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
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 :
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
alif's work :
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
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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 !!!
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..

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:

Tomorrow we play in London at the Cobden Club and gonna see lots of good friends again.
yo yo yo!
Jehn

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:

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
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

samedi 31 octobre 2009
End of album recording...working on film soundtrack
hi,
ok, our second album is recorded, done!
Matt our soundman (see his blog http://www.wotarackit.blogspot.com/) is gone now, he's been a perfect company for almost two months. We are very much happy with the sound and the songs, it's groovy! it should come out in Spring 2010.
In the meantime, we've been trying our skills this week into the great adventure of music for films.
We met a french guy in London few years ago, called Guillaume Foresti. He saw us play one night with the Black Lips at the Proud Gallery. He kept in touch with us over the months and talked about his project of a short film with Stephane Demoustier. So here we are now, working on the soundtrack.
The film was shot in 35mm with the two actors Marc Barbé and Arly Jover. I have to say after 2 months working on our album, it is relaxing to record an instrumental soundtrack, to mess around with noises and effects haaaaaa (sound of content).
The 2 directors talked about "Sombre" by Philippe Grandieux as an inpsiration for their film, musicaly. The soundtrack was by Alan Vega (member of Suicide). Below is the final scene of that movie with the cover of a Gainsbourg song by the american band Elysian Fields. It's great.
yep,
Jehn
ok, our second album is recorded, done!
Matt our soundman (see his blog http://www.wotarackit.blogspot.com/) is gone now, he's been a perfect company for almost two months. We are very much happy with the sound and the songs, it's groovy! it should come out in Spring 2010.
In the meantime, we've been trying our skills this week into the great adventure of music for films.
We met a french guy in London few years ago, called Guillaume Foresti. He saw us play one night with the Black Lips at the Proud Gallery. He kept in touch with us over the months and talked about his project of a short film with Stephane Demoustier. So here we are now, working on the soundtrack.
The film was shot in 35mm with the two actors Marc Barbé and Arly Jover. I have to say after 2 months working on our album, it is relaxing to record an instrumental soundtrack, to mess around with noises and effects haaaaaa (sound of content).
The 2 directors talked about "Sombre" by Philippe Grandieux as an inpsiration for their film, musicaly. The soundtrack was by Alan Vega (member of Suicide). Below is the final scene of that movie with the cover of a Gainsbourg song by the american band Elysian Fields. It's great.
yep,
Jehn
mardi 20 octobre 2009
yesterday night : nick cave in paris
we ve been invited yesterday night to the nick cave 's new book promotion night . It was in a very posh theatre in paris on the champs elysee avenue. Vulgar can of beer very expensive at the bar , not cool. Nick cave , warren ellis , martin casey were playing light version of old and new songs. It was a bit lame ... Nick cave started the night explaining that people can ask questions whenever they want to him , every kind of questions...But later on you could see that proposition was not very sincere , and he became a bit annoyed by the whole thing. Promotion's night disguised in 'a night with nick cave ' as written on the ticket is quite bullshiting people. It looked more like take the money and run. Nothing about litterature , nothing about music , just questions on his mustache or stuff like that. Egocentric night for the fans , no fun.
I do want to read his book anyway /
I do want to read his book anyway /

