Papa J Promotion » Papa J News http://www.papajpromotions.com Music and Live events Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:17:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Monday http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=227 http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=227#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:17:39 +0000 The Papa http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=227 Bloody Nora who was at the open mic last night????

It was like a roller coaster of all the different acts energy and performances. We had one act, Jason who rocked it out for everybody. He plays in a band who are massive in Poland and a few other places in Europe. Other acts included Dick Philpot, Tim Buckley, Darren J and of course the Dave Bourne band.

Today I have been sitting on my own in the office as Keiron is getting his new laptop today apparently it’s very flash (I won’t be impressed untill they will walk around with you like a PA) but it does sound good.

So yea on my own today and decided to have a little clear up, it’s strange the bits and Bobs you find (once I found the 3rd Bob I gave up). I found the source to our ant problem was a spoon down the back of a unit covered in sugar, there was a broken fan and for some reason a bag of clothes haven’t dared to see who they belong to yet.

well I’m going to keep going until I pass out through all the dust I’m turning up or I find somewhere for all these new CD cases to live.

catch you all very soon,

Dave

]]> http://www.papajpromotions.com/?feed=rss2&p=227 0 One year http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=225 http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=225#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:23:27 +0000 The Papa http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=225 Well don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till its gone….

Well in my opinion yes this is true. I have been away from the office for a little while now as I have had to deal with other bits and bobs at went on for longer then planned…BUT now fresh faced and bushy tail Dave is back in the office and can’t Keiron tell…

No more do the sweet sounds of Simon and Garfunkel leak out of the office, repeating all day over the gardens of Colliers Wood. It would not do. So in went my input and people have started to wonder what these boys are doing in that shed all day listening to music???

I can tell you now faithful neighbours and online viewers that we are working our lil gonads off at the moment getting the last of the accounts done before our accountant comes tonight to rip them apart.

She will be coming round to go over it all as it is the end of our 1st year as a company….Whey!! or as I keep getting told to spell it correctly Wa-hey!!….otherwise it’s milk :-S

So Happy Birthday to The Papa! Wa-hey (Whey!). Sadly most of the celebrations have worn off but you know us if you want to party the Papa J boys will probably be there.

So it’s a new year for the company which means a brand new campaign to push us out to the people ( Covertly Code Named by top intelligence men (and women): P.J.P.  (Papa J’s for President)).

Will keep you all posted through out the year on what’s happening, so stick with us as you may laugh, cry, make new friends or break up with old ones. Who knows what will emerge….

To Infinity and Beyond,

Dave xXx

]]> http://www.papajpromotions.com/?feed=rss2&p=225 0 good stuff man! http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=222 http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=222#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:59:32 +0000 The Papa http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=222 Well the summer has lasted quite long and business has started to really get kicked off! So happy as this August is the end of our First year as a business!!!!!

Surprisingly our Printing services have kicked off faster then our Duplication. Orders are coming in for business cards, posters, custom birthday cards, flyers etc etc! It’s awesome as we only decided to go into printing/publishing last minute. It seem’s that it was well worthit.

If you are interested in getting anything printed just give us an email info@papajpromotions.com for a quote. (I’m sure you won’t be disappointed)

New faces keep arriving at the open mic and new genres arriving with them. It’s been great. I enjoy the open mic so much as we get all sorts down, and I get to listen and learn so much from the different styles.

We are also working alongside the Shed Club now every Friday. Helping to run what is another fantastic Open Mic.

Well I’m working hard at the moment of preparing our End of Year Accounts! Scary shit man!! But thanks to some sound advice from the real Tim Buckley I feel confident that all will be ok.

Well I shall leave this blog here, and will be uploading pics on Tuesday from this weeks open mic to show you how it’s going.

Take Care

Keiron

]]> http://www.papajpromotions.com/?feed=rss2&p=222 0 Feeling HOT HOT HOT!!! http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=220 http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=220#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:21:21 +0000 The Papa http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=220 To All I Bid You MASSIVE Hello!!

Sun is Shinning, weather is HOT, BLOODY HOT.

