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Britain's Got Talent Roundup

Wow, what a rocket ride! We got to play to 12 million people on prime time national TV! A big thanks to everyone who supported, voted and spread the news on Sunday, we love you all!

If you haven't yet seen the clip of our semi fin all performance CLICK HERE now! Please share the video on FaceBook and Twitter etc and don't forget to "Like" and "Favourite" it too!

We've had such a great response from new fans and old friends and been covered in six national papers as a result. We've also made some new and very talented friends in the other acts who have all been fantastic and very supportive of each other throughout the competition.

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"Absolutely Brilliant" - Simon Cowell

Last night our Britain's Got Talent auditioned aired to about 10 million viewers! Here are the links to watch it again and share it with everybody:

BGT- UK version(only viewable in the UK)

- International version (only viewable outside the UK)

 


Here's a couple of great follow up articles too!

Alesha Dixon Interview - Unreality TV - STV

Simon Cowell said "Absolutely brilliant, 100 per cent yes. Those guys have put me in a good mood." David Walliams said "101 per cent yes" and Alesha Dixon's said "A massive yes from me, guys. You are through to the next round."

Watch this weeks show to see if we make it through to the live semi finals and support us with a vote if we make it through! Stay tuned to the show and our newsletters,FaceBook page and Twitter for updates and spread the word!

Bring Me Sunshine Single OUT NOW!

Over half a million views of the video later and the single of "Bring Me Sunshine" is now finally available! Click on the iTunes link below and download the track for just 79p (or 99¢ in the US store) or the whole three track single for just £1.79 (or $2.97).

It's also available in other MP3 download stores such as 7Digital, HMV, Amazon etc so just search in your favourite one if you prefer.

We also have a three track CD single which includes both the video version of the song as well as the extended album version featuring Toni Elizabeth Prima as well as a brand new Jive Aces original tune called "King of Jive" which is a tribute to Louis Prima and the Bring Me Sunshine music video as an enhanced CD (to play in your computer) all for just £3. To buy a copy of the CD email sales@jiveaces.com NOW!

If you haven't seen the video yet or just need an extra shot of sunshine click here to see it now http://is.gd/sunshine.

If any of you have friends that liked the video and want to take some sunshine with them, please pass on the iTunes store link to them!

All the best and keep spreading the sunshine,
The Jive Aces

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Half A Million, Royal Wedding, Upcoming Gigs n stuff...

So the big news is that our "Bring Me Sunshine" video is now over half a million views and still climbing. At this rate we'll probably be at over a million three weeks so please keep spreading the sunshine. We have had so much great feedback and people are thanking us for brightening up their day. Not only that but just look at the weather, at least in the UK, it's like August in May and it all started when we released the video. The power of SUNSHINE! Please keep passing on the link to your friends. http://is.gd/sunshine. The single will be released on May 2nd and I'll send out the iTunes link as soon as it's available.

Next weekend we have the Royal Wedding to celebrate. We'll be at the Derry Jazz Festival but you can still celebrate with us by getting our version of "Get Me To The Church On Time" recorded especially for the occasion. Click on the link below to open the iTunes Store.

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USA store Get Me to the Church On Time - Single - The Jive Aces

UK Store Get Me to the Church On Time - Single - The Jive Aces

We are also appearing on the "Come Dine With Me Royal Wedding Special on the 29th on Channel 4 as part of Samantha's 1940's street party. Finger crossed her fabby pie n mash with jellied eels (yes very authentic!) with sticky toffy pudding and custard wins!

Coming up tonight we are in East Grinstead for a charity concert in the Parish Hall and tomorrow night we are at the 100 Club in London where we are also doing some filming for Mike Sherman's "On The Mike" Red Carpet TV show in Miami. So come down in your best duds! Right after that we travel to Derry, Northern IReland for our favourite festival of the year. See you there, or somewhere, or online soon!

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Just did a great show at the Thameside Theatre in Grays, Essex (Ken's home town!) with the fab Rebecca Grant doing a lot of Louis and Keely material. Next up this weekend is tomorrow night (Saturday16th) at the Boogaloo Weekender (which is sold out) on Hayling Island via Portsmouth for a quick "Say No To Drugs" event at Gunwharf Quays. Then on Sunday (17th) it's our first gig at Pizza Express at the Pheasantry on the King's Road, London. All details are on our gig guide. Oh, and I just found out via Twitter that next Friday's gig at Trading Boundaries in Sussex is SOLD OUT too but there's a few standing places left.

