Reviews & Feedback:

"His accent and vernacular writing style do  make him very distinctive."  R2; Rock n Reel, music magazine's Dai Jefferries stated & gave him 3 stars out 5 for e.p. 'Exposed', up against the albums of reviews of the sept/oct issue 2014.

John Foreman the cockney performer of London songs, music-hall & English traditional, who's been performing since the late 1950's &  printing  street literature , also known as the 'broadsheet king' & was a big influence on his son Chris Foreman of the very popular & successful band 'Madness.' John stated that Jack Circle is "Is genuine & authentic & I would like him to keep some of the old songs alive & go public & get out there, which he is now starting to do".

" Many fake it! but  Jack Circle is what he is & means every word  he says" Chris Hardcastle;  Proprietor & Manager of Arena sound & vision; record company, publisher & recording studio. 

Marie Chrehan Irish poet & singer-songwriter stated when she first heard the tracks off the E.P. 'There's a place' & 'Where are we?' " Its his song-writing & the honesty & emotional content in his voice within his songs/poetry".

• "His like one of Henry  Mayhew's street  Characters, in London in the 1880's, mixed with Peter Ackroyd's  Cockney visionaries"
• "His the real deal."
• "His a Rough Diamond"
• "His distinctive & stands out from the pack."
• "His voice has a authority & knowing about it, yet, at times it has a vulnerability & purity as well."
• "His voice sits strong amongst the compositions he paints".
• "His voice & delivery demands your attention to his words."
• "His is at raw stage at the moment, but has the potential to cut himself a niche, be interesting to watch his development".

(Feedback from the underground scene since 2014).

Info/Bio

This E.P. lays out Mr Circle’s stall - A mixture of indie, acoustic, folk & experimental music, from  tracks like  the indie/folk rock of 'There’s a place', to the rustic & poetical-eco-political 'Where are we?' and on through to the Gypsy/Cockney/Folk/Music-Hall influenced, Rough/demo of  'Pie & Mash'n'Liquor (& Stewed Eels)'. Amongst this mash-up of influences, you'll also find experimental & electronica sounds, acapella, until finally there's the naked spoken word itself!  Embracing the contemporary & the traditional.
 
This is unchartered waters for Mr Circle, to go public with his own songs & traditional songs. As he kept his poems & songs private, & played them as a chill-out time & his sanctuary. Then his family & friends asking him to share them, then from the front-room, to around camp fires to busking, & the very influential friend, John Foreman (Cockney Performer) John told him & also wrote to him, that he " should share & go public with his songs & poems & also keep some of the old London songs & English traditional songs alive", also John said some very kind words on behalf of Mr Circle. Jack Circle says " John Foreman is a major influence" on him. Mr Circle states, for himself " there is a massive difference from being spontaneous & sharing around a camp- fire at a festival etc.. than compared to gigs, where it becomes pre-meditated", but he's getting used to it.
 
Mr Circle is also very much influenced by the indie & punk D.I.Y. culture & the original D.I.Y.  culture of Folk,  being of the; untrained singer/musician, informally educated & also your singing rooted/anchored where you come from. With this in mind, free- expression, free-thinking, Mr Circle states  "It's like a Fool starting a musical journey"." If its not your thing, no problem, take a different path, but if you do like the Circle experience & if something resonates with you, then we will travel this journey together".
 
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Mr Circle was "Made in London". The Borough and Camberwell nurtured & moulded him, Yalding in Kent was his playground on weekends away from the City and his teenage years where spent living in Allhallows on the marshlands of the Hoo Peninsula. Returning to London for a few years: Bermondsey, Peckham, Walworth, East Dulwich and Nunhead & Kent in Kent: Teynham, Faversham, Rochester, Middle-Stoke. Jack took to the open road for 8 years as a hitch-hiker and this became his education, Hitch Hiking around the UK, Europe, British Columbia-Yukon-Alaska etc.. Travelling & working up & down the South West coast of England, work & live in Ilfracombe, Trimstone, plus lived in coves, woods, travellers sites, squats. caravans around the country & abroad.

Finally, he settled in Somerset, living in Watchet, Wellington, Taunton, Cotford st Luke, Bishop Lydeard & Corewell

Now London is nurturing and embracing him again, this time as a poet, singer/songwriter, artist, writer

of the underground scene.
The road calls again in a different guise.
 
 

Statements & Quotes:

"The eternal cycle turns, the past is in the present, both in the future, influencing us all, absorbing consciously & sub-consciously. No one! is outside nature. Like the comet of past, which returns far in the future, but effects us now.

The cycle turns as the veils drops, claims of original, the source. But reveals the truth; Unique!
It's only the tools that change, to reach out.
So a new manifestation forms from the creativity continuum.

In birth there is death,
In death there is birth."    

(Jack Circle; spring; 2014); quote taken from mini-poster & also stated on the inside sleeve, both from  Jack Circle's debut  E.P. c.d. 'Exposed'.
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"Mono-culture is not natural in mother nature, but diversity is natural in mother nature.
Art/creativity is not for elitism, but for all. Loose your instincts, imagination & dreams & we lose our minds.

Please! support independent artists, independent labels & independent record shops."

(Jack Circle);  from mini-poster of Jack Circle's debut E.P. C.D. 'Exposed'.