Final call for this one. See you tomorrow Sheffield:

Loved researching this connection between the Dave Brubeck Quartet's 'Take Five' and the amazing Jean Seberg. Here davehaslam.substack.com/p/the-bestse...

Sat 18th April: SHEFFIELD Soapsuds / C Joynes / Dom Lash / Pefkin Dom and me and Gayle makes three:

Sat 18th April: SHEFFIELD Heading up to Sheffield to give an airing to this new thing with Dom Lash. Details below:

25th & 27th April: LONDON & CAMBRIDGE Alex Rex / C Joynes / Naomi Randall A couple of upcoming springtime shows featuring the three-way line-up of Alex Rex, Naomi Randall and myself, c/o Broadside Hacks and @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social Details and links in the thread below:

Sat 18th April: SHEFFIELD Soapsuds / C Joynes / Dom Lash / Pefkin An outing for Soapsuds, the new 'not-jazz' duo from @domlash.bsky.social and myself, at Bishops House. Solo sets from both of us, plus an improvised set from the ever-essential @pefkin.bsky.social. Tix here: wegottickets.com/f/16405

Hey, hey, it's probably your payday. To hell with rent/mortgage/bills/food - here's where you should be spending your money...

25th / 27th April: LONDON-CAMBRIDGE Alex Rex / C Joynes / Naomi Randall Heading out for a couple of shows with Alex Rex and Naomi Randall next month. Links below:

Here’s what my phone says about this picture: “a man plays guitar with resting wistful face”

Ok so I don't have anything NEW for Bandcamp Friday but I do have the very last one remaining copy of something OLD. The final stock copy of 2012's 'The Wild Wild Berry' by Hladowski & Joynes is sitting next to me right now, ready to go. Do us all a favour: cjoynes.bandcamp.com/album/the-wi...

In the late 90s I was a regular attendee at Manasseh's Thursday night sessions at The Loughborough Junction SE5. Amazing selector.

Was invited to join Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders on stage at The Smokehouse in Ipswich last year, and the resulting mayhem is now scheduled for release as a super-ltd private press LP. Pre-orders go live on Friday via jeffreyalexander.bandcamp.com:

Weds 25th Feb: CAMBRIDGE Moving Compositions Just a quick reminder that I'm playing at this music/dance mash-up at The Junction tomorrow evening:

Weds 25th Feb: CAMBRIDGE Moving Compositions Performing as part of the small-scale pit orchestra for the Moving Compositions series of improvised music and dance at The Junction this coming Weds:

The Elephant Man. Srsly: it’s on iPlayer at the moment.

It is my contention that, in general, the best jazz albums have cello on them: Out There, Al-Fathiha, Coon Bid’ness, Live In Berlin 1991 etc etc

Throwing this out to the weirdo Hive Mind: does anyone have a copy of the Godz’ Third Testament on LP or CD? Is there any chance you could share a hi-res scan or photo of the front and rear sleeves? Need them for a thing…

Cool

I’ve just picked up a copy of the most metal early music cd of all time:

In honor of the death of the great D. Boon here’s the Minutemen documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5IW...

Thanks to Jason Steel for hipping me to the fact that me and MG made @byroncoley.bsky.social's Size Matters end-of-year list in the latest @thewiremagazine.bsky.social. I really need to get some copies of the @vhfrecords.bsky.social LP version across this way for 2026...

Thurs 4th Dec: BRIXTON Spanners SW9 7EX, 7.30pm Heading down to my old old SW9 stamping ground tonight for Fenland Drone Workshop's Winter Celebration, feat. @peteum.bsky.social, Luke Cowan, Satan Club, FDW, DJ Tissue, Lantern Man and free snax. Very ltd tix, door only aka get down early.

20th Nov: NORWICH Toby Hay / C Joynes Toby and I are heading up to The Holloway tomorrow night, doors 7pm: thehollowaynorwich.com/events/opN4F... Also, just fyi, the gig on Fri 21st Nov at Norfolk Wildlife Trust in Cley has just been cancelled.

20th-21st Nov: NORFOLK Toby Hay / C Joynes Toby Hay and I are heading out for a pair of shows in Norfolk next week. Details in the thread below:

21st-22nd Nov: NORFOLK Toby Hay / C Joynes Two shows with Toby Hay in a couple of weeks' time: Thurs 21st Nov: The Holloway, Norwich NR2 4PE thehollowaynorwich.com/events/opN4F... Fri 22nd Nov: Norfolk Wildlife Trust, Cley-next-the-Sea NR25 7SA www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/events/2025-...

