SILENCE IS GOLDEN

2 June 2010:

But our eyes still see. We may have been quiet, but we've been busy. We're gonna leave most things enigmatic for the moment, but we'd like to draw your attention to the new recordings on our music player, all taken from our forthcoming album. For a couple more treats, check out the Facebook profile. More news to follow soon, we promise...

JC & the AGs xxxx

IN DEBT

18 February 2010:

Well, we've been most slack at updating this site of late, so apologies for that. However, we've been very busy behind the scenes, finishing off our "proper" debut album, the follow-up to last year's The Yellow Mini. It's sounding very good indeed, if we do say so ourselves. More news on that when we have it.

Also more news to follow of a feature on Japanese radio, an acoustic session for an Essex radio station and another brand-new track...

JC & the AGs xxxx

SEASONAL PRODUCE

13 December 2009:

Hello there. You'll be pleased to hear that, as far as we know, 18th January is still the release date for Out Of Focus. It's available to pre-order at loads of online stores now, including HMV which has a bargain price of £1.99 for the 7". They can't spell our name, mind.

In the meantime, you can view the video for Out Of Focus on the player at the bottom of this page. We're indebted to a number of people for their work on this, but especially the very wonderful Jez FX for the hours of editing.

As an appetiser, we're releasing a free download on December 16th via the Maps Magazine Advent Calendar - www.mapsmagazine.co.uk. It's a cover of "New Year", the Sugababes' second single. Yes, really. We hope you enjoy it - or, at least, that it doesn't ruin your Christmas. And, if that wasn't quite enough festive tunesmithery, we've also put the track we gave Maps last year, Christmas Every Day, up for free download on this page again. Better than Prozac.

That's that then. Please let us know if you enjoy the tunes!

Once again, apologies.

JC & the AGs xxxx

LEAVES ON THE LINE

04 November 2009:

Very late notice here, but we're afraid that, due to circumstances beyond our control, we've had to considerably delay the release of our next single, Out Of Focus. The new release date is January 18th. Sorry to those of you who were looking forward to getting your hands on a copy much sooner.

You can pre-order the single on 7" vinyl from any of these sites:

www.normanrecords.com
www.cargorecords.co.uk

And you can check out what some other people think here:

www.losingtoday.com and www.unpeeled.net

Once again, apologies.

JC & the AGs xxxx

  **RELEASE DATE CHANGED - SEE LATEST POST**

Some news for you all to get excited about – we’ll be releasing a new single (properly, on 7” vinyl and everything) on Monday 2nd November. The A-side is live favourite “Out Of Focus”, and its backed by “Budget Flight To Faro”, which went down so well on our recent EP that we felt it deserved a second bite of the metaphorical cherry. This highly desirable objet is released through BBA Highland and will be distributed by Cargo. It will also be available to download from the usual locations. More info soon...

In preparation for this, we've rejigged the free downloads section of this site and taken down half of the “Another Summer Burning” EP – well, it’s no longer the summer, y’know… You can still download “One Day All Of This Will Be Yours” and our cover of "Boys (Summertime Love)" for free though, now joined by recent single “Disappearing Act” and Yellow Mini highlight “Shooting Up”.

More info on the new single coming soon, and a lot of chances to see us play live in London over the coming weeks, so stay tuned!

JC & the AGs xxxx

WELCOME TO OUR NEW HOME

10 August 2009:

Well, isn’t this pretty? You are now looking at our brand-new virtual home, and what a multi-media feast it is. Huge thanks to our friend and new webmaster Olly for hours spent toiling over a laptop. It was all worth it.

The site is very much a work in progress, and there are some glitches which need ironing out and spaces to fill (such as the discography), but we’ll get there. If you’d like to comment on any aspect of the site, drop us a line at jonnycolaandtheagrades@googlemail.com. It’s always lovely to hear from you. Well, almost always.

The four free downloads down in the bottom left corner of the site are our new EP, Another Summer Burning. One Day All Of This Will Be Yours was produced by the amazing Brian O'Shaughnessy and is an edited version of the version on The Yellow Mini. The other three tracks were all recorded on the cheap and produced by Jonny Cola. Boys (Summertime Love) is indeed a cover of the Sabrina classic, which was apparently written by Bonsanto/Rossi/Cecchetto/Charlton. There are a very small number of CD copies of this EP, each of them unique, but you can only get them at the gigs. If you're not in London and are desperate for one, drop us a line and we'll try and work something out.

In further release news, it seems that there are still a small number of copies of our short album, The Yellow Mini, available. At least, HMV claim they have some: here. It’s still there for download from iTunes anyway, of course, and seemingly via a large number of, ahem, “unofficial” music download sites. But I’m sure you wouldn’t dream of using the latter. After all, we’re hardly U2.

A couple of bits of further reading for you, while you’re here:

The Von Pip Express do a singles review feature every couple of months, and this time round they asked Jonny Cola to be on the panel, as it were. Unbeknownest to the watching millions, Mauro was hiding under the desk at the time. You can see the results here: www.vonpipexpress.com.

And top blog The Devil Has The Best Tuna has a feature on us here. Not only do they appear to think that we’re about to save the British music scene (we’re up for the challenge, by the way) but they’ve also invented a genre for us - Glit Pop. We like this quite a lot. Someone should make T-shirts.

OK, that’s the news for now. Hope to see you at one of our upcoming London dates. Oh, and if you’re reading this from elsewhere in the UK, Europe, the world, and wish that we’d come and play near you, feel free to harangue local promoters on our behalf. We could do with a nice road trip. We miss the service stations.

JC & the AGs xxxx