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TOUR 2023–2024 DATES ANNOUNCED!
While waiting to be invited to tour the USA and the Moon, here's some local tour dates for our Finnish fans to give zero fucks about.
CLIFF BARNES - FREE FLYIN' LP (and Cassette Tape!) OUT NOW!
The price for the LP is 12€ / $12, and the Cassette Tape (with a bonus track "Isobelle" that's not on the LP) is 8€ / 8$. Shipping costs are added to the price. If you are ordering from the US, the shipping is obscenely high. Just for the hell of it, we'll send any US / NZ / Australia orders with -50% the shipping, at our cost.
Send an email to jpjako@gmail.com with your address info + I'll get back with the total cost for the order. We have 11 copies of pink vinyl and 110 copies of black vinyl left.
BONUS: Order now & you'll get a free Cliff Barnes sticker + a "crooked vinyl" pressing of our 7" EP that was made when Moses and Buddha were still alive.
TRANS-ATLANTIC COLLABORATION UNITES GUIDED BY VOICES VIDEO ARTIST AND CLIFF BARNES!
The collage artist Aaron Dunkel, who did the last two Guided by Voices music videos, has directed a new music video for Cliff Barnes. The video for “Everyone You’ll Ever Know”, from Free Flyin’ (Southfork Records, 2022), is a mix of punk pop weirdness that takes the viewer back to the 90’s and beyond.
“I saw the video Aaron did for Guided by Voices (“Lizard on a Red Brick Wall”, from 2022’s Tremblers and Goggles by Rank) and got in touch. He totally came through and directed the best music video I’ve seen since November Rain”, enthuses Cliff Barnes’ songwriter, guitarist and singer JP Jakonen.
Aaron Dunkel has worked as a senior editor with GREY, Saatchi & Saatchi, Publicis, and DDB. He contributes much of his inspiration to his home-base of Jersey City.
“I saw the video Aaron did for Guided by Voices (“Lizard on a Red Brick Wall”, from 2022’s Tremblers and Goggles by Rank) and got in touch. He totally came through and directed the best music video I’ve seen since November Rain”, enthuses Cliff Barnes’ songwriter, guitarist and singer JP Jakonen.
Aaron Dunkel has worked as a senior editor with GREY, Saatchi & Saatchi, Publicis, and DDB. He contributes much of his inspiration to his home-base of Jersey City.
CLIFF BARNES - FREE FLYIN' IS OUT ON CD + STREAMING
In case you are into streaming your music, be sure to stream Cliff Barnes - Free Flyin' from wherever you like to stream your music, such as:
LISTEN TO "TURN TO EVIL"
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CLIFF BARNES COMEBACK GIGS
We are happy to announce our comeback gigs with Säteri Super. Two shows, one in Pori and the other in Tampere.
You should definitely fly over to these gigs from Tasmania, New Zealand or Chile. They are worth it. Our drummer will give you your ticket money back if you are disappointed.
Pori 2.9.2022 @ Aallonmurtaja
Tampere 3.9.2022 @ Secret Sauciety
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CLIFF BARNES returns from a 20-year hiatus!
We are Cliff Barnes and we come from Finland.
You know, the land with the highest happiness quotient per capita in the world, ice cold winters, and Michael Monroe.
So yeah, all is well over here.
Anyway, this is our debut album.
It’s been 20 years in the making.
During lockdown I got tired of waiting for it to produce itself.
I got my ass over to a friend’s all-analogue studio, and tried to remember some old riffs I had done way back.
Then I said:
"Roll the tapes."
Roll he did.
I got some people to play stuff I can’t play like the trumpet, bassoon and pedal steel guitar. Other instruments I played myself, starting with the drums, then the bass, then the guitar. Took us about a year to do that.
Now the pandemic is almost over, and the album is out. Imagine that.
Although I did it by myself, now we’re a proper power trio, playing live with three Marshall full stacks.
Oh the joy.
I really hope you like the album, and at least give it a listen.
Be well & fly free,
-JP
The original cover paintings for Free Flyin' were made by Tuuli Luminen.
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Track listing:
1. Loud & Wrong
2. Almost Had It
3. Everyone You'll Ever Know
4. Become the One
5. Gone
6. Free Flyin'
7. Goin' Slow
8. Turn to Evil
Personnel:
JP Jakonen: guitar, vocals, bass, drums
Bill Graham: piano & Mellotron (1, 6)
Kalle Grotenfelt: Farfisa (7)
Himansh Pandey: Bansuri (8)
Javier Cereceda: Bassoon (8)
Josué Garcia Garcia: Trumpet (1, 8)
Reggie "Mississippi" Duncan: Pedal steel guitar (4)
Backing vocals: Millie (4), Gladys (7) & Lucas (8)
La Jolla Choir conducted by Sandra Djordjevic (4)
Tapio Lepistö: Engineering & recording
Joona Al-Ogaidi: Picture of JP at Forssa
Mum: Picture of JP with Jeep
Kai Johansson: CD & LP cover layout
Tuuli Luminen: Cover paintings
All songs & lyrics by JP Jakonen ⓒ Shiny Head Stinky Feet Music 2022
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