Fri 7th-Sun 9th Nov: CAMBRIDGE CD&GXX Tomorrow night I will be opening up this weekend of festivities at the NCI, Holland St with my own self-designated 20th Anniversary gig. See you there:

Current mood

7th-9th Nov 2025: Cambridge Crushing Death & Grief 20th Anniversary Weekender Fourth line from the top y'all:

CD&GXX Rattle is an exploration into subtle rhythmic fluctuations, tonal space, and minimal melodics. Their setup of two singing drummers seems unlikely, but Rattle use the limitations of their arrangement to create pieces of textural percussion and threading sublime melodies through the gaps.

Great to get out and play a couple of shows with Sir Richard Bishop over the weekend. Thanks to all at the Smokehouse and Chats Palace for looking after us. Here's a neat bit of footage from my set in Ipswich, and many thanks to Stuart for uploading it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy_k...

Ipswich: free ticket to Sir Richard Bishop tonight to anyone who messages me... I'm unable to attend and hate for it to go to waste! (Yes I recognise that the venn diagram of 'wants to see richard bishop', 'can go tonight', 'follows my bluesky' and 'near ipswich' is miniscule...)

10th-11th October: SIR RICHARD BISHOP / C JOYNES Heading out for a couple of shows with legendary knight of the realm Sir Richard Bishop, starting tomorrow in Ipswich and moving on to London on Sat. Details in the thread below, tix still available for both:

Following last month's blink-and-you-missed-it Bandcamp sell-off, it looks like @normanrecords.com and @vhfrecords.bsky.social got a thing sorted out to meet the UK's Joynes'n'Gangloff requirements:

oh fuck farewell Danny Thompson: one of the greatest

Fri 26th Sept: IPSWICH Stick In The Wheel / C Joynes St Stephens Church, IP1 1DP Opening up for @stickinthewheel.bsky.social in Ipswich this Friday c/o @btcipswich.bsky.social. Tix still available here: www.brightenthecorners.co.uk/events/stick...

1/9 **Autumn Shows 2025** I've got a decent number of interesting gigs coming up over the next few weeks in my default professional capacity as Local Support. It all starts with Stick In The Wheel this Friday 26th Sept in Ipswich. Details and links below:

Class act hits the road:

Sat 11th Oct: LONDON Sir Richard Bishop / C Joynes Supporting stone-cold legend SRB at Chats Palace E9 c/o stone-cold legends @upset-the-rhythm.bsky.social

Apologies for FB link but here's Ilan Volkov speaking out against the Israeli government at the end of his Proms performance with the Scottish Symphony Orchestra, he's been ploughing a lonely, pitiless furrow opposing the war inside Israel for the last two years. www.facebook.com/share/v/1LqX...

Reluctant to use the word 'banger' but sometimes, just sometimes, it's the only best fit:

**NEW RELEASE** 'Tom Winter, Tom Spring' LP C Joynes & Mike Gangloff cjoynes.bandcamp.com/album/tom-wi... Just as a heads-up, only a very limited number of LPs available today. Further physical copies are available direct from VHF's own Bandcamp but, you know, the tariffs...

'There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness & yapping out of orders, & self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty...is to stop it' (EM Forster, 1934). 🔶️

A mere five days until this one. I won’t quote the hype - you can find it yourself - but the world at large is finally catching on to a Grade A songwriter and DIY lifer. Now only 5 tix remaining so don’t snooze:

Twenty years of Crushing Death & Grief; twenty years of C Joynes. Coincidence? You decide...

**TONIGHT: CAMBRIDGE** Alan Sparhawk / C Joynes The Junction About to start getting myself together for tonight's show at The Junction, opening up for Alan Sparhawk. Tix still available, as far as I know: www.junction.co.uk/events/alan-...

1/4 **CANADA TOUR JULY 2025** C Joynes & Mike Gangloff Finally back home after the run of shows across Ontario and Quebec. A bit late in the day for a tour diary, but here's a picture of the 20-storey LC mural gazing benignly over downtown Montreal:

AT is a wonderful label.

First responses in on ‘Tom Winter, Tom Spring’ c/o @magnetmagazine.bsky.social

1/11 **CANADA TOUR JULY 2025** C Joynes & Mike Gangloff Final call for this run across Ontario and Quebec, starting in Toronto in a couple of days' time with the launch gig for our 'Tom Winter, Tom Spring' LP, released on @vhfrecords.bsky.social on 11th July. All show details in the thread below: