Jinder

On the road again…a nice run of shows to fit in with getting my new record finished. Would love to see you!

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Hello. In the absence of any exciting news today, I present to you two previously unseen (by me anyway) photographs of the great Syd Barrett, by this point resembling a stocky darts player, dropping in on his former bandmates at Abbey Road in 1975 during the recording of ‘Wish You Were Here’.

For many years, it was said he turned up, nobody spoke to him because he was being weird, then he left.

This isn’t true. A couple of weeks later he was a guest at David Gilmour’s wedding, and during the two sessions he attended he played guitar in the control room (Gilmour’s D35, as he is pictured playing here) and even asked the band if he could add some guitar to the title track of the album.

They declined, and the rest is history.

It’s important to be kind to your friends when they’re struggling, no matter whether they suddenly resemble Eric Bristow or not.

Anyway, interesting pics and tidbits of rock history, I thought.

All love,
Jx

“The perfect take is just as long as the person singing is still alive…that’s really it.”

The great Jason Molina, who would have turned fifty yesterday, said that.

If you’re reading this, chances are we both made it through 2023 in one piece. That’s about as much of an achievement as anything. You don’t need to live up to all the social media grandstanding, lists of achievements and clinking champagne flutes.

It’s okay to have no resolutions other than to keep hanging on.

That’s enough, and all of us are enough.

With love,
Jx

My heart is broken at the news of the passing of Paul Hindes, one of my oldest friends and certainly one of the greatest and longest-standing supporters of my work.

I met Paul back in the late ‘90s, when he took over the running of a legendary music venue, No.10, in Bridport, Dorset. We instantly hit it off, bonding over a shared love of music, stories and (in those days!) lashings of good red wine and Tanqueray.

Paul supported me with enthusiasm and kindness that knew no bounds, booking me year-in, year-out, right up until my ship came in and I signed with Sony BMG back in 2008, with Hindesy being the first person to call and congratulate me on my lucky break. At the end of that year, when that particular pillar of salt dissolved in the rain of the credit crunch and I was back on my arse, Paul was the first person to call me and offer a gig to help me out, after guessing (entirely correctly!) that I had suddenly found myself in a state of utter financial heck, and carried on giving me regular work right up until he retired a few years ago.

No.10 was the first place I ever played to a capacity crowd, and the scenes during the peak of the place’s popularity were absolutely astonishing. As a bar with a nominal capacity of sixty, I regularly played shows to twice that number of people, sitting on one another’s shoulders, standing on tables, sitting on the bar, crammed onto the stage with me, all joined together in a giant, sweaty, beautiful, drunken communion.

During those years, No.10 was the lungs of Bridport, a breathing, singing, laughing, dancing, loving mass of human beings at different stations along the line of life, but all living as one entity during those glorious and vital nights.

Hindesy purchased No.10 with the very purpose of creating these majestic evenings, and for a long time put music on seven days a week. The lazy, bluesy, hungover Sunday afternoon jams were the perfect (metaphorically) post-coital comedown after a week-long party filled with music and drunken dreaming. Paul always held court at every show, beaming with pride about the success of the venue and the musicians whose careers and artistic endeavours he had nurtured and supported.

He always had so many stories to hand-he was a legendary storyteller, and was known far and wide for his tales-all of which blurred the boundaries between fact and fiction which is the place, as the late Jackie Leven (another legendary storyteller) once told me, where things become luminous. Hindesy’s stories were SO gripping and SO fantastical that veracity frankly didn’t matter. Tales of bodyguarding for Janis Joplin, squiring Joni Mitchell, drinking with Leonard Cohen, playing keys uncredited on Whiter Shade of Pale, brawls, brothels, brandy, seven foot tall Dutch escorts and conquering the stock market at the apogee of the ‘80s and being rewarded with private jets and the finest Mercedes coupes available.

He vehemently lived and loved life, and was absolutely filled with the stuff, which makes it utterly inconceivable that he is now gone. I just can’t imagine a world without Paul Hindes in it.

I loved him, and am so thankful to have known him. He was the very best of us. See you on the other side, Paul.

