mardi 1 février 2011

Lyrics 1


Time for the devil

It’s time for the devil to come
And put a smile on my face
He’s not that bad my devil
He’s moving things in my head
It’s time for the devil
He cares for me and all
It’s time for the devil

He doesn’t want my soul
He wants to speak that’s all
He cares for me my devil
About my fate and my goals
It’s time for the devil
He cares for me and all
It’s time for the devil




And We Run

On a summer day
Or when the rain plays
If the wind goes mad
Whenever I can’t settle down
See me by the shore
We don’t know what she runs for
I don’t care to be alone
Coz I go crazy when I’m home
So Johnny
Let me put those shoes on and I run
I go running, for something I feel I haven’t done
And I run, And I run
To the night
And I run, And I run
Never coming back

On a winter day
You let the music play
You don’t see me in the morning
Coz I’m gone before the clock rings
You saw me by the shore
But today you locked your door
You don’t care to be alone
Coz you go crazy when I’m home
So Jehnny
Put your dirty shoes on and you run
You go running , and I stay home doing what I think should be done
And you run, And you run
To nowhere
And you run, And you run
Never see you again
And we run…




Oh my love

You and I go for a ride
You should let go what’s inside
We’re not gonna take the easy route
Make sure babe you got the right boots
My hands are cold and so my feet
You should get closer I need some heat
Unusual to see a girl like you
Usually they keep them in a zoo
Oh my love (x2) You’re dead to the world (x2)
Be my guest and try to drive
With you babe I’m ready to die
Deeper deeper the truth is hidden
I don’t see why something has to be forbidden
My hands are cold and so my feet
You should get closer I need some heat
Unusual to see a girl like you
Usually they keep them in a zoo
Oh my love (x2) You’re dead to the world (x2)



Down our streets

We walk down our streets
Where everyone is calm and asleep
All the nation is proud of you
All the people have no clue
Of how things are gonna be done (x2)
It’s been a long time your mind is gone (x2)
We walk down our streets
Where people are calm and very sweet
And on their face nothing’s coming through (x2)
Where is the problem it’s not even you (x2)
But huush coz when the night comes
No time to think in the big kingdom
We walk down our streets…
We stop walking down our streets
Prefer to stay under our sheets
Coz now the nation is watching you (x2)
Each time you move it’s like glue (x2)
And look how things become
I wish, I wish a new big bang
We walk down our streets…



Vampire

My friend lives with a Vampire
I should set his house on fire
I could have done it earlier
I didn’t realise she was a monster
She’s a Vampire
She’s a monster, the monster

His life is cheap and scary
I wouldn’t wish it on my enemy
This is a fact she’s a Vampire
I should set his house on fire
She’s a Vampire
She’s a monster, the monster

I’m gonna burn everything down
He doesn’t know how to let her down
This is a very sad story
When for your friend you feel sorry
She’s a Vampire
She’s a monster, the monster






Ghosts

The ghosts took my mother
When I was having fun
They choose our house
As a shelter
She had nowhere to run
And my mother was scared of them (x2)
And I was scared coz my mother said
Can you hear the Ghosts make the walls tremble…
Oh the ghosts took my mother
When I was sick in bed
They may have pushed her down the stairs
Oh where there’s nothing to be afraid of
And my mother was scared of them (x2)
And I was scared coz my mother said
Can you hear the Ghosts make the walls tremble…
Can you hear the Ghosts…
Can you hear the Ghosts make the walls tremble…

Lyrics 2


London town

I love you when the day is gone
When you don’t try to bring me down
I love you when you fall asleep
When I join you under your sheets
I love you when you’re all blurry
You look pretty you look lovely
But when the day light comes I got to leave I got to run from
London London town…
I love you when you look away
When I don’t try to stay
I love you when the moon is up
When your eyes and mouth are shut
I love you coz I hate the way I have to stay I have to stay
But when the sunlight comes I got to leave I got to run from
London London town…
I love you when the day is gone
When you don’t try to bring me down
I love you when you fall asleep
When I come under your sheets
I love you when you’re all blurry
You look pretty you look lovely
But when the day light comes I got to leave I got to run from
London London town…



