CROMER: Community Centre

Friday 20th October, 2023

7:00pm

Event information

In January 2023 JC did his first acoustic solo tour supportig Post Punk Supergroup Wingmen. JC is a natural performer and storyteller the shows went so well he is now looking at offers for more live shows.

JC's songs Sound of the Suburbs, Offshore Banking Busines, Solitary Confinement and Working Girl are part of the great English Hymn Book . The title track from the Members 2021 Album Bedsitland was a surprise No1 in the UK heritage chart in 2022.

Jean-marie “JC” Carroll has not missed a Members Show since 1977, his songs Sound of the Suburbs, Solitary Confinement and Offshore Banking Business are part of the Great British Songbook and can transport people back to their youth. They have lost none of their vibrancy urgency and remain relevant today.

He is also an award winning Film composer and 40 years of Punk, Pop, Panto, film and folk have left him with a lot of stories, a great repertoire and a story to tell about songwriting, sticking it to the man and flying the flag for Anglocentric Culture. In the last 10 years he has performed all over the World from Kiev to Los Angeles for Auckland to Aberdeen, now its your turn.As well as great songs his shows are also very funny, as he traces back his music education through his parents record collection through the early seventies to his discovery of music hall in the pubs of the Edgeware Road, he illustrates the direct link between Folk music of England and its unruly anarchic explosion into Punk in the late seventies.

For people who think that Punk is all about anger and aggression JC illustrates why it is also poignant, sad and funny, His Songs have been recorded by Beggars Banquet Stiff Records Virgin Records Island Arista and his new Material continues to amaze as he grows as an Artist.

FOR MUSIC
JC says "I have played at midnight in the land of the midnight sun,played at spring break in daytona beach, locked in a dutch immigration prison cell, fined by highway patrols, refused entry to canada, threatened by gangsters, intimidated by armed guards, cussed by rednecks, refused service at truck stops, I’ve been spat at, showered with coins and bottles , i've stayed in plush hotels in paris and cockroach infested immigrant dives in southern texas.
i've played irish music round camp fires in monaghan, punk in basements in london (with dee dee ramone and rat scabies ), accordians with romanian gypsies in france , sang rasta hymns with jamaicans in the bbc television centre, hi-life and kweala, zydeco, cajun, show tunes burlesque , musical hall, easy listening, klesmer, calypso.....I returned to touring in my 50’s and 60’s and toured the world. i have supported the Clash and The Police, recorded with The Members, members of Sex Pistols, New York Dolls, The Damned, Pink Floyd, John Barry 7, The Shadows, John Mayalls Blues Breakers, .”

Venue information

CROMER: Community Centre

0	Garden Street Cromer NR27 9HN
>	www.cromercommunity.co.uk
!	07831 643023
`	Venue 80 people sitting and 120 standing. Paid Bar during events. There is level accessible so people of any ability can attend. There is no parking on site but there are public car parks 5 minutes from the venue, which