Gerald runs Jazzman Records with Fryer , DJs to packed dancefloors around the world and watches his team Middlesbrough lose at football. He collects modal jazz, funk LPs and 45s, titty shakers, latin jazz, 7" record boxes and 45 middles. At the moment his favourite jazz group is the Clarke-Boland Sextet, favourite funk 45 is Leon Gardner 'Farm Song' on Igloo, and most hated football team is Chelsea.

Funk! Soul! Passion! We know the Soul & Funk Bands which have been put together towards their own casting. The Sweet Vandals have searched and found themselves, this genre is their passion and it rewards in the sound - a real sound! This state of 'realness' has been reached on only a few recordings in the last few years; Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators and of course The New Mastersounds. The Vandals are different from these combos. They pass on Horn Sections to put exactly on the record how it's realized on stage! Only after five months their first 7" single "I Got You, Man!" (Funkorama Records) has become a classic, Keb Darge (Deep Funk Session, London) has praised this Funk monster through heavy rotation!