Jack Peñate

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Jack Peñate

Background information
Birth name	Jack Fabian Peñate
Born	September 2, 1984 (1984-09-02) (age 23)
Origin	Blackheath, London, England
Genre(s)	Alternative Soul Rockabilly Pop Indie Rock
Occupation(s)	singer-songwriter performer
Instrument(s)	Vocals Guitar
Label(s)	XL Recordings
Associated acts	Jack's Basement The Maccabees Talk Taxis
Website	Official Site Official MySpace
Members
Jack Peñate - Vocals and Guitar Joel Porter - Bass Guitar Alex Robins - Drums

Jack Fabian Peñate (born 2 September 1984, Blackheath, London; IPA: [pənˈjɑːti]) is a British singer-songwriter and musician, of English and Spanish descent, signed to XL Recordings. He attended Alleyn's School^[1] and spent a year at University College London studying Ancient World Studies^{[citation needed]} before dropping-out to pursue his musical career. He performs with friends and band members Joel Porter (bass), Thomas Lightfoot (Keys), and Alex Robins (drums).

1 Music
2 Discography
3 Jack's Basement
4 Live gigs
5 Tours
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Music

Peñate made his way up the ranks of the club and bar scene of London before recently being signed by record label XL Recordings. Peñate released his first promo single in October 2006, "Second Minute or Hour" along with its b-side track, "Got My Favourite". This single was released by the record label Young Turks (Record Label), as a 1000-only limited 7 inch, each containing a different Polaroid photograph, taken of Peñate. And in April 2007 he released the "Spit At Stars EP". As well as the title track, this featured "My Yvonne", "Cold Thin Line" and a cover of Darondo Pulliam and Al Turner's "Didn't I". The CD edition of the EP also included the first song he ever wrote called "Jack Of All Trades" which he wrote with his band at school "Jack's Basement". He has appeared on XFM radio's "Xposure" and his first two singles were both Single of the Week on Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe's show.

On 10 August 2007 he announced that his album would be released on 1 October and be titled Matinée. However, on 7 September, this date was pushed back to 8 October, because more time was needed to "finish off all the bits of artwork for the inside cover." Peñate also stated that "I've been told it's now in production so hopefully there won't be any more delays." ^[2]

Despite much pre-album publicity, the album met with mixed reviews including a 5/10 from the NME who had featured Penate on their cover in a previous month. However, the album did debut at number seven in the UK album charts. ^[3]

[edit] Discography

Singles:

2006: "Second, Minute or Hour" (original release)
2007: "Spit At Stars"
2007: "Torn On The Platform" UK #7, UK Indie #1
2007: "Second, Minute or Hour" - 24 September 2007 UK #17, UK Indie #1
2007: "Have I Been A Fool" - 10 December 2007 UK #73, UK Indie #3

Albums:

2007: Matinée - 8 October 2007 UK #7, UK Independent Label Albums #1

[edit] Jack's Basement

While he attended Alleyn's School, Peñate formed a band called Jack's Basement with fellow Alleyn old boy and musician Felix White of The Maccabees. Many of the songs written with Jack's Basement, including "Spit At Stars" and "Jack Of All Trades", remain in his set today.

[edit] Live gigs

At Peñate's concerts, it is customary that audience members enter the stage while the song "Torn On The Platform" is performed. One such stage invasion at the Oxford Zodiac on 22 April 2007 resulted in a fan stealing Peñate's distortion pedal. After he'd realised it was missing he proclaimed, “D’you know what? Whoever’s got it…keep it! Just make sure you play a Telecaster through it and not a Gibson!”.^[4]

Jack Peñate was featured on BBC Three's coverage of the Glastonbury Festival on Friday 22 June 2007.

He has recently appeared at the first ever Underage festival in London^{[citation needed]}

He has also appeared at the Carling Weekend in Reading and Leeds. Two days after his performances at both festivals, he announced on a message on his MySpace that he would have to cancel two gigs the following week, due to severe damage to his throat, which also resulted in him reducing his set length at the previous weekend's Carling Weekend.

On 8 December 2007 he performed on the Later With Jools Holland show sharing a bill with David Gray, Rilo Kiley, The Coral, Cleo Laine and John Dankworth, amongst others.

[edit] Tours

Peñate has played gigs all over the UK on tour and has previously shared dates with his good friends Adele, and The Maccabees, Jack played at the 2007 Oxegen festival in Kildare, Ireland.

Peñate recently played a one-off supporting act for Amy Winehouse at the London Astoria, before embarking on his full UK tour, alongside support acts Adele and The Metros.

Peñate was one of the contributors to the Janie Jones charity cover single.

He also featured at music night Songs in the Dark run by Jeremy Warmsley and Simon Mastrantone