Who the...?

Dan Whaley aka Evil Jack McDeath, aka Big Ron Turner aka Mrs Edna Watley, etc, etc...    From l-r: Playing bass with The Shockwaves at the George Robey, August 1987 Playing guitar with The Diaboliks in Kaiserslautern, Sept 1995 Playing ukulele with The Richwoods at the Old Explorer June 2008 Currently I play electric guitar in The McDeath Trio, who sound like this Acoustic guitar in The Flaming Czars, who sound like this Ukulele in The Richwoods, who sound like this                            Acoustic guitar, ukulele & anything else I can wring a tune out of in the Waterfield/Whaley folk duo, who sound like this Bass in Dr Feelgood tribute band "The Brilleaux Pads", who sound exactly like Dr Feelgood I co-curated Scaledown with Mark Braby & Andy Coules from late 2006 until late 2008. Now I just do the posters (Aug 2006 onwards)   Over the past 20 years or so I've played guitar and/or bass in a whole host of bands (see links on the right hand side of the page) I also do assorted solo bits and pieces under a variety of pseudonyms (see below) If you wish to contact me, write to eviljackmcdeath [at] yahoo.co.uk

Forthcoming Gigs, Releases, etc

The Richwoods have just has 3 tracks featured on Godspunk 7, from the mighty Pumf Records. This 27 track release came out in Feb 2009, and also features Howl in the Typewriter, RooHmania, Unit, Las Vegas Mermaids and a whole host of other fine talents. This CD is not available for cash (at least not from me), but if you have something you'd like to barter, such as some of your own music, or a pint of beer, or something interesting you found somewhere, or whatever, let me know. The McDeath Trio are going Brazilian. Here's footage of one of the Tropicalia numbers we played at the rock'n'roll wedding of the year; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jk70CvLG2A PRESS RELEASE FROM FAT GHOST SINGLES CLUB - Official Launch Date 20th March, 2009 This Friday, 20th March sees the launch of download-only record label FAT GHOST's  regular singles club.  Throughout 2009 there will be frequent releases of exclusive single tracks from a select, hand-picked  group of artists which will be released through iTunes, eMusic, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com and Napster. Each track will be accompanied by high quality artwork and will cost between 20p and  79p, depending on which company you download from.  We're planning to release 1 track every month or so, plus if you subscribe to the mailing list there'll be offers of other exclusive tracks for free. (Go here to subscribe for news on future releases http://www.fatghost.com/Singles.html) We're very pleased to say that the first release is Interference by Evil Jack McDeath (FTS001), a blisteringly powerful fuzz and wah-drenched instrumental reminiscent of the type of sonic assault that Loop and Spacemen 3 used to specialise in, albeit about quarter the length of one of their songs and with no vocals. The track features Mr McDeath on guitars, bass, drums, harmonium and noise and special guest Vance Palmier providing the backwards guitar solo. Future Fat Ghost single releases will include: Trans-Atlantic space rock orchestra The Flowers of Hell Short, sharp ukulele instrumental trio The Richwoods Late 80s noise/trash combo The Shockwaves (led by a pre-Alabama 3 LB Dope) Avant garde folk purist Richard Sanderson Sinister Stripped Down Instrumental combo The McDeath Trio plus more.... For full details of all Fat Ghost releases, take yourself over to the website http://www.fatghost.com/

Jack, Ron & Edna

Evil Jack McDeath aka Big Ron Turner aka Mrs Edna Watley (depending on what mood I'm in) Upside Down Guitar, Ukulele & Bass, Stripped Down Drums, Assorted Other Bits'n'Pieces, Poor Quality Warbling Player of gramophone records (I detest the term 'DJ' - it conjures up images of either the Hairy Cornflake or that tosser out of The Housemartins) Occasional scribe for the likes of Pipeline, New Gandy Dancer, Shindig, etc Co-curator (2006-2008) & Artistic Director (2006 onwards) of Scaledown Sleeve designer for Fat Ghost Singles Club (launching April 2009)

Questionnaire Here's a recent questionnaire I filled out for my good friend Richard Sanderson's blog, accompanied by (for no particular reason) a picture of Tura Satana answering the phone