Prime Time

Look who’s on TV now
This is prime time in my town
But I don’t give a damn
I’m just doing what I can
Ooo look who’s on the news today
No matter what they say
I lock myself in a room
Coz I’m just doing what I should
Hey, son,
Do you recall
What made you…
Antisocial

Oooo happy Chrismas Time
In the nice little farm
Tv on, tv on, tv on on on
You want to say they all wrong
Ooo look who’s on TV now
This is prime time in my town
But I don’t give a damn
Coz I’m just doing what I can
Hey, son,
Do you recall
What made you…
Antisocial




Shades

Behind my shades I can barely see
All the things you want from me
Behind my shades I hide my fear
I look at you and it’s nor clear
Behind my shades
Behind my shades
Behind my shades the world is mine

Behind my shades my stomach aches
I wonder when the pain will end
Behind my shades all night I cry
Because no one can see my eyes



Shy

You don’t want to loose her
You make her think you’re better
You really think you own her
You want her you want her you want her
I, I know why, I know why, I know why
She became she became so shy

You don’t want to love her
You don’t want to adore her
You just want to abuse her
You want her you want her you want her
Coz I , understand why , understand why, understand why
She became she became so shy




O’dee

O’dee, when you come to me
I would try and fly with thee
We’ll go North
We’ll go South
I don’t mind, I don’t mind
But O’dee, I must tell thee
I’m a little scared of thee
Coz O’dee, when you come to me
You’re stealing my heart
From me
And you said…
You say you got no choice, you like my face you like my voice, O’dee, you’re just in Love
O’dee , when you come to me
I don’t talk , I try to see,
O’dee , I’m a little scared,
O’dee, why me, why ,me
I’ve got some friends around
O’dee please give me some time,
I wont be long,
O’dee, why me
You say you got no choice, you like my face you like my voice, O’dee, you’re just in Love

samedi 22 janvier 2011

THE DUKE IS BACK


HEY FOLKS
just to let you know that our friend and maestro DUKE GARWOOD is releasing a new album . If you want to get a good treat for your mind , body and soul , buy his last wonderful album 'dreamboatsafari'.
In a world of musical pollution and cynicism , the duke will give you the key to search for a profound sensation of hope and greatness. Rober Plant one day said to him : ' Duke you are the shaman of rock'. Or Robert Palmer , i can't remember...
Anyway , just listen to this , cause this is what you and i need.
Lots of love.

LISTEN ON SPOTIFY and they buy it on rough trade.

lundi 10 janvier 2011

in bed with John and Jehn part 1

we're opening for bloody GANG OF FOUR!

We are overexcited cause we're gonna open for GANG OF FOUR in london @ heaven , the 2nd of february . No need to say GOF has always been an essential and direct influence on our music. NO ONE plays guitar like Andy Gill , no one. I know i try all the time.


samedi 6 novembre 2010

Blogotheque 'Down our Streets'


hello,

we were really happy to be able to play for La blogotheque in Paris few months ago....

this is the link:

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

lots of love
x
x
x
x


Jehn

lundi 1 novembre 2010

New J&J BONUS TRACKS, November Tour exclusive!



These are brand new John & Jehn items for you that you will be able to get if you come to see us play this month on our 'Down our Streets' Tour!

They are handmade BONUS TRACKS with Tour Documentaries, tracks live at the BBC... lots of rarities!

see all the dates of the tour HERE

Track listing:
1- Fear Fear Fear (new live version)
2- Tour Documentary Part 1 (Tan Hill festival)
3- 'Down our Streets'live on Tom Robinson BBC6
4- Tour Documentary Part 2 (Leeds /with British Sea Power)
5- 'And we Run' live on Jonathan Ross BBC2
5- Tour Documentary Part 3 (Bath-Birmingham /with British Sea Power)

see you on the road!

