In the mean time, we’ve got a little something to tide you over. We have released a compilation album of live, demo recording of songs that did not make the cut for our second studio album. The songs are a little rough around the edges with a few little mistakes here and there but, we feel, a certain vibe was captured in these song-writing sessions that we hope you will enjoy. This exclusive, “download only” album will only be available for the limited time of the month of July, so snap it up quick. It is 20 tracks long and is yours for only 5 Euro (it’ll automatically convert it to Pounds, or Yen, or whatever, for you!). You can find our album at http://jadedsun.bandcamp.com

We really enjoyed writing and performing these songs, so hopefully you will enjoy listening to them. We also feel that it is not so much an indication as to what the new album will sound like, it is more an indication as to what the album could’ve sounded like, if we’d've chosen those songs, if ya know what I mean?

So tell all your friends about the compilation album. As soon as our studio album is ready to go, we hope to be back out on the road again and to be gigging in a town near you.  Thank you all, again, for your continued support. Keep updated with all the Jaded Sun news on our Facebook and Twitter and on the official site and feel free to let us know your thoughts on the compilation album. Hope to see you guys soon.
Cheers,
Damo – JS

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Just thought I’d give you guys a quick update of what’s happening in the Jaded Sun camp at the moment.

We’re all still working hard in the studio, nearing the end of recording our second album. It’s taking a little longer than expected and the album has taken a few twists and turns along the way but it is all for the benefit of the best album we can put out there. Don’t want to give too much away as to how it sounds right now other than it’s sounding pretty exciting. And (as promised a little while ago!) we can now give you a taster of things to come. Here’s a snippet of a rough mix of one of our new songs “When The Sun Shines” here >> When The Sun Shines (Sample). We will keep you all updated as soon as we’ve any news of possible release dates.

On the gigging front, we will be headlining a “70′s Rock Night” in the MJC in Charmont-sous-Barbuise near Troyes, France on May 21st which will be another massive gig for us. For more info on this, please go to  www.myspace.com/plugnplayband .

In the meantime, don’t forget to pick up a copy of our new Whiskey Drinker EP from our online store at www.jadedsun.com/shop , if you haven’t already. And a massive thanks to everyone for their continued support and getting us up to 2,000+ Facebook fans and 300+ Twitter followers.

Talk t’yiz all again very soon.
Much love,
Damo – JS

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In my last newsletter/blog thing, which was last Christmas, I had a few predictions for 2010. Let’s see how I fared – I predicted more 70′s and 80′s bands reuniting, and a stadium world tour for ABBA? Faith No More was as close as I got there. A Netherlands v Spain final in South Africa? Spot on, thank you very much. Didn’t put any money on it unfortunately. And I predicted a grand slam for the Irish rugby team in the 6 nations? Close, we came second. I won’t be starting up my own premium rate psychic tarot phone line any time soon.
As far as my Jaded Sun predictions went – we have just released our “Whiskey Drinker EP”. It’s available online from our store at www.jadedsun.com/shop. We will be launching it in The Workman’s Club, Dublin on Thursday 28th of October. You can see the details for this show in the news bulletin below. The story behind the delay of its release is far too long and complicated for me to go into at this particular time. Let’s just say that the master tracks of our recordings took a nice little holiday to Australia for a while!

Another prediction of mine was the possibility of a new Jaded Sun album in 2010. Well, we are deep in the pre-production stage of making a follow-up to Gypsy Trip. We will be recording the album during November and December, so, technically we will have an album finished by the end of the year but, unless we can find someone who can mix albums and who’ll work for free over the Christmas period, we will all have to wait until the New Year to hear it.
We won’t talk about the rest of my predictions!

2010 also saw the departure of Gavan Murray on drums. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank him for all he has contributed to Jaded Sun over the past few years and to wish him the very best in everything he does in the future. But the train had to keep rolling so we set out in search of a new drummer. After a lengthy, and at times arduous, trawling of Ireland’s available percussionists, we found the perfect man for the job in Aaron Madden, and we have to admit, things have gelled quite nicely since his arrival.

