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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Then Jerico

What does it take to be a successful 80’s band the motive big area ask then jerico…, british band then jerico formed in london in 1983 and clocked up half a dozen hit singles between 1987 and 1989. after just two albums, they split at the beginning of the 1990’s with the lead singer, mark shaw (b.1961) pursuing a solo career. eight years later they were back and with some new material every so often, they are still playing live gigs to the delight of their fans. shaw, jasper stainthorpe (b.1958), steve wren (b.1962) and scott taylor (b.1962) were the main members of the band along with many others who toured with them, including guitarist rob downes (b.1961), who stuck around from 1987 to the split in 1990..

Signed to London Records, they released their debut single, “The Big Sweep”, in mid-1985, although this failed to chart. As did the follow ups “Fault”, “Muscle Deep”, “Let Her Fall” and “Prairie Rose”. Things were pretty desperate by mid 1987 with their debut album, “First (The Sound Of Music)” also having flopped. Fortunately, the next single – the make or break one – “The Motive”, did not and, hoorah, it took them into the UK top 40, eventually peaking at No.18. The track also charted across mainland Europe and very briefly in Australia. The success of “The Motive” helped the album eventually peak at No.35 and it saw a re-issue of “Muscle Deep” in late 87, reaching No.48. Still better than the No.85 position it did a year earlier.

The ‘Then’ enlisted American producer Rick Nowles for their second album and it did the trick. “Big Area” was the first single in January 1989 and it made No.13, their highest yet. Rick’s influence not only extended to the production but also to the people involved. One Belinda Carlisle was roped in for the joint production “What Does It Take?” for the album. Any hopes of American success did not come with this song, however, as it went totally unnoiticed there and it wasn’t so big back home with a UK chart position of No.34 in April 89. Thankfully, the album, “The Big Area”, was and it sped to No.4. “Sugar Box” completed a trio of top 40 hits when it made No.22 in July, but while the band were doing their best ever, it all came to an abrupt end at the beginning of 1990.

Shaw continued as a solo artist releasing the albums “Almost…” in 1991 and “Electric” in 1994 until the band members reunited in 1998 for a second go, releasing a new album, “Orgasmaphobia”, that same year. A best of followed in 1999 along with a second new album, “Alive & Exposed”, in 2000, while the band members began to play live gigs and tour. After sixteen years together this time, the original members of Then Jerico called it a day in 2014, however, Shaw, once again, came back with a new line up and took to the road in 2015 and continues to do so to this very day. Sadly, original guitarist Scott Taylor died in 2020 aged 58 years of a brain tumour.

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Then Jerico Interview: ‘I know I’m very lucky to be a functioning human being’

By John Earls | February 25, 2020

Then Jerico aren’t the most obvious name for an explosive tale of self-destructive anger, winding up Iggy Pop, rehab, shocking disability and heartwarming redemption. But singer Mark Shaw has lived one of the most remarkable stories in all of pop… 

W hen Then Jerico appear in arenas soon as part of the Let’s Rock Retro Winter Tour, singer Mark Shaw and headliner Tony Hadley are guaranteed to talk about working together but never get around to it. “We’re both Geminis,” explains Mark. “It means we both jabber away, so we cancel each other out.” Shaw, it should be noted, can jabber away like very few pop stars Classic Pop has ever met. If the Looney Toons cartoons had ever created a pop star, he’d have been a lot like Then Jerico’s impossible all-action technicolour frontman.

An absolute hurricane and wonderful company, Mark talks about coming out of rehab before he’s even sat down for lunch at Pizza Express Dean Street, the Soho branch of the pizza chain which has recently begun hosting shows by Classic Pop -approved singers. Mark soon explains that, now he’s sober, he’s learned to channel the anger that once made him a volatile person to be around.

“I was never violent,” he emphasises, before admitting: “Well, except with the police. I didn’t like getting arrested.” He was arrested for… well, it’s a long story, involving a lost train ticket. And actually, the fact one of the most successful singers of the late 1980s got arrested proves one of the least interesting parts of Mark Shaw’s wild ride.

Since February, 15 years later, Mark has been able to walk without a stick and has also given up the painkillers that he’d become addicted to. “I was off my face on those painkillers,” Mark admits. “It was very dangerous. I’ll walk with a limp for the rest of my life, and if you’re as vain as I am that’s hard! But I know now I’m very lucky to be a functioning human being.”

