Cargo Records

Jackie Says E.P.

New band from Marco Pironni (Adam and The Ants, Sinead O'Connor) and Chris Constantinou (Adam and The Ants, Jackie Onassid).

The four songs here show exactly where the band is coming from: the title track tells a story of Jack The Ripper, with music that's as arresting as the subject matter, while Needle In The Camel's Eye is a fierce cover of early Brian Eno. All tracks are produced by The Wolfmen except Needle which was producer by Chris Hughes (Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney).

This may be the first buy-able release from The Wolfmen but their tracks have been leaking out through TV and cinema for the past year. Rimmel and Heineken have both used tracks in adverts and The Wolfmen wrote the soundtrack to Bravo TV's I Predict A Riot, which Time Out declared "astonishing" and The Times "compelling." The band also recently wrote music to accompany two hitherto silent fetish films from the early 1900s/futurist era. Sounding like a hybrid of 70s thrash and Reichian minimalism, they were premiered in May as part of the ICA/BFI's Fashion in Film Festival.

The Wolfmen are crafting a unique visual style at the same time as this new music. Jackie Says has a twisted film-noir-style video by British movie director Paul Hills (whose credits include 2003's The Poet starring Dougray Scott). And then there's those Batman-style Wolfmen logos that seem to be popping up all over London

The Wolfmen is a welcome and long-overdue return for some of the most creative characters from punk and new wave era. Marco Pironni first appeared on stage alongside Sid Vicious in Siouxsie and The Banshees and with Adam and The Ants co-wrote five number one singles and two number one albums. In the 90s he joined Sinead O'Connor as co-writer and guitarist scoring a number one album with I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got.

Chris joined Adam Ant's band in 1982, adding bass and backing vocals for a string of top ten hits and a performance at Live Aid. He went on to work with writers and producers ranging from Junior Vasquez to Guy Chambers and in the 90s formed Jackie Onassid and toured with Iggy Pop. But Marco and Chris' heritage is not for stagnation or study. It lives and breathes. This year alone has seen Mute Records' electro-goddesses Client cover Zerox, while Kings of the Wild Frontier and Ant Music appear in the forthcoming Kirsten Dunst/Sophia Coppola film Marie-Antoinette.

Demos from the Jackie Says EP have been circulating online and won fans from Steve Jones (Sex Pistols) to Mark Moore (S'Express) with one MySpacer calling them "genuinely exciting raw and hungry sounding makes me remember why I loved The Ants back when Marco's pulled Excalibur from its moorings for the second time in his life" Damaged Goods

Track Listing

1. Jackie Says
2. Up All Nighter
3. Needle In The Camels Eye
4. If You Talk Like That