J&J

vendredi 8 octobre 2010

Audio Documentaries, John & jehn and British Sea Power on tour in the UK -Part 3-

LISTEN TO
"JOHN & JEHN and BRITISH SEA POWER on TOUR"
-PART 3-



This is Part 3 of a series of Audio Documentaries recorded and edited by Jehn during the John & Jehn UK tour with British Sea Power (BSP) in May 2010. This one takes place in Bath and Birmingham and features Gemma Thompson (guitarist for John & Jehn ), Raph (drums), Scott Wilkinson (singer from BSP) amongst others...
you will be hearing music from : Ashley Beedle and David Byrne, Black Sabbath (Birmingham beeing their hometown!) and of course British Sea Power...

LISTEN on SOUNDCLOUD

jeudi 7 octobre 2010

Meet our friends RACE HORSES !



"JOHN & JEHN and FRIENDS"

A Special Night in Paris, 9th November, La Fleche D'OR !

we are pleased to come back in Paris for our "JOHN & JEHN and FRIENDS" special CLUB NIGHT. A 100% John & Jehn evening with special bands -and friends- from the UK who never played in France yet -or we believe haven't played enough!
This edition will feature the amazing band from Cardiff RACE HORSES. Please have a listen to their music here: www.myspace.com/racehorsesmusic

TICKETS ON SALE HERE






"JOHN & JEHN and FRIENDS"

Soirée Spéciale a Paris le 9 Novembre, La Fleche D'OR !

"JOHN & JEHN and FRIENDS" est une nouvelle série de concerts que nous organisons sur Paris; une sélection 100% John & Jehn des meilleurs groupes anglais -et amis- qui n'ont pas encore ou que tres/trop rarement traversé la Manche! Du nouveau son dans vos oreilles donc et des soirées nouvelles et exclusives... sur Paris!

La prochaine sera le 9 Novembre avec comme invités...
les excellents
RACE HORSES
(www.myspace.com/racehorsesmusic)


TICKETS ON SALE HERE


lundi 4 octobre 2010

A present for You: 1 free Track!

===> FREE DOWNLOAD <===


Some of you may have heard, we're gonna be ON TOUR in NOVEMBER in the UK, France and Switzerland

==>
SEE THE LIST OF DATES

To celebrate this happy event with you, we thought you would like to hear what's going on in the J&J rehearsals!!

We are currently rearranging some old tracks from the first album, If you follow this link you will be able to DOWNLOAD for FREE our old track FEAR FEAR FEAR, transformed and rearranged for the new live set.

Enjoy!
Love on the beat
J&J

vendredi 10 septembre 2010

the art of making Silkscreen Bags Yourself


we turned our kitchen into an art workshop and made some nice John & Jehn bags!
you can buy them here: http://johnandjehn.bigcartel.com/

x

samedi 12 juin 2010

Audio Tour Documentary: Part Two














Click to download for free:
"John & Jehn on tour with British Sea Power: Part Two -Leeds"






This is "Part Two" of the short Audio stories recorded and edited by Jehn during our tour with BRITISH SEA POWER in the UK last month.

This time we were playing in a Church!

this episode features Tobby (the merch guy for BSP) , Paul (BSP rodie), Phil (keyboards), Neil and Scott (both singers songwritters in BSP) and finally some adorable fans and great encounters...

you will also hear music from: Thin Lizzy (I know, next time i will try not to..), John & Jehn, Metronomy, British Sea Power...

enjoy

jehn x

vendredi 11 juin 2010

60 MINS IN ALEXANDRA PALACE


here is my new mixtape. It s been inspired by my long walks in alexandra park . The park is just behind our flat and i'd like to think it's our personnal back garden.

The beautiful artwork has been made by the very talented LILIDOLL(click and check)

Wait for the hottest moment of the day , get a fresh drink ,get naked, and put that mixtape on , believe me it works ... ENJOY (click on the artwork to download it)!

tracklisting:

01 L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot / bruno alexiu
02 i get along without you very well / chet baker
03 above chiangmai / brian eno
04 Lujon / henry mancini
05 Paradise / clinic
06 Reversing / four tet
08 beautiful land /nina simone
09 Better Times / beach house
10 Simple Loop Choir (bad memory version)/ prefuse 73
11 Moonchild / King Krimson
12 vampire (remix by victor) / john and jehn
13 Open Up Your Door / richard hawley
14 Dorian Benediction / the free design
15 My Autumn's Done Come / lee hazlewood
16 Instrumental II / noah and the whale
17 Our Last Night Together / vera november

mercredi 9 juin 2010

NEW VIDEO "AND WE RUN"



New "And We Run" Video , watch it to the end ! :)
this video was shot in our recording studio in France in the exact room where the album was recorded. It was directed by Antoine Carlier who's been directing most of our videos recently (oh my love/time for the devil...) he's also working on a film about us.
it took us 3 days to film this video for the only reason that to make the image spin at the end we had to film the same scenes 36 times non stop! (which takes about 1h and a half each time) so in the end we playbacked the song about 180 times- we were exhausted!
but the result is quite smooooth
enjoy!

Jehn x

dimanche 6 juin 2010

VAMPIRE REMIX BY VICTOR

JOHN AND JEHN/VAMPIRE (remix by victor) from john and jehn on Vimeo.


we love that remix made by victor carlier. He added incredible harmonies to jehn's vocals , it's clever and inspiring. It changes from the usual pushy drum beat kick 'dancy' remixes. To celebrate i added some moving images on it : this is from the movie 'MANON' directed by the genius henri-georges CLOUZOT. Again i've been touched by the grace and beauty of this scene. Some might think it's gloomy and dark but i think it's beautiful and full of love.

if you want the track on mp3 , just write to us at johnandjehn@gmail.com

enjoy

john.

mercredi 19 mai 2010

Audio Tour Diary


This is the first of a series of short audio stories , edited and recorded by Jehn during the John & Jehn / British Sea Power UK Tour,

download here John & Jehn in Tan Hill (part one)

this one is a 15 minutes document about our trip to Tan Hill , the brilliant British Sea Power festival "Sing Ye from the Hillside" last week;

featuring John, Raph and Gemma -our 2 musiciens-, Martin Noble & Woodie from BSP...

you will hear music : Thin Lizzy (oh yeah!) , Deerhoof , Gainsbourg , British Sea Power, Bo Ningen , Races Horses ...

more to come later
x

lundi 26 avril 2010

VIDEO LIVE @ Proud galleries

our first show with Gemma our new guitarist (and keyboardist -she's playing organ on that track) ; the song here is "Time for the Devil" ; a saturday night at 'Proud' Camden, London ... it was crasy, crasy crasy ; we loaded the van after the show in the middle of a burlesque show and people beeing sick on the floor... awful. but we met a good american band that night, Royal Bangs. they were very nice people, they lent us some gear that night. they had problem with their bass amp during their show, and they were pretty scared about the Camden saturday night madness...!! I hope those guys are ok now... jehn x





samedi 24 avril 2010

BBC LIVE SESSION

last friday we played 3 tracks live at the BBC, hosted by Tom Robinson. we had a very warm welcome and we were in very good hands with miss Jo who was doing the sound there. we're very happy with the sound and we had a nice time.

