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oining Black Velvet are both the band’s they could have conjured in their imagination. a whole heap to me onstage and offstage.
Jfrontman, James Bartholomew, and A debut album now a reality, an album launch We're brothers in a sense. We're not blood
lead guitarist Tyler Arrowsmith, James himself show at London's historic 100 Club on a stage brothers, but brothers from different mothers,
being an axeman too, but being the first to which has already welcomed many of music's and we all get on really well. The bond we
admit that, in the world of Jayler, he plays a biggest legends, and then, support shows made these past four and a half years, it's very
support role in that department to Tyler. In the alongside some of rock's elite, Sammy Hagar dear to me.
background of each of their Zoom screens are and Deep Purple, which, by the end of the "And, hopefully, the band can come across
items which are immediately linkable to the year, will have taken them all around Europe to our fans as a family to them too and not just
band and their music. Psychedelic artwork, and to some of its finest venues, culminating four lads from Birmingham playing music. You
which could easily have been printed in the at another of the country's most iconic stages, know, we're there to create a family base and
1960s or 1970s, adorns the wall. Tyler is rock- London's Royal Albert Hall. for people to kind of feel safe in and be able to
ing a Lynyrd Skynyrd T-shirt and he also, very It is safe to say that, if you haven't yet speak their own voice."
noticeably, has a couple of guitars loitering in heard of Jayler, there is a very good chance James, who is 20 years old, while his
the corner of the shot. In short, these private you will have done very soon. bandmates are 21, explains how they got to-
spaces look every bit as those belonging to gether. “We all kind of met at this college for
young men with stars in their eyes and big e start by asking the pair to tell us music and music tech. That's how we got to-
dreams in their heads. Wwhat Jayler is to them and what they gether. We all met individually different ways,
And it's debatable that the dreams they hope it will be to those who listen to the music but together, that's how we all met.
are currently living are even beyond anything they create. James tells us, "The band means "I think we all wanted to be in a band, we

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