The Voluntary Butler Scheme
Key tracks:
- Do The Hand Jive
- Satisfactory Substitute
- Multiplayer
- Tabasco Soul
Label: Split Records
Read Description:
Buoyant, quirky Summertime pop from a master of kitchen sink poetry.
This light-hearted but heart-warming one-man band delivers lyrically vivid English-summer pop reminiscent of Ray Davies and Jarvis Cocker at their best. Catchy pop hooks, a home-made sound and heartfelt yearning lyrics delivered with a tongue in cheek attitude are all to be expected.
“Multiplayer” has indie-pop hit written all the the way through it, a raw northern soul groove with great backing vocals and the bitter-sweetly sung message that “love is a game ...I want to play with you”. Fantastic new single “Tabasco Sole” displays his ingeniously homegrown lyrics with a Jacksons style hook taking some superb pop moments and giving them a contemporary slant to freshen up the past with a wry smile (“Put your Chuck Berry records that sound the same in a box underneath your bed.”)
Voluntary Butler Scheme's latest release comes in the form of Grandad Galaxy, Rob Jones says: "Some of the influences are grandad heavy, real old things like '50s pop music - Buddy Holly and that - with really simple tunes, uncynical lyrics, nice clean guitar, but at that same time I'm really in to stuff that I think would offend Buddy Holly's ears," says Rob. "The Grandad Galaxy sounded like a meeting of them things in a title."
Things to watch:
Releases we represent:
- Trading Things In | EP | 2008
- Multiplayer | Single | 2009
- Tabasco Sole | Single | 2009
- At Breakfast, Dinner, Tea | Album | 2009
- Grandad Galaxy | Album | 2011
Quotes:
"A wonderful debut." The Sunday Times
"Promises of devotion, effortlessly charming." NME
"Pristine, bright textures and chuck-it-all-in instrumentation...could be very popular indeed among fans of summery, slightly odd, quintessentially British pop." The Guardian Guide
;“Infectious and charming, one-man-band Rob Jones is like a mix of Badly Drawn Boy and Brian Wilson’s more acid-fried work...Utterly endearing" Q
"Bubblegum, call-and-response Motown, manufactured in the Midlands and as sweet as candy." The Sunday Times
"A slice of Summer Pop" Artrocker
Tracks included on the following samplers:
- New Music Vol 1 Download sampler here
- Quirky & Uplifting Download sampler here
- New Music Vol 6 Download sampler here
- The Voluntary Butler Scheme - Breakfast, Dinner & Tea + instrumentals Download sampler here
- Easy Like A Sunday Morning Download sampler here
- The Voluntary Butler Scheme - The Grandad Galaxy Download sampler here
