My deepest apologies if I dropped the ball on this one. I just found this while surfing and sat with my mouth open. It’s Paul Oakenfold and he’s back with the younger of the Goss twins, Matt. Yes, I do own some Bros on vinyl, I believe ‘I Quit’ is upstairs on seven inch and I also have Changing Faces on cassette. No, I’m not ashamed it was the eighties! And Look, Craig, the non twin went on to be one of Pink’s managers!
Here’s Paul Oakenfold and Matt Goss:
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Just as they are announced as MusicReviewUnsigned artist of the month for December 09, Frantic Jack release their second single Free. Free follows a month after their debut single ‘Firefly’ entered the charts at number 23.
Free is an uptempo track with a nice lead in. The chorus might be a little short but the hook is memorable and leaves lots of room for live singalongs. Its a good track with a driving rhythm section. Lead singer Daragh seems to be growing in confidence and gives a great vocal performance.
The second track on the CD release is called Fallen Heroes. It’s a heartfelt song not dissimilar to Daughtry’s style. Good lyrics, good vocals nice guitar licks not bad for a ‘B’ side.
2010 should be a great year for Frantic Jack as they took the end of 2009 by the scruff of the neck. Kudos to them for following up their debut ‘Firefly’ so quickly. As long as they can keep a good momentum going 2010 is theirs for the taking.
5 out of 6
Update: 12/12/09
Many Congratulations to Frantic Jack – they scored their second chart hit and their first Top 20 when Free entered the Irish Charts at Number 20 yesterday.
Here’s the Charts in Full: http://irma.ie/aucharts.asp
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Firefly is the debut single from Edenderry based band Frantic Jack.
The band seem to wear their influences of their sleeves as shimmers of Counting Crows (vocally) and old school Green Day (guitar) raise their heads.
Firefly is a melodic track with a standard verse chorus middle 8 chorus format.
Its a decent track and if they were signed it would get a hell of a lot of airplay in the AOR charts. I’d love to see Frantic Jack push the limits a little as this is an amazingly tough genre to be in and it needs a little magic to break through.
Track two on the single is Hang from the Gates. This track in its own right could easily be a single. It starts off electric guitar and vocals and builds up to a nice crescendo. Grey’s Anatomy hello?
This is a good solid debut from Frantic Jack.
5 out of 6
Update 31/10/09 Congrats to Frantic Jack who entered the Irish single charts at number 23 yesterday