samedi 26 septembre 2009
Shooting with Antoine Carlier

hellooo,
as we are in the studio recording our second album, Antoine (who directed our video for 'oh my love') is here with us and shoots a film about... well.. the recording, us in the studio... and more.
It's all groovy, see the new pix.
alriiiight,
have a lovely time,
always yours,
the J's
(Pictures by Matt Farrar)
dimanche 6 septembre 2009
Remixes : watch out!!
helloooooo,
today is the day we have the pleasure to share with you 2 remixes of 2 songs from our first album. Dont hesitate to contact the guys to say how good they are :)
(to download the remixes click on the images)
THE FIRST ONE:
song: 20L07
album: John & Jehn
artist: Golden Parking
nationality: French
location: lives and works in Marseille
myspace: www.myspace.com/goldenparking
THE SECOND ONE:
song: Lady Spider
album: John & Jehn
artist: Yon
nationality: English
location: lives and works in London
myspace: www.myspace.com/yondur
other links: fealreal.blogspot.com/
enjoy,
all the best,
J&J
today is the day we have the pleasure to share with you 2 remixes of 2 songs from our first album. Dont hesitate to contact the guys to say how good they are :)
(to download the remixes click on the images)
THE FIRST ONE:
song: 20L07
album: John & Jehn
artist: Golden Parking
nationality: French
location: lives and works in Marseille
myspace: www.myspace.com/goldenparking
THE SECOND ONE:
song: Lady Spider
album: John & Jehn
artist: Yon
nationality: English
location: lives and works in London
myspace: www.myspace.com/yondur
other links: fealreal.blogspot.com/
enjoy,
all the best,
J&J
samedi 5 septembre 2009
lundi 31 août 2009
first video idea for 20L07
hello people of the universe.
I wanted to show you the first idea for the video of 20L07 ... the idea was to steal( or recreate) the central scene from the wonderful movie 'ma nuit chez maud' directed eric rohmer. You will notice how jean louis trintignant and francoise fabian were amazing actors.
Didn't see it? run my friend and find a copy...It is proper NOT boring french cinema.
love
john.
I wanted to show you the first idea for the video of 20L07 ... the idea was to steal( or recreate) the central scene from the wonderful movie 'ma nuit chez maud' directed eric rohmer. You will notice how jean louis trintignant and francoise fabian were amazing actors.
Didn't see it? run my friend and find a copy...It is proper NOT boring french cinema.
love
john.
dimanche 23 août 2009
Namuuuuuuur
hellooo
we've been to Namur in Belgium to play a show. we had a special driver this time : Anna G! She's an old friend of us and she is always great company. (as you can see)


we drove to south of France yesterday, the recording is getting closer!!! we also have Matt , our soudman, with us now. he will stay for 2 months and finish the second album with us. we are excited as little kids!
best,
jehn
we've been to Namur in Belgium to play a show. we had a special driver this time : Anna G! She's an old friend of us and she is always great company. (as you can see)

we drove to south of France yesterday, the recording is getting closer!!! we also have Matt , our soudman, with us now. he will stay for 2 months and finish the second album with us. we are excited as little kids!
best,
jehn
samedi 8 août 2009
J.J. and F.F. on a boat

I finally have the pictures of the boat trip we had with the Franz in Musilac in July; Below is Julie, a friend of us from London who's now working with Franz Ferdinand on tour; she's great!!! we were so happy to see her again.

I KNOW the damm pictures are all too blury, aarrgg , sorry, the boat was moving a lot... but let's say it brings a little impressionist fashion to the portraits, no? I had to take the most scary away though :)


We spent the afternoon on a rented boat, we could hear the bands playing from the festival ; the driver brought us to some cliff where we jumped in the water, some very high! it was very cool;

Then we party all night , dancing on some Michael Jackson tunes, waou!
we're in France now preparing the recording of the second album ; doing demos and also some administration things; we're going to record at home again but the studio is getting better; Matt, our sound man, will come at the end of the month; So the album should be done mid-fall;
yeah!!
take care all
Love from Jehn
jeudi 23 juillet 2009
FESTIVAL TOUR SUMMARY 2
Hello everyone,
last 2 weeks have been mad; we didn't have a chance to post any blog, also we were waiting for some pictures to show you ;
All the pictures were made by the magnificient SAM NEUHARDT (also the video director for the '20L07' video and 'i can see you' video)


St Tropez was the weirdest place we've ever played in, i mean at first sight because we arrived in a camping!! Actually one of the biggest in all Europe. But we set up for sound check and then spent few hours on the beach, so it was very cool!
The gig turned out to be very pleasant, lots of young people were there and some of them even knew the lyrics and sung with us. After the show we wandered around the beach and the bungaloos, bought Chichis and met lots of people; we were a bit the stars of the camping for that night haha
the crew was great too, they actually invite a lot of good international bands to play, which is cool.

Our next show was in Angouleme for The Garden Nef Party Festival. We met our friends Joe Gideon and The Shark there on friday the 17th. They couldn't stay long, they had to drive to England for the next day. It was a shame, but they did a great show.
We also met the guys from Franz Ferdinand again and they confirmed their wish to have us on tour with them in November in France. We love their shows, it is very inspiring for us to see them work, so we said yes straight away! They are really great guys and very supportive with our music and forthcoming album.
The Garden festival in Angouleme happens in the hometown of John so this show was very special to us. Lots of friends and family turned up and the festival crew was very proud because they knew John since he was a teenager. We had great time.


last 2 weeks have been mad; we didn't have a chance to post any blog, also we were waiting for some pictures to show you ;
All the pictures were made by the magnificient SAM NEUHARDT (also the video director for the '20L07' video and 'i can see you' video)


St Tropez was the weirdest place we've ever played in, i mean at first sight because we arrived in a camping!! Actually one of the biggest in all Europe. But we set up for sound check and then spent few hours on the beach, so it was very cool!
The gig turned out to be very pleasant, lots of young people were there and some of them even knew the lyrics and sung with us. After the show we wandered around the beach and the bungaloos, bought Chichis and met lots of people; we were a bit the stars of the camping for that night haha
the crew was great too, they actually invite a lot of good international bands to play, which is cool.