Thank God!!! HAHA at the risks of sounding like perv.s we here at Papa J’s love it (as should all our fellow men of the earth). The skirts get shorter and the tops get lower mostly on the women but you still see the one guy in his sarong ~( it’s a metro man thing)~ . It’s the kinda time where you can be happy that your pockets are filled only with flint and the odd used condom.

To celebrate another occasion, Keiron has got himself a part time job. It’s down at Sutton Music working with Sam Brooks, once again as the A-team of the music shop world. Next time you see him wish him well and try and get a disscount.

The open mics have been rolling well and only had a small low during the world cup but now England lost to Germany *sob…sob…boo-hoo* ~(predictable or what)~ we are back on track with last night being a MENTAL all out rock off with 3 new acts, the traditional family and some rarer faces with, as they always will be, welcome to put there names firmly into any of the Papa J stages or events.

So Kiddies What have you all been up to?????

don’t forget all the ways you can contact us we always love to hear from you weather you are an artist, band, legend or just want a civil chat…..but if you drink Starbucks and follow suit WE DON’T WANT TO KNOW YOU!!!  ~(some bad people have emerged after drinking starbucks…did you know if alive today Hitler would be drinking his grande french roast coffee with a muffin doing his 5th Sudoku of the day…….twat…….), although if you are an occasional starbucks attendee I’m sure we can live with it :-)

but if you do want to get in touch find us on twitter, facebook, myspace and obviously the pages you have been or are just about to explore.

Chat to you all soon,

Dave and Keiron xXx

]]> http://www.papajpromotions.com/?feed=rss2&p=220 0 Hello!!!!! http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=217 http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=217#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 11:41:10 +0000 The Papa http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=217 Well kids,
everything has been slightly on hold at the moment and this is not something we enjoy at Papa J’s.
So we have decided it is long gone high time we pulled our fingers out and got them working. We could have so much more going for us if we wasn’t just sitting back and letting it plod along so we are going to be pushing the company hard.

It’s all back on track, Abbey/Santander have finally sorted out our online banking and got Keiron’s card working. We were able to get Hannah White into Acoustic magazine and have gotten alot of odd jobs sorted like the duplicator is fully running and operational.

We will be all soon getting ready for the festivals soon anyone going to any good ones this year let us know tell us who your looking forward to the most this year. I thought I might have a chance at seeing Adam Ant but he went a bit loony doing a church gig this month so I think it will be a while before we see him back performing.

catch you all soon,
Dave x

]]> http://www.papajpromotions.com/?feed=rss2&p=217 1 Tree chopping and sex gnomes http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=208 http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=208#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:37:35 +0000 The Papa http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=208 Yippie Ki Yay! our 2nd Variety show of the year went down really well our 3 bands were amazing.

KCT ended up playing with a full band instead of just the normal two members (aparently the other two had only been in the band for 3 hours) and they pulled it off with out any hiccups giving them a fuller more original sound.

The High Chaparrals had the crowd going mental as they lit up the room with not only the power of there performance but the Christmas lights surrounding the double bass .

New band 335 ended the night with some funky diverse blues proving that they had what it takes to headline and finish off the night.

We could tell this was a night that would grab more people to come to our next show on the 15th of May for the line up visit:

( http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=756935000&v=app_2344061033#!/event.php?eid=114360095250580&index=1)

Continuing with the live music Monday’s open mic night is tonight. Last weeks was excellent. Everyone who turned up enjoyed themselves starting chants of “sex gnome” and other bits of …. supportive banter :-)

The Sun kept out a fair few of our usual crowd but it was also able to bring in some old comers to the warming lights of the Papa J’s GJ’s Experience. who knows what tonight’s will bring us…..

During the past week we have not only been working on all the Papa J bits and bobs but cutting down a tree! Apparently it falls in to a small bit of no man’s land so the council won’t touch it.

So cutting down this 45ft tree has been a bit of an experience although it’s too week to take mine or Keiron’s weight due to it rotting so we have been sending Keir’s 63 year old Grandad up there instead as he is the smallest and the lightest. There have been several close calls; nearly smashing a car and Grandad nearly flying out of the tree are only a few to name. We only have the trunk left to do now, we have stayed alive this long lets hope we will last a bit longer.

