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post Mar 5 2010, 07:11 PM
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Apparantely after he was scared away from Immortal Features he created Indicana Films. Which also hasn't really gone anywhere (at least not yet) blink.gif

Guess this shows he's staying in the film industry for now and trying to make a go of that.

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post Mar 5 2010, 07:37 PM
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And for the record, no I'm not Jas. I live in Toronto Canada, and I've never even seen Bzoo live, met Jas or know anyone who still listens to his music except for you guys.

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post Mar 5 2010, 08:21 PM
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Indicana Films is part of The Indomina Group. As is Indicana Studios Inc. Indicana Entertainment Group Inc. and Indicana Production Services

It was founded in 2008 and has 50 employees.

http://www.indomina.com/

indomina@indomina.com

Recent ad in Variety - they're looking for a Head of Distribution

http://www.varietymediacareers.com/c/copro...7&co=323403
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post Mar 10 2010, 09:33 PM
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post Mar 10 2010, 09:40 PM
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QUOTE(Insomnia @ Mar 10 2010, 09:33 PM)

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Cool. Thanks! I edited the first post to make sense.
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post May 27 2010, 11:00 AM
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Someone created a Wikipedia page for Indomina Media.
It's since been deleted dry.gif
Here is the cached page.

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post May 28 2010, 04:24 PM
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QUOTE(accadia @ May 27 2010, 11:00 AM)

Someone created a Wikipedia page for Indomina Media.
It's since been deleted dry.gif
Here is the cached page.



Why ?
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post May 31 2010, 01:58 PM
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'Indomina Media' created the entry but an admin at Wikipedia blocked the user from editing because "your account is being used only for spam, advertising, or promotion and your username is a violation of our username policy."


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post Jun 3 2010, 08:04 PM
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More Info Here


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I would give up my job to "assist" JM- rolleyes.gif


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post Jun 15 2010, 11:22 PM
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QUOTE(accadia @ May 31 2010, 01:58 PM)

'Indomina Media' created the entry but an admin at Wikipedia blocked the user from editing because "your account is being used only for spam, advertising, or promotion and your username is a violation of our username policy."


Wikipedia has some pretty strict rules with regards to notability and user names. Poor Jas used his company name to create and article on his company and some admin blocked him for spamming....

Unfortunately Indomina Media doesn't have any press or created anything that people have written about, so it looked like the page was spam.

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post Jul 3 2010, 11:10 PM
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Edit
This blog entry has already been mentioned on the forum:
Here

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Long funny yet decidedly imperceptive and untrue article on:
"How to interview Babylon Zoo- aka Jas"

Still amusing to have people still fascinated by him as recently as 2009...

A lesson on how to interview Babylon Zoo… with Richard Madeley, Judy Finnegan and Andi PetersPosted: November 29, 2009 by Chris Ledger in Music, TV
Tags: Babylon Zoo, Jas Mann, Richard Madeley, Judy Finnegan, Andi Peters, This Morning, The Noise, The Sandkings

The time is late April/early May 1996 and Babylon Zoo were as popular as Dean Sturridge, Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes and Dean Holdsworth. Jas Mann is the man who is totally Babylon Zoo. He is the Chungwit, the Biff Boff and the Puff Pastry Hangman.

Babylon Zoo are one of Wolverhampton’s greatest exports alongside Noddy Holder, Cornershop, Kevin Rowland and Beacon Radio. They have had a career that reached a peak in 1996 when they produced music for CD-Roms and featured on the Independence Day soundtrack (but not on the film), although their songs did appear on the film ‘Mortal Kombat 2′.



Discussed today is the subject of how to effectively interview Babylon Zoo at their peak of their fame and when their fame was rapidly declining.

Part 1 – How to interview Babylon Zoo at the peak of their fame… with Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan



What more could you want than Richard and Judy interviewing you, at a time when they could display an incredible lack of tact without any noticing . This is them at their height, when Fred Talbot was still impersonating Timmy Mallet and presenting the weather in a nearby river. Here is their top tips on how you should interview a famous popstar, especially if they are Babylon Zoo.

