News

3/02/2010: busy busy busy!

It's February already and I still haven't slept since last year, I'll try and catch some Z's in March maybe.  At the moment we're getting ready to record another EP or Album, depending on how things work out, I still haven't gotten around to putting the last EP for sale online.  But anyway, the next month or so hold a few great gigs that the trio is all looking forward to, we'll be doing a show with our friends Anarchist Duck at the Joynt on Fri the 12th March, and we'll also be doing another gig at Ric's Bar and Cafe on Sun 28th Feb, as well as causing trouble at the Royal Mail Hotel on Sat 13th Feb, then it's off to North QLD for an insane run of dates, check em' out here.

We've got some video of us at the Royal Mail Hotel last time we were there as well:

2/01/10: Another year bites the dust!

2009 turned out to be a fairly busy year for us, and the way my gig diary is starting to look, I think 2010 is going to be even busier! We managed to return safely home to Brisvegas after an awesome tour up to North QLD in December.  We played some fantastic shows with some truly awesome bands like Swoon and Dave Flower, and we'd like to thank everyone who made the tour possible, especially our friends like Grizz and Rose, Josh and Ange, and Laurie and Sue. 

In other news, we have a few copies left of our new self titled EP with us (we nearly sold out on tour).  Obviously you can grab one at a gig or you can grab one online from us as soon as I get around to setting up a new shopping cart (I'll get to it one day!).  Until then just send me an email to jim@jimmywattsband.com if you'd like to grab one asap, they're $10 + about $2.50 postage in OZ (more for o'seas).  I'll be sure to put up a few songs from the EP onto the website that you can download for free anyway (another thing I'll get to one day!)

For now 2010 looks like it will hold another tour to North QLD over Easter, a tour to Alice and Perth at some stage, and the usual East Coast gallivanting that seems to keep me busy.  We'll be doing some more recording in the coming months and hopefully have another release out by May.  And my new years resolution was to keep the website more up to date and to get alot more content online, so we'll see how that pans out lol.  Hope you all had a great Chrissy and New Years and hope to see you all rocking out at a gig sometime soon.

Peace

Jim

ps. here's the artwork for the new EP:

29/11/09 : We're going North!

They say in the summer months 'go south to cooler weather,' and in winter they say 'go north, where it's warm!"  I never was good at listening, which is why this summer I'm taking the van and the band to sunny Mackay, Airlie Beach, Bundaberg and Rainbow Beach!  Why pay for sauna's when you can play music on insanely hot stages where leads melt in front of your eyes, and smoke machines are replaced with steam machines (steam machines in north QLD are cheap, you just throw a bucket of water over the drummer).

It's going to be a pretty full on month, and we should have our new EP with us for sale by the time we pack the van as well, which will mean we might make enough money to get home!  Not that we'll really want to, the shows we played up north last time were heaps of fun, and the folks were really friendly,  so I'm looking forward to meeting up with friends we made on the last trip, possibly crashing on their couches, preferably on the couches of those friends that have air conditioning!  And we get to introduce Dave and Paul to the sweltering heat, and to the awesome roots loving public up there.  So tell your mates and check out the gig dates page and we'll see ya there!

Peace

Jim

27/10/09: Had a crazy couple of weeks!

If you weren't already aware, for the last 8 months I've been living 'on the road' so to speak, I had quite a bit of touring to do and decided to go feral and kiss everyone's best friend, Mr Rent goodbye.  But alas, I've given into the urges for the conveniences and comforts of a home base, and am now sleeping under a roof once again (as opposed to in the back of the van). 

The upside of this is that I can now record our next album in a cheap and stress free environment (ie: home), and we've already started, with a few tracks down, the whole project is still in it's early stages though.  The release date should be Dec/Jan, but I'll keep you posted and will no doubt have some pre-release stuff available here soon.

The other big news is the addition of Paul Young on drums, bringing us to a 4 piece!  Paul's an incredibly talented dude who has toured internationally, and is a session drummer around Brisbane (you might have seen him around the traps playing with roots and alt country legend 8 Ball Aitken, amongst many others.)   Even after only a couple of rehearsals things are starting to click in an exciting way.  For the next few months we'll be playing as a trio as much as we can while Mellissa takes a short break for health reasons, hopefully she'll be feeling 100% and slapping the skins again soon.

There's a few new things up, we've got a new poster which you can download (along with older posters and other pics) as hi resolution jpgs for printing etc on the photo page.

We're playing in Bundaberg at the Customs Bar next to The Old Bundy Tavern this Fri and Sat 30th and 31st Oct.  would love to see you there.  We've got a few more dates up on the gigs page as well.

If you haven't already, don't forget to join the mailing list to get slightly comical updates once a month on where we are, we're going to be and where we wish we were.

Till next time

Peace

Jim

6/10/09: Welcome to the new and (hopefully) improved website!

It's been a fairly hectic couple months for us, and we've been in the process of making some pretty significant changes in our lives.  I thought that in amongst it all it would be a good idea to completely overhaul the website as well, just to give me something to do, lol!  It's not all running 100% smoothly at the moment, but give me time and I'll have it all  ticking over like clockwork soon.

Probably the biggest bit of news has been the addition of Dave Gilbert (Keyboard) to the band.  Dave's been doing a few gigs with us for the last few months and we're having a blast.  We should be recording our second album with Dave and a kit drummer by November as well.

I'll keep this news section updated regularly, and we'll seeya at a gig sometime.

Peace

Jim