Turrentine Jones
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Turrentine Jones performing at Sziget Festival in Budapest on 16 August 2015
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| Origin | Manchester, United Kingdom |
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| Years active | 2012—present |
| Website | www |
| Members | Julian Neville Joe Chilstone-Vause Rich Watts |
Turrentine Jones are an English indie rock band formed in 2012 in Manchester, UK. The band consists of Julian Neville (guitar/vocals), Joe Chilstone-Vause (bass) and Rich Watts (drums/backing vocals). They have released one studio album: Our Days (2014) and one live album Live in York (2015) as well as two singles.
The band cites Booker T. & the MG's, The Mar-Keys and the Rolling Stones as influences.
The band has been labelled a “Future Classic” and described as “infectious blues-rock” by national radio station, Real Radio XS and proclaimed by Hattie Pearson of XFM to be “one of Manchester’s finest exports in recent times.”
All the music and lyrics for Turrentine Jones' songs are written by the band's frontman Julian Neville.
Neville moved from Australia to the United Kingdom in 2009, where he had performed as a solo acoustic singer-songwriter supporting the likes of David Knopfler of Dire Straits and Colin Hay of Men At Work. After several line-up changes, demo releases and low-key gigs in London and Manchester, Turrentine Jones officially settled on a line-up in 2012 which consisted of Julian Neville, Thomas Scotson and Rich Watts.
In 2013 the band performed on the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury Festival, one of the largest UK festivals, and were the third most shared act of the day on the BBC website, eclipsing the Rolling Stones. The Telegraph's Rupert Hawksley and Florence Waters highlighted the buzz surrounding the group during their coverage of the festival. During their performance of the song Slam the Door, Rich Watts wore the optical head-mounted Google Glass. According to The Guardian's Jemima Kiss the band became the first to perform on stage using this new technology.
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