EPISODE 9 : Frizz Records presents... PARADE - Launch Party!

Before there was FRiZZ RECORDS there were parties...

If you were passing through Camden Town on a Saturday night between about '03 & '07 you might've seen small crowds of curious looking people disappearing through some painted iron gates just down from the Hawley Arms... The venue was a actually a rehearsal studio by day, but on a few magical nights it became host to some of the best parties there ever were...

The band AUGUST more or less came into being because of them. Those rehearsal rooms were the band's nursery, trying out band members & crazy ideas... It was only when one of the studio staff asked them innocently if they'd like to play at his party that the group actually came to play to an audience... They protested at first that they didn't actually have any songs yet... "just play what you've been playing in rehearsal" was the answer; and so they did; and that was the catalyst for a voyage of adventure - over the course of the first few parties, completely improvised sets of ever-changing mutant grooves gradually coalesced into compositions, and with the arrival of vocalist Vedina Mosé & guitarist (as he was then) Earl Grey, the seeds were sown that eventually became the album "It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic"...

Musical friends were invited to play...which is how the AUGUST rhythm section also became the core of ART TERRY's latest band...and how DAVID GARSIDE came to make the journey down to London from his home in Birmingham to also become part of the family...

There was magic in the air...

The parties brought a unique mix of people together, and gave the musicians involved an opportunity to be truly adventurous, and freely creative in front of an audience that could appreciate what they were doing...or at least be prepared to try... Something that's much too rare in today's corporate live music world...

Somewhere along the line the name PARADE was coined, to give the events an identity...

Which is why we're giving this history lesson...

As all good things do, the Camden parties eventually came to an end, but the people that they'd brought together became the core of the FRiZZ RECORDS family, records were released, tours were embarked on...

And now PARADE is back!

For a little while now we've been searching for a suitable home to launch a regular event in the spirit of those magical nights...with FRiZZ acts playing alongside an eclectic selection of special guests in a party atmosphere... And we've finally found it...

So August 4th we had our LAUNCH PARTY at the wonderful & also wonderfully named SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS in Dalston (East London)

FRiZZ regulars ART TERRY & DAVID GARSIDE played, alongside ex-AUGUST singer VEDINA MOSÉ (who also joined Art for the end of his set to truly invoke the spirit!), Japanese singer-songwriter KAORU NODA, NOW frontman JUSTIN PATON (in solo acid house electronic mode), & guest DJ-ing from ALOOSH...and a wonderful time was had by all...

For those that couldn't make it this time, here are some little tastes of what went down...

And we'll be back at the SJQ on the first Thursday of every month...next stop September 1st...

(all the details you need are here)

See you there!

KAORU NODA (with Raphael Mann on bass) - Aki no Otozure (Coming of Autumn)

VEDINA MOSÉ - Rye Lane

DAVID GARSIDE - Clockwatching

ART TERRY - (Can't Get No) Pussy

EPISODE 8 : FANCY DRESS XMAS FUN

Season's Greetings from FRiZZ !

Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, we hope you're enjoying yourself...

We've been busy digging back into the FRiZZ TV archives to bring you some 'lost' footage from last year's FRiZZ Xmas Party...

We were celebrating our first full year of record label operations, and we decided to make it a fancy dress party...and the theme we came up with was an unusual one: you could come as whatever you wanted as long as you were unrecognisable...

Some people fared better at this than others...special mentions go to DAVID GARSIDE (as an art-ery...as in Art Terry...or maybe Heart Terry...we're not sure...anyway he had a heart on his head...& some of his best friends didn't realise it was him until he started singing!)...ART TERRY himself looking strangely comfortable as an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh...RAPHAEL MANN in full Chinese Opera costume (not as a Geisha as various uncultured persons were suggesting!)...MAREE CHOIE as some kind of psychedelic bird/man creature...JAMIL REYES looking a sand creature from Star Wars crossed with a Moroccan goat herder...EARL GREY taking the suave option as a Blues Brother...AISHA ASLAM (who also filmed the whole thing, along with our photographer IAN 'Tramp' BINES) as Zorro...

So to start off with we've put together a little collage of some of the best costumes from the night...

(The music is a remix version of 'King Kong' by AUGUST...the original version of which is on the FRiZZ LP 'It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic'...)




The live music for the night was from an all-star cast, with some special one-off collaborations & impromptu Christmas numbers thrown in...

Not only were we celebrating JC's birthday, we were also celebrating JJ's, as you'll hear ART TERRY announce, & our birthday girl had already been up for several days partying like only she knows how...but we still tempted her up to sing, alongside MR HUDSON & THE LIBRARY colleagues RAPHAEL MANN & WILKIE WILKINSON, label mates ART TERRY & DAVID GARSIDE, OTTO FISCHER, MC BRANDY, & none other than her daddy himself, the Calypso luminary ALEXANDER D GREAT...

This first set of clips features DAVID GARSIDE (including a surprise cover of ART TERRY's 'Ms Dominatrix'), a one-off collaboration between OTTO FISCHER & RAPHAEL MANN, & one of the few recorded performances of the '09 incarnation of ART TERRY's band, with EARL GREY on trombone & JAMIL REYES on drums & vibraphone...




Then in Part Two...we have birthday girl JOY JOSEPH singing stripped down (& ever-so slightly drunken) versions of some of her songs to RAPHAEL MANN's piano accompaniment, dueting with OTTO FISCHER on an impromptu version of MR HUDSON's 'Anyone But Him', and then with her daddy ALEXANDER D GREAT on his NELSON MANDELA tribute song...ART TERRY borrowing the LIBRARY rhythm section for a jam through DONNY HATHAWAY's 'This Christmas' ("not the best Christmas song ever, but the BADDEST" as Art has it...)...and then tempting MC BRANDY up to the mic for a little bit of Xmas Reggae... And then a surprise finale...not least to Joy herself...




