“Easily the most interesting and exciting performance witnessed on the BBC Intro stage” – Gigwise

“A potent, unfiltered brew of garage punk, psych and amphetamine rock n roll” – NARC Magazine

“Definitely one of the best live bands I've seen in a long, long time” – Vic Galloway

Avalanche Party are a feral garage rock and roll band from the wild North Yorkshire Moors.

The past year has seen Avalanche Party tear away from the moors, raising venues all over the UK to the ground whilst sharing the stage with the likes of Happy Mondays, The Subways, Palma Violets, Vant, Public Enemy, The Amazing Snakeheads etc.

The band have received heavy radio play since the release of their debut EP, being championed by BBC Introducing, Radio 1’s Huw Stephens, 6Music’s Steve Lamacq and Tom Robinson, Vic Galloway at BBC Scotland, Jim Gellatly, Amazing Radio and KCRW’s Jason Kramer in the USA. The band also recorded a live session for BBC 6 Music in November 2016.

The band were selected by BBC Introducing to play their stage at Reading & Leeds Festivals. As well as numerous visceral festival appearances in the UK this year including Twisterella Festival, Evolution Emerging, Willowman Festival, Humber Street Sesh, We Are Family Festival etc, Avalanche Party also performed at this year’s Oberhausen Rock Festival, Germany to 10,000 people in the summer as well as appearing in France, Serbia, Belgium and Holland.

With major record label interest being shown in the band, coupled with new recordings being released later in the year, the Avalanche Party juggernaut is gaining unstoppable momentum.

We would like to introduce JW PARIS to you, a London based three piece who have recently supported the likes of The Vultures, The Amazons and Yonaka to name just a few.

Their ballsy new sound builds on their influences ranging from BRMC, The Dandy Warhols, Jack White, The Rolling Stones, Blur and Suede, which in turn gives them a raw anglo-american, alt-rock swagger with the vocal delivery, phrasing and harmonies that wouldn’t sound out of place in the brit pop hey day.

They’ve had plenty of great live feedback from fanzines and bloggers, and as a result of this are being tipped as ones to watch in 2018. Most recently the band have been in Foel residential studios in Wales where they worked on a number of new tracks, three of which have now been produced by Hugo Nicolson (Grammy award winner who has worked with Primal Scream, Radiohead, Julian Cope and Bjork) and mastered by John Davis at Metropolis (U2, Noel Gallagher).

So, why JW PARIS?

Well the name comes from a story of a cursed diamond which was believed to be the eye of the Hindu god Brahma. In a previous century it was stolen and then rediscovered in the 19th century when it’s curse came into play. JW Paris was the diamond dealer who first fell foul to the curse. In order to break that curse the diamond was broken into three pieces.

To the band this name not only symbolises them as a three piece but also symbolises them as the first to succumb to the power and strength of the curse, which is not only the songs and music they play but also the power and strength they have when they write and play those songs and music, just like the curse in the story. www.jwparis.band