News

Jim was recently interviewed by Scott Bryson of Toronto's Chart Magazine, and the full unexpurgated version of the interview is now up on the press page. So, have a read!

We'll be playing at Lark in the Park in Islington on Friday, March 28th. Our current and ever-so-slightly-more-rockin line-up features Sebastian Dilleyston on violin and Neil Leyton on electric guitar and piano. We'll be playing lots of new songs, so come along! Full info and directions on the gigs page.

We're on iTunes. Don't judge us. It's not because we love evil multinationals; it's because YOU do.

Our friend Paolo Messina came down to our last gig at the Windmill and took some excellent photos, which are up here. Thanks a lot to Paolo! I'll put his contact info up here as soon as I can track it down.

Here's a lot of news, headline style:

JC & TRTD had a storming and thoroughly packed CD Release Party at the Borderline!
JC & TRTD were once again pick of the day in London Lite!
Time Out thinks JC & TRTD have a killer band name (when not abbreviated)!
JC & TRTD have a brilliant gig coming up at The Windmill in Brixton supporting the brilliant Dawn Landes!
JC & TRTD will be featured in the new issue of Electric Ghost; more on that soon!
JC & TRTD are trying to push themselves through TheSixtyOne.com, and we'd love it if you'd log on and vote for us!
You can download the new JC & TRTD record now through the following websites: CD Baby, PayPlay, and Trade Bit!
JC & TRTD got three more very positive reviews!

Here are some excerpts:

"An inventive lyrical experience, which easily stands-up to its influences. Lovers of Nick Cave, Wilco etc will not be disappointed. 4 out of 5." (This Is Fake DIY)

"Just as with his first album Kill Devil Hills, what makes it a little bit special is the barbs and bitterly lyrical turns of phrase.... In a part of the musical world where honesty and straightforwardness are rated far too highly, there’s easily enough twisted cleverness on display here to celebrate and enjoy." (SoundsXP)

"An interesting release this month is Jim Clements & The Right to Die's record When The Saints Go. A far less biblical effort than you might've imagined it's an interesting mix of gravelly pilgrimage music and dramatic bluesy style tunes. Not without humour ("I watched you die on late night Channel Four") it's an enthralling and emotional squal of an album which worth a dig out." (Shadowplay)

"An interesting release this month is Jim Clements & The Right to Die's record When The Saints Go. A far less biblical effort than you might've imagined it's an interesting mix of gravelly pilgrimage music and dramatic bluesy style tunes. Not without humour ("I watched you die on late night Channel Four") it's an enthralling and emotional squal of an album which worth a dig out."

From: Shadowplay

We received the first review of our new record recently, and it's a good one. Thought we'd share it with you!

Jim Clements & The Right To Die - CD - When The Saints Go
(www.jimclementsandtherighttodie.com)


Almost immediately, even during the opening refrains, I sensed that 'When The Saints Go' by Jim Clements & The Right To Die was gonna be something quite special. Don't ask me why, I just knew that this album was gonna be quite unlike anything else I've heard for donkey's trousers! Believe me, I wasn't wrong and I defo wasn't disappointed!!

Jim Clements & The Right To Die specialise in a musical genre that's hard to describe; it's a sort of gypsy/indie/nu-folk kinda thing - sort of folksy-blue Nick Cave meets Dylanesque Country Joe McDonald - hard-edged, dark, poetic story-telling set to wondrously sympathetic acoustic biased music. That's as close I can get to putting in words what this excellent band is about! Whatever, 'When The Saints Go' is a superbly composed and stunningly executed album that seems to be a bi-conceptual work; two halves telling two distinctly different but equally absorbing stories - I think!!!

'When The Saints Go' is dark but somehow never really 'haunting'. Clements & Co seem to be able to portray dark but make it feel nothing less than acceptably vibrant - this they appear to do through a mixture of great, mature writing and sensitively understated but passionately expressive playing. The end result is genuinely brilliant and although maybe not totally commercial in the true sense, it's certainly as cultishly viable as even the most successful and globally accepted works of Cave, Waits and other similarly ilked artists. Jim Clements & The Right To die show that the lyrically macabre can be lifted and lightened by quality, expansive musical composition and well thought out instrumental atmospherics. These 'guys' work as a well prepared, closely knit team and their experienced professionalism and 'oneness' combined with massive musical creativity bring new hope to an all-too-often mundane musical era - Jim Clements & The Right To Die are like a cool, life-saving oasis in a barren and parched musical desert.

'When The Saints Go' by Jim Clements & The Right To Die is simply superb - refreshing and innovative - quality from conception to delivery - nothing short of brilliant!!

Peter J Brown aka toxic pete (www.toxicpete.co.uk)

(Rhythm & Booze rating 10)

Just so everyone knows, our record is now available through CD Baby by clicking here. Of course, we'd rather you buy it from this website, but it's definitely faster delivery for our North American friends, and they'll soon have it up online for digital distribution, if you'd prefer to download it. You can also preview the entire record by visiting their webpage.

[Drum roll]

The record is finished. Hallelujah!

You can preview three songs by clicking here.

It will be officially released and distributed online and at (very) select record stores in January.

BUT!

Just like Radiohead, we're making the record available RIGHT NOW if you order it through our website. Click here to go to the shop!

[NOTE: Unlike Radiohead, (1) we're offering hard copies not downloads, and (2) we're not letting you pay whatever you want, because (a) we're all broke and (b) we have far less faith in the intrinsic generosity of mankind.]

[NOTE: Upon reflection, we're really we're not very much like Radiohead at all.]

One of the UK's best alt-country and americana radio shows will be featuring songs from Kill Devil Hills on their shows on August 6th and August 20th. You can tune in on their website. It's a great show that features many artists I adore, and I highly recommend you check it out.

Going North from Nashville is a radio show, broadcast on Bradford Community Broadcasting (BCB), which features alt country and Americana music. The show is presented by Sue Smith and John Hebden, and we are on the air alternate Monday evenings between 10 & 11pm. BCB broadcasts on 106.6fm to Bradford, West Yorkshire, England and the surrounding area, and via it's website at www.bcbradio.co.uk