Indie Through The Looking Glass – An outlet for my music.
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Jo Bartlett
This is me.
My album, ‘Ghost Tapes 1 to 9’ was released on 26 April 2024. I played everything myself, and recorded it at home on my laptop. I have been teaching myself Logic over the last five years, releasing my album ‘The Cut Up’ along the way, learning more as I continued, able to record vocals and acoustic guitar properly along with the synths beats and bass guitar.
I made the video using stuff I found on YouTube – plus a clip on 18 year old me on stage in Germany.
‘Drawing A Line’
In 2023 I got plays on BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio London & Wales, Radio X and many more which I have enjoyed hearing very much. In February 2023 I was ‘Sunday Girl’ on Amy Lame‘s brilliant show on BBC 6 Music. Thanks very much to everyone who played it!
‘Excellent’ Gideon Coe BBC 6 Music
‘So talented, just can’t get enough of this track” Gary Crowley BBC Radio London
‘She’s a legend!’ John Kennedy Radio X
‘A fantastic recording artist’ Amy Lame BBC 6 Music
‘Wonderful’ Adam Walton BBC Radio Wales
I’m on Spotify – all of my solo releases are here:
You can hear all my releases on Spotify –
‘The Cut Up’ 2022
‘The Cut Up‘ album was released in September 2022. This is an album made from various cassette recordings I have – live Buzz Clubs, radio interviews, rehearsals. I cut them up and put them on my laptop, I added synths, beats, guitars and vocals. You could call it a concept album, covering a certain period of my life. Featuring the voices of Shaun Ryder, Bobby Gillespie, James Dean Bradfield, Huw Stephens, Bethan Elfyn and Gideon Coe.
Andy Bell (Ride / Oasis) included the track ‘Greener‘ in his 20 tracks from 2022 for ‘Brooklyn Vegan‘ where he said ‘Jo made a super cool album this year called The Cut Up, this is my favourite track from it.’
Here is ‘Greener‘ – the video is a Super 8 film I found recently – it’s me (in the yellow jumper) running around with my siblings!
Bluetrain ‘Under The Hammer’ 2023
I released this album on my own digital album in 2023 and I am delighted to say that Fire Station Records in Berlin then released a very limited vinyl version. I’ll be putting some up on my Bandcamp page soon….
Previously unreleased tracks including early versions or unreleased songs, recorded in 1987.
You can hear them on all the usual digital platforms, including Spotify and Bandcamp. There is also an option to download them via Bandcamp and include five signed (by Danny and me) original Buzz Club / Bluetrain flyers.
Hardway Bros. ‘Camden’ Remix.
Sean Johnson AKA The Hardway Bros did this great remix of ‘Camden‘ from ‘The Cut Up‘ for me. I love what he has done with it.
Sean and I go way back. It’s possible I gave him his first professional d.j. slot at the Rock Garden in 1989. He was one half of the legendary ‘A Love From Outer Space’ nights with his DJ partner Andrew Weatherall. Sean is also a prolific music producer, recording under the Hardway Bros guise to much acclaim.
In 2022 I did vocals on Sean’s ‘This Is Something‘ by the Sommerisle Six, which got to no. 1 in the Balearic Charts.
‘Camden Remix’ on Bandcamp (only available via Bandcamp)
Video by Jason Applin.
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