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Jamie

JamieJamie is the most recent addition to the RockDogs line-up, and is the band’s sensitive and caring guitarist. He does indeed shop at Roger David (20% off sale - ends this Sunday), and he stands out from the rest of the RockDogs beacuse, in truth, he doesn't stand out. Jamie is mannered, clean, tidy, intellectual, and one hell of a songwriter. 

Jamie frequently gets into knock-down, drag-out arguments with the other members of the band, particularly Zeke, over the direction of the RockDogs' music. He's frustrated by Zeke's self-obsession and the way they seem to spend ninety percent of the time in band meetings talking about Zeke's entrances, Zeke's outfits, Zeke's songs. It's not all about Zeke, and frequently Jamie likes to remind them all of that. He not-so-secretly harbours ambitions of taking over the leadership of the band and driving it in the direction he feels it ought to go in - quieter, more reflective, more introspective. That's not to say he can't rock, though - after all the arguments have blown over and Jamie's onstage with the band, even he would grudgingly admit that Zeke's one hell of a frontman. And Jamie can rock out with the best of them when he gets in the groove, too.

The RockDogs are Jamie’s first band and when things go wrong the others remind him that they've been through a hundred hardships like this before. despite this, Jamie seems to take failure to heart. A Human Nature cover band called The Dream Boys (yes, a cover band of a cover band - I know, isn't it ghastly?) regularly ask him to join because of his youthful good looks rather than his musical ability.

Jamie's from an upper middle class background and is the apple of his parents' eyes. They're an indulgent pair and take an interest in their son's hobby up to a point, bankrolling his musical activities (money which Baz tends to 'divert') and in short ensuring that "he'll never live like common people", as Cocker might say. Secretly they're hoping that he'll get bored of all this rock'n'roll nonsense and go off to uni to study medicine or law or architecture or politics. They're heading for a sore disappointment. They do turn up to the occasional gig, though, much to Jamie's embarrassment. Jamie also has a younger sister who worships the ground the RockDogs walk on. Naturally, he does his best to completely and totally isolate her from the rest of the freaks he's in a band with.