03-11-2009
Has you have probably noticed, I have a new band calles
"Benoit Viellefon &
on Orchestre". We are creating a buzz on the vintage
/ cabaret scene, you should check
our first Ep and come to see it live.
31-10-2009
JohnJohnrecords worked with the new blues venue "Charlotte
Street blues" in Soho promoting events on mondays(
House band: Snakebone) and tuesdays (Swing
Mon Amour - Dance Club). The nights proved successfull
with the public but the venue wants to change and stop it
as from the 3rd of november. Swing Mon Amour will move in
January to a thursday instead in another venue "Paradise"
in North West London with free Dance classes and a late
licence until 1am instead of 11.30pm. Does Everything happens
for a reason?
10-06-2009
JohnJohnrecords works with the new blues venue "Charlotte
Street blues" in Soho promoting events on mondays(
House band: Snakebone) and tuesdays (Swing
Mon Amour - Dance Club). Even though we have just opened
and the venue was still a building site we got a 4 star
reviwe from View London
"Make way Ronnie Scotts and watch out Parker McMillan;
Charlotte Street Blues has arrived." they say...
18-05-2009
JohnJohnrecords now distributes and books gigs for the legendary
Carribean Steel Pan player Fimber Bravo and his outfit BravoBravo.
Check out the review of the album Small
Talk, BBC3 album of the year 2004...
14-02-2009
I have been asked to join Skaville
UK as lead guitarist, a ska supergroup with original
musicians from The Selecter, Bad Manners, Prince Buster,
Lee Scratch Perry, The Body Snatchers, Specials AKA... or
the hall of fame of British ska. They have five Grammy Awards
between the four of them! I said yes of course and bought
a new stratocaster just to be able to play with the whammy
bar.
03-02-2009
Ta Mère have started
the recording of their first album, produced and engineered
by Wun Yen Chan. That should hit the shelves by the end
of spring....
20-01-2009
I have returned from Osaka Japan and just payed a rojans
gig in France. 2009 start rather well and should be a good
year, Ta Mère has
a few international mini tours in the pipes and TheTrojans
prepare an album... More to come later
31-12-2008
Happy New Year!
09-12-2008
Ta Mère completed a very nice but very cold tour
in St Petersburg Russia. Photos to come soon on the website.
15-11-2008
Matchbox Magazine wrote a nice
article about Ta Mère, you should read it!
31-10-2008
Ta Mère rocked the Ginglik
Halloween party with the biggest turnout they had for months...
Great night!
22-10-2008
Ta Mère got shot by a television crew for
Wedding TV / Sky digital. We'll post the videos very soon...
10-10-2008
The photos of the Trojans
Tour of Japan with the Skatalites have landed on Smashmag's
website...
20-09-2008
Ta Mère recorded fivr tracks at the Brickhouse.
They are now available on Myspace.
16-08-2008
The Trojans are going on tour in Japan with legendary tombonist
Rico Rodriguez for a series of major concerts in Tokyo,
Nagoya, and Osaka. The Trojans will play before the Skatalites
in 5000+ capacity venues.
16-08-2008
Ta Mère recorded fivr tracks at the Brickhouse.
They are now available on Myspace.
16-08-2008
Ta Mère recorded live at the Bohemia
Festival, we'll get the tracks on the site soon.
01-08-2008
Ta Mère gets some good press in London based
magazine MATCHBOX
MAG, read the
article here!
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)
