The Bruised Romantic Glee Club
January 8th 2008 Spot Jakko in this rogues gallery. Its the (devishly-handsome) Tangent, posing for the new album 'Not as good as the book'. The book in question being a short sc-fi novel by band frontman Andy Tillison. There's an impressive Flashy website that is (presumably) also 'Not as good as the book'. Well worth a visit, nonethless.
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January 7th 2008 Happy New Year from Jakko, Amanda and the family. Jakko has written a festive bumper double edition of his blog, which explains what he has been doing in the past few months. Recording with the Tangent and moving house being two of the big items on the list. There is sad news, too, for fans of the Bruised Romantic Glee Club. Please feel able to comment on any or all of the blog items if you wish.The Tangent website is featuring a track from the new album and the artwork.
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August 24th 2007 Jakko's powerful song 'Forgiving', featuring a soundscape by Robert Fripp, is the current 'hot tickle' for free download on the DGM Live site. |
August 20th 2007 Here is a video of Jakko and Mel performing 'the Letters' live in Venice. There are some authorities on King Crimson that say that the song has never sounded better than on this version. Do you agree? Leave a comment on our guestbook and tell us.
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August 16th 2007 Fancy a little 'Starless' on this late August day? Well, the clip below is from Jakko's performance in Venice with Mel Collins. We will be posting more of the show soon, including an amazing version of 'the Letters'.
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July 26th 2007 Jakko has posted a bumper catch-up blog. And what an interesting blog it is for those keen to find out about the inner workings of certain prog groups and the manic state of the UK property market! |
July 5th 2007 Jakko has agreed to play guitar on the next album by the Tangent, which will be released in early 2008. Jakko joins Theo Travis (Sax) and Andy Tillison (Hammond & Moog) in the Tangent to fill a space formerly occupied by Roine Stolt and Krister Jonsson.
This is a glimpse of a trailer for the current album by the Tangent. Jakko features in a book called 50 guitarists written by Konig. There is a link to Amazon, but I will see if I can find a better review of it. |
April 23rd 2007 Meet
Jakko at the London
guitar show, where Jakko
and Robert Fripp's signature guitars will both be launched. Jakko
will be playing on the Crimson guitar stand for all 3 days of the
event and selling and signing copies of his solo album too.
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April 22nd 2007 The last few weeks have been difficult days for Jakko. Read his latest blog, here. |
March 10th 2007 It is easy to post comments on forums and we can forget that our words can have powerful effects that we cannot forsee. Jakko's powerful blog today makes sad and dispriting reading, but definitely gives us something to think about. |
February 24th 2007 It is with great
affection that we remember
Ian Wallace who died recently. Ian's contribution to
King Crimson and the Schizoid Band is celebrated on the Schizoid
Band site,
where you can download 'Ladies of the Road' from the Live in NY
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January 28th 2007 We launch a new reviews feature today. Jakko's Bruised Romantic Glee Club has been getting outstanding reviews in both print and internet media. We will present a selection on a special reviews page. If you would like to review the album for yourself, then please post it on the guestbook. |
January 6th 2007
Happy New Year from the webteam and we hope to bring you much exciting JJ news in the first quarter of the new year. Jakko publishes a Christmas and New Year blog, here.
December 31st 2006
Fans of the UK comedy duo 'French and Saunders' will have had a real treat over Christmas as their 'Jam and Jerusalem' and 'Vicar of Dibley' shows got top viewing figures.
Avid readers of Jakko's other website will know that Jakko used to work with a comedy group called 'Raw Sex' and appeared as Lindsey Buckingham in a send up of Fleetwood Mac. Well, the video has surfaced on Youtube and you can enjoy it by clicking here. Think of it as a New Year's treat!
December 28th 2006
ProgLog AFTERglow
Dear Mr Jakszyk,
Your new album ‘The Bruised Romantic Glee Club’ has become ‘Album of the Week’ on ProgLog AFTERglow. The ‘Album of the Week’ is published on AFTERglow together with a short-cut-review. Although it is written in Dutch, I can assure you that the conclusion is ‘excellent’.
