Jack Daniels has announced a month of celebrations to mark the 158th birthday of the company's founder next month.
It will all culminate in a very special gig at the Jack Daniels brewery in Lynchburg, Tennessee on 18 Oct. The gig will feature collaborations between Roisin Murphy, Tim Wheeler of Ash, The House Of Lords of The Young Knives and Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers, with The New Silver Coronet Band, a group formed in honour of the original Jack Daniels Silver Coronet Band set up by the man himself in 1892 and featuring six of Tennessee's finest session musicians. The performance will be watched live by just 200 people.
The House Of Lords said: "I am really looking forward to coming to Tennessee and playing with the Silver Cornet Band. It is a real honour to be asked and I am looking forward to standing on stage with some actual real musicians for the first time ever, I just hope I don't expose myself for the great pretender that I am. As the bassist and second most important vocalist in The Young Knives it is also a really flattering to be asked to take the front seat for a whole gig rather than just a few of the songs. I have only played a few times in the US before and have never visited Tennessee so I am really excited about travelling to such a musically vibrant city and maybe soaking up some of that musical history. Maybe something will rub off on me. Who knows".