoma research. We’ll be on early in the evening, and will be followed by the excellent Moth Conspiracy, and Go Romano.  Full details are at: http://on.fb.me/IwITxd

The album is now available! The best way of buying it is to come to a gig, as you then get to see our happy faces as we thank you profusely for your purchase. But if you’d prefer to buy online, the cheapest place is at Bandcamp: http://jacquiandgeoff.bandcamp.com. There you can listen to it first, or buy it as a download or as a CD for £5 (+P&P for the CD). If you order the CD, you also get the downloads immediately.  It’s also available on iTunes, Spotify and Emusic.

We’ve got a couple of other gigs lined up too – on June 10 we’ll be playing at the Elm Tree in Cambridge – we have the whole evening to ourselves, so will be playing a couple of sets, it should be fun! Then on Sunday, July 1st, we’re playing at the Corner House in Cambridge as part of the Buzz Festival – a weekend of the finest bands Cambridge has to offer. We’ll be playing outside in the beer garden, so we’re praying for sunny weather

Thanks for reading this far – hope to see you at a gig soon. If you do by the album, we’d love to know what you think, so do let us know.

Take care,

Geoff

T-shirts with arrogant slogans – out now!

Jacqui and Geoff are proud to announce the arrival of T-shirts with arrogant slogans – our first feature length album.

A year in the making, we’re really pleased with it. It’s available on CD and on iTunes now – and will be coming soon to Spotify, Amazon MP3, etc.

If you’d like a copy, either buy from iTunes (iTunes link: T-Shirts With Arrogant Slogans – Jacqui and Geoff) – or for the CD version with lovely artwork, contact us (see the contact page above) or come to a gig (see the gigs page)!

We’ll be posting full liner notes and details on how the album was made in our next few blog posts, so check back for details.

For now though, we’d just like to thank the following people, who have helped make this happen:

Marc at Honesty Pot Mixing for the ridiculous amount of work he’s put into the tracking and mixing for this album – he’s possibly spent more time on it than the band.
Chris and Bobby at the Hub Sound Studios where we had a great time recording the bass and drum tracks.

Jacqui for the mastering

Stewart for the sleeve design – see www.stewartharrisdesigns.com

Nik for the printing

Alice, Claude, Liz and Vicky for their support.

Routenote – who appear to be handling the digital distribution really well (doing in one week what they promised in four).

Everyone that has booked us, come to a gig and said nice things, or been back to see us again – you’re all ace.

And you for reading this. We’d write more, but we’re starting to get a bit emotional

~Jacqui and Geoff

CD Cover

This is the front cover for our new album, ETA sometime in March. Click on the photo to visit our Reverbnation site for a few preview tracks…

The album draws near(ish)

We’ve been very quiet on the blog recently, but that’s because we’ve been busy.

The new album is coming on well. All 11 tracks have been recorded, mixed, remixed, remixed some more and are now being mastered. We’re hopeful the new album will be done early in 2012, meaning it will only have taken a year, or thereabouts. We probably could have done it quicker, but we promise it’ll be good!

In fact, judge for yourself – you can hear some of the recordings on our new ReverbNation page at www.reverbnation.com/jacquiandgeoff - let us know what you think.

At the end of October we played a great gig at the Corner House. We tried out quite a few new songs, and here’s a video of ‘Come and Get It’, a song which requires some complicated swapping of vocal parts. See if you can work out who’s singing each bit

 

New album – sneak preview!

Hi all,

So, we’re working on a new album – our first full album, following our debut EP ‘Jacqui and Geoff’, released in December 2009. The working title is currently ‘T-shirts with arrogant slogans’, but this changes on almost a daily basis. Just for you, there’s a sneak preview, unpolished mix below:

The album is a bit different to the EP, as we now have a bassist and drummer to make extra noises for us. As a result it’s a bit rockier in places – we even use one of those ‘electric’ guitars that all the kids are talking about.

This song is called ‘Uh-oh’, and if you’ve heard us live in the last 18 months or so you’ve probably heard it. We always encourage people to dance to it, but it never seems to happen. If you’d like to dance to it, the steps are here: http://www.centralhome.com/ballroomcountry/waltz_steps-1.htm

Hope you enjoy the song. Let us know what you think

An introduction to Jacqui and Geoff

Hello! We’re Jacqui and Geoff. We make pleasant sounding folk-inspired pop. Occasionally we rock out a little bit. Thanks for visiting us. If you like our music, could we please point out to you some places where you can find out more:

Bandcamp: Our debut EP from December 2009 is on BandCamp! You can download the first track for free, and buy the whole EP for just £3.50. It’s available for £5 on CD – just email us, or come to one of our gigs.

Facebook: We have a page on Facebook. You can ‘like’ us officially if you go there, which is better than just liking us in your head, because we know about it. Gigs and things usually get posted there first.

Twitter: Jacqui really likes Twitter, so she set up a Twitter account for us. But Geoff’s not that convinced by Twitter so he doesn’t use it much, and Jacqui hasn’t updated it once since she set up the account, because she’s too busy tweeting about cake on her own Twitter feed. To be honest, Geoff would rather we were silent than we tweeted about cake, so it’s probably for the best.

Contact us: If you’d like to be on our mailing list and get very occasional emails about gigs and releases (and maybe the occasional free download) then you can reach us at mail@jacquiandgeoff.co.uk

Some things

Some things have been happening. It’s all quite exciting.