You can download the 3 tracks "Time for the Devil" , "And we Run" and "Down our streets" just by following the link below:

http://www.mediafire.com/?nwvyemzzzmw

love on the beat x

J&J

lundi 19 avril 2010

supporting BRITISH SEA POWER in the UK !


hey,
we have some great news over here:

BRITISH SEA POWER offered us to support their UK tour in May;
that's so good news coz not only we love the guys, but we love their music, and we know their stage crew as well and they are all good and proper lovely people, we're gonna have such a great time! their music had a big influence on us after we first toured with them 2 years ago... cant wait to be back there!
X


J&J UK DATES with BRITISH SEA POWER :
*********************************************
Sun 25 Apr Colchester Arts Centre
Mon 03 May Leeds Holy Trinity Church
Mon 17 May Bath Komedia
Tue 18 May Birmingham Glee Club
Thu 20 May Leicester The Y Theatre
Fri 21 May London Bloomsbury Ballroom


Love on the beat,

J&J

samedi 10 avril 2010

GemmaThompson: new UK guitarist !

what's up?

yesterday we drove back from Rennes, it took us 10 hours to get back to London. We droped Raph our drummer at a friend's studio in Stamford Hill, he's recording a new album with his band Underground Railroad. he's a very busy man at the moment!

Today we're at our house with Matt Farrar our sound man. (by the way visit his blog at www.wotarackit.blogspot.com)

he's back with us for a while after beeing on tour with Gemma Ray and the Archie Bronson Outfit. We're playing tonight in London an early show at The Proud Galleries in Camden.


It's gonna be the baptism of fire for Gemma, who's been enlisted to play guitar with us onstage for our UK shows.
We took her on board after watching videos of her on youtube were she plays very noisy guitars in her band called 'Hindley'. After few rehearsals we realised how much she is a master of guitar feedbacks and distortion. amasing!

See Gemma for the first time on stage with us tonight in London @ The Proud Gallery

samedi 3 avril 2010

AND WE RUN on TV

Hey,

this is the link to watch JOHN & JEHN live on TV playing the song AND WE RUN ;

as (maybe) you will notice, we had a problem with the guitar!! it only arrives at the middle of the song... it's alright , we rocked it out as hard as we could! haha but sorry for those who know the song (few of you I'm sure) , next time we'll be careful with our wires -or maybe we get a new guitarist! :) (only jocking of course :)

anyway enjoy the 'disturbing' special tv effects! gosh!

Watch the VIDEO HERE

love,

Jehn

samedi 27 mars 2010

NEW ALBUM, LOOK!



This is how our new album looks like, "Time For the Devil", in digipack format, gate folded limited edition!


All by the magnificient Antoine Carlier.

Of course you can go online and get the music for free but I promise there's more pretty good looking things to see in there, so you might as well find it out yourself and get to your closest music shop and buy it! ( that's just my advice...)

love on te beat,

Jehn

jeudi 25 mars 2010

JOHN & JEHN and BRITISH SEA POWER

We have been invited by BRITISH SEA POWER to play at the festival they host in North Yorkshire at Tan Hill. It is a pleasure for us to be there and play with cool bands and have fun!!
Apparently it all happens in the highest pub in England called Tan Hill In where they serve some kind of 'British Sea Power' bear haha. We will sleep in tents and hear good music.. sounds exciting.
Our relationship with British Sea Power goes back a few years when we opened for them in South London. Following that show , they invited us to support their uk tour. Last week they were mixing their album 5 minutes walk from our house. Those guys are great and their music has had a huge influence on our last album.
This week I watched the film "Man of Aran" with their soundtrack, it was very inspiring , again, like everything they do.
this is an extract:


Jehn x

jeudi 18 mars 2010

JOHN & JEHN and BAND OF SKULLS on TV

As promised , this is the video with BAND OF SKULLS, performing the song "Sympathy for the Devil". We rehearsed the song on our way to the studio in Band of Skulls's van; singing and playing accoustic guitars like hippies... during the rehearsals we couldn't get it right, so this was the first time we played the song to the end really..
very good souvenir x
Jehn

mardi 2 mars 2010

Cat Stevens Photographer





Yesterday, on our way to meet a possible new guitarist, we saw this photo on the wall at Rough Trade East Shop taken by Cat Stevens ages ago- no, not Cat Stevens the singer haha! but cat Stevens the London photographer; she took pictures of us for a Plan B feature interview for our first album... I think you can buy it... I dont know how much though, I wasn't interrested :)
cool
x

jeudi 25 février 2010

"Shift" by Antoine Carlier



Antoine Carlier (picture) is the artwork director on our new album.

