Mystery Jets

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Mystery Jets
Origin	Eel Pie Island, England
Years active	??–present
Genres	Indie rock, Prog Rock
Labels	679 Recordings
Members	Blaine Harrison Henry Harrison William Rees Kai Fish Kapil Trivedi

Mystery Jets are a five-piece band based on Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, England.

1 Members
2 Former Members
3 History
4 The White Cross Revival Parties
5 Discography

[edit] Members

Blaine Harrison – lead vocals, keyboards, percussion, effects
Henry Harrison – vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion
William Rees – guitar, vocals, percussion, keyboards
Kai Fish – bass, vocals, guitar
Kapil Trivedi – drums

[edit] Former Members

Tamara - Keyboards
the other drummer

[edit] History

Cover of the Eel Pie EP.

The band's first line-up consisted of Blaine on drums, William on guitar and Henry (Blaine's father) on bass. Some years later, Henry became a second guitarist in the band and they were joined by Kai on bass, as well as Tamara on keyboards. The band at this time recorded an eponymous EP with Aswad producer Nick Sykes. Blaine (whose voice had yet to break) took lead vocals.

Tamara left the band, and Blaine switched from drums to keyboards. The band had a brief stint with a friend of Will (known only as Max) on drums, but he was unreliable and for a time a drum machine was used. The band advertised on internet message boards for a drummer and found Kapil.

The Eel Pie Island EP was recorded soon after, and then the band issued their first proper single, a limited edition 7" of "Zoo Time", on Transgressive. They went on to sign to 679 Recordings.

After a number of singles in 2005, the start of 2006 saw the band gain their highest charting single with "The Boy Who Ran Away", play the ShockWaves NME Awards Tour and make their first appearance on Top of the Pops. The band's debut album, Making Dens, was released in March.

On the 18th September the band put on a tribute show to Syd Barrett, one of their biggest influences. The show was put on at the Union Chapel in Islington, London. Prefromers were Kid Harpoon, Lupen Crook, Kate Nash, Dan Tracy and the Television Personalites, Drew from Babyshambles, Ben from SixToes, Lucas from the Cazals and Mystery Jets. The Show had a special "Fanzine" made for the show with special entrys from all the preformers and artwork by the bands. It was put together by the artist and designer Kate Moross.

The band are currenty working on an acoustic EP being released through 679 Recordings. It will be a vinyl only release with 5 brand new tracks including the songs "Half In Love With Elizabeth" and "Behinde the Bunhouse". It will be produced by Erol Alkan. Two tracks ("...Elizabeth" and "Umbrellahead") have recently been given away for free on both their website and MySpace site. An early copy, consisting of the two tracks already given away, are to be released on a seven-inch vinyl some time before Christmas. It's unclear whether this is the acoustic EP or just a give away by the band to the fans. Initial copies will be given away to competition winners on their MySpace site, but the band have said others will be able to get hold of the vinyl.

[edit] The White Cross Revival Parties

Much attention has been drawn to their hosting of a series of parties, dubbed "The White Cross Revival", on Eel Pie Island. The parties, featuring as many bands as possible on one stage each night, have played host to the likes of;

Acoustic Ladyland
Larrikin Love
Dr Filth
Jamie T
Mystery Jets
Ladyfuzz
Jeremy Warmsley
The Archive
The Mergatroid

Over 600 people attended the final Eel Pie Party.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Making Dens
6th March 2006
#32 (UK)
679 Recordings

[edit] Singles

Zoo Time 14th February 2005 Transgressive	On My Feet 2005 Good and Evil	You Can't Fool Me Dennis 12th September 2005 #44 (UK) 679 Recordings	Alas Agnes 5th December 2005 #33 (UK) 679 Recordings
The Boy Who Ran Away 27th February 2006 #23 (UK) 679 Recordings	You Can't Fool Me Dennis (re-release) 22nd May 2006 #41 (UK) 679 Recordings	Diamonds in the Dark 4th September 2006 #47 (UK) 679 Recordings