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are being performed rather well to a very very attentive joyous crowd tonight, of course they are. I wasn’t going to start picking out songs this evening but the performance of "Oh" does deserve particular mention, that really was quietly beautiful, it was a rather brave performance, fragile, raw, extra special on a special night." Further shows are planned for autumn 2024.
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commented that it "gave my quirk button a gentle nudge", drawing attention to the "fabulously angular but direct" songs "Klog" and "Cabinet" and observing that "Jo Spratley has a beguiling stage presence, moving around like a marionette set free, messing up her hair and casting cryptic glances at the
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stated "there’s a lot of emotion up there, there’s joy, there’s tears, there’s drums, tambourines and ribbons and a beautiful sway, these songs always had a beautiful sway, a flow, a majestic rhythm, a kind of pushing throb, they are different, still with that same wonderful essence though and they
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hailed the band's "maverick spirit" and "curious thrashy vignettes locate the weirdness at the centre of post-war English genteel society and culture... File under barmy but affecting." Lester also noted the band's multiple musical ingredients ("prog punk... classical, psych and prog... galumphing
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In 2016 Joanne Spratley's son Jesse Cutts suggested they should form a band together; in autumn that year she organized a Spratleys Japs concert in Brighton. It took place on 19 November and was billed as "Spratleys Japs Performed Live". The concert did not feature Tim Smith, who remained unable to
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Despite their previous plans, Spratleys Japs' second album was delayed, and there was no further public activity for a couple of years. Three live tracks from the 2019 Brighton concert ("Hands", the as-yet-unreleased-on-record "Pandy" and a cover of Cardiacs' "Is This the Life") were released via
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The concert led in turn to a full revival of Spratleys Japs featuring the new lineup, which included — alongside Spratley on vocals/percussion and Cutts on bass guitar — Adrien Rodes (keyboards), Étienne Rodes (guitars), and Damo Waters (drums). They did assorted concerts in England during 2017,
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replacing Damo Waters on drums, the band resurfaced in May 2024 to play a series of "Sing for Tim" gigs in London and Leeds in honour of Tim Smith, alongside The Smith & Drake Ensemble, Crayola Lectern and Cardiacs & Friends (the last being a line-up of various ex-Cardiacs and related
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to some people. The original name had innocent origins, as Joanne Spratley explained, "When we named the band we thought sounded like some sweets that you got in a paper bag when you was a kid weighed out by the man behind the counter from one of them big dusty jars." "Spratleys Rats" was a
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On 18 December 2018, the single "Her/Hands" was released, featuring two tracks written collectively by the current band and with Tim Smith credited as "executive musical producer". This was followed by a Christmas gig at the Garage club in London to celebrate an Honorary Degree as
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area of England. Since neither the original Spratleys Japs band nor the Rev-Ups have ever been recorded as having played live, it has been suggested that the Rev-Ups personnel were fictional and that all sounds were in fact created by Smith and Spratley.
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perform following his 2008 stroke and heart attack (although he attended as an audience member) but did feature Spratley plus musicians drawn from various Brighton bands including Clowwns, Crayola Lectern, Muddy Suzuki and Heavy Lamb.
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snark chorale, then repeats", as well as commenting that " Spratley sings like a Victorian girl trapped in an attic – her distracted, plummy English tones are a signature component of this mad miscellany."
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Spratleys Japs originally emerged during a lull in Cardiacs activities during which Tim Smith wanted to try something new. The band's original line-up was Smith (vocals, bass guitar,
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Bandcamp on the "CONFINEMENT/release6" EP on 3 July 2020, as part of a series of Covid lockdown releases featuring bands connected to Joanne Spratley and Christian Hayes.
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at Oslo (Hackney) and revealed plans to release a new album by the end of the year. A further concert was played at The Green Door Store in Brighton on 21st December 2019.
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by Planet Mellotron coordinator Andy Thompson. The Mellotron was used extensively on the original Spratleys Japs recordings. (It has since been repaired). Sean Kitching of
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has also claimed that "according to Tim, the note for the project that became Spratleys Japs read: 'Record something really quickly, make the drums sound shit.'", while
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would claim in 2024 that "Tim once said he was trying to write pop songs and to his frustration 'they always came out sounding like all the other shit I do.'..."
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including a small tour. Billing themselves as "Tim Smith's Spratleys Japs", they made their live London debut at the Lexington music pub in a double-header with
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Although the band never formally split up, there was no further Spratley's Japs work for the next seventeen years. Joanne Spratley went on to work with
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strangeness") and the way in which the song "Burnt" "violently transitions from hippie to rhythmic post-punk, goes back to psych, fits in a
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made a cameo appearance for their encore, joining the band for a cover of Cardiacs' "Flap off You Beak". Attending the gig, Paul Lester of
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musicians playing a headlining set of Cardiacs songs). For these gigs (and going forward), the band changed their name to Spratleys.
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that the band would be changing its name to Tim Smith's Spratleys Rats after discovering the offensive nature of the term
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sold several hundred copies, and the band never performed its material live before lapsing into inactivity.
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From left to right: Joanne Spratley, Tim Smith, Mark Donovan, Heidi Murphy, Viv Sherrif
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In January 2019, Tim Smith's Spratleys Japs performed an almost full performance of
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The band project was known to have been inspired by the sound of a malfunctioning
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which Smith had received in October. Reviewing the concert, Roger Trenwith of
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Spratleys perform at Cardiacs & Friends: Sing to Tim, an event at
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in 2021 to distance themselves from the negative connotations of the
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Leader of the Starry Skies: A Tribute to Tim Smith, Songbook 1
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and Joanne Spratley in 1998. The band changed their name to
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Spratleys Japs 1999 From left to right: Joanne Spratley, Tim Smith, Mark Donovan, Heidi Murphy, Viv Sherrif
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Psychedelic rock
experimental
Cardiacs
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Tim Smith
psychedelic rock
Cardiacs
Tim Smith
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Mellotron
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Theremin
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New Forest
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