Dirty Money was the first album by Mandy Meadows and The Madness Method and the culmination of over 2 years of writing and gigging material into shape. The band mixed ska, rock and pop in a blend they called Spock! Mandy was a devotee of Gwen Stefani and No Doubt[…]
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Better Without You was the debut ep from The Madness Method , featuring four tracks, all later appearing on the album Dirty Money. Both the title track and You Were Right are poppy, melodic ska but Flaming Absinthe offers a more rocky edge and If I Were To Write A[…]
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Jon was recruited to sing backing vocals on this Danish release, as a result of The Peacekeeping Forces‘ use of 5 Ouch! tracks. All the recording was done in London though the album was only released in Denmark. One of the tracks, Take Me As You Find Me, was also[…]
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Shades was released by Freefall in 2008. It was the only album released by the band, despite maintaining an impressive gigging schedule in London during the previous 3 years. The band were a neo-soul collective, led by Saeed Shah on keyboards, a jazz scholar and acquaintance of Billy Cobham .[…]
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Pack Up Your Things was Freefall ‘s first CD, released in 2007. The band was led by keyboard player Saeed Shah and the title track features the familiar voice of Zara McFarlane, now recording on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings label. The disc features two other tracks and a remix, including[…]
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Medway Dog is the band’s last and best album. The songs were written and arranged by trio Kevin Taylor, Jon and Medway legend Darren Green in 1998 and 1999 and feature drummer Clive Jenner, who has also played with Lenny Kravitz, Groove Armada, The Proclaimmers and The Freestylers, and lead[…]
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In 1998, Jon was employed by Universal Music to write the musical score for full-length feature film The Last Seduction II. This was the sequel to the highly-acclaimed 1994 neo-noir film directed by John Dahl, featuring Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, and Bill Pullman. The result was a 45-minute score, written[…]
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Recorded in 1995 and released the following year, this is Ouch!‘s second album, for which they wrote over 40 songs, from the familiar sixties-tinged Come On and Overstayed My Welcome to the ageing boy band offering Strongman. But somewhere in between are the Taylor-penned classics She’s With Me, Time Of[…]
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The band’s first album Life Goes On was recorded in 1992 for independent label Cavell Records. Two tracks, I Need You More and World Of Fantasy, were, to the band’s great excitement, put to tape at Abbey Road, extremely appropriate as the material is heavily reminiscent of the 60s and[…]
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