Artist: Gene Loves Jezebel
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Gothic
Other
Discography:
Promise
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Immigrant
Year: 2005
Tracks: 9
The Best Of
Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
The House of Dolls
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Kiss of Life
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Shaving My Neck
Year: 1982
Tracks: 4
The Cow
Year:
Tracks: 3
Shame 12 inch single
Year:
Tracks: 3
Discover
Year:
Tracks: 10
Desire(Come And Get It)
Year:
Tracks: 4
Twin brothers Jay and Michael Aston began performing music in 1980 when they formed Slav Arian with guitar player Ian Hudson and a drum motorcar. Though the Astons grew up in Porthcawl, South Wales, they touched to London in 1981 and renamed the goth-influenced mathematical group Gene Loves Jezebel. The triple played several live shows and was quickly signed by Situation 2. In May 1982, the label released Gene Loves Jezebel's demo individual, "Shavin' My Neck." The band then added bassist Julianne Regan and drummer Dick Hawkins. Regan left field soon after to form All About Eve, leaving Ian Hudson and Michael Aston to alternate on bass until Peter Rizzo united in 1984. Hawkins too schism for a time -- replaced by John Murphy and later Steve Goulding -- simply returned in 1983.
Gene Loves Jezebel released deuce more singles in 1983 before their debut album, Call, shoot figure one in the U.K.'s indie charts. In 1984, the mathematical group recorded a John Peel wireless school term for BBC and toured America with John Cale. After reverting to England, Gene Loves Jezebel released the singles "Influenza (Recidivate)" and "Shame (Whole Heart Howl)," simply then waited a full year before sec album Immigrant appeared in mid-1985. (It's non identical surprising that the album was recorded with a card change, this time drummer Marcus Gilvear rather of Dick Hawkins.) Immigrant also hit number unitary on the indie charts, simply during a tormented American tour, foundation member Hudson left, and was replaced by other Generation X guitarist James Stevenson.
The year 1986 brought a contract with Beggar's Banquet and, after, popular-chart success for the group. "Sweetest Thing" hit the Top 75 in England, and the resulting album, Name (which included a limited edition live record album called Beaming to Be Alive), reached the expected indie-chart top spot and besides did good with college radio receiver in America. Chris Bell became the band's fifth drummer after that year, and Gene Loves Jezebel's fourth album, The House of Dolls, was released late in 1987, yielding a single, "The Motion of Love," that grazed the U.S. charts. The Astons sour their attention to dance with the individual "Heartache," but Michael distinct to allow the band by mid-1989.
In a little twist of fate, Gene Loves Jezebel gained its highest-charting American unmarried the following class, when "Jealous," the major single from Kiss of Life, reached number 68 in August 1990. Two old age afterwards, Jay Aston and co. released Celestial Bodies, which did well in Europe and on American college wireless; the group's American label folded one class by and by though, and afterward a few sporadic live shows, Gene Loves Jezebel called it quits.
As early as 1992, Michael Aston had been working with a new band called the Immigrants. Two old age afterwards, he re-formed the band as Edith Grove and released a self-titled album. Michael and Jay began working together again that same yr, and afterward recorded two songs with Stevenson, Bell, and Rizzo for a GLJ best-of compilation, released in September 1995. While Jay performed episodic acoustic shows under his own call, Michael played with members of Scenic and released a solo album, Why Me Why This Why Now, in 1995. Gene Loves Jezebel re-formed in 1998 for Septenary, released in 1999 on Robinson Records. It was followed that same class by both Love Lies Bleeding and Live in the Voodoo City. Giving Up the Ghost appeared in early 2001. The two-disc Anthology, Vols. 1 & 2 arrived in 2006.
Arthur Alexander
