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- DJRose June 2008
- ezorvera June 2008
- front81mark May 2008
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JP Jones
I've decided to give JP a little push, because I love him and his wonderful songs.
http://www.myspace.com/jpjonesmusic
Go. Listen. Love them, as I am sure you will.
http://www.myspace.com/jpjonesmusic
Go. Listen. Love them, as I am sure you will.
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Katie, I'm especially looking at you, because I know you will love JP. And he's coming to the States!!!!
Ahem. His latest blog entry:
"So i've been really busy recording all these new tunes over the last month or so. I'm sorry if i have neglected these blogs and messages etc(Mandy especially). But here i am telling yous i love yous! I will be putting two new songs on my page hopefully by the end of this week. so let me know your thoughts.
My producer Ricky "the iceman" two scoops and i are heading off to the USA in three weeks to drive from New York City to Los Angeles, playing a few gigs on the way. I simply can not wait and will no doubt fill you in on our journey through the deserts and hicksville. Yeeehah. x"
Yay!
And HOW on earth did I not realise until now that he was welsh? "JP Jones".... says it all.
Well, no one's posting on this thread but me, but I'll go ahead and gloat anyway. This is what I wrote:
Yesterday I got to meet JP Jones and hear him sing, especially for me. It was brilliant. I definitely geeked out, and it was a little weird for him to have a fan, and to be playing to a room of 4 girls and his producer. My biggest impression was at the end of every song, JP looked straight at me to see if I was smiling, and then upon seeing that I was, smiled himself.
My friend Stacey came up from Delaware with me, and my friends Karen and Miriam met us at JP and Rick's place (which is *really* nice, especially for an apartment in the Village, haha). Stacey and I were stuck in ridiculous traffic in NJ, so I had to call JP and postpone it until 6 and he was fine with it. Actually it was really funny, I said "We're stuck in terrible traffic" and he said "Where are you?". I replied "Around Exit 7A on the NJ Turnpike...which probably doesn't mean anything to you at all." We had a little laugh about that. We finally got there and they offered us drinks, and we talked for a little while about how I knew Liz, and how I knew about JP, Grace, and The Hoosiers. So then JP said "Shall I play a few tunes then?" and played 4 songs. I didn't catch the name of the first one because he mumbled a bit, but he said Paul wrote it. I liked it. Then he played "The Best Way We Know" because I requested it specifically. He played the intro, then said he forgot the words, so I supplied "We bought the phone lines" and he said "I didn't really forget, I was just testing you." Ha! Then he played "Good As Gold" and he said it was only the second time it had been played, the first being the other night in London. I actually knew about it because Mandy asked me to ask JP about the "This Girl Turned My Life Around" song. Then he closed with "Simone", which now might be my new favorite. Rick filmed all but the first song. JP asked us not to clap, because he thought it would be weird, but after every song he looked at me to see my reaction, and would smile at me. It was really sweet and he's absolutely adorable.
I didn't end up taking pictures while he was performing, because he seemed VERY weirded out by the whole thing. He kept saying how surreal it was, and I didn't want to make it worse for him. I'm so sorry about that. BUT I do have a picture of him and me from the end of the evening where he's making a very silly face that I shall send, and Rick filmed so it will not go undocumented.
We talked until a little before 7:30, but JP and Rick had dinner plans, so JP signed my Grace poster (nicked for me by Liz and already signed by Sam) "To Rachel, my No. 1 American, Lots of Love, JP x NYC May 2008". I'll take a photo of it for you once it's framed, which I plan to go take care of tonight.
I love how Rachel is all over his Myspace too.
There was a definite group of girlies around JP - he's already got LA Fangirls! (Who's surprised?)
Before JP's set, Sam was standing at the bar and noticed JP next to her, getting a beer.
Sam: You're JP, right?
JP: Yes, I am. :-D
Sam: Hi, I'm here because of Rachel G.
JP (with very excited look on his face): Rachel?! How do you know Rachel?!
There's more to that story but I don't remember it because:
1) Sam was telling me this at about 2:30 am my time and I'd been sleeping for 3 hours by this point
and
2) As soon as I heard JP was excited to hear my name, I went all goofy and fuzzy. Sorry. I'm a ridiculous little fangirl sometimes. It's so embarrassing.
ANYWAY, during the set, Sam's friend Jerry got a phone call from one of his friends. He put his phone in the air so his friend could hear that he was at a concert and couldn't talk. But JP saw the phone in the air near Sam and DURING THE MIDDLE OF A SONG says "Rachel, is that you?"
Let's just take a moment to take that in.
!!!!!!!!!!!
OK. Better now. Sam was KICKING herself. She'd been thinking of calling me all night but hadn't yet, and she thought to herself "Dammit I made her miss her shoutout!!" Luckily, she says, there were cameras filming it (presumably for the myawol.com) so it's on video SOMEWHERE.
your famous!