What's JEA doing, really?

About a month and a half ago, Junior Eats Alone went into a recording-studio / live-venue (Qbus, Leiden) for two nights in a row, to record new material. Record? Didn't they just finish their last album? True that.

In July of this year, their debut-album 'Love Will Slow Me Down' was released (available through itunes or this website). Now it seems as though they just can't get enough of it. In the two nights they were at the Qbus, 10 songs were recorded, 'live'. 'It went really well, and there just was an incredible atmosphere', says frontman Ronnie Verton.

Thus was layed the groundwork for JEA's yet to be titled second album: an album that will be released in 2009, if all goes well. Whether or not this record will be released by a major record company remains to be seen of course, but the band is confident they'll turn some heads at the upcoming 'Noorderslag' festival. You would have to give these guys a pretty good chance of going the distance, if the quality of their second album is anything like the quality of the first.

And the band is working hard right now to achieve just that. 3-4 days a week, someone's in the JEA-studio, mixing, recording (because let's face it: you can never have enough tracks), polishing and throwing stuff away. Does JEA find the time to play live shows at all? Sure...check out the upcoming gigs page!