1. Do your research

Here Finnegan and Madeley prove that they have spent many long hours researching Babylon Zoo and ethnic minorities by trying to decide what Mann’s ethnicity is. Despite the fact that Mann’s home town is Wolverhampton; possible suggestions included being ‘half Asian and half Native American’ and somehow being ‘Irish’. This is despite Mann’s insistence that he is Anglo-Asian. Somehow it takes them over 100 seconds to realise that he may actually be from Wolverhampton. A shame as Mann comes across as a genuinely nice guy during this interview, even if the way he says the word ‘tigers’ is rather unsettling. Their lack of tact is astonishing, and they really should be made ministers for social equality and political correctness alongside Amr Zaki, Jim Davidson, Ron Atkinson and Lee Bowyer.

2. Promote the music

Madeley then decides to ask a question about how his origins may have influenced his musical styling. Sensibly, he decides to abandon this half-way and decides to promote Babylon Zoo’s new single ‘Animal Army’ by attempting to impersonate Tony Wilson. Madeley’s knowledge of the song extends to seeing the video on ‘Top of the Pops’ a couple of weeks ago. He describes the video as brilliant without mentioning anything about the quality of the song itself. This is the true testament of a classic song, as it does not matter how good the song is; it is a classic if the video is good.

Unbelievably, Finnegan shows a greater appreciation of Babylon Zoo by thinking that the title of their million selling hit single ‘Spaceman’ was in fact ‘the other one’. I am sure that if people promoted ‘Animal Army’ like Finnegan did it would have met her prediction of reaching number one. But no-one else promoted it like she did, so it reached number 17… with three weeks spent in the top 75.

3. Force people to agree with opinions that are so stereotypical that they become racist

Both Finnegan and Madeley ask Mann when he is going to have an arranged marriage. Despite Mann’s insistence that arranged marriages are no longer compulsory, Madeley goes onto to prove his point by stating how his newsagent has entered an arranged marriage and is very happy. When Mann is reluctant to agree, they sensibly decide to back down. Their view of a multicultural society is more off-target than Tomas Brolin’s entire career at Leeds and Crystal Palace.

4. Flirt with the interviewee

Finnegan then decides to flirt continuously with Mann constantly by glaring at him with desperation. She is in quite some state at this point as she asks if Mann wears contact lenses.. At one point, it does look like that she is high on crystal meth during 1.45 and looks like she has gone back to her four litres of wine per day habit.

As she points out that he looks very nice, Mann looks increasingly uncomfortable with his attraction to Finnegan and quickly leaves sporting an erection that is much more visible than it should be due to his tight silver cat suit.

5. Allow the band to perform

The ideal platform in which a band can promote their music is by performing live on a television show. However, seeing that it uses elephants, monkeys and tigers as its sound effects, it appears that the song is not being performing live.

This is a classic case of a record company not pumping enough money for promoting the difficult second single. Now if it was ‘Spaceman’ then there was no doubt that there would have been an attempt to find real aliens to perform with Babylon Zoo. Here, EMI could not even afford to fork out for a live satellite link up with various animals at Chester Zoo (seeing that This Morning was filmed in Liverpool at this point).

If using animal noises to reflect an ‘animal army’ seems pretentious enough, it does not match Mann’s attempts signing by a country mile. The result somehow ends up like Billy Corgan impersonating an Asian whilst putting on a Wolverhampton accent on at the same time.

Despite this, for a song to be commercially successful, it needs to pass the ultimate litmus test; seamlessly joining in with the end credits of a television show. If it manages to flow with the end credits perfectly and does not seem to be out of place then it is destined to be a hit, but if it does not then it probably will flop. Their performance of ‘Animal Army’ is a valiant attempt but ends up failing in the end. Maybe if the end credits were in a different font or scrolling in a different direction then maybe things could have been different.

Part 2 – Interviewing a popstar after the peak of their fame and when they become a washed-up ‘rockstar’… with Andi Peters



In this part, Andi Peters attempts to interview Babylon Zoo circa October 1996 on his short-lived ITV Saturday morning show ‘The Noise’ is discussed. Despite the fact that ‘The Noise’ was a music show that was shown just before ‘The ITV Chart Show’ and showed exactly the same music, it was one of the greatest televisual concepts that no-one ever watch. Just like how ‘Teleganticmegavision’ was.