In general ProgLog AFTERglow is a site which aims at opinions, background information, ‘memory lanes’, written articles and reviews about bands and artists in the progressive rock genre. There is a dBase parallel linked to the main site with a lot of reviews about progressive albums. The site is runned by progressive rock fans and progmusicians and is recommended by other organisations and progsites as mentioned in our ‘link list’.
You can find us at:
and at
Kind regards of
ProgLog AFTERglow,
Harry ‘JoJo’ de Vries
Schoolstraat 9
3116 HJ Schiedam
The Netherlands
December 23rd 2006
If you have not yet heard
the first Jakko podcast on Krimson
News, then trundle over there straight away, because you will
be in for a real treat.
Featuring Jakko, Sid Smith, Ian Wallace, Jeff Duke and Steve Turnidge,
the podcast explores how Jakko started to play music and how the Schizoid
Band came into being.
There is also excellent piece of unreleased music from 1981 called Ingmar
Bergman on The Window Sill. It features: Jakko, Dave Stewart, (National
Health), on Keyboards, Dave Jackson, (Van Der Graaf) on Saxes, Annie Whitehead
on Trombones, Amanda Parsons, (Northettes and National Health), on Vocals,
and John Clarke on Drums.
This is part one of the podcast. Part two is released next week.
December 20th 2006
Its been a while since
we posted; thank you for your patience and forbearance. There have been
lots of things happening to Jakko, and his recent blog
tells all about it. Lots of manic activity in TV advert land, layered
on top of preparations for the Venice show with Mel.
The show sounds like it was great success, and possibly a beginning of
a new way of working for Jakko and Mel. Here are some photographs:
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Sid Smith has reviewed the show on his blog, which included a version of 'the Letters', from the King Crimson Islands album.
The new album is getting
some very good reviews in the print press and on internet sites. The 'official'
launch of the album is likely to be in February, and there will be some
magazine features and other publicity due in the New Year. There is even
talk of a possible live show.
So, all in all, a good end to the year. Seasons greetings to you all from
Jakko, Amanda, Django, Amber and from all of us at the website.
October 31st 2006
Thank you for all of you who registered for the club. It is good for us to know who are visitors are. If you have tried and failed to register, then please let us know by e-mailing web@jakko.com.
I hope that the albums are starting to trickle through from Burning Shed. We would like to create a review page, so if you would like to e-mail us a review at the above address, then we would be grateful. Thanks.
October 27th 2006
Lots of good news today. Jakko has signed
large numbers of pre-release CDs, which should now be at Burning Shed.
Many thanks to the many who have pre-ordered these CDs. Thank you for
your patience and forbearance. You should be receiving the album any day
now. Please add your impressions/reviews of the album on the guest
book.
To celebrate the release of the album we launch the 'Bruised Romantic
Glee Club', a placed where you can watch a video of Jakko and listen to
some rare tracks. This part of the web site is free of charge, but we
would ask you to register to use the site. You can visit the Glee Club
here.
We will add new content every few weeks, and will inform you of the developments
on this page.
October 17th 2006
The latest additions to Jakko's blog are posted here. The album is due any day now, having been delayed in the factory.
October 3rd 2006
Jakko has updated his blog with moving account of Pip's funeral and more insights into the creative world of TV advertisements. I am testing a dummy club index page, and I hope the Glee Club will be up and running very soon.
October 1st 2006
At last copies of the new Double CD are available for pre-order from Burning Shed. Whilst their site says the release date is 16th October, we are hoping to have copies available before then.
The CD will eventually be available via shops and other sites, however for the first couple of months the album is exclusively available from this site, via Burning Shed. Thanks for waiting. Please click the above link which will take you straight there.
The Bruised Romantic Glee Club is a stunning and beautifully packaged 2CD set containing one disc of powerfully haunting original songs and another comprising unlikely cover versions Featuring sophisticated production values and inspired guest performances from a stellar cast that includes Robert Fripp, Mel Collins, Danny Thompson, Gavin Harrison, Dave Stewart, Hugh Hopper and many others.
September 29th 2006
More Jakko blog today; bittersweet as ever with the funeral of Pip and fond memories of the early days of Stiff and meeting Amanda. The album release is very close now. 'Stand by for action!'
September 10th 2006
If you thought it has been a bit quiet round here in the last week, then its been because the main man has been 'twisting by the pool' at Mel Colllin's place in Spain. Holiday blog and pics are here. Now, back to the serious stuff. When's the album coming out?
