Thank you to all who turned out to see THEN JERICO deliver a hugely energetic & stellar performance at this year’s Let’s Rock London.
We have uploaded some quite amazing photos of the set on the MARKSHAW:THENJERICO facebook page with more to follow! Below is a quality video of BIG AREA captured on the day &, includes a short tribute to PRINCE. Enjoy…
Television performance of Mark Shaw’s debut 1990 solo single from the album ‘ALMOST…’
Mark Shaw attended the premiere of fantastic new British comedy film ‘Golden Years’ by Moli Films on April 14h at Tottenham Court Road Odeon [watch trailer here.] starring a truly stellar British cast including Bernard Hill, Virginia McKenna, Simon Callow, Alun Armstrong, Sue Johnston, Una Stubbs, Philip Davis, Brad Moore, Mark Williams and, Ellen Thomas.
The event was in aid of one of Mark’s favourite charities – The Born Free Foundation – who he has played and supported for 25 years under the brilliant leadership of the wonderful Virginia McKenna (who founded the Born Free Foundation with her husband Bill Travers) and for the last half-century has run it with her son, the president Will Travers.
For the last year Mark Shaw has been working on the film as Music Supervisor Consultant and, is proud and privileged to have done so.
“The film has an essential social message at its core – one to which I believe we should all pay heed and, it’s an important tale that needed telling as well as being a unique and hilarious new comedy. But as a British independant film, we of course had a very limited budget – which didn’t quite stretch to cover the cost of a license to use David Bowie’s original recording of his classic song ‘Golden Years’. And so, with a few close collaborators including Dee Ral, Clifford Slapper and my mates in Then Jerico including PJ Phillips and John Miller and, with the help and support of my amazing wife Laura, I’ve recorded a new version of the track under license from Sony Music. I produced the track, sang the vocal and mixed the track with my dear friends Moke Bennett and Pete Booker.”
We will be previewing Mark Shaw’s version of David Bowie’s ‘Golden Years’ here and, the Mark Shaw:ThenJerico facebook page when the film is released on 29th April 2016…
Very excited to announce that Mark Shaw will be a guest on Mr. Dermot O’Leary’s Radio 2 show tomorrow afternoon, Saturday November 21st 2015, trying to answer questions that he answered 25 years ago in Smash Hits!!!! It’ll be revealing and interesting to hear how he answered the questions back then…and great fun!
Please listen in and ‘share’ the MARK SHAW:THEN JERICO facebook post on your own pages and with your friends.
You can tweet Dermot @radioleary and, if you’re not already following me on Twitter please do @THENJERICO
Thanks Cats! X
EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE
The highly sought after RADIO JERICO double-album is being re-pressed exclusively from our webstore.
Disc 1:
COLLECTED LIVE RECORDINGS : BBC RADIO ONE ‘IN SESSION’ 1987 – 1989
Disc 2:
LIVE AT HAMMERSMITH ODEON 1989 : BBC RADIO ONE ‘IN CONCERT’ SERIES
This is a strictly limited run of just 100 copies with signed art postcard.
*Please note album artwork subject to change.
Pre-orders will be fulfilled within one month of the order date.
BBC Radio 6’s LIVE HOUR is broadcasting THEN JERICO’s 1989 LIVE in CONCERT ‘Hammersmith Odeon’ gig Monday November 2nd.
This “In Concert” show was voted ‘Concert of the Year’ by Radio One listeners on New Year’s Day 1990 and, re-broadcast that afternoon straight after the result of the vote was announced.
The album is exclusively available for download from the webstore here.
Mark Shaw pictured with Clifford Slapper at the recent London launch event for the first ever biography of ‘Bowie’s Piano Man’, (audio/video of this performance coming soon..)
Here’s an excellent and rarely seen bit of footage from circa 1989