Jah Wobble & The Invaders of the Heart
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Jah Wobble & The Invaders of the Heart

Fri 29 May 2015

Location: The Venue

This event is Over 18s Only

About the event

Bass player, singer, composer, poet, and one-time London Tube driver, over a 36-year career in music John Wardle AKA Jah Wobble has carved a reputation as “a true maverick” (The Guardian), “wildly eclectic” (Uncut), and one of the finest musicians the UK has ever produced.

The man born John Wardle began his musical journey when he met Sex Pistols John Lydon and Sid Vicious at Kingsway College, London, in 1973. John was not only nicknamed ‘Jah Wobble’ by Vicious after a drunken night out but Vicious also loaned him his first bass guitar and, following the Pistols’ split in 1978, Lydon asked Jah Wobble to join his new band Public Image Limited.

He eventually split from PiL mid-1980 and embarked on a prolific solo career, his passion for Eastern and World music also inspiring a number of collaborations including Baaba Maal, Bjork, Primal Scream, Brian Eno, Sinead O’Connor, Julianne Regan, Dolores O’Riordan, Holgat Czukay (Can), The Edge and Chaka Demus & Pliers.

In 1986, after a long battle with alcohol, Wardle unexpectedly walked away from the music scene to work for London Transport, but eventually returned with a revitalized line-up of his band Invaders Of The Heart.

In May 2015, Jah Wobble celebrates this illustrious, 36-year career in music with an ambitious 6-CD box set entitled ReDux. 

Wardle is now a dedicated family man with a documented interest in spirituality – he received a BA in Music and Philosophy in 2001 – and, until 2009, he wrote regular book reviews for the Independent On Sunday, since then writing book reviews for The Times newspaper. He has also published a best-selling autobiography, Memoirs Of A Geezer, and made yet more records.