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Artist
Jacob's Mouse
12+ albums
Grungealternative rockindie rock90sbury st edmunds
about
At the tender age of 11 no one expected the Boothby twins and their mate Sam to make anything other than a big noise at home. They’d met Sam at a swimming competition, and made friends because they all were wearing heavy metal t-shirts. Over the years, they stopped playing Status Quo covers and started writing their own songs, with the aim of making no two alike. Their influences were everything on Peel and what they scavenged from parents record collections. Naming themselves after their cousin’s pet (yep, really!), they put out a single with a friend, and it promptly got Sounds Single of the Week. This opened the doors to tons of gigs as first on to people like Nirvana, Carter, Senseless Things et al. They shopped their new demos to the labels they liked, but to no avail. So, they put it out on their own Blithering Idiot label, run by Sam’s dad, who also managed the band. The press totally loved it, and Peel gave them a session literally hours after hearing it. They played live from Norwich on the Mark Goodier show, and toured with Captain America and Midway Still. In the meantime Gary Wiiija was kicking himself for turning down No Fish Shop, and they turned down lots of labels to go with Wiiija. The Mice had found their hole, where they could do what they liked, and in their own time. The Ton Up e.p. came out and they toured with Babes in Toyland, and then Moonshake, building up a strong, loyal and young following. Frontier put the album out in the States and they wrote
