Trampolene: Last News

Trampolene frontman Jack Jones has announced details his self-titled debut solo album, as well as sharing new single ‘Breathe’.As well as fronting Trampolene and working as a poken word poet, Jones is also a member of Pete Doherty’s band The Puta Madres. Now, he’s set to make his solo debut.According to a press release, the album will see Jones “put away his guitar” to embrace a new contemporary sound while delivering his usual “hard-hitting state of the nation poems of existential fear and loathing”.He’s also shared the Barnaby Fairley-directed video for new single ‘Breathe’, which features Jones donning astronaut gear as crowds swirl around him.

Pete Doherty has spoken to NME about the five-year anniversary of his record label Strap Originals, the return of Babyshambles and the future of The Libertines.Strap Originals is home to artists such as Trampolene, Real Farmer and Pregoblin, all of whom performed at London’s the 100 Club last Thursday (May 30) as part of a showcase tour around the UK to mark the label’s birthday.Doherty gave a short acoustic performance at the event, which included a surprise appearance from Libertines bandmate Carl Barât. Together they played ‘Run Run Run’, the lead single from their recent Number One album ‘All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade’.He also performed a new song, tentatively titled ‘Pot of Gold’, which is about his daughter Billie-May, who turned one at midnight that night.

Pete Doherty‘s Strap Originals label, the same day that frontman Jack Jones releases his debut book of the same name.“The album and the book is ‘Swansea To Hornsey’ as it should have been,” Jones said in a statement. “We couldn’t find anyone to publish the book the first time round.

Trampolene have shared their new single ‘Shoot The Lights’, the fifth track to be lifted from their forthcoming third album ‘Love No Less Than A Queen’.You can hear the dark, moody new song below, along with visuals juxtaposing close-up footage of frontman Jack Jones with images of a city after dark.“For me it’s about when you’re scared and trapped indoors together with someone you love, for what feels like forever, it’s touch you need, life you want, and shoot the lights when you dare,” said Jones, also a spoken word poet and the guitarist in Pete Doherty‘s band The Puta Madres.Video director Roger Sargent said of the visuals: “It’s about coming out of lockdown, with all the bright lights being tantalisingly close, both figuratively and