So the past few months have mainly consisted of the band writing new material in preparation for our second album. There have been a few gigs dotted around the place to test the water with our new material, and also to wet Aaron’s head. But, now the baby killings are over and the songs mountain has been whittled down to 12 brand, spanking new tunes just bursting to get onto your mp3 player and out on stage in a town near you. So, we will try to keep you all posted every step of the way with TwitPics, possible studio video blogs, or vlogs, or whatever, and lots more news of tours and release dates as it happens.

Thanks again for all of your continued support and your patience. We hope you can come along to our “Whiskey Drinker EP” launch in Dublin. If not, we hope you can pick up a copy of the EP from our store. And we hope that you will enjoy the album that we’re working on and we hope to see you all at a gig in a town near you some time very soon.
Much love,
Damo – JS

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JADED SUN – Launch of “Whiskey Drinker E.P.”
With Special guests – El Hombre Jokes

The Workman’s Club,
Wellington Quay, Dublin 2
Thursday 28th October 2010
Doors 7.30 pm & Curfew 11.30pm
Tickets 10Euro incl. booking fee (Tickets available from Ticketmaster.ie)

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Mrs Pannell
Torquay, UK

Mrs Muneer
Multan, Pakistan

Mr Timothy
Coventry, UK

Miss Barton
Glentaisie Drive
Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland

Mrs Chambers
Hadleigh,
Essex, UK

Miss Young
Bruton,
Somerset, UK

Winners of our Combo Packs (Gypsy Trip, Falling on the Fears EP, Raw EP) are:
Mrs Hardy
Kent, UK

Miss Haddock
Bolton, UK

Mrs Horrocks
Bromham, UK

Thanks again for entering and we hope you enjoy the prizes.
JS

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Jaded Sun are the “Get Ready To Rock – Ten for 10″ featured artist for the month of July on www.getreadytorock.com

Check out our feature pages here – www.getreadytorockradio.com/jaded_sun.htm and www.getreadytorock.com/features/jaded_sun.htm

Stay tuned to our feature pages throughout July for exclusive tracks, interviews, pictures, competitions and lots more.

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Just dropping by to give a quick update with the tour.

Last time I was talking to you was on our day off in the town of our next gig, Vigo. The gig that Monday night was in La Fabrica de Chocolate Club. It was a little disappointing, not a Wonka bar in sight. Great gig though, with a great crowd, especially for a Monday night.

The next day, we knew the chips were stacked against us with a 6 hour journey to Madrid and both Athletico and Real on the box that evening. One encouraging thing was the arrival of Dermot, Debs & Rachel from Ireland for extra support. The gig that evening in Gruta 77 went brilliantly. It was like when the final whistle of the footy blew, people poured into the venue. This tour has been full of pleasant surprises like that.

Another 5 hour road trip greeted on Wednesday. Granada was the next city and Planta Baja was the venue. On arrival, the people at the venue showed us some features about our gig in some local newspapers. One paper had an interview with me in it. If anyone has read it, I was mis-quoted. The gig started of very worryingly with only about 3 people in the venue 5 minutes before we were to go on stage. Possibly because there was more Champions League football on, but, after a few songs the place was fairly full. We even got an extra cut from the takings at the door because of the unexpectedly large crowd.

Stuck in the van again for another 6 hours on Thursday. The gig that night was in the Japan Rock Club, Vila-Real. It seems like all we’re doing is sleeping, eating, sitting in the van, gigging, sleeping again and then starting the cycle all over the next day. Not complaining though. I wouldn’t have it any other way. It won’t be too bad now with only short trips left as we make our way up the East coast of Spain. It pissed out of the heavens all day long. Saw something on the news about Spain getting flash floods and tornadoes n’all. The lightning looked spectacular where we were. Again, a surprising amount braved the elements to check out the gig. 2 encores and we felt that a splendid time was had by all.

Also, if anybody has pictures or videos from our gigs, we would love to see them so get in touch.

Next – Valencia.

I’ll keep you up to speed. Talk t’ya in a bit.

Damo – JS

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Please sign up to the site so that you can join in on the forum, so you can have your say on anything got to do with the band, or on any other subject, and also avail of all that is in our Free Stuff section.

There will be more additions and improvements to the pages as we go along so if you feel that anything else should be added to (or even taken away from) the site, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

We look forward to hearing from you all on the site.

Cheers,

Damo – JS

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