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Mike Edwards performs with Jesus Jones at the Wonder Bar in Asbury Park, NJ on April 6, 2024. In November 2014, EMI reissued all four of the band's albums in a special CD+DVD bundle. In addition to the original album's tracks the reissues feature radio sessions, long-deleted b-sides, rare remixes and alternate versions.
Jesus Jones (pictured in 2011) submitted several albums to EMI before they selected Already.As the success of Perverse was below that of expected, lead singer Mike Edwards decided that their next album, to be released in 1994, would be "whatever he wanted to write" [2] without as much pressure from Food Records, and would be more techno in nature.
Liquidizer is the debut album by British rock band Jesus Jones, released in October 1989 through Food Records.After various line-up changes, the members of the band moved to London, where frontman Mike Edwards would diversify his musical tastes.
Mike Edwards: Jesus Jones chronology; Culture Vulture (2004) Passages (2018) Passages is the sixth album by the British alternative rock band Jesus Jones, released ...
[5] [6] Mike Edwards has said that some of the lyrics were influenced by the band's experiences playing in Romania in February 1990 shortly after the overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu. [7] The lyrics were also inspired by the 1987 Prince song " Sign o' the Times " and a 1989 cover version of it by Simple Minds , which the members of Jesus Jones ...
Perverse is the third studio album by British rock band Jesus Jones, released in 1993 on Food Records.After their international success following the release of Doubt (1991), Jesus Jones, especially band leader Mike Edwards, conceived Perverse as a darker, more contemporary album.
Jesus Jones were being tagged as grebo by the music press, alongside contemporaries Gaye Bikers on Acid and Pop Will Eat Itself, much to the chagrin of frontman Mike Edwards. Despite this, the band received acclaim from publications, [ 1 ] while the album would peak number 32 in the UK Albums Chart .
Mike Edwards got re-interested in Jesus Jones with the idea that some of his solo songs from the cancelled project could be shaped into Jesus Jones and then to sell via the internet. [2] Gen, who left the band years prior, then got in contact with Mike Edwards indicating he was keen to work again. [ 2 ]