The new album out on 3rd April 2006 on Wonky Atlas. Available in all good record stores - preorder now.
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Another Man - Jason's new album coming soon
Coming 3rd April 2006, released on Wonky Atlas. See the advert above.
Review of Americana UK House Gig - taken from Americana UK
Jason McNiff - Americana UK House Gig, Liverpool - 24th June 2005 Review by Chris Stevens
Jason McNiff, performing with a complete band - bass, drums and keyboard - in the small space available they huddled together to deliver two sets of intensely simmering songs built around Jason’s excellent and quite unique guitar playing and featuring vocal performances that at times were totally spellbinding. Skinny and waif-like his songs seemed to possess him, almost too much for him to retain as his body twitched and buckled under the effort. His vocals, often delivered through gritted teeth like some sort of puppet-less ventiloquist, ranged from quiet and mournful to quietly intense and passionate. Currently completing work on a new album, they performed as a cohesive unit with a genuine empathy for each others contributions. The record promises to be a cracker.
Maverick Country Interview
Helen Keen from Maverick Country interviewed Jason at the end of 2004 and her insightful article appears in February's edition (Issue 31) of the magazine. Get yourself a copy from any of the following, available from 20th January:
HMV - Oxford Street - downstairs in country music section
Virgin - Tottenham Court Road - upstairs in the Country music section (usually the best and most obvious shop to find it in)
The Borderline
Or go to:
Maverick Country's site where you can order copies (including back issues if you're reading this after February 2005) and see a list of other venues and newsagents that sell it!
Americana-UK review of Mean Fiddler gig 29 July 2004
Tonight is the final show of Grand Drive’s UK tour. Again, tonight, as every night Jason McNiff opens the evening armed only with an acoustic guitar & some of the finest English folk/ rock / country / whatever songs written since Richard Thompson failed to matter. Read the
full review
Paste Magazine 4 star review for Nobody's Son
"The 11 tracks on Jason McNiff's Nobody's Son are subtly beautiful. Flanked by members of Grand Drive and the Hank Dogs, McNiff abandons the electric-guitar solo and cymbal crash for a more understated approach featuring a variety of acoustic arrangements and mysterious subject matter..."
Take a look at the full review here...
Jason on Resonance FM
Jason has been invited to perform live on Resonance FM on Tuesday, 6 July 2004
You can listen online at:
Resonance FMHe'll be performing 4 songs live, between 12noon and 1:00pm - 2 songs in the first half and 2 in the second half.
'Nobody's Son' voted Best Album of 2003 by Americana UK
from
Americana UK:
Americana UK Editorial Albums of 2003
"1. Jason McNiff "Nobody's Son" (Snowstorm 2003)
It was a difficult one to call, what with the strength of Bruntnell's masterpiece and all, but Jason McNiff has to be one of the most underexposed and consequently under-rated artists on the UK americana scene today. After a hookladen but meandering debut in 2001, McNiff returned this year with a collection of songs that at the very least feel warm, real and full of character; and at their best, sound like Dylan at his finest - songs like "I Remember You" and "Weeping Willows Weep" have a certain English folk feel to them, with a strangely cohesive dash of Mark Knopfler (in both the vocals and guitar work), blended with a superfluity of americana instrumentation provided by the likes of Danny and Julian from Grand Drive and Andy Hank Dog. The subject matter is varied and occasionally difficult to actually grasp, but it's a genuinely representative record of some of the best of the UK's current americana community, and in that sense alone, deserves to be listened to by far more people than have heard it thus far. As one Amazon reviewer put it, "the best ten pounds I've ever spent" - and you can't get more of a recommendation than that."
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