Jesus Jones

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61For sale

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About Jesus Jones

Mike Edwards (vocals, writer, guitar) and Simon Matthews (Gen: Drums) began gigging around prior to 1986 when they met Alan Doughty (Al Jaworski: bass). Together they created Camouflage (not the one you may have heard of though). Having no commercial luck they reformed as Big Colour. Eventually after a trip to Spain, Jesus Jones was born and fleshed out with the addition of Iain "Barry D" Baker (keyboards and electronic gizmos) and Jerry de Abela Borg (guitar). Finally the bouncy one (read Gen) had harrassed Food Records enough that they were given a deal.

After EMI became more involved in Food (eventually purchasing it) they wanted more control over the records, and the album "Already" suffered. It took too long in coming out and received no support from the label. Eventually Jesus Jones were dropped, although Mike Edwards was retained.

Gen left the band after a conflicting schedule with his other projects, Baby Chaos, Regency Buck and Deckard. Tony Arthy joined the band as the new drummer. Koch Records then signed the band and "London" was released to critical praise, but no commercial success. Two singles were lifted from the album, largely produced by Mike Edwards. Since then they released "Culture Vulture," a 4-track single with the elements of the title track available to be used to create fan mixes, which are on the official site.

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