Education
Jones attended Rudston Road primary school in Childwall, Liverpool and moved to Wigan when he was 13 years old.
Jones attended Rudston Road primary school in Childwall, Liverpool and moved to Wigan when he was 13 years old.
He played bass and provided occasional backing vocals for the English band
Away from the musical side of, Jones is the only other band member other than the band"s main mouthpiece, lead singer Richard Ashcroft, who tends to speak publicly and in interviews. He also did an interview on Zane Lowe"s British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 1 show after the band"s 2007 reformation, and he also appeared alone and alongside Ashcroft in a handful of Verve documentaries and other miscellaneous interviews throughout the 1990s. When split in 1999 due to in-band tensions, many believed they were down to tensions between singer Richard Ashcroft and lead guitarist Nick McCabe.
While this is true, there were in fact problems, described as "serious" by Ashcroft in later interviews, between Ashcroft and Jones also.
In June 2007, he rejoined in their reunion but by 2009 they had disbanded again. After the breakup of in 1999, Jones later played bass and wrote songs for the short lived band The Shining, who former Verve band mate Simon Tong also played with.
They would release just one album in 2002 called True Skies. In 2003, Jones was the recording bassist for Howie Day on Day"s second album, Stop All The World Now, on Epic Records.
In November 2005, he performed with the Gorillaz live band playing guitar at the Manchester Opera House, as part of the Manchester International Festival, again alongside fellow Verve member Simon Tong.
Since 2004, Jones has been an official member of the backing band for Cathy Davey.