JoskiBlog

Hi guys,

Now we are into the New Year - 2010 - and it can take time to get up to speed can’t it!

2009 was a good year for Joski band. We finally got a brilliant line-up which consolidated our move from being a five piece band down to a four piece. Xande joined on drums and proved to be a spectacular player and really good guy. Then Sara joined on bass - and is a really good player and all-round musician with lots of strings to her bow (bass…).

Club Smash! - Which we started in July - was going strong in December for our Xmas show. The silver leggings went down a treat! Grazza did the videos and we now have a different film for each song. It really helps our live persona!

Lots of fine bands have played with us at this JOSKI residency now including - Calatrilloz, The ViPs, Sarah Tonin, Pretty Limelight, Rubinger. See www.myspace.com/clubsmash1 for more details…

Very soon we are going into the studio to record new drum tracks for the new songs. Then we will work on them at our own studio - Ne Plus Ultra - before mixing them at another studio with posh gear! We can do a lot of the leg work and vocals etc here but need a bigger better sound stage or monitoring for the final picture. It could take a while but hey - are we in a hurry?! er, Yes we are!

Also this year 2010 apart from the Smash! gigs continuing - we want to play more gigs around town and in the country. especially doing some Festivals and stuff. So keep your gims locked to joskimusic.com and we will give you news and info as it appears.

If you want to join our mailing list just send a mail to info at joskimusic.com and we will be happy to have you aboard! Happy and productive new year!

Ciao for now,

Joski - Jan 2010

Hi Pop pickers!

CLUB SMASH! is all set for Monday July 20th launch at The Comedy Pub - 7 Oxendon St, Piccadilly, London SW1Y 4EE.

Four great bands:

The ViPs - Indighost - JOSKI - The Smackhounds

Download this flyer to get a quid off your £6 door entry.

Each band gets a 40 minute set - this is a feature of Club Smash! so that we can have a longer time to embellish our music and performance. we are reacting against promoters who want to screw unsigned bands by making them provide a large audience or making the band pay cash when they don’t hit unfair targets.

Club Smash! requires bands to bring a minimum of 5 punters - not 25! “We still want bands to bring an audience though”, says Joski, “At least this way it is a bit fairer and more about the music, we want to make a nice vibe for bands and people to want to come see bands at every Smash! nite”.

For full details visit www.joskimusic.com or www.myspace.com/clubsmash1

Ciao,
Joski

Hi Pop rock pickers!

It seems if bands can’t get income from selling their music - or doing big tours (Not just yet but soon!!) Then they must find a little pin money by selling brandedband items like T-shirts etc. Actually Joski are well into T-Shirt design as image is important to us!

SO - Joski are going to look into the possibility of selling stuff online for really good prices and items that can’t be got elsewhere! There will be some notable designs to choose from! Watch this space!

The new joskimusic.com website is live - but not shouting about it too much just yet as there is still a lot of work to do on the site!

Proper, full launch in Jan 2009