1. Make sure that you have made a real effort in choosing the location of the shoot.

Here Peters suggests that the interview is filmed in Warsaw. However, due to his camp lisp, he manages to manipulate the audience as there are actually in Walsall; precisely outside Pete Waterman’s estate. Interestingly, he also decides to introduce Jas Mann by pronouncing his name as ‘Jazz Man’.

Due to Andi’s busy schedule he has also decided to conduct this interview in his favourite fancy dress costume (which is confidently his favourite piece of clothing that he wears non-stop). This is an exact copy of Carlton Banks’ outfit on ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel Air’. The outfit is complete with the obligatory Jeep rucksack.

2. Make sure that you catch your interview at a low.

Peters has picked the perfect time to interview Mann, as he has put on at least five stone and seems to have an uncontrollable cocaine addiction. Probably from several late night crystal meth sessions with Judy Finnegan. This led to slaying his entire leopard collection for his coat, not washing his hair for 27 weeks. This is in addition to showing an extreme amount of paranoia, where he feels that everyone is viewing him and that he is a news reporter-cum-spoons scientist.

Even though his profile at the beginning of the clip states that he is from Wolverhampton, it does not say which part of the UK he lives in. This is probably an attempt to avoid being sent to Guantanamo Bay and being locked in a medium-level secured psychiatric hospital. He definitely does look like he has just returned from a holiday in Barbados with the Happy Mondays.

Mann does seems to know that his time is up, especially as his accent has turned into a broad Wolverhampton one. This shows that he is willing to return back to his roots and is near suicidal about his current state of mind.

However, his ego stops him from publicly admitting this. Mann, therefore, comes up with increasingly arrogant anecdotes. This reaches a high when he talks about a German family stalking him and his sister outside his house in Wolverhampton, and his anger at ‘Animal Army’ knocking ‘Spaceman’ off the number one spot in Greece. I doubt though that a family from Germany really did travel to Wolverhampton just to take pictures of his sister… that seems as ludicrous as stalking Adrian Coote.

3. Be constantly negative

Peters decides to take advantage of Mann’s deteriorating mental state, by attempting to stitch Mann up good and proper so he can become the new Jeremy Paxman. The interview has a constant feeling of negativity as he asks Mann if he regrets putting ‘Spaceman’ on the infamous Levis commercial and saying that he could be seen as bonkers. Mann brilliantly retorts Peters by stating that everyone else is bonkers except him, and you must be correct if you say that as there is no psychological testing that could prove that this is incorrect.

This negativity extends as Peters seems to refuse to promote his new single ‘The Boy With the X-Ray Eyes’ adequatley. All that is mentioned is a short question about the concept of the song, and a short period where the new single is being played as background music. Yet the video clips of ‘Spaceman’ and ‘Animal Army’ are played.

If anyone does wonder what the ‘Boy With the X-Ray Eyes’ sounds like then it sounds exactly the same as ‘Animal Army’ does but without the sound affects. Mann however does decide to change his singing style as he now sounds like Billy Corgan impersonating a Wolverhampton accent whilst gargling an entire jug of water at the same time.



Peters then decides to be a backstabbing bastard by trying his best not to appear biased at all by saying that it is morbid to suggest that there would be no Babylon Zoo. Life is truly morbid without Babylon Zoo. Andi Peters, what a bastard. Even Richard and Judy had more respect for him.

To end this blog, Jas Mann was in the 1980′s and early 1990′s indie group ‘The Sandkings’. They are surprisingly pretty decent, with melodies reminiscent of Mega City Four and Teenage Fanclub. Personally, they were very unlucky to be bigger than they were as they do appear to sound ahead of their time. To give Jas Mann some credit, here’s one of their finest songs, ‘Hope Springs Eternal’.



