Jammies XI, The Intersection, February 16

Congratulations to the band for winning Best Alternative or Electronic Album for The Incident at Primrose and West!




photo courtesy mLive


photo courtesy mLive

Set list:
Love's Still Wild
Alone With Him
My Machine

They really put on an amazing set, with Wild flowing directly into Alone. Very cool. A high energy, almost visceral set. Everybody was listening and into it. Great crowd, great vibe. Looks like GRTV was there to tape the set and the evening in general, so I'll look into getting a copy of that uploaded and embedded soon.

Congrats to Drew Nelson for winning Album of the Year!

At the end of this report, you can hear the band performing "Alone With Him."



A complete list of finalists and award winners.

John Sinkevics with a write-up and a YouTube clip with a few moments of Love's Still Wild. Can't argue with the lead pic from his blog article.



Bowery, congratulations on your two Jammies!

Jammies XI this Tuesday!

Just a reminder that Chance Jones is scheduled to perform late in the set at this years Jammies XI, the annual WYCE local music awards show at the Intersection. Smoke-free again this year, the cost is NOTHING. That's right, it's a FREE show! All of the information that you seek, including who's playing when, can be found at this helpful blog posting.

Here are the various Jammies award nominations that the band is connected to:

Local VARIOUS ARTISTS Album
A Winter's Tune 2008 Independent (I don't think Chance Jones was on the album, which I haven't been able to find anywhere, but Chance Jones did perform at this)

Local Record Label
Friction Records

Local Contemporary Duo or Group
Chance Jones - The Incident at Primrose and West

Local Alternative or Electric Album
Chance Jones - The Incident at Primrose and West

Best Local SONG
Chance Jones - My Machine

People's Choice Award
Chance Jones
Vote HERE to select Chance Jones among others...

Jammies XI Nominations

WYCE just announced the nominations for the 2010 Jammie Awards, and Chance Jones was nominated for a few awards, as was Friction Records.

Local VARIOUS ARTISTS Album
A Winter's Tune 2008 Independent (I don't think Chance Jones was on the album, which I haven't been able to find anywhere, but Chance Jones did perform at this)

Local Record Label
Friction Records

Local Contemporary Duo or Group
Chance Jones - The Incident at Primrose and West

Local Alternative or Electric Album
Chance Jones - The Incident at Primrose and West

Best Local SONG
Chance Jones - My Machine

People's Choice Award
Chance Jones
Vote HERE to select Chance Jones among others...

Jammies XI + Chance Jones = Yes

Official site confirms it today. Still haven't heard anything about the nominations themselves.

Jammies XI

WYCE's Jammies XI will be coming soon. It looks like the nominees have been announced, and I'm sure that they are organizing the acts for this year's show. I'll let you know when I know. In the meantime, here's a look from John Sinkevics at last year's show. I'm sure that you'll note the hijinks that take place towards the end of the video.

Jammies X

BEST CONTEMPORARY ALBUM!

Bol just called to say that the band won BEST CONTEMPORARY ALBUM! Congrats!

Setlist:
Crosstown
Kitty Hijinks
Nobody's Baby

Just before the band went on, they lost Local Song of the Year. There is still another major award for the night, and that is People's Choice Award. Let's see how it turns out. I should have an update this week with the Nobody's Baby performance.

Also...apparently the new album has a name...something in the primrose. I missed it, being so shocked to hear it has a title. I'll get that info up later in the week as well.

Jammies X Tonight!

The band will be performing at Jammies X tonight at the Intersection, with a 9:20 stage time. They will be performing just before the announcement of Best Local Song, which "Kitty Hijinks" was nominated for. Did I mention that admission was free? And that the Intersection would go smoke-free for tonight only? Also performing are Hawks and Owls String Band, Nathan Kalish and the Wildfire, and The Mighty Narwhale, among many, many others. It's a great night for local music, and it's FREE.

Band Update

A few random points:

• "Maria" was not played at Billy's last month
• The band continues to work on the album
• Today the band will take some promotional photos for the press packet, if I can I'll try and get a few shots posted here
• I've been invited in to interview the band during a Sunday recording date, hopefully next Sunday
• The Jammies are a week from Tuesday at the Intersection
• The album cover will have a "James Dean" style vibe to it
  

New Album Update

Bol checked in last night to give an update and had a lot of good stuff to report.

First of all, the band has finished recording demos for the album, and is actively recording all of their parts of the album. Bol said that there were three separate days last week that band members dropped by to lay down their parts, including another session last night at Dex's basement studio.

Bol also noted the names of four songs, Nobody's Baby, My Sunshine, My Machine, and Maria, which is the prequel to Crosstown. Many of the songs only have working titles and nothing is finished or mixed yet.

Good stuff.

Catch the band at the Jammies next month, as they take a break from performing to focus on recording the album.

Here's the band performing My Sunshine at Founder's in October.

Happy New Year, 2009

Sorry for the lack of updates, but we'll plunge into the new year with a renewed vigor. I will not use the birth of my daughter, Lilly, as an excuse for not writing in December.

Since we last spoke, Chance played at A Winter's Tune, to high regard. I haven't heard if the Chance selections will be made available for mp3 download, but I'll have a link should it happen. The full band united for a show at Billy's and a show at Founders. The Founders show featured 6 new songs, and sounded pretty good according to Bol.

The band continues to track new material and songs for the upcoming release of Friction. Apparently Friction has some new things happening that could prove beneficial to the band. I don't know how that will play out, but it could be interesting. "Spring" is what I'm hearing for a finished album, as yet untitled. I think the plan right now is to track as many demos as possible, then bring the finished demos into the studio to cut quickly for release. The "Letter 11" album of reworked solo songs is on the back burner, as far as I know. The older songs might be cut right along with the new album, since they don't require any, or much, demo tracking because of how long the band has played them live.

While there aren't any new shows coming up soon, I imagine that the band will be performing at the Jammies next month. Look for an update on that as soon as I get confirmation.

Summer looks like it will be a good time to catch the band on tour.

All in all, the first half of 2009 should be a great time to follow the band. New songs, new album, the Jammies, summer tour. Good stuff all around, hopefully.

Jammies X

The 10th annual Jammie awards from WYCE will be held at the Intersection on February 17. Bol reports to me that the band are up for quite a few awards, including "Kitty Hijinks" for song of the year, and The Angel's Share for album of the year. There is also a people's choice vote for local album of the year, and The Angel's Share is nominated there as well. Click here to stuff the ballot! As always, call in to WYCE to request the band. Wednesday afternoon I caught "Crosstown" in a best of 2008 show. Call in the studio at (616) 742-9923.