User:Lindacooganb/John, shelly and the creatures

--Lindacooganb (talk) 11:58, 22 October 2010 (UTC)John, Shelly and The Creatures formed after a chance meeting they had in a bar in Berlin with two homeless Irish twins named ‘John and Shelly'. No one in the band falls under that name.

John, Shelly & the Creatures and are made up of band members: Kevin Carlisle (Drums, percussion & vox), Philip Watts d’Alton (guitar, vox, keys, bass, mandolin), Ger Gormley (bass, guitar, mandolin, vox), and Walter (D’Goon) (guitar, vox, keys, programming and drums).

The Belfast foursome are influenced by a wide variety of genres and are unafraid to mix things up when it comes to recording and playing live. Their debut album (Dinosaur) is a defiant multi faceted musical prism of sound, tone and texture and received critical acclaim in 2010 from Radio, Tv, Press & Online critics.

The band signed a publishing deal with Big Life Music in 2009 for their single  Long may You Reign, which was chosen over Green Day, to appear on a National TV, radio and Cinema advert on The Northern Irish Tourism Board. Who launched a phase of TV adverts that featured the band’s debut single: Long May You Reign as the title music on the advert. From statistics, the Advert has been the most successful Tv advert they have had on the NITB, so the band were asked to go back into the studio in September 2010 to record a new version of the song, for a more laid back Autumn/Winter season. Injecting vital fuel into the JSATC machine, the success of the single (which was picked for the ad over Greenday!) has buoyed the band, not only heightening their profile across the island, but affording them the comforts of a new tour van, and helping them fulfill a packed touring schedule over the last year.

On the lead up to their Debut album launch, they performed on Ireland’s biggest and most well-known TV show: THE LATE LATE SHOW. Their album has received rave reviews from national publications.

They performed live, to over 20,000 spectators in the RDS arena, which was a high moment for the band in their short career to date and featured on an exclusive live web stream on MUZU.TV Muzu.TV where JEDWARD (yes Jedward!) also appeared as the bands backing dancers on an impromptu last song during the show.

MEDIA: TV Shows the band have recently featured on: RTE’S THE LATE LATE SHOW (JAN 2010) RTE TWO TUBE – BAND OF THE WEEK (FEB 2010) TG4’S POP CEOL (FEB 2010) TG4’S IMEALL (FEB 2010) BBC ATL BBC IMEALL CEOL (June 2010) RTE DAVE FANNINGS THE ELEVENTH HOUR (broadcast date MAY + June)

All videos can be viewed from here: on their official you tube channell http://www.youtube.com/user/jscband