The Voluntary Butler Scheme is tagged as: indie pop, indie, british, popiloverly, hinterland festival 2009 The Voluntary Butler Scheme is, to 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.” And the songs were good. Great, in fact. Take ‘Trading Things In’. A lush ’60s pop frolic rich with overlapping harmonies, dewy-eyed romance, and references to – amongst other things – broccoli, running shoes, and popular hits of the ’50s, it’s an excellent advert for the merits of singing what you know. “It’s got a lyric that goes “yes we can listen to La Bamba on your mp3 player’” says Rob. “Cos ‘La Bamba’, that’s one of my favo... Read More About The Voluntary Butler Scheme Biography...  Send The Voluntary Butler Scheme ringtones to your cell
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