Sounds From The Junkshop #116 - Jackdaw 4
"Live music is dead/The funeral's on Thursday/Bring a bottle and a bed" - Jackdaw 4 - Karaoke Ballet They were an odd one, Jackdaw 4. Emerging in the early noughties, the group were the brainchild of one Mr Willie Dowling who we've previously encountered a few times on SFTJ's past, not least due to his brief tenure with the Wildhearts in the Earth Vs era. Willie had actually started out with late '80s Soho glammers the Grip who offered a more measured take on the whole Babysitters / Soho Roses formula and managed a pretty decent album called Be Yourself before going their separate ways in the early '90s. It was probably while he was with the Grip that Willie befriended Ginger and CJ who were in the Quireboys and the Tattooed Love Boys respectively around this time and he would join up with the Wildhearts as their keyboard player in late '93, playing on the B-sides to the Caffeine Bomb and Suckerpunch singles (also appearing in the video for ...