You can read the article in full here:
http://obscuremusicandfootball.wordpress.c...ves-type=months


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post Jul 28 2010, 09:20 AM
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• Hemmerfru
Posted July 31, 2009 at 12:39 pm | Permalink
Rhombus! Do you reckon she’ll improve guitar music’s version of The Beano though?
Here’s ‘Faster’, pop pickers.
I also really like these two TV award show performances:
Thom Yorke, ‘Analyse’
PJ Harvey and Bjork, ‘Satisfaction’
They both seem to surprise the audience a little.
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swineshead
Posted July 31, 2009 at 12:44 pm | Permalink
Ah that Brits performance from PJ and Bjork is great stuff.
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swineshead
Posted July 31, 2009 at 12:55 pm | Permalink
For me it’s little known 90s lo fi act Sammy doing Rudy on The Word. A forgotten classic.
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Hemmerfru
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:10 pm | Permalink
I’ve not heard of Sammy, time for a youtube hunt…
And here’s 90s plank Jas Mann of Babylon Zoo making a fools of himself on Good Morning. And again on Brass Eye.
Babylon Zoo: bloody awful.
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swineshead
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:14 pm | Permalink
I think you’re simply trying to wind up EWM regular, Jas Mann.
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piqued
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:14 pm | Permalink
Hi, I’ve drunk my brain smooth!
I feel really ill!
Hi!
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Fiona Mayhem
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:27 pm | Permalink
Hullo piqued. I feel similarly today too. Poor us.
How was the ink?
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Hemmerfru
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:28 pm | Permalink
Is he a regular? Say it ain’t so!
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Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:31 pm | Permalink
What was that?
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piqued
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:32 pm | Permalink
Complicated Mel, hence the hangover.
You can read all about it in you-know-where later. It makes for a gripping read* that’s for sure
*fucking dull
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Do I Not Like That!
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:35 pm | Permalink
Perhaps prescient. Nessun Dorma during World Cup 1990. Really quite a wonderful tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqzz7B7V2IE
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Fiona Mayhem
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:35 pm | Permalink
oh no piqued, that doesn’t sound good.
Jas – if i would like to buy a pair of quality bacofoil trousers where do i get them?
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Clarry's Mam
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:36 pm | Permalink
David Bowie doing ‘Starman’ on TOTP! Wowzer! A man wearing makeup! Exciting beyond belief.
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piqued
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:36 pm | Permalink
didn’t someone die today, by the way
I think I might nip off for a wee sick-up
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Hemmerfru
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:42 pm | Permalink
Dear The Legendary Jas Mann (Off Of Babylon Zoo),
Was it tricky getting all those animals into a recording studio to record the authentic sounds of an animal army?
If animals had an army, who’d be the general? And do you think they’d stand a chance against well-equipped members of the TA?
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Fiona Mayhem
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:42 pm | Permalink
I had a nice nap earlier, it has made me feel a bit better, piqued. try that
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roszsszzss
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:44 pm | Permalink
have they messed your tat up, piqued?
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The Legendary Jas Mann (Off Of Babylon Zoo)
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:46 pm | Permalink
I get all my silver clothes from specialist silver clothes shops that are only open to writers of number one hit singles, Mel.
Have YOU written a number one hit single?
No?
THEN ENJOY YOUR NON-SILVER CLOTHES.
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piqued
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:47 pm | Permalink
It’s complicated Rozszsszzs, not entirely , no. It’s stuff that happens… I have tried to explain elsewhere
I really shouldn’t be here if I’m honest
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The Legendary Jas Mann (Off Of Babylon Zoo)
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:51 pm | Permalink
Hemmefru – I don’t need to answer questions from the likes of you. I – The Legendary Jas Mann (Off Of Bbaylon Zoo) – have more important things to do, such as writing my next hit single. You mark my words, once I’ve raised the £14.99 I need for a replacement microphone for my computer, I’ll be giving up my job at Allied Carpets and recording the greatest song mankind has heard since my 1995 hit ‘Spaceman’.
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Hemmerfru
Posted July 31, 2009 at 1:56 pm | Permalink
Dear The Legendary Jas Mann (Off Of Babylon Zoo),
When you’ve got your next hit single arranged and recorded, let me know. I can use Garageband to speed it up for you, ensuring loads of people buy it by mistake after hearing it on the telly. Possibly on a World of Leather advert.
Have you thought about registering as a charity? Then you could beg for the £14.99 without the old bill getting their nose in.
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roszsszzss
Posted July 31, 2009 at 2:08 pm | Permalink
piqued, that sounds v.sinister.
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The Legendary Jas Mann (Off Of Babylon Zoo)
Posted July 31, 2009 at 2:09 pm | Permalink
That’s right! Hit a man when he’s temporarily down! Well just you wait, Hemmefru – you’ll be laughing on the other side of your face when I’ve raised my £14.99, left my job cold-calling for Allied Carpets and returned to music after a short break of just fourteen years. You won’t be so smug when I – The Legendary Jas Mann (Off Of Babylon Zoo) – score ANOTHER number one hit with my next single ‘Man Of Space’.
And would you like to buy some discontinued carpet tiles?
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Clarry's Mam
Posted July 31, 2009 at 2:21 pm | Permalink
And then, Roxy Music, Virginia Plain, The Cure, A Forest, and The Smiths, This Charming Man………….aaaaah, Bisto!
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Ugeine
Posted July 31, 2009 at 2:30 pm | Permalink
‘Catty? I don’t think so… Just a True Fact observation.’
I meant she looked catty, not that you were acting catty.
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Ugeine
Posted July 31, 2009 at 2:32 pm | Permalink
I’ve had the most inactive week off ever this week. I think that’s a good thing.
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Sue De Nymh
Posted July 31, 2009 at 2:53 pm | Permalink
Hey, the Legendary Jas Mann (off of Babylon 5) – why don’t you just re-form The Sandkings?
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The Legendary Jas Mann (Off Of Babylon Zoo)
Posted July 31, 2009 at 2:59 pm | Permalink
I hope you all BURN IN HELL.

