30-06-2008 - Ta Mère & The Trojans performed together 7 gigs at Glastonbury 2008 (Shangri-La, Acoustic stage area, Circusfield Greenroom, and a BBC radio show live). Not much mud for once but all the rest as usual.

21-06-2008 - Ta Mère made a massive impression headlining at the Channel 4 London Food Festival. Sorry but you missed it and the food was great!

23-05-2008 - Ta Mère rocked Ginglik for the 6th anniversary of the venue. Trojan's drummer Rick Baxendale talked his way in and performed the whole gig as a guest. It was rather wild so the band kept him to become a quartet.

18-05-2008 - Ta Mère changed of line up, the excellent double bass player Viktor Obsust left his seat to the excellent Wun Chan from Lazy Chan. It's the same but different :-)

16-04-2008 - JohnJohn Records has a brand new mailing list, look at the top left corner of this page. Please subscribe and we will invite you to gigs and club nights while promising not to blow up your mailbox.

16-03-2008 - The opening of "Le Gramophone de Pépé", the club night of JohnJohn Records in Brick Lane was quite a success with star Djs, Ta mère and a very enthusiatic crowd. Next edition on the 13th of April...

15-03-2008 - The Skamonics launched successfully their first album at MauMau in Notting Hill. The recording got some good reviews and a page with samples to listen will very soon be added on this site.

25-02-2008 - Ta Mère posted a series of eight videos on youtube.com/johnjohnrecords recorded live during a weekly residency at The Brickhouse in Brick Lane London. Check it out if you have not seen theband yet.

06-02-2008 - My god that was a busy week for Ta Mère... The band recorded live in multitrack at the BrickHouse 4 days in a row, filmed the show and has done a series of photos with Bolivian star Photographer Ilka Medeiros...

24-01-2008 - I'm back in London after a series of trips to Holland, France and Switzerland. There are many projects in the pipe for JohnJohn Records in 2008 and the first thing to do was to update the myspace profile. More later...

18-11-2007 - Ta Mere played a very successful gig at Cercul MIlitar in Bucharest Romania for the 2007 Diplomatic Ball. The girls were good, the truffles exquisite. We've been asked to come back next year with a few more gigs.

19-11-2007 - After a very successful gig at Brick Lane's finest new venue The Brickhouse on the 16th, Ta mère is beeing offered a weekly residency and series of five gigs in a row here and there, that's between 80 and 100 gigs for 2008...

12-11-2007 - New pictures of Gaz Mayall's 10 piece ska band The Trojans live at middle Temple.

01-11-2007 - New pictures of Benoit Viellefon's new French gypsy jazz band "Ta Mère" live at BBC Glasgow Film Festival 2007.

15-10-2007 - New pictures of Benoit and Lili by Bolivian star photographer Ilka Medeiros.

23-09-2007 - New pictures of Roberta Howett band live at U.L.U.

12-09-2007 - I've been comissioned to produce the scoring / recording of 4 tracks (ska / rock steady 60's style) for "after the rain" a film by Director Gaelle Denis. The award winning film is produced by oscar winning company Pasion Picture and financed by Channel4.

28-08-2007 - The entire catalogue of Gaz rockin' Records including all the Trojans, Ska Stars, Ska Flames albums... are now available on iTunes. Click Here

17-08-2007 - The band "Benoit and Lili" has split up. Another band rose from the ashes called "Ta mere" that will take over and play the gigs that were booked. More info soon...

30-07-2007 - The Skamonics have finished recording their first album. We'll have to wait for the producer Mark Huggett to come back from his south African tour to finalise the mix and mastering before releasing the cd.

19-07-2007 - A new video section has been added to this site, with clips from The Trojans, The Skamonics, JohnJohn and soon Benoit and Lili...

01-07-2007 - The Skamonics spend two days in studio to lay down six tracks of the finest quality. Mark Huggett is producing and an album should be completed by the end of july.

