Heavy Jelly is the name of the new album by self-described "Two man boy band from the garden of England" Soft Play.
Soft Play used to be known as Slaves - yes, they were the ones who made this marvellous racket back in 2015...
They changed their name to Soft Play two years ago because, "The name 'Slaves' is an issue [and] doesn't represent who we are as people or what our music stands for any longer.", Also, they did it so that I can do a future edition of Namesakes all about bands called Slaves. So far, there are no other bands I can find called Soft Play.
Here's one of their more recent offerings, which is a little mellower than usual...
The name Heavy Jelly was also used by an early 70s prog-psych band from the UK featuring George Harrison's mate Jackie Lomax (who as also a member of Dee and the Dynamites, The Undertakers, The Lomax Alliance and Badger). Their eponymous debut album was never officially released due to a contract dispute with Apple, but it is available on the interweb...
Heavy Jelly was also the name of a 1968 rock band who were perhaps better known as Skip Bifferty...
And finally, record company moguls Simon Napier-Bell and Ray Singer also released a song under the band name Heavy Jelly back in 1968 which discogs categorises as "prog pop rock funk soul". All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put this one back together again...
Who'd ever have thought there was so much Heavy Jelly out there?