Our next show was in Angouleme for The Garden Nef Party Festival. We met our friends Joe Gideon and The Shark there on friday the 17th. They couldn't stay long, they had to drive to England for the next day. It was a shame, but they did a great show.
We also met the guys from Franz Ferdinand again and they confirmed their wish to have us on tour with them in November in France. We love their shows, it is very inspiring for us to see them work, so we said yes straight away! They are really great guys and very supportive with our music and forthcoming album.
The Garden festival in Angouleme happens in the hometown of John so this show was very special to us. Lots of friends and family turned up and the festival crew was very proud because they knew John since he was a teenager. We had great time.


drawing by thibault balahy
for la garden nef party festival.
Love on the beat,
Yours,
Jehn
mardi 14 juillet 2009
TOUR SUMMARY
HI,
we've been playing at festivals this week.
We were in Liege last Saturday playing at 'Les Ardentes' Festival.
Our soundman never arrived to the show -he was taking a train to arrive in the afternoon but missed 2 of them and ended up watching us play instead of doing the sound! He was very upset :) we saw Tricky backstage but didn't have time to meet him...
We were playing in 'Musilac' the next day, in Aix Les Bains. We estimated that 10.000 people must have been watching when we played. It is the biggest crowd we ever played for. It was very different from everything we've experienced so far but very fun! we want to do it again!! Franz Ferdinand were headlining. We met the guys and they were very nice to us, inviting us on a boat trip in the afternoon after our show. We had a fantastic day and the festival crew was very nice.
have a look:
Next show was in La Rochelle, for the festival 'Les Francofolies'. We drove for 9 hours in the day to get there on time ( Big thanks to our wonderful driver mr YANNOSH). The crowd was very responding :) after 40 minutes of show we went out to see friends and drink in bars until late. La Rochelle looked like a zombie town with drunk people everywhere in the streets.
Tomorrow we are driving towards St Tropez for the festival 'les plages de rock'. And then back in Angouleme At the garden nef party festival ,we are really looking forward to play there, all our old friends and family will be there it s gonna be magic.
Thanks for reading,
Love on the Beat
John & Jehn


Photos taken by Yannoche (our friend and driver) at The 'Francofolies' in La Rochelle during the sound check.
we've been playing at festivals this week.
We were in Liege last Saturday playing at 'Les Ardentes' Festival.
Our soundman never arrived to the show -he was taking a train to arrive in the afternoon but missed 2 of them and ended up watching us play instead of doing the sound! He was very upset :) we saw Tricky backstage but didn't have time to meet him...
We were playing in 'Musilac' the next day, in Aix Les Bains. We estimated that 10.000 people must have been watching when we played. It is the biggest crowd we ever played for. It was very different from everything we've experienced so far but very fun! we want to do it again!! Franz Ferdinand were headlining. We met the guys and they were very nice to us, inviting us on a boat trip in the afternoon after our show. We had a fantastic day and the festival crew was very nice.
have a look:
Next show was in La Rochelle, for the festival 'Les Francofolies'. We drove for 9 hours in the day to get there on time ( Big thanks to our wonderful driver mr YANNOSH). The crowd was very responding :) after 40 minutes of show we went out to see friends and drink in bars until late. La Rochelle looked like a zombie town with drunk people everywhere in the streets.
Tomorrow we are driving towards St Tropez for the festival 'les plages de rock'. And then back in Angouleme At the garden nef party festival ,we are really looking forward to play there, all our old friends and family will be there it s gonna be magic.
Thanks for reading,
Love on the Beat
John & Jehn


