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Our band lives on a massive island that is pigment green with sharp grey mountains moving slowly and peninsula fingers stretching out and snagging the sea. The people in the band are all different heights and all have very different tastes in music and very different ways of expressing emotion or thinking about art.

We started making noises in a concrete basement on the wrong side of the railroad tracks in Victoria, Canada six years ago, and we had a lot of conversations with each other through many songs. Some of these conversations were long and sad and unsure of what they were about. Some of them were many voices talking at once but understanding each other perfectly and saying the same thing in different, unconscious ways; and after this type of conversation we would quietly get into our cars and drive back across the tracks and feel a beautiful buzzing in our heads.

We took a bunch of songs and recorded them in 2006 with Neil Osborne. We called the record “Bridges” and we played the songs to each other and also played them to other people over and over and over again all over Canada, America, and Europe. Sometimes there were five thousand people listening and sometimes not, but the band loved putting the music into the air and letting it go.

When we got back to the island we put some heaters and carpets down in our concrete basement and dimmed the lights a bit and sometimes took a sip of scotch and stared at each other and thought about music and the strange relief of Fall but didn’t talk about it and instead had a lot of conversations with each other through many many songs. So many songs this time that the band felt new and old at the same time which is, I think, a wonderful feeling. In the middle of the winter we put all our instruments, carpets, heaters, lamps and do-dads in a giant truck and moved everything up to a cabin on another, smaller island off the western coast of Canada (Hornby Island, BC) that is crushingly beautiful and calm. We again asked Neil Osborne to join us, and together the band stood facing each other in a circle under an angled skylight. The sound of the songs filled the room and the sound would only stop when someone was frustrated or hungry or needed to watch some Flight of the Conchords or stand out on the porch in the dark and listen to the wind moving the huge trees.

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Jets Overhead to Perform at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, SXSW and Coachella

Jets Overhead to Perform at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, SXSW and Coachella

Source: 1888 Media

Los Angeles, CA - Having logged appearances in the past year at Bonnaroo, the CMJ Music Marathon and Neil Young's Bridge School Concert, Victoria, BC quintet Jets Overhead continue to build momentum on the touring front with upcoming performances at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, South by Southwest, Canadian Music Week, and the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

Jets Overhead will make their debut appearance at the 11th edition of Coachella on the same day as performances by Them ...

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Jets Overhead Announce National Canadian Tour with Lights

Jets Overhead Announce National Canadian Tour with Lights

Source: 1888 Media

Victoria B.C. atmospheric rockers Jets Overhead, are about to embark on a cross-Canadian tour as the support act for synthpop sensation LIGHTS. The 17-date tour begins in Vancouver on Saturday November 7th, travels as far east as Montreal and ends in London, Ontario on December 3rd.

Jets Overhead are touring in support of their sophomore album No Nations, out now on Vapor Records. Earlier this year the band travelled to Beijing, China for a series of festival dates and have ...

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Jets Overhead to Perform at Neil Young's Bridge School Concert and CMJ in Support of No Nations

Jets Overhead to Perform at Neil Young's Bridge School Concert and CMJ in Support of No Nations

Source: 1888 Media

Los Angeles, CA – Victoria, BC quintet JETS OVERHEAD is set to play select U.S. shows in support of NO NATIONS (Vapor Records), their second full-length album.

Oct 14 - The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA (with The Temper Trap) Oct 17 – The Crocodile, Seattle, WA (with The Temper Trap) Oct 22 - Arlene's Grocery, New York, NY (CMJ - 11pm set time) Oct 24 – Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA (Bridge School Benefit ...

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Jets Overhead 'Heading for Nowhere' Video Premiere on Spinner

Jets Overhead 'Heading for Nowhere' Video Premiere on Spinner

Source: 1888 Media

Victoria, B.C. quintet Jets Overhead announces the world premiere of their video Heading for Nowhere on Thursday, September 3 via AOL's Spinner.

The video will also be added to rotation on Canada's MuchMoreMusic video channel this weekend. Heading for Nowhere is the second video supporting the band's current Vapor Records album, No Nations.

Known for their scenery driven videos (a clip for the album's title track was shot in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen while on a mini-tour of China) and ...

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Jets Overhead Sophomore Release No Nations Available Now on Vapor Records

Jets Overhead Sophomore Release No Nations Available Now on Vapor Records

Source: 1888 Media

Los Angeles, CA – Victoria, BC quintet Jets Overhead released their second full-length, No Nations, on June 23 via Vapor Records. The ten-song album is available online and in stores.

The soaring melodies and crisp earthy tones on No Nations anchor the breathy vocal interplay of the husband and wife duo of Adam Kittredge and Antonia Freybe-Smith. Guitarist Piers Henwood (a cousin of Kittredge), bassist Jocelyn Greenwood and drummer Luke Renshaw handily perform both the subtle and the eloquent on ...

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