22-06-2007 - Benoit and Lili were at Glastonbury Festival 2007 in the Lost Vagueness area, it was crowded as ever and really wet... a mud field really, we've ruined our period clothes but it was worth it.

04-06-2007 - Despite having performed their first gig in April 2007, Benoit and Lili are getting booked at GLASTONBURY Festival and PORT ELIOT LIT Festival...

22-05-2007 - The Skamonics are preparing new tracks for an album. Recording sessions should take place in early july. More info later...

15-05-2007
Benoit and Lili have lost their monthly residency in Oxford 17th century Pub "The Perch" after the venue was burnt to the ground due to its thatch roof catching fire. Read article

04-05-2007
I've been approached by Bernie rhodes, former manager of The Clash and The Specials, also associate of Malcom McLaren with The Sex Pistols. He'd like to do something with me apparently . Who nows what is coming next?

25-04-2007
Finally new duet Benoit and Lili appear on this site, and on myspace too...

24-04-2007
Benoit Viellefon and Lili Farling optain a sponsorship deal from German amplifier maker Firm AER (Audio Electronic Research) for their duet Benoit and Lili. Aer was convinced by the unusual retro image and set-up playing upright piano and gipsy jazz guitar outdoor in public spaces. AER provides two AER Compact Mobile 60W battery powered amplifier to support them. More details About the AER Compact Mobile...

18-04-2007
Benoit and Lili's first gig was a success and the band secured a monthly residency in the venue in Oxford. Not bad for a first time.

14-04-2007
Trojans played another crazy gig at the 100 Club with a 14 piece line up. I mean, it was REALLY CRAZY! Some photos should come soon a evidences...

30-03-2007
Skamonics rocked Sheperds Bush's finest club Ginglik once again and secured a monthly residency. We'll play for the 4th birthday of the venue on the 25th of may. Be there!

24-03-2007 - New line up for Skamonics
At the Oval Tavern in Croydon Skamonics did their first gig without its original founder member & leader Leo Hornak (he hides in india a t the moment). So I was forced into becaming the new front man, and got a chance to play with the microphone a lot... so from now on ladies beware!

05-03-2007 - New Myspace pages...
JohnJohnrecords has created a myspace page for the Trojans (myspace.com/skatrojans) and for Gaz Mayall infamous club Gaz Rockin' Blues (myspace.com/gazrockinblues). Please go and make friend so that we can invite you to the gigs and club nights...

01-02-2007
French guitarist Benoit Viellefon started working with acclaimed cabaret star Lili Farling on a repertoire of 1920-30-40's classics with french gipsy swing & chanson populaire...

13-01-2007
Skamonics recorded 4 tracks, we are now waiting for the mix...

12-01-2007
Trojans packed the 100 Club in Oxford Street for their 20th anniversary gig with 14 people on stage plus guest...

05-12-2006
Some pictures of the Trojans at the Notting Hill Carnival 2006 are finally online. Click here If you like crashed airplanes in the lost world, dinosaurs and cannibals...

22-11-2006
Skamonics played the borderline with Fastlane Roogalators, what a night!

12-11-2006
Skamonics will record in december, hummm...

15-11-2006
Skamonics are being asked to play the borderline, see we told you it was quality stuff...

26-10-2006
More gigs announced with Roberta Howett. She will perform a new repertoire with a 3 piece acoustic set up including guitar, violin and vocals...

14-08-2006
Some photos of my instruments added to the site...

15-06-2006 - I have a new band: The Trojans
I have been invited to join permanently the Trojans as lead guitarist (10 piece london based band playing ska to celtic music to blues to russian traditional to reggae and latin) by its singer Gaz Mayall. Gaz is the son of 1960s British blues boom legend John Mayall, and manage to become a legend himself as a reknown DJ, musican, producer as early as 1978. The trojans play Japan and Europe on a regular basis. I'll write more about the circumstances that lead into this once I have a little more time, it is a crazy story, and it happened to me.... but basically he heard me play a gipsy solo on Caravan ( Duke Ellington) and decided on the spot to get me in his band without telling anybody. (about Gaz mayall)