Whatever else you do, have a Happy New Year...and see you at the next party...

EPISODE 7 : JJ LIVE

Whilst her FRiZZ label mates ART TERRY & DAVID GARSIDE are nearing the end of their UK tour (with just dates in BIRMINGHAM, tonight, and OXFORD, on Monday, left to go...), JOY JOSEPH is getting ready for her own return to the stage...

Joy will be playing her highest profile show so far, at the opening night of UP, a new residency from our friends at Unstable Promotions, at east London's CARGO, alongside rising stars Dansette Junior, Ed Sheeran, Angel Anderson & DJ Postscript...

That's Friday December 17th...time for Christmas to officially begin!

FRiZZ's early Xmas present to you in order to get you in the mood for it is an exclusive unreleased new JOY JOSEPH song! As performed with roof raising intensity at our last Unstable Promotions showcase over at Proud Gallery in Camden...

Here's Joy...




JOY JOSEPH - Waiting In The Park (Live at Proud Gallery, London)




All the details for the CARGO gig can be found here. See you there!

EPISODE 6 : ART TERRY and his Candy Girl

Tonight is the opening night of our winter FRiZZ TOUR, with DAVID GARSIDE, ART TERRY & RAPHAEL MANN kicking things off NEWCASTLE, followed by FRiZZ's Scottish debut in GLASGOW on Monday night...then they'll be joined by clarinetist/vocalist MAREE CHOIE for the rest of the trip, with shows in MANCHESTER, LIVERPOOL, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM & OXFORD...

So we thought we'd celebrate the occasion with another video treat for you...this time from ART TERRY, and the opening track from his 'ANUTHA KINDA BROTHA' LP...

The song is called 'CALL ME'...

Hopefully you can make it to one of the dates on the tour. We'd love to see you!


Now over to Art for a word about where the inspiration for the song came from...

ART TERRY - CALL ME




If you enjoyed this video, show your support & help us keeping doing what we do...

You can buy 'Call Me' from iTunes, or on CD or heavyweight vinyl from the FRiZZ SHOP, ROUGH TRADE, and from most independent record shops in the UK


We'd like to thank the following people for their help making this video: Aisha Aslam (director/camera), Raphael Mann (crew/edit), Ian Bines, Maree Choie, Bobbie Gardner, Ant Hickman, Ibi Oruitemeka (crew), Ed Deegan & Desmond Gentle at Gizzard Recording, & Emil Terry


All the details on our tour dates and venues are here

EPISODE 5 : Some LOVE From JOY JOSEPH

Things might have seemed a little quiet lately in the world of Joy Joseph...


In truth FRiZZ's favourite soul singer has been busy traveling up and down the UK, to Ibiza, the Middle East, and even briefly to China and Japan, forwarding the cause of Mr Hudson as his vocal foil and 'hype woman' for his personal appearances...

She's also found the time to move house...and whenever there's been a spare moment she's been squeezing in some time in the studio, with her creative team of producer/co-writer/multi-instrumentalist Raphael Mann, drummer Wilkie Wilkinson & engineer Ed Deegan, to start recording her debut LP...

There'll be a brand new single coming soon as a taster of the album...and to keep you going until then we finally got around to making a video for her debut single OUR LOVE IS TAKING US THROUGH...long-awaited this one!

The video was shot in and around Gizzard Recording on Fish Island, Bow, East London, where the single was made...

We'd like to thank Aisha Aslam, Ant Hickman, Ian Bines, Maree Choie, Ibi Oruitemeka, Bobbie Gardner, Ed Deegan & Desmond Gentle for their help making the video...


But first...a little word from JJ...

JOY JOSEPH - OUR LOVE IS TAKING US THROUGH

You can buy the single on iTunes, and there are still some copies left of the very limited 7" vinyl pressing, available from the FRiZZ SHOP...

JOY JOSEPH will be live at Cargo, London, on Dec 17th...see you there...!

EPISODE 4 : FRIZZ on TOUR, Part 4

In the final installment of our documentary following Art Terry and David Garside on their UK tour...

A regular gig in Brighton, plus an outdoor performance in a secret location, and a surprise visit to a lucky superfan...but can they pull off three performances in one day...?

A tribute to a lost soldier...

...and how long does it take to go mad on the road...?

Find out who cracked first, and who stayed sane the longest...

ART TERRY - BIBLE (Live at Audio, Brighton)

DAVID GARSIDE - MS DOMINATRIX (Live at Audio, Brighton)

NEXT WEEK ON FRIZZ TV...JOY JOSEPH...!

STAY TUNED...

EPISODE 3 : FRIZZ on TOUR, Part 3

SOMEWHERE DEEP IN MIDDLE ENGLAND...

The third episode of our tour documentary finds Art, David, Maree & Jamil let loose to cause panic on the streets of Manchester, before heading south again for a show in Nottingham...

What gives Maree one of her magical moments of the tour...?

What is it about Manchester that reminds Art of San Francisco...?

And who's the special guest gonna be on their next tour...?

All is revealed...but not before Art goes shopping for the perfect pimp hat, and David has an emotional moment at a motorway service station...

DAVID GARSIDE - CODE BLUE (Live at The Golden Fleece, Nottingham)

ART TERRY - ESCORT (Rehearsal on the roof of The Golden Fleece, Nottingham)