September 10th 2006
We have posted the ninth of Jakko's interviews today. This one is about a delightful instrumental called 'The things we throw away'. Listen to it here.
I am hopeful that this will be the week when copies of the album appear. There was a slight delay on the cover artwork which slowed things down by about ten days, but hopefully we should be over that now.
September 2nd 2006
Jakko's latest blog is posted today. The pressure is on as he tries to finish an advert for a client.
August 30th 2006
More Jakko blog. The highs and lows of a remarkable weekend: singing with Sir Cliff Richard and moving tributes to the late Pip Pyle.
August 25th 2006
More Jakko blog today. Find out about recording with Mel Colins, recording video for the up-and-coming Glee Club and life with Danny Thompson. We think we are about fifteen days away from having the first pressings of the album. News of how to order it will be given here as soon as we have it.
August 19th 2006
'Doxy' is one of Jakko's most enigmatic songs, and also one of the most beautiful, featuring Danny Thompson's bass playing. Find out more in the Jakko interview.
August 18th 2006
Jakko has updated his blog, battles with passport bureaucracy and unveils a photo of his lovely daughter Amber. He also tells good stories with Neil Mullarky, Jim Sweeny and Tony Hawks.
A new interview appears continuing the discussion of the role of Dave Stewart in the album, especially on the reworking of Soft Machine's 'As long as he lies perfectly still'.
August 16th 2006
Jakko has updated his blog,
with tales of meetings with Danny Thompson and Mel Collins.
We have posted an interesting interview
about the role that Dave Stewart has played on Jakko's remarkable re-working
of King Crimson's Islands.
August 11th 2006
Jakko has posted more blog, including an amusing evening spent celebrating Stiff records. At last, the truth can be told!
August 2nd 2006
Jakko has posted an extensive blog about recent days in West London during a heatwave. Funny, exasperating, touching and very moving.
Jakko and I spoke yesterday about plans for this site. Early copies of the album are probably about 3 weeks away (assuming no delays) and are likely to be available from Burning Shed. More news as I get it. Hopefully, the first 500 or so will be signed copies.
We hope to create a 'members-only' section of the site which can be accessed through a free-on line registration. So, now we can all join the glee club!! The members site will have additional content, alternative mixes, unreleased versions and the like.
July 31st 2006
A new interview with Jakko about his song 'Forgiving' featuring a soundscape by Robert Fripp has been posted here.
The interview with Jakko for his remarkable song 'When we go home' has been posted here.
July 12th 2006
Thank you for visiting this site. Last month we had about 13 000 unique visits. Jakko has updated his blog today, and I will post new interviews later in the week.
June 21st 2006
Jakko thinks that the official release date of the album will be towards the end of August, although it may be possible to purchase it before then. We will let you know when and where you can purchase the album on this page as soon as we can.
Today we add an interview with Jakko about Catley's Ashes to the site. It includes the remarkable contribution of Level 42's Mark King to the development of the song. The interview can be found here.
June 7th 2006
It's on its way! Jakko finished mastering the album two weeks ago, has tweaked the artwork package, written his 'thank-yous' and everything has gone off to the factory. It will be for sale in a few weeks time. Not long to wait now.
In the mean time we launch a new feature. Jakko has recorded a series of interviews with Sid Smith. These are available as streaming Flash files or separately as small mp3s for downloading. The interviews can be found here.
April 16th 2006
Take a look into the heart of Jakko's studio to see him hard at work finishing the Bruised Romantic Glee Club album and hear an extract from Jakko's interpretation of 'Nirvana for Mice'.
March 2nd 2006
The new website is growing: Jakko has a new guestbook and has become a blogger. We have plans to introduce the album to you with interviews, sound samples and lots of extra details. Jakko is busy finishing it all off, and the blog gives an interesting account of the ups and downs of the recording and nappy-changing aspects of life!
The news page will catalogue all of the exciting developments as they happen. Bookmark this page and please come back often.
February 16th 2006
Jakko's new website crackles into life. Within a couple of days sounds of the Glee Club float across the waters. What impressions does the homepage and music create within your mind? Does it bring back memories? Write to the guestbook and let us know. A free copy of the album will be sent for the 'best' entry.
