OMC: Most of you guys had been in other bands before, too, right?ĭF: Yes. We didn't have a name at the time, but we started making a lot of noise in the Fernandez family basement, and it all began. – approached me and others about starting a ska/reggae group playing original music, it was an easy sell. So when Kevin – who played sax in H.M.S.S. We had also expanded our knowledge and music collections of Jamaican ska and reggae as well. In the following years, many of us were playing in various bands, but Rick and many others had fond memories of H.M.S.S., that music and that era.
Several members of IJS were in that group, which had as its lead singer Paul Finger – later of Wild Kingdom. But the main precursor to IJS was Her Majesty's Secret Service, or H.M.S.S., which was a popular ska cover band which played in the summer and fall of 1984. So we were well-versed in the high energy of the ska scene, as well as punk and new wave.
#JET SET GO MUSICAL MOVIE#
: For those who weren't there – or are getting too old to remember, give us a quick history of IJS.ĭan Fernandez: My brother Rick (keyboards) and I grew up listening to a lot of Two-Tone Era ska groups like the Specials, the English Beat, Madness, the Selecter, Bad Manners, etc., and our annual tradition was going to see the ska concert movie "Dance Craze" at the Oriental Theater with all our friends. and Nate Gubin – have been up over the the past, oh, quarter-century or so. We caught up with frontman Dan Fernandez, who went on to sing with Kings Go Forth, and drummer Jeff Carpenter for a walk down memory lane and to catch up on what they – and bassist Jeff Villwock, keyboard player Rick Fernandez, guitarist Tim Pierce and hornsmen Ed Spangenberg, Kevin R. Tickets for the show are $10 in advance and two bucks more on the day of the show. Oakland Ave., as part of the Revenge Scooter Club Rally.
22, the original lineup of International Jet Set reunites for the band’s first gig in 25, playing at the Miramar Theater, 2844 N. Without a note or step out of place, this should be a company to catch up with in 2009.For a brief period at the close of the 1980s, Milwaukee’s East Side was swaying like Kingston in two decades earlier, with bands like Wild Kingdom and International Jet Set packing clubs with their forays into ska and rock steady and, in Kingdom’s case, funk. Nick Cork, as the tongue-tied first officer, owns and capably delivers many of the best lines, while Kaytee Crook and Tom Lee are excellent foils as the oversexed Puerto Rican stewardess and arrogant captain. Yet he pines for and prowls after the captivating Mark Senior, who shares the show's most touching moments with Birtill, pleading to the skyscrapers If I Could Find A Boy. Alex Johnston is deliciously snide as the preening Ryan, forever "stuck" with J-Lo or Madonna in first-class.
The characterisation is spot-on, tenderly comic and endearing. But instead this is a production that's warm, funny and wonderfully scored by Pippa Cleary, epitomised by the bawdy, beautiful lament A Simple Valley Song, in which Katie Birtill, as the lovelorn Welsh stewardess Hayley, almost takes the roof off.
#JET SET GO MUSICAL SERIES#
On a return flight from London to New York, with the pilots and stewards opining their love lives, Take Note Theatre could easily have settled for a camp series of clichs. Performed, appropriately enough, in a hot, cramped Portakabin, this vibrant musical charts an assured course between modern cynicism for the aviation industry and sporadic bursts of flamboyance capturing all the glamour of flying's heyday. SCRIPTED by the precociously talented 21-year-old Jake Brunger, and brought to life by a charismatic cast of young amateurs, Jet Set Go! is one of those rare, unexpected delights that enliven any Fringe.
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