What's Cookin' Xmas Gospel Rock'n'Soul Extravaganza! The Future Shape Of Sound are an (up to) 10 piece Shakedown Gospel Rock’n’Roll Soul Blues outfit. Spearheaded by music producer Alex McGowan aka “Captain Future”, visualise a bunch of Rock’n’Roll, blues musicians and gospel singers coming together to rock it out in a disused circus tent. This outrageous Gospel Rock’n’Roll Soul collective is the ultimate example of uplifting music meets funky theatre.

The Too Bad Jims got their name from the seminal Fat Possum album "Too Bad Jim" by the hugely influential blues musician RL Burnside. The band plays a gritty high-octane mix of North Mississippi Hill Country blues and boogie. It all initially started as a casual collaboration between two veteran and multiple award-winning musicians, Little Victor and Son Jack Jr. and they shortly after rounded out the trio with the one and only Nick Simonon (Brother of Paul Simonon of The Clash) on drums and things really started cookin’!

Their unique and unusual combination of dual rough and ready vocals, bare-bones electric guitars, slashing bottleneck, and a heavily rhythm-oriented groove, delivers a hypnotic, raw, and earthy sound typical of a North Mississippi juke joint.