Thursday 18th November...
An intimate evening with Jay Aston lead vocalist with Alternative, Goth rock band Gene Loves Jezebel...
With Gene Loves Jezebels 40th anniversary shows cancelled until next year, this is one of the only chances to catch Jay live in 2021...
This show was originally planned to be held at Moochin' About's jazz & Blues cafe, but due to the closure and awaiting new premises, it will now be held at the newly refurbished Arnside Sailing Club, 7 The Promenade, Arnside, Carnforth LA5 0HD...
Membranes frontman & music journalist John Robb will host a Q& A with Jay, followed by an acoustic set of GLJ & Jay's solo classics...

This event will be a socially distanced event and limited to 30 tickets per evening...

Gene Loves Jezebel are a British rock band formed in the early 1980s by identical twin brothers Jay (born John) andMichael Aston. Gene Loves Jezebel's best-known songs include "Heartache", "Desire (Come and Get It)" (1986), "The Motion of Love" (1987), "Jealous" (1990) and "Break the Chain" (1993), as well as alternative club hits "Bruises" (1983), "Influenza (Relapse)" (1984) and "The Cow" (1985). "The Motion of Love" was the band's most successful UK single.

The name of the band is a reference to a Gene Vincent song 'Jezebel'

Originally called Slav Aryan, Gene Loves Jezebel was formed in 1980 with the Aston brothers, guitarist Ian Hudson, bassist Stephen Davis and drummer Steve Snowy Evans.The Astons grew up in Conelly and later Porthcawl, in Wales, and moved to London in 1981. With a new home, and shortly afterwards, the new name, the trio, with bassist Julianne Regan (All About Eve) and drummer James Chater (later replaced by John Murphy (The Associates and Richard Hawkins), played several live shows and were signed by Situation Two. Gene Loves Jezebel underwent numerous lineup changes between 1981 and 1985. In May 1982, Situation Two released Gene Loves Jezebel's demo and single, "Shaving My Neck". Regan left the band within a year to form All About Eve, leaving Ian Hudson briefly playing bass and Albie DeLuca as the guitar player until Stephen Marshall joined.

In 1983, the band released two more singles, "Screaming (For Emmalene)" and "Bruises", and then their first album,Promise, which peaked at number 8 in the UK Indie Charts In 1984, the band recorded a John Peel radio session for the BBC and toured the UK with fellow Welsh artist John Cale.

The band's second album, Immigrant, was released in mid-1985. However, at the start of a long American tour for Immigrant, founding member Ian Hudson left the band and was replaced by former Chelsea and Generation X guitarist James Stevenson (who later also played rhythm guitar on tour with The Cult & The Alarm)

During 1986, the group moved to Situation Two's parent company,Behhers Banquet Records and distribution rights in the U.S. were given to Geffen Records. The subsequent promotion increased pop-chart success for the group. The single "Sweetest Thing" briefly hit the top 75 in the U.K., and the album Discover reached number 32 in the UK Album Charts. At this time, the group also found heavy rotation on college and counterculture radio stations across America. The band had slowly turned their attention to dance music.. The singles "Desire" and "Heartache" reached #6 and #72, respectively, on Los Angeles' New Wave station,KROQ-FM. Later that year, former Spear of Destiny & The Thompson Twins, member Chris Bell became the band's fifth drummer.

Gene Loves Jezebel's fourth album, The House of Dolls, was released in 1988 and yielded the singles "20 Killer Hurts" and "The Motion of Love". "The Motion of Love" was the band's biggest UK hit, reaching number 56.The third single from The House of Dolls, "Suspicion", marked the band's first appearance on the US Billboard 100.

While Michael Aston went solo, the rest of the band continued as Gene Loves Jezebel and recorded two albums, Kiss of Life (1990) and Heavenly Bodies (1992). The band's highest-charting American single emerged in August 1990 when "Jealous", the major single from Kiss of Life, reached #68 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Billboard charts. Because of the collapse of the band's American label, Savage Records, Jay Aston said he felt the band was "forced into hiatus". But in 1993, the brothers reformed the band with a new lineup; Francois Perez replaced James Stevenson and drummer Robert Adam was retained.

While Jay Aston performed occasional acoustic shows under his own name, Michael Aston played with members of Scenic, then formed a new band called the Immigrants (renamed Edith Grove) and later released a primarily acoustic solo album, Why Me, Why This, Why Now. The brothers began working together again that same year and recorded two songs with Stevenson, Bell and Rizzo for a compilation album, The Best Of, released in September 1995. Jay Aston also recorded a solo album, Unpopular Songs, produced by Stevenson.

In 2011, Jay was asked by Billy Corgan to perform the song 'Stephen', with his band Smashing Pumpkins at Brixton Academy. Corgan was a huge fan of Gene Loves Jezebel growing up and was influenced heavily by Jay's songwriting.


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if you want to book a hotel in Arnside, The Fighting Cocks, which is 1 minute walk away, will be offering discounted rooms if you mention you are in Arnside for a Moochin' About event...
www.fightingcocksarnside.co.uk & speak to Tony