He directed our videos for "oh my love" and "Time for the Devil" , did the arwtork cover and takes most of our pictures...
he's a bit like the third member of J&J right now really...

On the 9th of March, Antoine will exeptionnaly perform a show called "Shift" in Paris with the pianist Guillaume de Chassy @ the Cinéma le Balzac.
The idea is that Antoine projects images on the screen while Guillaume De Chassy improvises on the piano.
We're gonna be there to see the performance ; Antoine asked us if he could use images from our video "oh my love" to screen during the performance. of course we said yes. see their trailer below:




On the 9th of March 2010 in Paris @ Cinema le Balzac / "Shift" with Antoine Carlier and Guillaume de Chassy.

jeudi 18 février 2010

JOE MOO


we'd like to introduce you to JOE MOO , who did the artwork for our first album. He is a french tattooist, the best actually, and has just put his work online.

Check him out here: JOE MOO

Joe is John's old friend and personnal tattooist, he is also an amasing artist, you can see his drawings on his website now as well.
enjoy!
http://www.joemootattoo.fr

jeudi 11 février 2010

Fernando Pessoa "The hour of the Devil"




"the wedding ring that you wear and love, the joy produced by a vague thought, the fact that you feel good when you look at yourself in the mirror - do not fool yourself : it's not you , it 's me.'
The Devil from "A Hora do Diabo" by Fernando Pessoa.

This man on the picture is Fernando Pessoa. He is a portuguese poet and writer from the early 20th century. His short story "The Hour of the Devil" (‘La Hora del Diablo') inspired us for the title of our album and to write the song of the same name.
The book came into our hands accidentally. It was sitting on the shelves at my parent's house and John picked it up to read before going to sleep. Before I knew it , he got inspired by the poet's words and few days later, had written a song about the short parable.

In his short story, Pessoa imagines a conversation between the Devil and a woman. He creates a reality where the Devil is not to be feared and nothing you expect. He is a gentleman who would never intentionally harm a human; he's no longer the usual symbol of the enemy of God. He is harmless and is certainly ignorant of the things that actually rules the world. The Devil himself tells about his traumas, his story and his work... This accessibility creates a modern, conscious way of dealing with the subject of evil, which we found inspiring for our work and lives.

The Devil feeds our emotions and inspires us a love of art and of love itself.
Our emotions aren’t bad or dangerous. What is dangerous is when they are hidden or suppressed. It’s safer and healthier to experience the vices of humanity, to express our emotions rather than label them as evil or dangerous. The sentiments actually inspired many of the lyrics on the album...

But enough now, I highly recommand that you read it and get inspired yourself :)


Time for the devil.

It’s time for the devil to come
And put a smile on my face
He’s not that bad my devil
He’s moving things in my head

It’s time for the devil
He cares for me and all
It’s time for the devil

He doesn’t want my soul
He wants to speak that’s all
He cares for me my devil
About my fate and my goals

It’s time for the devil
He cares for me and all
It’s time for the devil

samedi 6 février 2010

Fear Fear Fear in Skins

Hello,

Skins have selected our song "Fear Fear Fear" to feature in their 2nd Episode of season 4.
"Fear Fear Fear" is a song from our first album "John & Jehn" which was released in 2008.

