Jim Bob

Voce dei leggendari Carter USM ha ottenuto 14 top 40 singles e un album al numero uno nelle classifiche inglesi, ha suonato in oltre 800 concerti in tutto il mondo.

Dopo il punk elettronico dei Carter USM Jim ha pubblicato due album e tre singoli con il suo gruppo disco-pop-punk group Jim’s Super Stereoworld, tre album solista come Jim Bob ed ha suonato numerosi live sia con la band che solo.

Nel Maggio del 2004 la Cherry Red Books ha dato alle stampe la sua autobiographia: ‘Goodnight Jim Bob – On The Road With Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine’ ottenendo un successo di largo critica.

Il nuovo album di Jim Bob "Angelstrike!"’ uscirà il 22 Novembre 2004.

Il suo animale preferito è l'elefante.

(aggiornamento 15 Novembre 2004)

Genere
Pop Disco Punk

Influenze
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Audio
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Rassegna Stampa

Il Mucchio Selvaggio - Febbraio 2006 (rubrica Helter Skelter)
Angelstrike!
Terzo album solista per l'ex metà dei Carter, pieno di pop, di quella specie di punk elettronico che ha fatto la fortuna della band, di ritmi al limite del danceable, di quasi-surf e di pregevoli ballate. Oltre che, al solito, testi arguti e "impegnati". Insomma, le solite belle canzon di Mr. Jim Morrison. Quello vivo. Se avete amato i CUSM...
Alessandro Bolli

Radio

Radio Base Popolare Network (Veneto) - Franky's Motel - Maggio 2005

Rassegna Stampa Estera (estratti) - 2004

OK Magazine
Singer Jim Bob's memoirs are a hoot, as if Hunter S. Thompson had gone on the road with Spinal Tap.

Everett True, Plan B Magazine
Carter USM were better than all that Suede and Verve and Wonder Stuff crap, and this book is bitter sweet, sometimes smug but always evocative.

Mojo Magazine
This is a book about an everyband, and should be read by every other band when they aren't watching Spinal Tap.

Logo Magazine
Jim Bob's prose is as irreverent and frequently as laugh out loud funny as his music, his anecdotes leaving you wondering why on earth anyone would want to be in even a moderately successful band.

Andrew Collins, BBC Six Music
Jim captures the very essence of life on and off the road for the 90s' least likely pop stars. A good dash of Hammer Of The Gods, a healthy glug of Ian Hunter's Diary Of A Rock'n'Roll Star and absolutely no trace of Sting's Broken Music.

Channel 4 Teletext
Hilariously self aware...Killingly funny about CUSM's brief time at the top, it makes his despair at the slow decline all the more poignant. Laughter, tears and more bad puns than is humanly decent. Cult smash please.

Drowned In Sound
Laugh-out-loud bitesize chunks of deranged pop excess... Jim proves both his ability and underlying decency... It's beautifully told: With excellent prose and sophisticated layering, Jim Bob has written a better book than one would reasonably expect.

Robert Newman, comedian and author
A cracking page-turner from one of the finest song lyricists of the last twenty years. This book deserves to be seen as the'Fever Pitch' of rock 'n' roll.

Southlondon Press
An irreverent peek into the music world which is laugh out loud funny.