Will update you on how it’s going soon,

Hope to see you tonight at the Open Mic,

Dave

]]> http://www.papajpromotions.com/?feed=rss2&p=208 0 I love Tuesday’s… http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=205 http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=205#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:13:39 +0000 The Papa http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=205 HELLO hello…….HOLA!!!! we’re in a place called “the shed”

it’s one thing I do like about being a small company and working from the bottom of the garden and that is the fact of the sun is shining and I can feel the warm sun on my face, perhaps work outside on the bench today? or lay on the grass? I’m undecided at the moment but I do wish my sunglasses weren’t broken, they broke as I was doing somersaults the other night in the garden. You can tell you’re starting to get old when you ache for days after doing that sort of thing.   Owie!!!

Today is a Tuesday, good things happen on Tuesdays. Like one of the acts we promote (Twisted Harmony) last Tuesday got to finally  perform in the final of Sing Slam. For all you who haven’t heard of what Song Slam is it’s where acoustic artists go and perform their original songs to an audience and panel of judges then get voted off one by one until there is only one left. Kind of like X-Factor meets Highlander “THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!!”…..Sam and Keiron ended up coming a very close 2nd place which was very well battled for.  Tonight they (Twisted Harmony), Hannah White and Dick Philpot are in the polls for a competition called Storm The Charts. It’s a way of getting unsigned artists into the top 40 so make sure you vote for each one and keep an eye on their facebook’s and here for more info.

you can vote for each of them at:

vote Dick : http://194.154.164.103/~ftp@stormthecharts.com/poll.php?id=144

vote Hannah: http://194.154.164.103/~ftp@stormthecharts.com/poll.php?id=200

vote Twisted: http://194.154.164.103/~ftp@stormthecharts.com/poll.php?id=228

Other things we have been looking at are a few little seminars so we can go and talk to other people in our line of work make contacts and learn how to progress so they should be fun (free tea and biscuits included).

I must say I am very much looking forward to the rest of this week. On Friday I am off to the shores of Bognor to enjoy the weather…I hope I’ll have to check before I leave. Then we have our 2nd variety show of the year down at GJ’s bar this Saturday the 17th. You will love to get down for as we have some great acts…

We have a very new band called 335 who play the blues so funky you can smell it!!

John Haithwaite and Joshua Kynaston have teamed up to make the fantastic duo KCT

The High Chaparrals, is a country/Americana band who are so full of energy we could run the nights power through them. This is a band you will definitely not be able to resist dancing away too.

so come on down to our 2nd show of the new year and as usual you can find yourself partying with the PAPA!

We kick off at 7.30pm with the open mic until 9.00pm and that’s when we get the big boys on to play till 12am. After that you know the rest we get on The Papa J DJ and dance the dance of life.

I hope to see you all there singing, dancing, grooving and PARTYING!!!

Catch you all soon,

Dave x

]]> http://www.papajpromotions.com/?feed=rss2&p=205 0 Updates, Updates, Updates…. http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=196 http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=196#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:10:16 +0000 The Papa http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=196 Hey Guys,


What’s everyone been up to? Seriously if you do read this blog we’d love to know so email us or comment on the blog.


Here in the land of Papa J we’ve been working away as always. Finally everything is setup we just need to get it out there to people of all the services we provide.


We’re both absolutely diabolically skint at the moment, although general moral is ok. Feel low at times however there are small things that perk me up and make me ignore the all the rubbish of having nothing at the moment.


We tried applying for a grant or a business course from the Princes Trust as we are young enough to apply, and you won’t be accepted if your business is already established/trading. I personally think that’s horse shit. Yeh we’ve set it up, but still currently don’t have all of the business knowledge down.


Nonetheless we will strive on through, and if any of you ever want to give us some business advice then give us a shout info@papajpromotions.com

Gig wise everything is fantastic as it has been for a while. It’s great to see that a community has been developed in the area and it grows stronger every week.


We’ve got a review on Hannah White coming out in a couple of weeks in Acoustic Magazine, which for us and Hannah is major. We are so amped and excited for her, maybe this will be a stepping stone to many things.


