Maximum Joy

Pic of this poster came on our feed for playing Zur Post Ampermoching November 1982

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Maximum Joy are saddened to announce that their original guitarist, John Waddington has died. John's guitar playing was an integral part of the Maximum Joy sound. He played on and contributed to all the early Maximum Joy recordings. We send our condolences to his family and friends. May John rest in peace.

Fellow Bristolian Godfather of punk funk and beyond, ally, collaborator, friend, peerless performer and creative disruptor shell shocked to be saying this now RIEP we love and salute you Mr Mark Stewart 🖤

Out today - remixed and edited our MXMJoY tune "Joy Again" (first released July 2022) and now it's pure festive goodness, pure Maximum Joy!
May the joy be with you!

Joy Again Maximum Joy Remix 2023, by Maximum Joy track by Maximum Joy

Wow - great to see Maximum Joy so lovingly spoken of in Ransom Note post about new festival 😉 🙏 Mxmjoy: were really happy to be invited to play the inaugral festival 2nd September!

A Soundtrack for Watching Trees - Ransom Note An introduction to music you might encounter at the inaugural edition of Watching Trees, our newly launched festival.

"Pure festive disco goodness from the resurrected post-punk legends MXMJoY (née Maximum Joy) continuing their 2nd wind with typical alacrity

Following from the original members, Charlie Llewellyn & Janine Rainforth’s debut LP as MXMJoY, ‘P.E.A.C.E.’ (2019), they return dripping in melody, harmony and treacly groove on a trimmed back echo of their original sound. They’re still dubby, but more subtly so, and now given a more lustrous sort of disco sheen that works a treat here.

‘Joy Again’ starts up with a spume of cosmic disco synths that slip into a driving disco groove of classic quality, all choppy guitar and thicc bassline with Janine layeedr into dead sexy harmonies. ‘Bring It On’ follows with a downtempo hustle giving more room for Rainforth’s vocals to channel proper Salsoul and gospel disco-style vaulted harmonies over its kinky 808 cowbells, and then there’s ‘Love Is Everywhere’, with a more pronounced, breezy reggae-disco lilt and funky punk-disco nimbleness that could have easily come from their early ‘80s heyday."

Thank you to the lovely Boomkat.com for their review of our new EP!

https://boomkat.com/products/joy-again

New single incoming from Mxmjoy: 1.07.22

Release day! And its Bandcamp Friday 💜🙏
https://maximumjoy1.bandcamp.com/album/the-bbcr1-sessions

"...sounding like a precursor to NYC's DFA as well as closer bands like Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand.."

The BBCR1 Sessions -, by Maximum Joy 5 track album

This will be a great night from our friends at On-U Sound Records and co. What a line up 🔥⭐️

On-U Sound- Pay It All Back Revisited Buy tickets for On-U Sound- Pay It All Back Revisited at O2 Forum Kentish Town from the official retailer, See Tickets.

catch a listen to recorded live for BBC Radio 1 session, newly restored for release 6.05.22 - thank you Simone marie butler 🙏for airing this on your Soho Radio show - chokka block full of great tunes and chat! ✌️🕺

catch a listen back to this wks Soho Radio show .

new from Warmduscher The Lazy Eyes deep tan NoSo Jane Weaver TVAM Confidence Man Weval Spoon / Dennis Bovell David Holmes Heidi Lawden Itwasalladream ALAN BRAXE Motherhood Young Prisms English Teacher Zola Blood Maximum Joy Actors The Emperor Machine and loads more x

plus a certain Johnny Marr drops in at the end 🤟🏼⚡️.

>> https://www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/simone-maries-naked-lunch-06042022/

Maximum Joy will release ‘BBC Radio 1 Sessions’ EP - Ransom Note On top of the remastered tapes, under the band's reformed name MXMJoY, this summer they will release a new single ‘Joy Again’.

