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2nd March 2010

At last the Wizz Jones T-shirt is here!

From those crazy people at Idolwear
in Nashville Tennessee..
just in time for the festival season.

15th February 2009

Davey Graham and John Martyn

Please take time to read Ralph McTell's excellent tributes to these two mightily missed giants of the acoustic guitar who have left the stage.
www.ralphmctell.co.uk

5th September 2007/ September 2009/
January 2010/August 2010

"Wizz's Sitting Room"

Re-opens on Thursday October 21st and
will run weekly till Christmas.

The Selkirk in Selkirk Road is just off Tooting Broadway.
Wizz hosts a regular gig in this comfy room. Sometimes Simeon shows up and there's always a warm welcome for fellow guitar pickers.

Pub tel: 0208 6726235
http://www.myspace.com/theselkirk

To read Paul Fleckney's piece on the Sitting Room in The Tooting Guardian

Wizz hits the big time! Listen to a clip from his interview with Ali O'Brien
on Oldham Community Radio

12th April 2006

Wizz's new DVD is now available from Sound Techniques.

Hosted by Martin Carthy, Wizz plays thirteen songs, two with Martin,
four with Simeon and chats with Martin about his illustrious career!
For more info go to the website....
Soundtechniques.co.uk

12th January 2005

Keith Richards remembers Wizz!
In the new paperback edition of "According To The Rolling Stones" Keith talks of his days at art school when he and his jolly chums would cut classes to meet up with Wizz Jones to learn some blues picking from him in - wait for it - the toilets! When we questioned Wizz on this subject he said that he had searched high and low but had been unable to find any notes of chords etc on sheets of bronco toilet paper amongst his treasured artifacts and so concluded that, like his famed travels with Rod Stewart, this must be yet another legend that was untrue.

(Could it simply be that the senile Wizz suffers from loss of LONG -term memory loss! Ed)

24 August 2004

Wizz's Royalty windfall....
You just never know when you're going to strike it lucky.
Unfortunately, it turns out Wizz will have to wait a little longer for his ship to come in...

We decided to retrieve it from the waste basket and post it up for readers of the Bugle to enjoy.
Read it and weep here >

9th May 2004

Eric Clapton name-checks Wizz again...
It seems that Eric still remembers Wizz from the old days, as he reminisces in May's UNCUT magazine:

"We'd meet in pubs, where I was doing my Big Bill Broonzy songs imitating local folk musicians like Wizz Jones."

"Thanks Eric, I remember being told that some of the Yardbirds came to my Sunday afternoon gigs at The Olive Tree in Croydon in 1964!"

3rd May 2004
Website gets dramatic new makeover

Well, we added some more pics to the Time Tunnel anyway. This one features the young Wizz fronting his band "The Wranglers". Note the little white plastic microphone from his Philips tape recorder ingeniously attached with Meccano strips and spindles to a specially adapted music stand. The mike was plugged into the back of an old radio to which the local "wireless repair man" had added a couple more valves to increase the output.

23rd April 2004

Wizz's birthday bash sells out
A sellout crowd of 200 revellers packed themselves into the Half Moon Putney for a night of music, love and big screen irony. We'll be posting images from our Official Photographer Dave Peabody - and some special 'musical' moments...

try this link for a video clip from the night:

Wizz and Sim onstage at The Half Moon

or this one for a "my space" clip of Ralph and Wizz at the Eagle Ale House the day after.

Wizz's birthday gig review....
For those who didn't make it down to the big bash,
check out Colin Harper's rather flattering review.

Thanks again to Dave Peabody for photos

Hector's Hause webmaster@wizzjones.com