Sooooo, what's the big "Bring Me Sunshine" music video news??? Well I'll tell you! Our views have now past the 1/3 of a million mark and are at 335,097. It is not the 15th most viewed video in the music category in the UK this month AND the 113th most viewed video in all categories in the UK this month on the YouTube charts. The Jive Aces YouTube Channel is also the 11th most viewed music channel in the UK this month! That's pretty gorram AWESOME if you ask me!

Now the #1 spot has only 625k views in a month and I think we could beat that and really get the sunshine out there. Please help us spread it by reposting the link to FaceBook, Twitter or emailing it to friends to bring smiles all around. Even if you've posted it once, chances are that not all your friends would have caught it on the news stream. There's no limit to the sunshine!

Goodnight and see you all tomorrow for more sunshine! (I used the word sunshine a lot in this blog post, didn't I? Oh there's another one!)

Alex - Jive Aces

P.S. the single will be out on May 2nd, watch this space!

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The Jive Aces News and Gigs Aprill '11

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••• April 2011 •••
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IN THIS ISSUE...
• Bring Me Sunshine Video Goes Viral • "Get Me To The Church" Single Release •
• Back From The USA • Swingin' In The City • In The Media • Gig Guide •

Hello there,
We're almost a third of the way through the year already and the sun is starting to shine. Of course we all know the real reason for that, keep reading...

Bring Me Sunshine Video Goes Viral

CDThe Jive Aces new music video for the forthcoming single "Bring Me Sunshine" (is.good/sunshine) in now online. It's already received over 250,000 views on YouTube in just three weeks.

We've been getting rave reviews from everyone who's seen it so if you haven't seen it yet then you're in for a smile!

Please help us spread the sunshine and repost the link to FaceBook and Twitter, send to friends and family by email or any other way! The single will be released both as a download from iTunes and other stores as well as a CD single on the 1st May!

"Get Me To The Church On Time" Single Release

ChurchTo celebrate the Royal Wedding, just for fun we recorded a swingin' version of the classic tune "Get Me To The Church On Time". Official release date is the 25th April, in time to work up the festivities before the wedding (and our appearance on "Come Dine With Me" - see below article).

Just click on the link iTunes link below.

Get Me to the Church On Time - Single - The Jive Aces

Back From The USA

PBDAThe Jive Aces just had their most successful American tour yet. In just under two weeks the band did eight shows (visiting both coasts), recorded six songs and shot a new music video and two ukulele tutorials (subscribe to our youtube channel for updates)! The shows themselves included two of California's most prestigious theatres - Cerritos Performing Arts Centre with Keely Smith and The McCallum Centre with Ed Ames (of the Ames Brothers, "Ragg Mopp" fame), both to over 1200 people; breaking our own house record with over 900 dancers coming to the Spanish Ballroom in DC; two shows with the fabulous Satin Dollz in Pasadena and LA; And at one of New York's top cabaret spots with the Manhattan Dolls, which got a rave review which you can see by clicking HERE.

Swinging in the City

Albert HallThe Jive Aces will be appearing at a number of the London's top venues and events over the next few months including: Ronnie Scott's (www.ronniescotts.co.uk); Vintage Dance Club at Canary Wharf (www.mycanarywharf.com); The 100 Club (www.the100club.co.uk); a special 30th Anniversary appearance at Dover Street (www.doverst.co.uk), a regular spot in the band's early days; Pizza Express @ The Pheasantry (www.pizzaexpresslive.com) and a headline appearance at The Vintage Festival on the Southbank (www.vintagebyhemingway.co.uk) Full details are on the Gig Guide.

Summertime Swing

Special early bird tickets are now available for Summertime Swing 2011 which will be held on the Sunday 7th August, 3:00pm at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 4JY. As usual we'll have some very special guests (to be announced) and BBQs, classic vehicles, vintage stalls and all proceeds go to charity. Hurry because the special offer of £15 is limited and ends on 31st May. Available from summertimeswing.eventbrite.com or call 01342 300 075.

In The Media

We've had a host of media appearances in the past few weeks including appearances on Channel 4 for 4Thought TV, Sky One for on Louie Spence's Show Business, a mention in Hello Magazine for the Berkeley Square Ball and coming up soon on 29th April we'll be on the Royal Wedding Special edition of "Come Dine With Me" on Channel 4.

Gig Guide

Can be found at www.jiveaces.com/gig_guide

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Copyright 2011. The Jive Aces

 

Making Records from the new Golden Age

It's Friday night and we've just finished the latest Jazz Meets Jive show in Bedworth. Tomorrow we're off to Leeds in the afternoon to play at an event for the "Truth About Drugs" campaign and then in the evening we'll be back at the Ritz Ballroom in Brighouse, Yorkshire, one of the very few remaining sprung dance floor ballrooms left int he country. Sunday see us return to Walmer Bridge Village Hall with Farmer Tom and his meat pies (included in the ticket price of course, what a bargain!).

