ears for your eyes.

 

Take a brief nibble from this buffet of Briefs tunes, some old, some older.

 

Click on the clip titles to play them, or right-click and 'Save Target As' to put them on your hard-drive for future pleasure.

 

 

for your ears

 

shattered glass parkway.

 

The Briefs' loudest gig results in a night of aurally punishing fusion bliss. This is a clip of a pint-glass shattering at the start of one of Jon's solos.

 

Yes indeed.

london.

 

Dave's latest Brief composition was pencilled in to go last for our sets at Vienne Jazz Festival. That morning we found out that suicide bombers had wreaked havoc on tubes and buses - and the song took on a completely new meaning.

 

This clip features Joe 'Putty' Browne on tenor.

really drummy.

 

Sammy at work on a particularly sweaty set-closer.

d & b flavour crisps.

 

A still untitled composition from the bowels of Bacon, given it's first airing in this clip.

 

Mr. Jon Gingell takes us for a meander down fusion hill, before Sammy and Stevie B weigh in with their own noisy opinion on the matter.
nugget A nugget B nugget C

Dave's arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherazade' is available here in three reasonably bite-size portions.

back from the dead.

 

Due to the wonder of modern technology, we were able to employ the currently employable Jeff Buckley to sing with the Briefs on this Stevie B penned funker.

 

This one is from our Policy Briefs' Big Hand EP featuring live cuts from gigs in sunny Vienne and rainy Southampton.

nice guitar work.

 

Deafeningly good stuff from the school of Gingell.

 

 

 

for your eyes and ears simultaneously

 

you should know that the video clips below are excellent, but also quite large;

ideal for broadband users / non-ideal for people in a rush and / or have a dial-up connection

 

bad hands.

 

A trio jam with Stevie B and Sammy, in which Hal fights off moderate RSI to bring us the cheekiest piano playing this side of Ludlow.

 

Background groans of ecstasy provided by one David Bacon MC.

continental mong-out.

 

This clip from Vienne jazz festival features solos from Jon and Dave on the Briefs' classic 'Ears For Your Eyes'.

 

It also features a genuinely French crowd.

 

Besoin.