Jack Cheshire (born 1st September 1980) is an English singer-songwriter, composer & musician. Citing an eclectic range of influences, Cheshire's music has elements of post-rock, psychedelia, jazz & surf and is non genre specific. Born in Bath, Somerset, Jack studied and played music full-time in Liverpool for a number of formative years, working as an electric bass player in various projects before wending his way to London. Third record, ‘Long Mind Hotel’, was recorded at Sawmills Studios, Cornwall. Situated up a tidal estuary, reached only by boat at high tide, it was Jack’s first studio album. The sessions spanned five days & nights, with the band (Jon Scott – drums, Andrea Di Biase – Double Bass, David James Pearson – Electric Guitar) recorded simultaneously. Though some tension arose over which take would be used, this method gave the album great intensity and a potent sound. Marking significant progress, it was supported by BBC6 Music, XFM, Absolute & Amazing radio, and led to live sessions for Tom Robinson & the Selector (British Council) as well as numerous shows around the country. "Jack Cheshire’s third album Long Mind Hotel is a gem of psychedelic English folk, recently launched to an enraptured audience at the Servant Jazz Quarters in London. From the very first track, the listener is thrown into an uncertain, disorientating yet mesmerising world created by Cheshire’s lyrics and incredibly gifted band…" Renny Jackson, ThankFolkForThat.com 9/10 "The third album from this Somerset songwriter, Long Mind Hotel sees Cheshire broaden his alt-folk palette with the help of musicians whose lives are chiefly spent playing jazz. It’s an inspired combination, Cheshire’s precisely enunciated Nick Drake-like vocals and non-rhyming, allusive lyrics in tense and absorbing combat with the band’s expansive sound pictures. The opening Gyroscope marries surf guitar, a serpentine vocal and an equally mellifluous double bass to beguiling effect, while the psych-folk of Into the Void revels in its skittish syncopation, descending chords and dead-legged fairground-waltz atmospherics. An artist crying out for a bigger audience." DC SundayTimes "…with Long Mind Hotel Somerset’s Jack Cheshire displays a unique, slow-burning psychedelic alt-folk sound that deserves to reach a wide audience…There is a dreamy psychedelic feel to the songs that are united by a spiralling, weaving quality that compliments lyrics that frequently reference to spinning, be it ‘rolling’, ‘spinning’ or ‘revolving’. The result is a dizzying and original sound at times reminiscent of Nick Drake, The Beta Band and Tunng but at all times unmistakably his own." Alfred Archer, FolkRadio "I like you, Jack Cheshire. I like your louche-but-lovely vocals. I like your oddball lyrics and alt stylings. I like how I can’t genre-bind you in folk, rock or anything, and how I don’t really want to anyway. I like how blissful GyroScope, your new record's opener, makes me feel, even with the psychedelic, out-in-the-sun-too-long finale. And I like the use of “cantankerous”. I can’t imagine you ever being cantankerous, Jack." Richord Mellor, Some of it was True, music blog "Opening track Gyroscope sets the ambience with agitated insistency and needling, sounding slide-guitar. A very English, lyrically enunciated Heavenly Bodies follows on with delicious Syd Barrett teasers with all manner of counter-beats bouncing off bowed double-bass and suggestions of an uncredited cello. Kerosene has a gushingly Gomez slacker louche – its hypnotic back-beat and metronomic ingratiation works delightfully whilst the eponymous title track is within a swan's wing breeze of Pink Floyd larking about in Grantchester Meadows. Penultimate track We Play Again rambles on with three minutes of what seems a homogenous, dreamy reprise of earlier songs but tantalising, and shamefully brief, its coda closes with a dronal, instrumental tantrum. More of that please. " John Kennedy, NetRhythms "Cheshire's wit and natural style of communicating is top notch." Lisa Torem www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk —– "…exquisite melancholy song writing in the finest traditions of mildly psychedelic, quintessentially English, stoner folk. The vocals are attractively slurred and sleepy, the lyrics dreamlike and beautiful, and the melodies and arrangements – check out Magic Eye Lens – get right under your skin. Buy this now." ***** – James Delingpole, THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH "…I am finding it a difficult notion of why Jack Cheshire is not in the publics ears all over the world… Listening to this with the headphones on is an exquisite treat for your brains synapses." -www.middleboopmag.com "…with his breathy Ian McCulloch-style croon…a burnished psychedelia creeps into the mix and takes this music to the skies." – Uncut "..well crafted, and in places hauntingly beautiful…." – thefourohfive.com "…We are left with a genuinely impressive album, from a songwriter who sounds like he has enough imagination to make many more." -www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk "…these aren’t just performances, they’re exorcisms. And, looking around the crowd, it’s easy to believe that they’ve finally found their place." – Cakespank "It's only once in a while that as a lowly reviewer, you receive a record that could be of real significance. This is one of those rare finds." – God Is In The TV Zine.co.uk