To be honest I never watched Skins before ,though we do watch some tv series; "Mad men", "Sopranos", "True Blood"... some channel 4 comedies like "the big band theory" or "Peep show"... some cartoons like "Harvey Birdman", "Family guy", "Futurama" and of course the forever classic "The Simpsons"!

below is the extract from the episode where you can hear "Fear Fear Fear"; it's very funny for us to hear it there, this song was recorded in our bedroom in London for god's sake!! :)

kiss x

jeudi 4 février 2010

"TIME FOR THE DEVIL" 1st Single





This is the picture we chose for the cover.
It was taken by Antoine Carlier, who's the man behind all our artwork and videos for the new album. Antoine is an old friend of us. Him and John used to go to the same high school in france.
We took this picture in his appartment in Paris, one night very late ,using the simple device of one mirror , one lamp. Our first idea was to create an atmosphere inspired by the surealists' from the 20's , and then we gradually got away from that I guess, we spent hours playing with it, it felt very creative.
Antoine is an interesting character, we believe he is the one of the best director and designer in Paris at the moment, which is very demanding! antoine is constantly working very hard, sometimes it's like he is too tired to sleep ha! he doesnt even have a bed in his flat... I think he's a vampire!
Also this is a very demanding period for everybody working on John & Jehn at the moment.. coz now is Time for the DEVIL! who needs to sleep :)

evil best,
J&J

mardi 2 février 2010

let us tease you again...

This is an introduction to our next music video, "Time for the Devil", directed by Antoine Carlier :



enjoy!
love on the beat x
j&j
or follow the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do8d324FpSY

samedi 16 janvier 2010

"Time for the Devil" Video





Here is some photos taken on the set of our new video for the song 'time for the devil' . It s just gonna look like a proper hollywood movie... Thanks to everyone at WALTER FILMS and our personal image maker /video director/friend : ANTOINE CARLIER.
Can 't wait , can 't wait , can't wait...

Photos by Thomas Robin

mercredi 13 janvier 2010

Sympathy for the Devil with 'Band of Skulls'


we're in Paris!
On monday we recorded a french TV show called 'Taratata' with 'Band of Skulls'.

The idea of the Tv show was to cover a 'Gold' track with another band. 'Band of Skulls' chose the Rolling Stones' song 'Sympathy for the Devil'. Our next album is called "Time for the Devil" so we thought it was a good sign.

and indeed, it went really well! 'Band os Skulls' are a very good band, and brilliant musicians. The track was very suited to their music and voice. we also realised we know so many people in common. we had an excellent time!!

John played guitar and I played the piano. Band of Skulls , Emma, Matt and Russell, played the bass, drums and guitar.
So all day we rehearsed the "woo uuu"s backstage -there was not much else planned for untertainment there anyway!

Check their website:
and Myspace

the tv show will be broadcasted in March... pfiou! that's a long time to wait.
but I promise it's worth it :)

lots of love

x

samedi 9 janvier 2010

NEW MIXTAPE /60 MINS UNDER THE SNOW

here is a new mixtape i did when i was trapped in our flat in london cause of the snow, it does look like russia around here.
i asked a very talented artist called ELIF to do the artwork. She is from Turkey , and study in the famous st martins college of art in LOndon. You can also listen to one of her song in the mixtape (track number 3) , i ve been listening to her stuff in loop since three days now , this is proper music. ENJOY!
(clik on image to download it)
60 MINS UNDER THE SNOW

TRACK LIST:

the sign:part1 / DAVID ALEXROD
weather storm / MASSIVE ATTACK
lirar / ELEFANTE (aka elif artwork artist)
we hovered with short things / VIC CHESNUT
sim sim / ARTHUR LYMAN
rainwater cassette exchange / DEERHUNTER
emily / JOHN CALE
take pills / PANDA BEAR
sunrain / ASH RA TEMPEL
never mind that now / ELYSIAN FIELDS
roll plymouth rock / BRIAN WILSON
ataypura / YMA SUMAC
unhatural habitat / THE GREENHORNES
raise the bells / FOLK IMPLOSION
my foolish heart / BARNEY KESSEL
cellar door / MICHAEL ANDREWS
good night / THE BEATLES


alif's work :

samedi 2 janvier 2010

CHANEL HAUTE COUTURE / JOHN AND JEHN



Months ago , chanel picked a song for one of their little promotional video . They chose the first version of our song 'make your mum be proud' , it is very old for us , it s been recorded in our bedroom and john sings quite high ... We find it amusing , and we do love chanel creations, it 's just beautiful .
We just found it on you tube , enjoy!

mardi 29 décembre 2009

Orson Welles : Audiences, endangered species.

