The Virgil Sturgeon’s Daniel Jackson has just performed at a beach concert at St Barthélemy, in the Caribbean, a perfect venue for a group named after a Sturgeon fish…The event organiser’s budget couldn’t stretch to fly the other band members Simon and Gabriel over from Europe, so Dan sang with a DJ playing instrumentals from the Catch and Release EP. We might have some video footage from the gig coming soon - To buy the catch and release EP on CD or download on mp3, just visit our shop page.

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The Virgil Sturgeon “Hook Line & Stinker” podcast for delarge.co.uk features 7 new tracks from the Virgil Sturgeon’s ‘Catch and Release EP’ and some other material they’re working on.

From the streets of the Lower East Side New York, the City of Light and London Town come Daniel Jackson, Gabriel Mimouni and Simon Waller, who unite to form the Virgil Sturgeon…the podcast playlist is below:

Dan Magee (0:00), Woodshed Greeting (1.47), Sandbox3000 (2.28), Come Around (4.50), Sea Song (6.17), After the Storm (7.34), I Like You (9.54), To Break Her (11.19), I’m Alive (12.44), Octopus (14.44), Woodshed Sign off (16.30)

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At a party in Brooklyn, New York - The legendary Dreddy Kruger, formally of Wu-Tang Clan and owner of Think Differently Music Group crossed paths with none other than our very own, Daniel Jackson. Dan handed Dreddy the Sturgeon’s Catch and Release CD and then promptly hijacked the nearest hifi to give him a taster. Mr Kruger enjoyed the sturgeon and Dan told us he was “he was getting down to it and even kept the copy.” Later Dreddy asked Dan if the Virgil Sturgeon would be interested in producing some music for the artists on Think Differently - he now has the telephone number to our woodshed HQ in the UK. To be continued
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The Virgil Sturgeon Catch and release cd has been mastered in Alchemy Soho on the 29th Floor of the Centre Point building in London near Tottenham Court road. Simon (suffering a mild case of vertigo) knelt at the mixing desk to avoid the view from the window. Martin Giles (known for mastering acts on Ninja Tunes and the likes of Jurassic 5 and Badly Drawn Boy) worked together with the woodshed crew to lace the Sturgeon EP onto a production master cd.

Jennifer Ward, an artist from Between Beautiful has painted the Virgil Sturgeon CD cover sleeve, creating a masterpiece of the three musicians together in a fishing boat sailing in the Atlantic, the ocean separating their hometowns, London, New York and Paris. Jen is currently working on a number of art based projects – her work has been used by many publishers including, the Sunday times, Harper Collins, Dorling Kindersley, etc. For more information or to see Jen’s portfolio click here