World in a Jug.

Good to be Back!

2005-08-02T09:51:00.000Z

We have been having big problems with our web host. They havent been directly resolved so we have resorted to finding a new web address at least for the time being.
You can find us at www.armpitjugband.co.uk
Thanks to Dan Haines and his hard work trying to get us back on line!

Where are we?

2005-07-07T19:56:00.000Z

Still struggling to get the AJB site back on line. Hope problems will be ironed out in the next week!
Promises Promises!

Bob Dylan is 64 today.Buy him a drum!

2005-05-24T10:08:00.000Z

Can't let today go by without giving Bob a salute at 64.
I shall be playing Like A Rolling Stone.
Instead of singing Happy Birthday it will be "How does it feeeeeeel?"
The portrait of Bob is a linoprint I made a few years back.
For all the best and most up to date news on Bob visit www.expectingrain.com.

2005-05-24T10:07:00.000Z

Happy Birthday to Bob Dylan!

armpitjugband.com

2005-05-23T20:51:00.000Z

Unfortunately our official website is down at the moment. We are hoping to have it fixed in a day or two!
Thanks to all at Willoughby Village Hall who made it such an enjoyable event last Friday. It was for a good cause too. Hopefully a large amount was raised for the Air Ambulance.

2005-05-06T11:47:00.000Z

A handy tip from Robert Crumb cartoonist and member of the Cheap Suit Serenaders.

2005-04-26T22:20:00.000Z

Mmmmm tasty! The music or the sarnie?

The Musical Sandwich of Dr Groove!

2005-04-26T22:09:00.000Z

Aah! Life on the road. The Good Doctor dilemmas on whether to carry on hitting them keys or shovel some cheese.
No sign of a Banbury cake.

View World in a Jug from the very beginning.

2005-04-19T07:08:00.000Z

To get the full picture please click on March in the Archive section and watch the blog develop!

2005-04-10T13:48:00.000Z

Armpit Jug Band at the Ride a Cock Horse Folk Club at the Mill Arts Centre Banbury.

Armpit Makes Banbury Cross Happy.

2005-04-09T17:42:00.000Z

Thanks to all those residents of Banbury who turned up to say hello last Wednesday.
It was a most enjoyable gig. Thanks to organisers Derek and Mary for inviting us to share the Ride a Cock Horse Folk Club's 6th birthday party. It was good to spend a little time also catching up with old friends Bill and Jim from the Night Owl Jug band. They will be appearing at the club themselves in May.
We always enjoy returning to the Mill Arts Centre if only because we like to see whether we can get all our equipment into the lift in one go.
Photos and more comment to follow!

Next chance to see the Armpit Jug Band.

2005-04-01T16:23:00.000Z

Next opportunity to see the Armpit Jug Band will be on Wed. 6th April at the Mill Arts Centre in Banbury. If you see me say hello!

2005-04-01T16:22:00.000Z

Bob Dylan at the Gaslight Club in New York in 1962. Photograph by John Cohen

Bob Dylan & the Jug Band Connection. Part One

2005-03-31T10:38:00.000Z

Those of you who have been along to an Armpit gig lately will know that, at long last, we have a Bob Dylan song in the act!
She belongs to Me has been a regular part of the act over the last few months and seems to go down well with the audience.
Few people realise that, in the early formative years of Bob's career, there was quite a strong jug band influence.
One of Dylan's earliest bootleg recordings known as The Minnesota Party Tape includes Bob's own version of a great jug band classic KC Moan by the Memphis Jug band.
In 1961 at one of Dylan's early performances at Gerdes Folk City in New York he is joined by the founder of one of the finest 60's revival jug bands...Mr Jim Kweskin.
When Bob came to England in 1963 he turned up at Dobells Record Shop in London with Richard Farina and Eric von Schmidt and recorded the old jug band favourite Overseas Stomp which has been in the Armpit Jug Band repertoire now for many years.
For more information about Dylan's visit to London in the winter of '62 & 63 read my contribution to "ISIS A Bob Dylan Anthology" Edited by Derek Barker and published by Helter Skelter.

2005-03-31T10:31:00.000Z

from the left..Robbie Robertson, Michael McClure, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsburg, unknown. SanFrancisco Poets.

2005-03-25T12:05:00.000Z

Self portrait with Bob Dylan T shirt and wanted man badge and Peter Blake self portrait with badges.

Liverpool 1997

2005-03-25T11:32:00.000Z

I was up in Liverpool one day in 1997. Linda and I were there to see Bob Dylan at the Liverpool Empire. Before the show we went across to the Docks to visit Peter Blake's self portrait with badges at the Tate Gallery.
Linda took the photo coming up. Portrait of Stringbean in the style of Peter Blake.
The Dylan show in the evening was superb. We had great seats front row of the balcony. You could almost stretch out and touch Bob. They dont make venues like them any more.
Two idols in one day!

2005-03-12T15:51:00.000Z

No Laughing Matter

No Laughing Matter.

2005-03-12T15:43:00.000Z

We sent Peter a copy of our cd No Laughing Matter just to let him know that we still existed. The first track on the cd is a song from the early repertoire of Elvis. "Just Because"
Peter Blake sent this reply:

2005-03-09T21:49:00.000Z

Armpit Jug Band Number One Fan. The badge Peter Blake pulled out of his collection for Radio 4.

Peter Blake

2005-03-09T21:37:00.000Z

It was an amazing coincidence when Peter Blake gave us a mention on Radio 4's Arts Programme Front Row. He was there to talk about an exhibition at the V&A in London about Badges. The interview was held in his studio and he opened a drawer and pulled out a badge at random.......and said
"Here you are The Armpit Jug Band Number One Fan. I don't know who they are but I love the name."
Funny thing is that I am a number one fan of Peter Blake.
One of Peter Blake's best known paintings 'Self Portrait with Badges' can be seen at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool and is all about portraying himself as a fan embracing popular culture. Elvis fan!

2005-03-08T23:17:00.000Z

Peter Blake wearing AJB Number One Fan Badge.

Notes on the Photograph.

2005-03-08T07:17:00.000Z

The photo was taken at the Fletch Pub in Coventry and appeared on the cover of the Armpit Jug Band's first album "No Sweat" in 1972. It was recorded one weekend at a small freezing hut/recording studio on an airfield somewhere in Warwickshire.
The late Monty Bird was the engineer and John Golding was the producer.
The line up on the photo:
Stringbean Cumming (seated left), Hot Lips Haines, Jazz Beasley, Gilbert Lawrence, T-Bone Axeman Jones (seated right).
The Fletch was one of our early venues. It was an excellent folk club and was run by Dave Sampson.A regular member of the audience in those early days was Rowan Atkinson. Dave is still running the Wurzel Bush club in Brinklow and we are still invited to play there. Rowan Atkinson has disappeared.

2005-03-07T08:22:00.000Z

Armpit Jug Band 1975

Armpit Jug Band Early 70's

2005-03-04T09:10:00.000Z

WORLD IN A JUG. Begin here

2005-03-02T20:49:00.000Z

Welcome to World in a Jug. An informal site created by Stringbean and linked to The Armpit Jug Band official website. This is the 1st entry.