reviews & mentions
MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL #359, April 2013 - “Scene Report Greenville SC” by Noah Taylor - “Sun Sweet Sun is an outrageously violent noise-pop duet. A set hasn’t gone by that at least two guitar strings aren’t broken and there aren’t at least a few fresh bloodstains on the pickups.”
Earmilk, “The Indie Sabbath” Week 22 - November 7, 2011 “….Keeping the down-tempo ambiance in mind, we have Sun Sweet Sun. Based in Greenville, South Carolina …. this atmospheric space-pop is a sign of some truly innovative composition. As you get lost in the soaring vocals and droning synth patches of "Even Spacemen Need a Little Love", a sharp guitar strum echos in the distance, jerking you from a dream-like trance….”
https://web.archive.org/web/20121118211654/www.earmilk.com/2011/11/07/the-indie-sabbath-week-22/
Greenville Journal “No Limits” by Vincent Harris - December 18, 2015 - “What’s stunning about the music Nichols has made with his band, not to mention the solo acoustic work he’s somehow also found time for, is that you’d never sense any of that struggle when you listen to it. His music with the Limbs is a lo-fi lover’s dream, all pure-pop melodies coated by grimy, distorted guitars, with a skewed lyrical perspective….”
Greenville Journal: The music of Jim & The Limbs is an interesting mix of pure-pop melodies encased in a shell of heavy guitar noise, which is exactly how singer/songwriter/guitarist James Wesley Nichols envisioned it….”
https://greenvillejournal.com/arts-culture/sound-bites-3-upcoming-concerts/
Indie Rock Cafe: “This section of Best New Releases keeps with our tradition of presenting good and interesting music from relatively unknown to completely unknown signed, but mostly DIY, unsigned artists who sent their music directly to us. Greenville, South Carolina indie space pop/noise-rock band Sun Sweet Sun, ….. is probably our favorite DIY artist with a new album out this week, Goodbye, Strange World [sic]….. The first track, “Planet Earth,” is edgier, fuzzier and noisy than the more spacey, reverb-heavy, predominantly vocal-lead sound of “Even Spacemen Need A Little Love” is charming enough on its own. They describe their music as ‘Lewis Carrol by way of James Dickey…a broad-ranging home-recording project and also a raggedly enthusiastic live band with a bit of Warholian mythologizing.’ ……. we like their style – definitely can see why they count The Flaming Lips among their biggest influences.”
Lofi Music Blog: “Bandcamp Album of the Day: Psychic Amputation By Sun Sweet Sun ““at times cheerful at times demonic acoustic lofi from greenville, sc”
past Shows
I can’t remember when or where I played but thankfully was able to find some past dates by doing web searches. :)
2024
June 27 - (Other Folk GVL), Wandering Bard Meadery, Greenville, SC
June 29 - Lonely Hound Guitar Company, Greenville, SC
2023
December 15 - Tommy’s Pub, Charlotte, NC
August 4 - (w/King Saul & the Heretics, King Cackle) Art Bar, Columbia, SC
July 6 - Uncle Fester’s, Columbia, SC
June 7 - (Sensory Complex w/Code Gray AS, Pig Candy) Inchoate Gallery, Greenville, SC
April 7 - (w/Pearson Parham) Inchoate Gallery, Greenville, SC
January 29 - (w/Saul Siebert and Drew Montgomery) Inchoate Gallery, Greenville, SC
2022
December 10 - (We Write the Songs w/Drew Montgomery) Inchoate Gallery, Greenville, SC
October 18 - (Sensory Complex @ Fall of Greenville/Strange Loop Noise Fair 3, w/Jonas Van den Bossche, Colton Barnes, et al) - Velo Fellow, Greenville, SC
April 16 - (Sensory Complex @ Strange Loop Noise Fair 2) - Swanson’s Warehouse, Greenville, SC
2018
August 25 - (Sensory Complex) - 6th Annual Juried Art Exhibition - Spartanburg County Public Library, Spartanburg, SC
2017
September - (Dim Jim w/ Fixed Faces) - House Show, Clemson, SC
2016
October 1 - (Jim & The Limbs w/Release The Dog) Radio Room, Greenville, SC
August 13 - (Jim & The Limbs) Future Chord Fest, The Spinning Jenny, Greer, SC
August 5 - (Jim & The Limbs w/Fed to Lions, Shallow Palace, Psycho Psycho, Indoor Kids, Anonymous Concept) Soundbox Tavern, Simpsonville, SC
June 8 - (Jim & The Limbs w/Dollar Signs, Black Market, Normal Dennis) Snug Harbor, Charlotte, NC
May 18 - (Jim & The Limbs w/Wiecua, Horrible Girl & The Hot Mess, Big Morgan) Radio Room, Greenville, SC
April 29 - (Jim & The Limbs, w/ Max Price, Scuds and Dollar Signs) Radio Room, Greenville, SC
April 2 - (Jim & The Limbs w/Hotbed, The Clay Puppets) Soundbox Tavern, Simpsonville, SC
February 21 - (Jim & The Limbs w/Poet Radio, Kitty Tsunami, The Indoor Kids) The Odditorium, Asheville, NC
January 8 - (Jim & The Limbs w/People of Mars, Onj., Del Sur) Radio Room, Greenville, SC
2015
December 19 - (Jim & The Limbs w/ The Boo Jays) Soundbox Tavern, Simpsonville, SC
December 12 - (Jim & The Limbs w/Former Planets, Dollar Signs, Thunderclap) 8-Bit Bar, Gainesville, FL
November 28 - (Jim & The Limbs w/MammaBear, Daggers, Belmonte) Radio Room, Greenville, SC
August 7 (Jim & The Limbs w/Daggers, St. Maurice, Samuel AKA) - “Evil Jordan Lives” show at Ground Zero, Spartanburg, SC
April 25 - (Jim & The Limbs, Dables, Fed to Lions) The House, Simpsonville, SC
2014
November 15 - (Sensory Complex) Drone Fest - Murder Planet, Clemson, SC
2012
December 12 - (Sun Sweet Sun w/Dables, Blast & The Detergents, The Francis Vertigo) house show, Greenville, SC
2011
May 28 - (Sun Sweet Sun) Fatso’s, Greenville, SC
2010
November 13 - (No Yes w/The Emotron) Suite 8, Greenville, SC
2005
April 9 - (Black Transformer) The Handlebar, Greenville, SC
January 29 - (Black Transformer w/The Black Lungs) The Handlebar, Greenville, SC
Some other places around Greenville I played but don’t remember when: R3V3RB, The Hangar, Awful Waffle, Ryan & Kerri Beth’s house (a few times, whatever they were calling it), The Handlebar, Gottrocks, Gypsie G’s, Hound Dawgs (LOL), Characters, Travelers Rest High School
publications
Rattlesnake Magazine Volume 2 (fiction)
exhibitions
Here on Out - Counterpunch International Film Festival — Artistry, Greenville SC - July, 2023 (video art)