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Mark has cause to be vain: if he wasn’t such a good guy, it’d be easy to hate him for how well he’s aged. At 58, he looks a decade younger, retaining the good looks that made him a pin-up during Then Jerico’s heyday when Big Area , The Motive and Sugar Box made them chart staples. But Mark was troubled throughout their success, stemming from an unsettled childhood. Born in Chesterfield, Mark’s father worked for Swan Hunter and Esso as the family moved to Nottingham, Newcastle and Sussex until, after his parents divorced, Mark lived with his mum in Croydon. “I consider myself a Geordie,” Mark ponders, his voice retaining a slight Newcastle twang. “But I went to 10 different schools, so I didn’t make many friends. I’ve always been a bit of a loner. My anger has always been in me, mainly being bitter that I didn’t get a better education.” Before becoming a singer, Mark wanted to be a stuntman and missed a total of two years of school after twice “getting smashed up on my bike – I was always breaking my arms.”

“Let’s be clear,” he smiles. “ I liked me! But we were a naïve band. The songwriting was naïve. I never had any vocal lessons, or songwriting lessons, no music lessons of any kind. And that’s how a band should be. But Then Jerico’s songs… They’re not David Bowie songs, are they? I know that. They’re not what I wanted them to be. They’re not groundbreaking, dangerous or cutting-edge. I accept that, really, we were quite a safe band.” Aware of just how dismissive he’s sounding of his past, Mark rallies. “We were at least leftfield from the rest of the game at the time,” he says, pained at how safe the Top 40 had become by 1986. “But we were still effectively mainstream.”

Vodka Tonics

Live, Then Jerico were – and still are in their current line-up – a different proposition. Mark is an animalistic frontman, more aligned to his influences. But Then Jerico had only played seven gigs when they were signed, so Mark was making it up as he went along on stage. “I had to do certain things to get myself in the zone,” he explains. “Mainly, it was alcohol and that’s when the drinking really started. I couldn’t go on stage as me, because I’m too silly and easy-going. I wanted my anger to come across, so I’d listen to music that makes me excited, like Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins. To get unhinged enough to face the crowds, I’d have a few vodkas.”

The band’s presence led to a tour supporting his idol Iggy Pop, only for Mark to accidentally offend the wild man of rock on the opening night. Iggy came backstage to tell Then Jerico to ask him if they ever needed anything. Mark’s response? “All I said was, ‘Is David coming down?’” he laughs. “I told Iggy: ‘I thought Bowie was your mate?’ Iggy said, ‘Yeah, he is, but he doesn’t have his glove up my fucking asshole like I’m his puppet! Who are you? Are you the fucking singer? What a wanker!’ And Iggy walked out muttering to himself.” Iggy still had the grace to watch Then Jerico on the tour every night, telling Mark at the end-of-tour party: “You’re a crazy motherfucker. You’re worse than I am!”

If Mark unintentionally insulted Iggy Pop, he was deliberately offensive to other bands in interviews, taking delight in mocking his 80s peers in Smash Hits . “I was always really horrible about Duran Duran,” he smiles. Hang on – didn’t Duran guitarist Andy Taylor produce your first solo album? “Yeah, he did,” laughs Mark. “And that was a lesson to follow Neil Tennant’s advice not to slag off other musicians in public, because you might meet them afterwards and end up liking them. When we met, Andy said, ‘Aren’t you that fucking wanker from Then Jerico?’”

He engineered himself a new deal with EMI instead – but the rest of the band didn’t want to join him. “I found them a new singer – Marcus Myers from Hard Rain – and I thought everything was fine,” he sighs. “But they started slagging me off, saying I’d quit.” It wasn’t until 2013 that the original line-up reunited for a brief tour. “The reunion was only ever going to be short-lived,” says Mark. “I really like the guys, but none of them are professional musicians anymore.”

In the interim, the Andy Taylor-produced Almost flopped commercially in 1991, but was closer to how Mark had envisaged his music. The singer and producer had lived in the same apartment block in Wandsworth, South London. “It was called The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum,” says Mark. Well, of course that’s what the converted children’s home was called. Other residents included the Thompson Twins and Debbie Harry. Pink Floyd bassist Guy Pratt and ABC drummer Dave Palmer also played on Almost . “I’d found myself a bit lost before Andy came along,” Mark admits. “EMI didn’t like the LP I’d produced myself and I couldn’t take it to where they wanted to go. Andy’s such a groover, and there’s a real energy to how he plays guitar. He’d go, ‘Do it again!’ until I was knackered. He’d been what I was looking for for years. Made me wish I hadn’t slagged Duran off!”