http://watchwithmothers.net/2009/07/31/the...cal-tv-moments/


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post Jul 28 2010, 07:41 PM
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I kinda doubt that was him. From the Q&A we did, twice, he came across as a nice normal guy. He doesn't really strike me as someone with a huge ego, any slightly strange interviews were all part of the marketing. It seems there's still people keeping his name alive, I just wish it was in a more respectful way smile.gif


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post Aug 14 2010, 10:32 PM
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huh.gif I find it pathetic when people pretend to be famous people, unless it's a parody, then i don't mind. I just can't believe that people put so much effort in, trying to convince peeps that their "the real Jas Mann" and the likes. I doubt he'd be cocky. I know he wouldn't be, cos i've watched many interviews with him, and he is so polite, which not many artists are these days. He was someone interesting and someone different. Andi Peters probably couldn't write a good song to save his tv career. Richard and Judy............................................i think i prefer Phil and Fern smile.gif
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post Sep 2 2010, 03:14 AM
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humm..

well that was intresting. kinda funny in parts, but i cant quite tell if the writer actually likes Jas Mann..?

Ahh whats it matter anyways.. i just with Jas was back at least for another Forum Q&A, but no matter how many times we wine and moan he wont.. im kinda giving up hope :'[

still il always check back and be a fan of BZOO!
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post Sep 25 2010, 02:18 PM
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QUOTE(MondoBizarro @ Jun 16 2010, 12:22 AM)


Unfortunately Indomina Media doesn't have any press or created anything that people have written about, so it looked like the page was spam.


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post Sep 28 2010, 06:18 PM
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QUOTE(accadia @ Sep 25 2010, 03:18 PM)

That's really interesting thanks Accadia-
It's great to see that it's all working out!


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post Jan 3 2011, 05:57 PM
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Check out the Indomina Group website. It has a contact e-mail and number, and some rather beautiful ethnic/futuristic music. It's definitely believable that Jas could have composed something like this. Quite dark and synthy with a refreshing ethnic twist.

Check it out http://www.indomina.com/
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Yeah that's pretty cool actually, nice find! smile.gif
would be nice if Jas let us know if it was him or not, but either way, it was an enjoyable piece of music smile.gif


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