01Profile
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Jerskin Fendrix
Musician — United Kingdom
03Interview
Name, where are you from?
Jerskin Fendrix, UK.
Describe your style in three words?
A T-shirt so big it makes me look like a toddler wearing its parents’ clothes.
What’s the best gig you’ve ever been to?
Maxim Vengerov playing Mozart at the Royal Festival Hall, Birmingham in 2012 because I was at high school and it was snowing and my girlfriend at the time just rocked up to school in her car and said we are going to Birmingham to go see Maxim Vengerov and it was super cool.
If you could be on the line up with any two artists in history?
Pavement and Arthur Russell so I can roar with laughter.
Which subcultures have influenced you?
The only two people I know say “Badarse” are my older brother and Millie Bobby Brown and I like a kind of lateral subculture like that, or like people who roll toilet paper up into little balls to wipe their arse (I do not do this).
If you could spend an hour with anyone from history?
I would like a piano lesson from Nina Simone.
Of all the venues you’ve been to or played, which is your favourite?
The Windmill because it took me in when no one else would.
Your greatest unsung hero or heroine in music?
Joanna Newsom should have won the Nobel Prize. (She is not on Spotify so I have chosen 'Right On' by the Roots that samples her instead).
Jerskin Fendrix recently released his debut album 'Winterreise' (stream below) via Untitled (Recs).
02Playlist
04Playlist Notes
The first track you played on repeat?
'Razor Dance' by Richard Thompson.
A song that defines the teenage you?
'Yonkers' by Tyler, The Creator.
One record you would keep forever?
My Dad’s copy of 'The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle' by Bruce Springsteen.
A song lyric that has inspired you?
Heinrich Heine’s lyrics for 'Der Leiermann', the last song of Schubert’s Winterreise, are very special and keep getting echoed. “…er laßt es gehen” (he just lets it happen) reminds me so much of the “The poets down here don’t write nothing at all / They just stand back and let it all be” from Bruce Springsteen’s 'Jungleland', and the final line “Willst zu meinen Liedern deine Leier dreh’n?” (Will you play your organ to my songs?) is such a weird way to end what is essentially an existential breakup album and has a beautiful loss of agency, kind of like the final "Pac?" in 'To Pimp A Butterfly'.
The song that would get you straight on the dance floor?
'Uptown Funk' by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars.
A song you wished you had written?
'Cranes in the Sky' by Solange, maybe 'Hana' by Asa Chang and Jun Ray, also basically anything from 'Voodoo' - I’m really bad at the kind of ultra-efficient sparseness where you get a sparse, unique sequence and then repeat it for ages. 'Yonkers' also does that I guess, like a lot of that universe of rap music. I think I’m good at being sparse with orchestration but bad at being sparse with structure, I always try and cram too much sh*t in.
Best song to turn up loud?
'NYC Bitche$' by Awkwafina.
A song people wouldn’t expect you to like?
'Romantic' by Korede Bello and Tiwa Savage.
Best song to end an all-nighter on?
'Desperados Under The Eaves' by Warren Zevon.
Any new music you are listening to right now?
'Sleep Forever' by Jessica Winter.
'Sclarb' by Deathcrash.
'Disappear' by Beabadoobee.
'Sunglasses' by Black Country, New Road.
'I Want To Crawl Inside Of You' by Famous.
03Interview
Name, where are you from?
Jerskin Fendrix, UK.
Describe your style in three words?
A T-shirt so big it makes me look like a toddler wearing its parents’ clothes.
What’s the best gig you’ve ever been to?
Maxim Vengerov playing Mozart at the Royal Festival Hall, Birmingham in 2012 because I was at high school and it was snowing and my girlfriend at the time just rocked up to school in her car and said we are going to Birmingham to go see Maxim Vengerov and it was super cool.
If you could be on the line up with any two artists in history?
Pavement and Arthur Russell so I can roar with laughter.
Which subcultures have influenced you?
The only two people I know say “Badarse” are my older brother and Millie Bobby Brown and I like a kind of lateral subculture like that, or like people who roll toilet paper up into little balls to wipe their arse (I do not do this).
If you could spend an hour with anyone from history?
I would like a piano lesson from Nina Simone.
Of all the venues you’ve been to or played, which is your favourite?
The Windmill because it took me in when no one else would.
Your greatest unsung hero or heroine in music?
Joanna Newsom should have won the Nobel Prize. (She is not on Spotify so I have chosen 'Right On' by the Roots that samples her instead).
Jerskin Fendrix recently released his debut album 'Winterreise' (stream below) via Untitled (Recs).
04Playlist Notes
The first track you played on repeat?
'Razor Dance' by Richard Thompson.
A song that defines the teenage you?
'Yonkers' by Tyler, The Creator.
One record you would keep forever?
My Dad’s copy of 'The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle' by Bruce Springsteen.
A song lyric that has inspired you?
Heinrich Heine’s lyrics for 'Der Leiermann', the last song of Schubert’s Winterreise, are very special and keep getting echoed. “…er laßt es gehen” (he just lets it happen) reminds me so much of the “The poets down here don’t write nothing at all / They just stand back and let it all be” from Bruce Springsteen’s 'Jungleland', and the final line “Willst zu meinen Liedern deine Leier dreh’n?” (Will you play your organ to my songs?) is such a weird way to end what is essentially an existential breakup album and has a beautiful loss of agency, kind of like the final "Pac?" in 'To Pimp A Butterfly'.
The song that would get you straight on the dance floor?
'Uptown Funk' by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars.
A song you wished you had written?
'Cranes in the Sky' by Solange, maybe 'Hana' by Asa Chang and Jun Ray, also basically anything from 'Voodoo' - I’m really bad at the kind of ultra-efficient sparseness where you get a sparse, unique sequence and then repeat it for ages. 'Yonkers' also does that I guess, like a lot of that universe of rap music. I think I’m good at being sparse with orchestration but bad at being sparse with structure, I always try and cram too much sh*t in.
Best song to turn up loud?
'NYC Bitche$' by Awkwafina.
A song people wouldn’t expect you to like?
'Romantic' by Korede Bello and Tiwa Savage.
Best song to end an all-nighter on?
'Desperados Under The Eaves' by Warren Zevon.
Any new music you are listening to right now?
'Sleep Forever' by Jessica Winter.
'Sclarb' by Deathcrash.
'Disappear' by Beabadoobee.
'Sunglasses' by Black Country, New Road.
'I Want To Crawl Inside Of You' by Famous.
Jerskin Fendrix | Winterreise
Jerskin Fendrix | A Star Is Born (2020)
Jerskin Fendrix | Black Hair (2019)
Jerskin Fendrix | Swamp (2018)
Jerskin Fendrix | Manhattan (2018)