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Further – a journey in sound


CARDIFF DATE: Monomyth Picture: Duncan de Fey


MONOMYTH who have just released their latest album, Further, through Suburban Re- cords play Cardiff next week. The underlying theme of the album is movement and travel- ling.


Monomyth is a journey in sound. It is the sound of five men exploring the outer reach- es of their musicianship. The band is designed to “transport their audience to another state of being”. Hailing from the Hague in


The Netherlands, each mem- ber has a varied musical back- ground. Apart from playing in bands, their collective experi- ence includes being a producer, a sound technician, a monitor mixer, a lighting engineer, a DJ and a student of sonology. Catch them at Cardiff Moon


Club on February 19 visit Mon- omyththeband.com for tickets.


Valentine tribute


WELSH singer / songwriter Georgia Paterson is celebrat- ing Valentine’s Day with a free download song on her website entitled Not Enough Words. “It’s a love song I wrote for


my girlfriend who I was lucky enough to marry a few months ago,” says Georgia. “I wrote the song for her


birthday. I was trying to tell her how much I love her. It’s hard to express it fully, like it says in the song “how can I tell you how I feel, when it’s too much for words?” See the video and get the song free at georgiapaterson.com


Contact Us


EDITOR: Nicole Garnon 01633 777203 nicole.garnon@gwent-wales.co.uk


EDITORIAL AND DESIGN: Andy Howells andrew.howells@gwent-wales.co.uk


ADVERTISING: Andrea Hall 01633 777285 andrea.hall@gwent-wales.co.uk


ONLINE: www.southwalesaargus.co.uk www.twitter.com/argus_theguide


chats to JordanWest, of Moriarty, ahead of their Bristol show


INDIE blues duo Moriaty have arrived. For fans of Jimi Hendrix and The White Stripes, Moriaty are ready to take their local suc- cess nationally, with their hook-laden new material. Last year was stimulating for the band;


at the beginning of the year they headed to the French Alps for a three-week tour. Other appearances include numerous shows with local buddies The Computers, as well as key performances at Lemon- fest, Volksfest and Leopallooza. Not only that, they played a stint at this year’s Se- cret Cinema event for Back to the Future. Also last year the band was a featured


artist on Huw Stephens’ Radio One show, after being hand picked by BBC Introduc- ing’s James Santer. The band have sold out shows both in their home towns and the capital, and are now eager to put themselves into the spotlight and thrust their incredible talent into the heart of the UK music scene. This blues duo, is a duo with a differ- ence. Unconfined by the two-piece phe- nomenon, Moriarty have been known to flirt with other musicians including rap- pers, singers, bass players and string sections. 2015 promises to bring a wide variety of new music, including a hip-hop merger and a breathtaking guest appear- ance on their new track, yet to be an- nounced. Andy Howells recently put questions to Jordan West of the band.


Who are you and how did you start playing music? Hi, I’m Jordan, I started playing guitar


when i was about 11. We formed Moriaty at T in the Park. Me and Mat (drummer) had toured together in different bands over the years and just decided to get together and smash out some riffs. We ended up doing it all the time.


Where are you from? We are from Devon. Mat and myself


were born in the same hospital in Plym- outh, though I grew up the in other side of South Devon.


ANDYHOWELLS


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BLUES BAND: Moriarty


How would you describe your music style? We are a dirty blues band really. Influ- enced by the greats, plus big riffy bands like Rage Against The Machine and Black Sabbath.


What’s been your best live experience? We always have a great time live, we


give it our all and it normally doesn’t mat- ter whose there watching. One time at Leopallooza last year, Thom Yorke was dancing his ass off for our whole set... that was pretty cool.


You have a new album coming soon can you tell us more about that? We have a single that has just been


released called Bones. It’s a cool track loosely based on Voltaire’s Candide, and features our favourite bass player of all time, Mr Chris Wolstenholme, who produced the track for us. He liked it so much he wanted to play on it... an offer you just wouldn’t turn down. It’s a real honour, and the track is a foot-stomper. We have a number of singles coming out over the year, but after doing an album last year, we are going to take it steady


and concentrate on one song and video at a time.


You’re touring shortly are you looking forward to that? Yeah for sure. We have both toured


extensively over the years, this time sat year saw us mission over to the French Alps for three weeks, which was hard going, but really good. I think were just looking forward to getting around the UK and playing for fans we’ve recruited at festivals and shows over the last couple of years.


What can people expect from your forthcoming Bristol gig? The Bristol show will be something


rather special. We have done some work with Bristol/Plymouth hip-hop group The Scribes in the past, we released a song that we collaborated on as part of our Es- peranza EP in 2013. So for this show we are going to team up. The Scribes will do a set, then us, then we are going to do a whole set together, with a few covers and a few original songs which we are writing for the show. If it goes well, we might even record a collaboration EP with them. This


First UK showin 18 years


“IT was just a matter of the right time, the right place and things lining up with my schedule,” Billy J Kramer re- cently told Andy Howells as they talk about his return to the UK to perform his first concerts in 18 years. The original Merseybeat era


star who scored Number One hits with Bad To Me and Lit- tle Children nowresides in the USA explains why he hadn’t toured the UK for so long, “I did a lot of touring and I thought it was best to leave it off, I didn’t want to do one tour after another as I thought people would get fed up with me.”


Billy couldn’t be any more wrong as he discovered re- cently when performing to appreciative fans at several Beatles Fests in New Jersey, California, New York and Chi- cago with his old friend Mike


Pender from The Searchers. “I knew The Beatles before they made records and was honoured to work with them when they became successful it was a wonderful period in my life.” John Lennon and Paul Mc-


Cartney regarded Billy so much that they penned both sides of his first two singles recorded with his backing group The Dakotas. The Len- non and McCartney song Bad To Me became Billy’s first chart-topper reach- ing number one in the UK charts during August 1963. “I didn’t think it was any- thing I would achieve and it came as a complete shock, at first it was very difficult for me to handle. You’ve got women screaming at you that weren’t screaming at you the day before.” Fans can expect to hear


Billy perform his classic hits and songs from I Won the Fight when he plays St David’s Hall as part of the Solid Silver Sixties Show on April 1. Billy is looking forward to revisiting his hits, “I think it’s my duty as an entertainer because they (the fans) bought all these records that sent me around the world and gave me a wonderful life. I al- ways say it was the most fantastic time in the history of pop music, there’s never been anything like it before or since and I don’t think there will be anything like it again.” To catch Billy J Kramer along with Mike Pender, PP Arnold, The Merseybeats, Chris Farlowe and New AmenCorner call St David’s Hall box office on 029 2087 8444 for details.


will all be in our home from home, The Golden Lion on Gloucester Road, where we recorded the video for our last singer Jealous MF.


Will you be playing in Wales in the near future? We may well be, one of the dates on


next months tour has had some compli- cations so we are thinking of moving it to Wales. We have enjoyed shows in Cardiff and Newport in the not so distant past and can’t wait to get back. I was always a bit scared of Newport with the stories I’d heard in Bristol – all lies by the way. Never had a better promoter than we had in Newport, and although everyone just quite in your face, everyone was really nice. We will return – watch this space.


Where can people hear your music? Go straight to our website moriaty.co.uk


and that will have links to our Facebook, Twitter, Soundcloud, Youtube. Or nip over to Amazon or iTunes and spend some cash... up to you.


Catch Moriaty at The Golden Lion, Bris- tol on February 20.


SIXTIES STAR: Billy J Kramer


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