Photos taken by Yannoche (our friend and driver) at The 'Francofolies' in La Rochelle during the sound check.
lundi 29 juin 2009
Last week end
Hi everyone,
we were in London when the king of pop died. We saw lots of friends and had a great time dancing on Michael's tunes.Even if you hate the man , all the quincy jones work with him was legend.
Last weekend we played for Solidays, what an adventure!
I broke my back on the Saturday morning when loading the van with John in London. He then had to drive the van to Paris with me lying at the back. I just couldn't move at all! The Solidays festival found an osteopath in Paris (the same who cures Johnny hallyday! haha) and he just did his thing on my spine so that the pain was less strong when I woke up the next morning. But still, i couldn't play a gig!
On the Sunday, we met the all medical crew of the festival who decided to do an injection of pain killers in my butt!! the all thing turned a bit crazy. The needle -as John recalls- was so big it looked like it was made for a horse! I thought..."Only 2 days in Paris and I've already shown my butt 3 times to different people!" before they sting me.
Eventually, the pain disappeared an hour after the shot; I was feeling stoned and couldn't feel any pain anymore. I was actually laughing a lot; we did the show like that... it was very weird... I was feeling high ,i was trying so hard to play the best show even if I couldn't do my best moves ;)
But as usual people were great and very supportive. Thanks to them!
Then we rested at the backstage area under the trees, it was so hot that day! with our friends from Koko Von Napoo. We met Metronomy and saw their show which was very good.
best,
Jehn and John
we were in London when the king of pop died. We saw lots of friends and had a great time dancing on Michael's tunes.Even if you hate the man , all the quincy jones work with him was legend.
Last weekend we played for Solidays, what an adventure!
I broke my back on the Saturday morning when loading the van with John in London. He then had to drive the van to Paris with me lying at the back. I just couldn't move at all! The Solidays festival found an osteopath in Paris (the same who cures Johnny hallyday! haha) and he just did his thing on my spine so that the pain was less strong when I woke up the next morning. But still, i couldn't play a gig!
On the Sunday, we met the all medical crew of the festival who decided to do an injection of pain killers in my butt!! the all thing turned a bit crazy. The needle -as John recalls- was so big it looked like it was made for a horse! I thought..."Only 2 days in Paris and I've already shown my butt 3 times to different people!" before they sting me.
Eventually, the pain disappeared an hour after the shot; I was feeling stoned and couldn't feel any pain anymore. I was actually laughing a lot; we did the show like that... it was very weird... I was feeling high ,i was trying so hard to play the best show even if I couldn't do my best moves ;)
But as usual people were great and very supportive. Thanks to them!
Then we rested at the backstage area under the trees, it was so hot that day! with our friends from Koko Von Napoo. We met Metronomy and saw their show which was very good.
best,
Jehn and John
mercredi 24 juin 2009
blogger review
i like this review of the london show we did on sunday.
http://tracksfromthestack.blogspot.com/2009/06/john-jehn-cinema-lumiere-sunday-21st.html
http://tracksfromthestack.blogspot.com/2009/06/john-jehn-cinema-lumiere-sunday-21st.html

THE DUKE IS BACK
My master and friend DUKE GARWOOD is back with a beautiful album called 'the sand that falls' also a very rare ep called 'he was a warlock'
Very seriously , the world has to understand how this man is a genius. Be clever my friends and buy this as soon as you can (itunes or here). This is 100% pure good music.
http://www.myspace.com/dukegarwood
lundi 22 juin 2009
LONDON LONDON TOWN !
hello everyone,

on my last post someone asked us if we were to play again in London soon, and so we did ! last night we played at the Film Institute in London and it was so good to be back home !
The venue was a cinema where people were seated, but it didn't take 2 songs for them to stand up and start dancing in the alleys. You can't imagine how much we love it, it makes such a difference to us. We want to thank everyone who came yesterday night, you were all so great.
Before the show, we did an interview with the guys from "Ciné Moi", a new tv channel about french music and film. We'll post the link as soon as we get it.
Also, we played with the french band "Koko Von Napoo". They are really nice people and they play a kind of 80's, new wave, B52's, ESG music. 3 girls and a man. very good bass lines... check them out here: Koko Von Napoo
i had fun watching their show, dancing and taking pictures:




now we're in London for a week before playing in Paris on Sunday.
lots of love
Jehn

on my last post someone asked us if we were to play again in London soon, and so we did ! last night we played at the Film Institute in London and it was so good to be back home !
The venue was a cinema where people were seated, but it didn't take 2 songs for them to stand up and start dancing in the alleys. You can't imagine how much we love it, it makes such a difference to us. We want to thank everyone who came yesterday night, you were all so great.
Before the show, we did an interview with the guys from "Ciné Moi", a new tv channel about french music and film. We'll post the link as soon as we get it.
Also, we played with the french band "Koko Von Napoo". They are really nice people and they play a kind of 80's, new wave, B52's, ESG music. 3 girls and a man. very good bass lines... check them out here: Koko Von Napoo
i had fun watching their show, dancing and taking pictures:




now we're in London for a week before playing in Paris on Sunday.
lots of love
Jehn
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