Precious Jules do not belong to Kim Salmon or Mike Stranges. They're all yours. Just wrap your ears around them! If You have ears for Punk, Glam and Rock ‘n’ Roll filtered through the post modern nineties and naughties and brought up to the minute by a couple of master-pop theoreticians then you have ears for Precious Jules.
Having been repeatedly invited by international touring artists to fill their support spot, Kim Salmon tired of playing alone. He would ask producer friend Mike Stranges to accompany him on the drums. The pair of them would rock out on punk back catalogue and standards adding their own newies with each successive show.
Shock founder Andrew McGee caught them one night and invited them down to his home recording facility in Nagambie where the duo tracked 9 songs. It was clear from the results that ‘Kim and Mike’ or ‘Kim Salmon and…’ would not suffice and so the pair set about finding a suitable moniker. Given that they’d just recorded ‘Cheap ‘n’ Nasty’ by Kim’s 1977 Perth Punk outfit ‘the ‘Cheap Nasties’ it wasn’t difficult to come up with something opposite yet similar and so ‘Precious Jules’ came to be.
The pair assessed the ‘diamonds in the rough’ that they brought back from Nagambie. Always the producer Mike suggested that “precious jewels should be polished” . To this end Precious Jules have carefully cut, added to and indeed ‘polished’ their collection of gems.
Listen back to Mixing Up The Medicine with Louise Please for a live set from Precious Jules.