Searching for a Feeling - The BBC Radio 1 Sessions Maximum Joy featured in Bandcamp Weekly, along with Chelsea Carmichael , Adrian Sherwood and lots of other treats thank you Bandcamp

In the latest BC Weekly we talk to Adrian Sherwood about 40 years of the iconic On-U Sound Records imprint and his new record with Horace Andy. Later in the show we’re joined by poet, producer and multimedia artist Edoheart who gives us the lowdown on her latest release ‘Pandemonium’. Also in the mix we have fresh soul cuts from Allysha Joy, Monica Blaire, and Blue Lab Beats, jazz from Chelsea Carmichael and Jamie Leeming and some firing dub selections from David Harrow and Cleveland Watkiss MBE Essential reissues from Maximum Joy and Gabor Szabo sit alongside forward thinking electronica from Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Werkha. Tune in! https://bandcamp.com/?show=540

Maximum Joy poster for Bristol circa 1981with and
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Maximum Joy set to release The BBC R1 Sessions 1.05.22 - a selection from BBC Radio 1 sessions for seminal DJ's John Peel and Kid Jensen restored, cleaned back to original - the sessions tapes had deteriorated and were playing at wrong speed. Featuring new live for radio versions of Searching for a Feeling and Silent Street amongst other tracks.
Visit Maximum Joy Bandcamp to pre-order and get access to one track now ✌😎

Maximum Joy are set to release a 5-track EP of a selection of tracks recorded in 1982 from two
exclusive live sessions for BBC radio legends John Peel and Kid Jensen. Newly remastered, corrected and cleaned for the exact
tempo and optimum listening experience, the ‘BBC Radio 1 Sessions’ includes the popular tracks ‘Searching for a Feeling’ and
‘Silent Street’ and is set for release on the 6 th May via London Field Recordings.
“We discovered the existing Radio 1 session ‘tapes’ had suffered and decayed in quality and specifically were all running too slow
and not true to the originals. These are restored to the original sound and recording quality,” says Janine Rainforth, Maximum Joy
founder and vocalist.
“From the start John Peel took to Maximum Joy and championed us, like he did so many bands and musicians. I had so much
respect for him and we’d listened to his late evening Radio 1 show avidly – his wide influence on the music scene was seemingly all
pervasive. So being invited to do a John Peel Radio 1 session – and then to do a second within a few months was an
honour and a joy,” says Rainforth. She adds, “The Kid Jensen session was for daytime play Radio 1. We had huge respect for Kid
Jensen – his daytime show was buzzing and influential - it was a shift in direction for Maximum Joy. Listening to that session now I
love the energy we bought to it. We were gigging and touring a lot – so we were primed to make this a good one.”

Available to pre-order via Maximum Joy Bandcamp page https://maximumjoy1.bandcamp.com/album/the-bbcr1-sessions

Our first single Stretch/Silent Street Silent Street Dub has been reissued 40 years after it's first release! You can find it on our Maximum Joy Bandcamp page or at the usual record store outlets - local or otherwise.

Stretch b/w Silent Street - Silent Dub, by Maximum Joy 2 track album

Thankyou The Vinyl District for picking our reissue of Stretch REISSUE/ARCHIVAL PICK: Maximum Joy, “Stretch” b/w “Silent Street – Silent Dub” (1972) Formed in Bristol in 1981 by horn man Tony Wrafter, fresh from the breakup of the Glaxo Babies, and vocalist-clarinetist-violinist Janine Rainforth, they snagged two former Glaxo Babies in drummer Charlie Llewellin and bassist Dan Catsis, and rounded out the band with guitarist John Waddington, formerly of the Pop Group. Anyone with moderate knowledge of UK post-punk might suspect what’s the score, if they don’t know already. It’s funky, it’s p***y, it’s dubby, it’s skronky, and it has the vocal presence of the 18-year-old Rainforth (that’s her on the cover), extending from Poly Styrene (those wonderful screams) on the wickedly grooving A-side, and Ari Up on the dub deepness of the flip. Just a few months over 40 years ago, this was their debut single, a stone post-punk classic, absolutely essential, originally issued on Y Records in the UK and 99 Records in the USA and given a well-deserved anniversary pressing by 1972. Listening to these two long tracks, it’s clear this band still doesn’t get enough retrospective love. A

Graded on a Curve: New in Stores for September 2021, Part Four - The Vinyl District Part four of the TVD Record Store Club’s look at the new and reissued releases presently in stores for September 2021. Part one is here, part two is here, and part three is here. NEW RELEASE PICKS: Elder Jack Ward, Already Made (Bible & Tire Recording Co.) Fat Possum label exec and indefatigable m...

Tony with Maximum Joy performing at London ICA 1981
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Janine with Maximum Joy performing at the London Lyceum 1981
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Pierre Bastien, joasihno, Orchestra of Spheres, Tomaga, Etienne Jaumet : they'll all be this week at Festival de la Cité Lausanne, Switzerland. Very looking forward !

