CPI Archive 2008: Andrew Hamilton chats to Lisdoonvarna man Jürgen Simpson, one giant slice of The Jimmy Cake.
WHETHER you view it as a great experiment - concocted by a crack team of mad musical scientists – or the accidental result of unprotected innovation in sound, The Jimmy Cake is the beautiful freak of Irish music. With undoubted passion and an unbridled sense of experimentation, the band managed to at once break every rule, while at the same time stay true to the values of their craft. Over the last eight years they have turned all perception of Irish pop on its head, proving that different can be popular and have shown themselves as much much more than a group of classical virtuosos on a slumming mission. In the early days of the Jimmy Cake the band was really only an experiment. No one expected to turn into anything like it did. We had no lead singer, no singer at all in fact and with some very unorthodox instrumental groupings,” says Jürgen.
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