Hailing from Sheffield, The Book Club are a four piece indie pop/rock band, fronted by former Milburn lead-man, Joe Carnall. Carnall still provides lead vocals but has switched duties from bass to guitar for the Book Club. With two singles, ‘Wheelbarrows for Wallets’ and ‘What Was Said On The Landing’, the band appear to be going from strength to strength.
After the demise of Milburn, Carnall took some time out, not really doing anything with music, and studying history at Sheffield University. After about six months he began writing songs again and thereafter formed ‘Joe Carnall & the Book Club’. Carnall managed to recruit original Arctic Monkeys bassist, Andy Nicholson, who had claimed that Milburn had a great influence on the Arctic Monkeys, to play bass. Sheffield based musicians, Pat Conwill and Anthony Allen also joined on guitar and drums, respectively. The band were made public in mid 2009 and a number of live dates followed. Nicholson soon left the band to join Reverend & the Makers and was replaced by Tom Colclough, finishing the current line up for the band.
The Book Club managed to gather a small following that is beginning to gain a momentum and grow due to live appearances up and down the country. Popular songs by the band include ‘Sir Walter’, a slow burning ball room waltz, the raucous rallying call for justice for the victims of the Hillsborough disaster in, ‘Justice for the 96’ and ‘Somewhere Near Oxford’, which sounds suspiciously like a song by The Strokes. Joe Carnall & the Book Club are certainly a band for Milburn fans. Unlike his Milburn counterpart, Tom Rowley, who changed musical direction and formed ‘The Backhanded Compliments’ although now known as ‘Dead Sons’, Carnall has stuck to what he knows best, writing catchy guitar songs about love, loss and life in the city.
You can catch ‘Joe Carnall & the Book Club’ play a headline show at the ‘Friday Night Dole Club’ event, located at Taylor Johns House in Coventry on the 30th July 2010. £5 entry. Find out more at www.myspace.com/thebookclubofficial and the Friday night dole club page on facebook.
After the demise of Milburn, Carnall took some time out, not really doing anything with music, and studying history at Sheffield University. After about six months he began writing songs again and thereafter formed ‘Joe Carnall & the Book Club’. Carnall managed to recruit original Arctic Monkeys bassist, Andy Nicholson, who had claimed that Milburn had a great influence on the Arctic Monkeys, to play bass. Sheffield based musicians, Pat Conwill and Anthony Allen also joined on guitar and drums, respectively. The band were made public in mid 2009 and a number of live dates followed. Nicholson soon left the band to join Reverend & the Makers and was replaced by Tom Colclough, finishing the current line up for the band.
The Book Club managed to gather a small following that is beginning to gain a momentum and grow due to live appearances up and down the country. Popular songs by the band include ‘Sir Walter’, a slow burning ball room waltz, the raucous rallying call for justice for the victims of the Hillsborough disaster in, ‘Justice for the 96’ and ‘Somewhere Near Oxford’, which sounds suspiciously like a song by The Strokes. Joe Carnall & the Book Club are certainly a band for Milburn fans. Unlike his Milburn counterpart, Tom Rowley, who changed musical direction and formed ‘The Backhanded Compliments’ although now known as ‘Dead Sons’, Carnall has stuck to what he knows best, writing catchy guitar songs about love, loss and life in the city.
You can catch ‘Joe Carnall & the Book Club’ play a headline show at the ‘Friday Night Dole Club’ event, located at Taylor Johns House in Coventry on the 30th July 2010. £5 entry. Find out more at www.myspace.com/thebookclubofficial and the Friday night dole club page on facebook.