Well anyway I’m going to stop rambling as got work to do. Talk to you soon


Keiron

]]> http://www.papajpromotions.com/?feed=rss2&p=196 0 “HALLELUJAH!!!!” http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=193 http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=193#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:39:01 +0000 The Papa http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=193 Hello,

Well as Keiron stated yesterday we are in battle with Vile Dread Scum or  ”The Tax Man”  as other wise known. It is all slowly coming together and will be a fantastic experience once it is done.

Today we are working very hard on some more duplication bits and bobs mostly getting the alignment of the inserts sorted and templates to send out to everyone who is after duplication.

Last night was fun for anyone who was able to make it watching Hannah White playing away in the Rubicon Bar with help form Keiron. It’s such a lovely venue check it out for yourselves:

http://www.rubiconbar.com/

There were a fair amount of people in the Rubicon including Hannah’s Little crew she calls her “mum-chums”.  Out of the “mum-chums” I was only allowed to talk to Taryn and her friend Helen…..I think this is because I had already met Taryn and Hannah didn’t want to try and explain the mentality behind Papa J’s to her friends….sorry….”mum-chums”.

The night came quietly to an end…Well as quiet as it can be with Hannah’s partner Abstract Al doing the backing vocals to the last of her songs

Hannah “well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift, the baffled king composing hallelujah….hallelujah”

Al:   “HALLELUJAH!!!!”

Hannah: “hallelujah”

Al: “HALLELUJAH!!!!”

Hannah: “hallel-u-jah”

Al: “HALLELUJAH!!!!”

Hannah: “hallel-u-o-o-o-jah”

Al: “HALLELUJAH?????????”

Hannah’s stalker of the night did not look impressed but everyone else had fun.

Tonight everyone is off doing their own thing Sherm is having a nice night in. Keiron is off down The Colliers Tup to play a small Twisted Harmony set and see ROB REYNOLDS play as headliner. That’s right The Tup has Rob Reynolds playing there tonight I’m gutted that I’m missing it. I’m sacrificing Rob Reynolds set so that me, myself and I can go off to Morden to catch up with some good friends.

Well I hope you all enjoy any of the sun you may catch today and I’ll see you all soon.

Ta,

Dave

]]> http://www.papajpromotions.com/?feed=rss2&p=193 0 Darkness is Upon Us… http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=191 http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=191#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:44:03 +0000 The Papa http://www.papajpromotions.com/?p=191 Well darkness is upon us guys…or atleast the end of the financial year! Now for all businesses and self employed people it is crunch time.

For most it will be a simple job of handing over the gruelling job of end of year accounts to their accountants. However for Papa J’s it will be myself and Dave doing it. We don’t want to, but we can’t afford to hire an accountant…the joys of being skint music promoters who can’t even afford a tin of beans!!

Anyway I started the end of year accounts and have got about half of it done. Just waiting on some codes and then I can complete it. What I’m really struggling with is HMRC (the Tax man!) use jargon which normal people like myself find difficult to understand. Also what’s bloody annoying is they repeat questions over and over. You think to yourself I answered that back 3 sections ago your arse!! And that all you’ve done is phrased it in a different more confusing way!!

I really wish  that the tax man would make a simple end of year returns form. Simple boxes saying we made -£…… (yes that is a minus sign), we paid this much PAYE (pay as you earn…tax) and paid this much National Insurance.  (yeh I know what’s the point NHS are pretty shit and pension is worthless!)

They just don’t make it simple for new businesses, and especially businesses that are struggling.

Here’s something I’ll let you in on. Me and Dave are absolutely skint right now. I mean have zero. And we developed the equipment and stuff we have over the course of years. We decided to go into this full time because we really believe it can work. However the tax man, and other government institutions make it harder for people who do not have money behind them to succeed. Everything comes at a price, and the tax man finds all sorts of new charges to throw onto you so that you can’t move up the social ladder.

Anyway enough of my rant; this blog is filled with far too much bitchiness. I’m happy I’m playing a gig tonight with Hannah White tonight (www.myspace.com/songsbyhannah) which shall be a really good laugh. Also got everything up and running and possibly some orders!

Talk to you soon on happier topics!

Keiron

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