So, come on then, time to own up. 261 Followers. This was followed up by his solo album “Numb Mouth Eat Waste” which received 5 star reviews in Q magazine, Mojo magazine and The Guardian newspaper. “It’s a massive shock,” he says. “We were really getting it together and looking forward to the new album and then suddenly we have Covid and then Denise dies. 2 Tracks. Thursday, 24th September 2020, 11:45 am. Small venues, young bands, that’s what it’s really killing. He wasn’t a manager, he was a romantic, really.”, ACR launch their album with an online Evening With... event on Friday September 25. There are times when its ambitiousness is met with real nice moments, such as the moving and slightly haunting Technicolour Dawn. “If you watch (Michael Winterbottom’s 2002 Factory Records biopic) 24 Hour Party People you realise nothing was ever planned, and the same goes with us,” he says. The four-track studio was on Church Lane and we recorded Shack Up, Do The Du and the studio side of The Graveyard and the Ballroom there. Numb Mouth Eat Waste is a worthy addition to Jez Kerr's body of work. *braces self for onslaught of not-so-constructive feedback* As ever, picking ten albums is really tough. Manchester. “I think that’s the way it works best. Manchester legend Jez Kerr, bassist and vocalist from A Certain Ratio; one of the cornerstones of Manchester music, has stepped out for a solo jaunt and the results have been great. By Duncan Seaman. Where Soul Jazz Records’ reissues of the Manchester post-punk band’s back catalogue had sparked their 2008 artistic rebirth Mind Made Up, this time impetus to make what would become ACR: Loco came from the Mute label who in 2019 released a career-spanning box set. I’ve been posting an annual ‘best of’ list for a few years now – this is the fifth run through. 2020 thefreethinkingmovement. Jez Kerr is pondering the genesis of his band A Certain Ratio’s first album in a dozen years. So we did, and Mute happily and kindly decided they wanted it.”. A Welcome return this evening for ACR bass player Jez Kerr and his band. I can honestly say that this is the easiest year by far. Picture: Paul Husband Also every gig was great. His first solo single “Sumthing Fast’ was critically acclaimed by music press and has received national airplay on BBC 6 Music and Radio 2. He got some money when his mother died and with that he took us to New York to record. Johnson’s voice can be heard on four songs on Loco, but Kerr reveals there are more tracks that they’d been saving for the next ACR album. Kerr says ACR felt the loss of their longtime collaborator and friend “personally and professionally”. People who are a bit bigger will probably survive, but I think a lot of these places won’t survive and it will be difficult for them to come back.”. His favourite memory is “having a laugh with her”. “It gave us the impetus again to think, ‘We’re generating some funds now, maybe we could buy some studio time for ourselves and record an album and see who wants to put it out’. One person tragically missing from the album’s launch is the singer Denise Johnson, who died in July aged 56. Jez Kerr ‎– Numb Mouth Eat Waste Label: Higuera Records ‎– HSEVENCDLP Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 12 Sep 2011 Genre: Electronic, Rock, Funk / … His first solo single “Sumthing Fast’ was critically acclaimed by music press and has received national airplay on BBC 6 Music and Radio 2. Badly Drawn Boy returned, and produced his best work in a decade. 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