If Mark’s dreams are as grand as his personality, Wembley Arena might not be big enough to contain Then Jerico after all. It’ll give him and Tony Hadley plenty to talk about.

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‘The Big Area’ Tour 2012

‘THE BIG AREA’ TOUR +  ‘BEST OF’ ALBUM!

“Going on tour with Then Jerico is like a cross between a commando assault and a Club 18-30 holiday…”  ADRIAN THRILLS –  NME  

Rockers  THEN JERICO  have announced a reunion tour with all original band members to mark the 25 th  anniversary of their debut album,  First (The Sound Of Music) , which is also being digitally re-released by Warner’s on the Rhino Music label, as is their second album,  The Big Area .

Mark Shaw (vocals), Steve Wren (drums), Rob Downes (guitar), Jason Stainthorpe (bass) and Scott Taylor (guitar) are re-uniting for eight UK shows, and will perform  The Big Area  in its entirety, as well as selected tracks from  First .

“I’m REALLY excited to be going out on tour with the guys after so many years,”  says Mark Shaw.   “The songs we will be playing are a big part of our lives, and of other people’s too – it will be great to reconnect with our fans who have been so loyal, and to perform the songs they are dying to hear. The show will be in two parts – the first will feature the singles and some favourites from our first album, the second will be the whole of  The Big Area !”

Then Jerico first found fame in 1986 with the release of their debut album , First (The Sound Of Music) , which  featured hit singles  Muscle Deep  and  The Motive , the latter remaining in the UK Top 40 for three months, and becoming the most-played song on BBC Radio 1 in 1987 .  The album brought Then Jerico worldwide recognition, and saw them touring with the likes of Iggy Pop, INXS and Propaganda, and the band also headlined The Albert Hall and Hammersmith Odeon many times, as well as packing out huge concert halls across the UK, Japan and Europe.

Their second album,  The Big Area , cemented them as one of the biggest acts of the 80s: selling over 100,000 copies in just forty minutes, the album immediately achieved gold status, and went on to reach platinum sales.

In recent years Mark Shaw has enjoyed a successful solo career, releasing four more albums: a solo album,  Almost , on EMI, and three more albums as Then Jerico –  Orgasmaphobia , and two live albums,  Alive & Exposed  and Radio Jerico – and has branched out into stage and film acting. Also, as a member of the SAS Band, Mark has performed all around the world alongside Tony Hadley, Paul Young, Fish, and Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen.  Mark also headlines the monthly club night The Kitsch Lounge Riot in London’s West End, and is currently in the studio writing new material – Warner’s/Rhino will release a Best Of album later this year.

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Then Jerico confirmed as very special guests for The Gathering on Saturday February 2nd

Then Jerico are confirmed to appear as very special guests at this year’s Alarm Gathering, and will appear on Saturday February 2nd. ( Tickets available here ).

Then Jerico who are fronted by the charismatic Mark Shaw, also played with The Alarm at the Forum in London last year and left a deep impression with Alarm fans. There was a lot of favourable social media chatter and repeated requests for the band to play again with The Alarm. So much so, that the MPO Team is delighted to confirm that Then Jerico are now booked to play.

Then Jerico is a British rock band formed by singer Mark Shaw, who first found fame in 1987 with the release of their debut album ‘First (The Sound Of Music)‘. The record featured hit singles ‘ Muscle Deep ‘ and ‘ The Motive‘ which remained in the UK Top 40 chart for three months, becoming the most-played record on BBC Radio 1 in 1987. The album brought Then Jerico worldwide recognition and saw them selling-out headline shows along with support tours with Iggy Pop and Propaganda, amongst others.

Their follow-up album, ‘The Big Area‘, cemented their status, by going on to sell over 100,000 copies within the first 40 minutes of its release, ‘The Big Area‘ immediately attained Gold status and reached number 4 in the UK Albums Chart. The title track and single Big Area was a huge radio and club hit throughout Europe, peaking at number 13 in the UK Singles Chart.

“I’m really looking forward to welcoming Mark Shaw and Then Jerico to The Gathering” , said a recently honoured Mike Peters MBE. “I’ve met and performed with the band on a couple of occasions, and they always give everything they have got. Mark is an engaging performer and singer who literally throws himself into each performance. I’m sure all The Alarm fans will give Then Jerico a huge reception on the Saturday night. It promises to be an incredible evening of music.”

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