GONZO WEEKLY REVIEW

Gonzo Weekly’s review of Whatever and Together. Excellent piece discussing The JAMs ‘artistic timebomb’ and an ace analogy about ducks. Got my name on the cover too! Many thanks to Archie, Peanut and Jon for his kind words. Together and Whatever are available from Amazaba.

DAVE LEE ON HOLD ON 2.0

Here “The penultimate piece, ‘Hold On 2.0’ starts off with a pun on the Sam and Dave lyrics of the title, then erupts into a narrative which eluded me completely until I realised that it must be an allegorical blow-by-blow account of the JAMs Welcome to the Dark Ages Liverpool event of Summer 2017.” Psychedelic […]

ALL TOGETHER NOW

Twenty-three days, since the release of my second book, Together, the moratorium is over and it’s time to talk about my wonderful contributors, collaborators and co-conspirators. My initial idea for Together was to include some of The 400 as fictional characters, but I was a little uneasy about this process. Instead, I put out the […]

PROJECT MU-BOOK

April 23rd. St George’s Day. William Shakespeare is born. Sergei Prokofiev is born. Vladimir Nabokov is born. Shirley Temple is born. Roy Orbison is born. Lee Majors is born. Ed Stewart is born. Crackerjack. Mike Smith is born. Timothy McVeigh is born. John Oliver is born. AIDS virus is identified. Favoured day for Soviet Nuclear Tests. Sinclair ZX Spectrum launched. Matt Smith debuts as Doctor Who. Date […]

YOU WHORES

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THE OPEN MANIFESTO

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SAK SAMMA

Here it is. WHATEVER has morphed into a Scandi-drama, courtesy of The 400’s Pries Verhon. Buy it here from Amazaba or read it below. Free. Forever. Sak samma – av Andy Gell Översatt och tolkad till svenska av Richard Wikström (Pries Verhon, sidan 257 i 2023) INTRODUKTION Eller så är det en prolog till prologen. Sak […]

ADVANCED ACOUSTIC ARMAMENTS

Much of Welcome To The Dark Ages reflected the previous work of The JAMs, both together and in their solo work. From bedmaking to ragwort collecting, from logo subversion to a great big bonfire, JAMs-aficionados could cross them off, one-by-one, as The JAMs Greatest Hits. But where were Jimmy’s experiments with sound, as detailed in […]