Jxx

PS - I don’t take photos as I am a pretentious idiot and like to rely on the abstraction of memory, but I really wish I had a picture of Paul and I together from one of those many, many nights. I borrowed this one from my brother in song Elijah Wolf as it may be the best photograph ever taken of Hindesy, I hope he doesn’t mind x

As we tip into the Christmas period, I just wanted to offer my heartfelt thanks to you all for making 2023 a stellar year.

It’s been packed with great live shows, we took a bold leap into bigger rooms, theatres and arts centres which has been far more successful than I expected. Thankyou so much to all of you who came out and made these shows so exciting, and to all the great promoters and venues who took the leap of faith and put me on.

I remain humbled and deeply thankful for the kind and enthusiastic response to my album ‘Codetta’ which I put out in June. I’m 42yrs old and have been making records-thirteen of them-for a quarter of a century. There is nothing new about me, no buzz, no hype, no major label, no PR. I’m just making up songs and turning them into records (with the help of producer Pete Millson) then travelling around and giving those songs new life at shows, the same as I have spent my whole life doing.

To find, at this stage of my life and career, that people not only STILL give a tinker’s cuss about my work, but do so in gradually increasing numbers, is a blessing that I am acutely aware of and intensely thankful for. I have worked-and will continue to work-for my entire life to bring this music to you.

I was planning to take a break in January and February to finish my next album, but the demand for more live shows means that we’re heading straight back out on the road in the new year…there is a GREAT new record on the way though and there will be more news on that soon.

I wish you and your loved ones warmth, security and happiness this Christmas. We all need that good stuff more than ever. Know that you are loved and appreciated. Life is short and I believe we need to tell one another how much they are loved before we all drift away and dissipate like smoke.

Yours, in song, word and deed,
Jinder xx

Unfortunately due to being overrun with spam bots and fake accounts, this page has become all but unusable. I have no option but to unpublish/temporarily delete it for the time being, albeit very reluctantly as I’ve spent over a decade developing it and creating content and connections. Another dead end, I guess.

Thankyou, friends.

Jx

Four years since this came out…where has that time gone?! Still one of my favourites. Proud of how this turned out.

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Hello Chums,
What was your favourite album of 2023?

Mine was ‘Monsell Skyline’ by the great Kevin Hewick. A labyrinthine record that covers an immense amount of emotional and musical ground without ever being gratuitous. A gossamer clawhammer that you as a listener will wish to be set about with over and over again.

Honourable mentions must go to the glorious ‘Faith in the Future’ by my long-time collaborator Peter James Millson, the stellar self titled release from the ever brilliant Thea Gilmore and (whilst not a new album in the truest sense) ‘Lustre Parfait’, the posthumously released collaboration between Gord Downie and Bob Rock, which is SO great and a timely reminder of just how magnificent a talent Gord was.

Over to you…what has got your ears twitching this year?

Love to all,
Jxx

Hello chums,
Come hither and thither and yon, for Chrimbonulous titterishness is upon us and the doors of my store have been thrown to the wind!

Come, gasp at the wonders within as I stand gesticulating wildly, akin to some fat Wonka, proffering and proclaiming noisily (of song) to the assembled throng, as the sweet silver bells ring (ding *and* d**g) and so on…

Shipping is free across the multiverse and I’m happy to post your order back in time to the days when CDs were hip, maaaan.

We are super prompt with shipping here at Jinder Towers and will make sure that your order arrives in time for Christmas!

Love to all,
Jxx

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Hello friends,
Merry week at yourselves. Are you looking for a Christmas present for a friend/relative who likes listening to bearded, overweight men singing maudlin songs about trains and death?

Yessss, I thought you might have been…why not step this way and enjoy a stroll around my lovely website, where you can procure an absolute embarrassment of my records, either “stock” or signed and personalised with a message of your choice, at competitive prices with free shipping anywhere in the world…just in time for Chrimbo too!

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Lovely show at The Dorothy Pax in Sheffield last night, not only a marvellous venue but also home to the most glamorous bathroom on the circuit…thankyou to Paul and Valerie for putting the show together and to everyone for coming out and supporting live music on a snowy and inclement evening. I will always do my best to ensure that whilst you may arrive as strangers, you leave as family.

Thankyou, gang. You are the glue that holds this shattered old crock together!

With love,
Jxx

Sheffield chums, this is tonight! Would love to see you x

Hello, chums!
Please check out my lovely brand new website, crafted by my ingenious and irrepressible wife Amy. News, videos, music, tour dates and-importantly-Plenty of CDs available if you’re looking for a Christmas present for relatives you don’t like or friends you don’t plan to see again..

