Get Ready to ROCK! Interview with Tally Spencer of rock band Jynxt

The band was started by brothers Koa Nat Spencer in early 2001. They had previously been living in seperate countries, playing in different bands until they were re-united when Nat moved back to England from Brazil, where he had been working as a producer in a music studio. Koa had lots of ideas however he was slightly computer illiterate, so their skills fit together like a puzzle.

They started creating a drum'n'bass/ rock fusion, creating melodies adding sampled beats, basically experimenting the contents of an album started to form. After trying out their vocals on the recordings they realized it wasn't gonna work they were getting desperate to find a vocalist for the band. Just by chance they stumbled across a demo that their sister Tally had made many years earlier.

They liked it sent her a couple of tracks to listen to along with an invitation to join the band. She was living in Italy at the time, also playing with a local band there instantly fell in love with the music songs. She started flying over a couple times a month to record do gigs untill she decided to drop her life in Italy move back to the UK to dedicate herself totally to JYNXT.

For years the band played without a bass player along to a track where Koa had recorded the bass live. Bass players are hard to find!!

In 2005 Simon Walsh, heard about JYNXT through our management at the time, who had interest in the band Simon was playing bass in. When Simon found out we were doing auditions for a bass player he decided to show up and have a go. He had learnt all the songs after hearing him for only a few minutes we knew he was the missing link.

Needless to say, he quit his band joined JYNXT full time. Dan Brown is the DJ and the youngest member of the band, at only 19 he was quickly recruited after the band witnessed his talent while he was DJing at a private party. It has taken a while to find all the members but we are convinced we now have all the ingredients for a winning recipe.

This was the first year we were able to hit the road and tour the UK, we travelled all around and it's what we love doing the most. Of all the gigs this past year, one in particular stands out as 'special', it was at the Underworld in Camden. The night was going great, we had a big crowd that turned up to see us.

About half way through our set there was a sudden problem with our guitar amp, it just stopped working. Someone from the crowd jumped on stage, imagining it was the cable, threw himself on the floor and started fiddling about, trying to fix it, telling Koa to keep playing till it worked. However, we are called JYNXT and we pay the consequences for real!

We had to stop playing half way through 'Bring Back Tomorrow'. But the song did not stop, the whole crowd was singing along relentlessly and we finished it acapella. It was great, absolutely amazing!

We're lucky to have such dedicated fans at this early stage in our career. Undoubtably Muse's 'Super Massive Black Hole'. We are huge fans.

They headlined the Reading Festival, which unfortunately we had to miss due to a gig of our own, but caught it later on Sky. Every performance they do is amazing, they breach boundaries most bands never dream of, never forgetting originality. The talent between the 3 of them is outstanding.

Like I said, we are huge fans. We are currently working on a demo for our second album in our home studio. We have lots of material piling up and the ideas just keep coming.

We are unsigned at the moment so looking for a new record deal, we hope to find someone who sees JYNXT for their full potential and is willing to invest in us without trying to turn us into a copy of every other band in this country. We won't settle for anything less. 8.

Are you fed up with the 'Jeremy Spencer offspring' associations. Has this been a help or a hindrance? It was something we never wanted to get into, especially because the public doesn't take too kindly to nepotism in the music business.

It's a real shame that people get the wrong idea of us as it couldn't be further from the truth. Our father has been out of the music scene for over 30 years, we never grew up realizing he was a bit of a guitar legend, but obviously the press never forgets and we were forced to discuss it endlessly. So yeh, I guess we're a bit fed up.

In some ways it helped, as we got more publicity because of it, but nothing life changing has happened as a direct result of it.