The "Bring Me Sunshine" is now over 211k views in three weeks which is astounding! It's also the 35th most watched video in the music category in the UK this month. Not half bad I'd say!

The single of "Bring Me Sunshine" will be the first release of our new record label "Golden Age Recordings" which we have just set up with Guy Fletcher OBE. Guy is the only British lyricist to have been commissioned to write songs for Elvis.

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Here we are with Guy working out the details of "Golden Age Recordings"

Right, to bed and I'll see if I wake to see thousands more people have been hit by sunshine…

Goodnight!

Alex

 

Bournemouth and beyond...

Tonight we played a sellout (I'd say standing room only but there wasn't even any of that left) show at The Hub in Verwood, near Bournemouth with local up and coming swing band The Regular Joes.

They kicked off with a great first set and then joined us for an über jam session on "Jump, Jive and Wail" for an encore. 11 of them and six of us on stage at the same time made quite a racket (in a good way).

Tomorrow we're off to London for Dame Vera Lynn's charity ball with the Swingtime Sweethearts and Hayley Westerna then Sunday at the Sarah Thorne Theatre in Broadstairs.

Oh and were up to 111,157 views for the Bring Me Sunshine video with over 12,000 shares on Facebook. Keep spreading the sunshine!

Thank you very much and goodnight!
(I'll be here all week)
- Alex

History Made! (and a limerick)

Hip, hip hooray and yay
For today is a historical day
Our YouTube view count
Increased a huge amount
And sailed past 100k!

Yes ladies and gents, that limerick was inspired by me waking up to the number 100,880 views of Bring Me Sunshine after exactly two weeks on YouTube!

Don't stop spreading the sunshine, from the feedback we are receiving it really is having a profound effect on peoples happiness! The link again is http://is.gd/sunshine

Don't forget folks that the single of Bring Me Sunshine will be available soon on iTunes and other download sites and also (shock, gasp) a real CD single!

Today we're off to Bournemouth for the Big Jive event with The Regular Joes via Portsmouth for a Say No To Drugs event today. Then tomorrow it's a show for Dame Vera Lynn with Hayley Westerna and the Swingtime Sweethearts. Then on Sunday we are at the Sarah Thorne Theatre in Broadstairs, Kent. All the details are on our gig guide at http://www.jiveaces.com/gig_guide.

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- Alex

Bring Me Sunshine and other news...

Hello from sunshine central,
Otherwise known as Jive Aces HQ!

A quick update: we've now had nearly 69,000 views on YouTube for our "Bring Me Sunshine" video and it's growing by the hour (so by the time you read this it will probably be out of date). Thanks to everyone who has reported it to their Facebook walls or tweeted it or sent it out in any way to spread the sunshine!

We were also featured on the homepage of http://www.studiofilmfest.com and were the video of the day in their newsletter. Please go to the site, click on the thumbnail of our video and on the right hand side vote "hot" and nominate us for the various categories.

We also had a nice feature on http://www.planetjive.co.uk under the News Section (breaking news).

In other news; we got a mention in Hello Magazine this week for our appearance at the Berkeley Dress Show as part of the London Season and were also on Sky One tomorrow (Wednesday) night on Andrew Stone's Show Business.

So keep spreading the sunshine!
The Jive Aces

Bring Me Sunshine video update #2

Ok so here's a quick update on the Bring Me Sunshine video:

We are a handful away from 40,000 views on YouTube
It's been shared nearly 7,500 times on Facebook
It's been tweeted over 150 times
We reached #44 as the most liked music video in the UK this week
We reached #84 most discussed music video in the UK this week

Thanks for all the great feedback and we are so glad it's making everyone's day(s).

Please help us spread the sunshine and post the link to your Facebook walls, tweet it, send it out by emails and /or text and also click the "thumbs up" icon on the YouTube page and leave a comment.

Here's the link again: http//is.gd/sunshine

Keep spreading the sunshine!

Cheers, alex

Bringing Sunshine...

Hello there, ok the blogs been quiet because we've been inundated with great feedback for our new music video for "Bring Me Sunshine". Were at 18,000 views in just 4 days of being online which is fantastic.

So many people are telling us it made their day, brought sunshine to their day and even in many cases the REAL sun came out and stayed out since we released the video!

If you haven't seen it yet it is GUARANTEED to put a big smile on your face so go to:

http://is.gd/sunshine

Please help us spread the sunshine and bring smiles to more people and share the link by email, text, Facebook, twitter and any other form of electronic communication and social networking.

Cheers and keep enjoying the sunshine!