Jinder | singer songwriter Discover Jinder - Dorset based singer-songwriter creating original music and performances across the UK is a singer-songwriter based in Dorset

Hello, friends. This Saturday I bring my mobile sonic delicatessen to Sheffield, to play this gorgeous event as curated by my friend Paul Grimshaw. I’ll be serving up all manner slices of song, including some with the bear in the middle and even some with the weird flat egg disc. How did they get that in the ham? Find out on Saturday at The Dorothy Pax…

All profits go to cat rescue charities in the Sheffield area. Tickets available here:

https://www.dorothypax.com/product/concert-for-the-kitties-02-12-23/

Would love to see you x

Ahoy there maties and other pirate slang.

Check this out-tomorrow night in Sherborne, I’m very much looking forward to teaming up once again with the great John Bailey and The Puffins, his excellent coterie of musical brigands (I thought that was a pirate word, but it actually means a gang member who ambushes folk with an intent to rob whilst they’re vulnerable in the wilderness…obviously the fine fellows in The Puffins aren’t that way inclined-as far as I know-but I’ve committed to the brigand direction now (in this post, not in life), so I’m sticking with it!) for another show together. They’re a terrific band doing something unusual and very cool.

The Mermaid, 8pm. Free entry, too-get in!

Love to all,
Jx

In three days of living with us, Muffin the tortoiseshell kitten has gone from hiding behind the sofa to discovering the joy of lengthy fusses and lap naps…which is more than can be said for her sister Smudge, who has taken up curmudgeonly watch in the laundry basket and is refusing even a tickle behind the ears! She will come around though.

In the meantime, I’m honoured to be the first lap of many that this little ball of fluff has purred her way through a snooze upon 🙂

Pics are in order of her gradual descent from wary lap percher to the land of nod 🤣

Thankyou so much to everyone who came out to last night’s Mill Farm Music show. What a lovely evening…onwards to The Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon today for our Levenland show, celebrating the life and music of my late chum Jackie Leven. See you there!

With love,
Jx

Well here’s some good news. Thanks to Channel 4 showing the movie it’s featured in yesterday evening, Keep Me In Your Heart is now at No.3 in the iTunes charts in the UK, having previously peaked at No.20 a little while ago.

Happy Sunday everybody, be kind to yourselves. Make the people you love cups of tea and encourage everyone to talk utter b*llocks all day.

Yours, becoming cyclonic (rising slowly, later)
Jxx

Hello chums,
There are still a few hours left of Bandcamp Friday, when the good folks at Bandcamp waive their fees and allow 90% of the revenue from music sales to go to the artist.

If anyone has been thinking about buying a CD for a chrimbo present or grabbing a download, there has never been a time more opportune…

Jinder Jinder is a UK based singer/songwriter. Primarily a solo artist, Jinder is also the former frontman of Sony BMG artists The Mercurymen and UK chart act Candlefire, Since 2001, Jinder has released thirteen critically acclaimed albums and his songs have recorded by many other acts, including Aled Jone...

Hello chums, I’m delighted to announce this show will be happening on Sat 18th November at the marvellous Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon, London.

We’ve enjoyed sold out Levenland shows over the last few years at Glasgow CCA, Celtic Connections, Paxos Music Festival and more, and it’s always a joy to revisit the wonderful catalogue of my late friend Jackie Leven, one of the very finest songwriters that these isles ever produced.

Come down if you can-tix here:

https://www.wegottickets.com/event/598679/ #

Spending an hour with my favourite songwriting guitar, this glorious 1967 Gibson J45, finishing off a couple of new songs that have been on the musical stove for the last week or so.

This guitar is so dry and woody, all you can hear is the old lumber and 56yrs of songs that have passed through it since it was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan in the Summer of Love™️. Whilst all that musical and countercultural revolution was happening, this guitar was being played in and finding its mighty voice. You can hear all that history and insurrection inside it, and feel it in every divot, scratch and crazing patch in the finish.

It’s a wonderful thing. Modern guitars make for great workhorses but these old souls harbour an inalienable magic and mystery. They require more care and fettling, but if we take care of them, they most definitely take care of us.

With love,
Jxx