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Jackie Valentine
Two years ago Kieran Mercer was just a guy with a handful of demos and a Myspace page. Cut to 2010, and the 22 year old singer-songwriter-guitarist is sitting on a mind-blowing debut album recorded at Vancouver’s Mushroom studios.
Lead singer Kieren Mercer sent 604 Records head Jonathin Simkin (now the band’s manager) demo’s via My Space and eventually got him to listen. Simkin told him to get a band and the next thing he knew, Mercer was entering the legendary west coast studio, with guitarist-vocalist Cameron Gray, bassist Martin Leather, drummer Graham Boots, and dream producer Dave Genn.
Clearly, the chemistry was precious - Jackie Valentine and their Midas-fingered knob-twiddler have managed to find a middle ground between Maroon 5 and Paul McCartney on power pop overdrive.
Fun Facts:
· Compared to Motown, Maroon 5 and Michael Jackson,
· The band has appeared as the background band for Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Bucket” music video.
· Discovered via MySpace.
· Album “Building Walls and Burning Bridges” to be released Spring 2011
“There’s a very good chance you haven’t heard of Jackie Valentine. There’s an even better chance that you will, very soon, and a lot. The sound is pop-redux: classic hooks and rhythms rooted in the ‘60s and ‘70s, but thoroughly new-millennial and infectious…” -The Province
Here’s a teaser to the upcoming video:
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