Radio D A I S I E

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Cult Bristol post-punkers Maximum Joy get the reissue treatment courtesy of Silent Street

Freaks R Us

Freaks associates Maximum Joy played on Tom Ravenscroft's show for BBC Radio 6 Music

Listen back: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wd9t6

The finest dub in Bristol's distinguished history, from the upcoming singles collection on Silent Street (co-venture of Idle Hands / Blackest Ever Black)

https://silentstreet.bandcamp.com/album/i-cant-stand-it-here-on-quiet-nights-singles-1981-82

Café Au Lait

Thank you Café Au Lait we like freshness!

Last night's show on Reprezent Radio is up on the cloud for you to listen back to your heart's content!! Freshness from the likes of Waella's Choice, Violet, Athlete Whippet, Idlehands' Maximum Joy, Lo Recordings, DJ Die, Toy Tonics, Sean Dixon and lots of other tasty sonic flavours. Enjoy!!

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... "this music still sounds fresh & relevant.....buy it and dance.." thank you James Endeacott ! 👍😎

jamesendeacott.wordpress.com one of my favourite bands from the early 1980’s are releasing a compilation very soon of a few of their singles from 1981-1982 – part of the Pop Group family they deserve to be heard by…

Blackest Ever Black

Silent Street is a new label from Chris Farrell (Idle Hands) and Kiran Sande (BEB). Its first release, out July, is a 2x12" compilation of '81-'82 singles by Bristol dub/pop/jazz heroes Maximum Joy.

Listen 'Silent Street / Silent Dub': https://soundcloud.com/user-349027429/maximum-joy-silent-street-silent-dub
Pre-order the record: https://silentstreet.bandcamp.com/

Idle Hands

Pleased to announce the launch of Silent Street, a new label from Kiran Sande of Blackest Ever Black and Chris Farrell from Idle Hands. The first release is a reissue of the brilliant Bristol band Maximum Joy and will be hitting shops next month. There is a feature over on The Quietus now if you want to find out more.

The Quietus | News | LISTEN: Upcoming Maximum Joy Reissue

We're over the moon to be able to announce this exciting news - a lovingly compiled re-issue on vinyl - the first time for a major vinyl re-issue in the UK for Maximum Joy by a new record label named after one of our singles, Silent Street. Silent Street Records is a collaboration between Blackest Ever Black & Idle Hands. More details and links in the The Quietus article below -

thequietus.com Check out the opening track from a new compilation collecting Maximum Joy singles launching new label Silent Street. Homepage photo courtesy of Geraldine Ewer

Rainforth takes you back to the 80's with this playlist of favorites from back in the day.

Bristol days, on tour tunes, a playlist by Maximum Joy on Spotify This is the beginning of a selection of some the songs that we were listening to when we were starting out as Maximum Joy and whilst on tour....

Music by Fashion’s Most In-Demand Sound Director — for Chloë Sevigny

TBS Maximum Joy "Silent Street Silent Dub" found it's way into Michel Gaubert's https://www.facebook.com/michel.gaubert.39 eclectic playlist for Chloë Sevigny Prayer to Saint Therese event - hear Silent Street Silent Dub here...https://youtu.be/3ZnL5vrmj_E

nytimes.com For the fragrance company Régime des Fleurs, Michel Gaubert collaborated on a song with the actress and six different musical artists.

The Shadow of Society - Punk B-side Dubs, Collected.

nice to be included in this interesting selection of original post-punk dubby tunes

mixcloud.com Recorded Live at The Back Alley, Kenisington Market, Toronto. Punk in Dub. Tracklist: 23:36 : The English Beat - Stand Down Margaret (Dub) 23:38 : Maximum Joy - Silent Street- Silent Dub 23:41 : Gang Of Four - Money Talks Dub 23:43 : Ruts DC vs. Mad Professor - Weak Heart Dub 23:49 : Killing Joke -…

Berlin Community Radio - April, 2017

Great to see included in amongst this stellar tracklist by Carla dal Forno for Berlin Community Radio cool sounds!

soundcloud.com Originally broadcast on Berlin Community Radio live 13:00 - 14:00, Monday 24th April, 2017. Mark - F-E (unreleased) Cluster - Sowiesoso (Sky Records, 1976) Graham Lambkin - Theatre Recital (Penultima