Orson Welles is here talking about what he believes IS or IS NOT an audience. I believe he was right by then, he is still right today.
x x x

vendredi 18 décembre 2009

New 'Ghosts' Video !

We are pleased to give you this beautiful video made by our friend Benjamin Le Coq de Kerland. The song is called 'Ghosts' and this is an extract from our second album 'Time for The Devil' , out next Spring 2010.
Ben was free to do whatever he liked on this and so proposed his own personnal version of the song;
we liked it very much so wanted to share with you.
Take it as a Chrismas gift! Hope you will enjoy as much as we do, on a snowy day like this...
all the very best,
Jehn xxx

Also visit Benjamin Le Coq's Blog Now !!!

jeudi 10 décembre 2009

News from 'London Town'

We are in London tonight, drove all day and got stuck in the biggest traffic ever; so we're pretty tired tonight. Maud Elisa , our guitarist, is with us, she is 'La Chose' in the picture below, being very quiet in the van. sweet thing..
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Last week in Rennes during the tour with Franz Ferdinand, we were happy to see again 2 photographers from Rennes -we already met in St Malo last summer and during the festival 'les Transmusicales' a year ago. It's like a tradition now when we come to Britany, we have to take pictures with Derga Tora! haha They're part of a crew of young artists called Derga Tora, you can visit their myspace here; We already used one of their pictures for a poster. They are really cool guys. Here is one picture John has signed for them last summer:
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Tomorrow we play in London at the Cobden Club and gonna see lots of good friends again.

yo yo yo!
Jehn

mardi 1 décembre 2009

the franz tour , good vibrations.




we had a wonderful time on the franz ferdinand tour, everyone was very nice to us and we had a warm welcome from their fans , especially in Rennes!!!thanks a lot.
we had the chance to meet one of our source of inspiration : mr JOhnny Marr from the smiths, he was also on that tour , playing with the cribs (also very cool people ).
Paul franz 's drummer offered to me a book on john cassavetes for christmas , i recommand it to everyone who like john cassavetes's films:



If you got any video or picture to post from the shows , feel free to add it on our facebook page.

love,

JOHN.

samedi 21 novembre 2009

Wedding day in London


Hey,

we were in London for a few days this week end, mainly because our friends Viva and Mark were celebrating their wedding at the Cobden Club. It was very musicaly inspired as they are both drummers in 2 different awesome bands called Joe Gideon and the Shark and Archie Bronson Outfit. It was a beautiful wedding, with the traditionnal speaches and The Duke Spirit playing live as well as the magnificient Duke Garwood (check them all out). We danced until late, it was very nice. It's good to hang out with warm people.

To Viva and Mark!

This week is gonna be a lot of work, we're going to Paris on Tuesday and we start the french tour with the Franz Ferdinand.
yep,

John & Jehn

jeudi 12 novembre 2009

New Team !!!

Hello,

we'd like to introduce you to Raph and Maud-Elisa.
From now they're gonna be with us onstage to play the new songs.
Raph is playing drums and Maud-Elisa is playing mainly guitar amongst keyboards and bass.
We've been rehearsing all week with them and they did a great job, worked really hard. We rehearsed 11 hours a day and they learnt 10 songs in a week. It's rare to find such dedicated people. they never complained and it's hard to believe that we were so right about them coz they're such good company.
We've been very happy to be able to set something right musicaly, the new songs request more instruments and we think we got the right vibe with them onstage. for the 'fans' of the first john & jehn formula , they shouldn't worry , it is different but it's still us, it's just better!
and if you want to see us play, well... see you at the Zenith in Paris on the 26th Nov , that's gonna be our first show with the 4 of us! hehe

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