The Voluntary Butler Scheme

About

The Voluntary Butler Scheme is, by all intents and purposes, Rob Jones – a young man holed up in Stourbridge just outside Birmingham, writing pop songs of classic sound, vivid imagination and homemade ingenuity. A couple of years ago, Rob filled the days surfing drum stools, playing for a string of bands and relishing the low-expectations life of a jobbing musician. But then, the offer of a solo gig came up. "So I wrote four or five songs, and played the show," he explains. And? "And it wasn't all that," he laughs. "But straight away, I knew I didn't want to play stuff with bands anymore. So I thought I'd try a little bit harder and write some proper songs - and I wrote a dozen songs in a couple of weeks." So, with such casual ambitions – plus a treasure chest of guitars, keyboards, kick drum and loop pedals – the first incarnation of The Voluntary Butler Scheme was born. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.