Stephen James Buckley was born on the 25th December 1981, and has been ruining Christmas ever since. Hailing from the rainy North West of England, and backed by his rag-tag band of Feverdreamers, Mr Buckley sings his song of madness and melancholy, best enjoyed with the lights low and accompanied by a bottle of something wicked.
In the past 12 months SJB&TFD have supported the likes of Thomas Truax, Curtis Eller, and Erinn Williams, from the USA, as well as top Doors tribute act The Doors Alive.
To discuss booking, email stephenjamesbuckley@hotmail.co.uk
UPCOMING GIGS
25/09/10 - 8pm - The Market Tavern, Preston, with Gavin Clegg
09/10/10 - 8pm - The Blue Room, Blackpool
30/10/10 - 8pm - HED night @ The Mad Ferret, Preston - with Three Blind Wolves and The Dimeshow
RELEASES
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REVIEWS
"An interesting collection of songs, possibly over-diverse for one short e.p., but is that a bad thing? It's a lot better than every song sounding like it's come from a formulaic toolkit of potential music, that's for sure.A creaky, juddering collection of songs, best-suited to being listened to while a stranger weeps in the background"
Review of "SJB&TFD Have Left The Building" from SPEAKING ABOUT MUSIC Blog
"SJB&TFD have a sly wit undercutting their accented blues. With "Cover of the Rolling Stone", the lightest of the tracks on new EP ".have left the building", nevertheless runs along with a style which presumably must be accompanied by video footage of the band nodding their heads to the barman to order extra drinks during the set. The sleazy "Fabulous Club" has a storyteller's charm, albeit the kind with a parental advisory sticker and its own sleek black carrier bag. "Behind The Moon" is something altogether different - it's not 'haunting' in the sense All Saints' "Pure Shores" was 'haunting', it genuinely does unsettle, a lament that is so honest it hurts. Real foot-on-a-plug-socket hurts.
To be absolutely honest - would you want things any other way? - the EP is one of the strongest little (even 'ickle' for those who prefer such linguistic throwaways) collections you are likely to hear, accompanied or not by swigging red wine straight from the bottle."
Review of "SJB&TFD" Have Left The Building from Doktorblive Blog
"Evening dust and liquor in deserted bars. Starting suitably enough with "Inebriated Proposal", Nothin' But Trouble is sat in a bar somewhere in small town America, drinking with itself in the wee hours and recounting its pains to the person sat next to it. At times it's bitter. At times it's wistful ("Wrap You Up In Gold"). At times it withdraws into itself and you don't know what it's thinking ("Curse Of The Feverdreamers"). Buckley doesn't sing like Tom Waits, but you can see the lineage.
The latter half of the album is, aside from the rueful smile of "Elvis In Decline", the angrier end of the record, co-vocalist Lorraine Jenkins coming more to the fore as a counterpoint and spur to our wasted friend, climaxing in "Down The Line". It's an angry, feral piece of work driven by tribal drums, and then it ends without warning, disintegrating into a cloud of distant and cacophonous noise, and that's the point in the night where you can't remember any more, you just know that you woke up in your own house somehow with bruised knuckles that you can't account for"
Review of "Nothin' But Trouble" by Ed Martland at Prestone.co.uk
"Imagine a basement bar at 1am, low lights over booth tables, a guy in a far corner taking a blowjob from a hooker, a surly but inconspicuous barman serving warm whisky in dirty shot glasses, while way off in the back there's a poker game under way where the stakes are your life. There is dirt and rudeness in the music, amplified in part through the tidy and haunting female vocal hook, and in part through Mr Buckley's lascivious drawl. This track is both on heat and unwashed, with an underlying sense of sexually-predatory-malevolence-only-kept-in-check-by-heavy-chemicals. Too smacked up to rape you, kind of thing."
Review of "Bad Morning Sunshine" by BIG WHEEL
