Bare Jams play Brighton after major turning point for the band

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Bare Jams play the Hope & Ruin, Brighton after successfully navigating a turning point for the band through their new album No Rain. No Flowers.

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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. It's lovely

00:06to speak to Jay Keith from the band Bear Jams. Now, exciting times, you've got the new album

00:11out and it's a really significant new album out for you. I should say that you were heading

00:16to a date in Brighton before too long, but the album is one that matters because it sounds

00:21like in a way it re-cemented the band.

00:25Yeah, it did. We were at a place at the beginning of 2023 where we could continue, wanted to

00:31continue and took all this emotion and put it into this album, which, as you say, re-sparked

00:44that we wanted to do this and we could not live not having this feeling again.

00:50Yeah, that's so interesting because you were saying that the doubts came in when you weren't

00:55doing it. As soon as you did it, the doubts went.

00:59Yeah, it's sort of a...

01:02And what's the lesson of that?

01:04So actually, there was like a lesson in this of when you get into a state of, I call it

01:10like overwhelming paralysis, where you've got so much that you just end up doing nothing

01:16because as an independent artist, probably about 10% of it is actually music.

01:24So every time we get into these states of overwhelming paralysis, it's like

01:29you can always focus on the music because that's productive, you know, and it's the stuff

01:35that you love doing. It's why you do it. And I think people forget that thing of like,

01:42just turn to your instrument and neurologically, it takes over your whole brain so you don't

01:47have the capacity to think about anything else.

01:49Well, so it wasn't a question of sitting thinking,

01:52I don't want to do this. It's a question of just doing it.

01:55Yeah, it's a doer, not a thinker. As we always say, it's like easier to translate something

02:01through audio than to try and explain it through like text or something like that. It's like,

02:07I'll just play it for you.

02:08And just to prove your point on the back of this realisation and the new album,

02:14you've actually got an album ahead, an album in hand, you're a year ahead.

02:19Yeah, so on the week of release of No Rain No Flowers, we were in the studio tracking

02:27the next album, which is already written and ready to go because we want to maintain consistency

02:35as a musician. And I feel if you need to just keep making music consistently,

02:41you know, and the more you do, the better you get.

02:45Fantastic. And that title, I saw that expression, No Rain No Flowers on someone's T-shirt for the

02:50first time about a month ago and just said, wow, that says it all, doesn't it? That's a

02:53brilliant title. Why is it appropriate then?

02:57So, it's sort of in life as well, you have to, there's no path without pain or consequence if

03:03you want change. But the payoff is going to be great for what you actually want, whether that's

03:13in a relationship, whether that's in a job, whether that's in something you want to achieve.

03:18You need to go through that hardship in order to achieve what you want. And it relates to that

03:29saying of like, the path to hell is heaven, but the path to heaven is hell, is a saying I saw the

03:36other day and I was like, that relates to exactly what that is.

03:39That's the next album title then?

03:42Yeah.

03:43Brilliant. That gives me plenty. Really lovely to speak to you. Have a great trip to Brighton

03:46and good luck with the new album. Thank you.

03:49Thank you very much, Phil.

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