Jason Guy (singer)
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Jason Guy was a musician who sang and sometimes played acoustic guitar in the New Wave
band Faith Global
, formed by 1982 by him and ex-Ultravox!
guitarist Stevie Shears
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Guy met Shears in 1978 soon after Stevie had left Ultravox! having teamed up with Ice, Gloria Mundi
bassist, the three of them started a project called New Men, which came to nothing; Shears went on to join Cowboys International
and Jason went on to form The Emotional Joes a.k.a Emojos with Adam Hart-Dyke and Steen Joffe. David Rome of Survival records encouraged Stevie and Jason to re-form, they did, using the name Faith Global the pair released an E.P "Earth Report" in 1982 and the album "The Same Mistakes" the following year. Although the album received favourable press Stevie and Jason had decided to split as soon as the record had been released.
Jason had already started to work for Stephen Woolley and Nik Powell at Palace Video (1982) and then Palace Pictures (1983). He then Worked for Palace, Virgin, Gold (1984) as Label manager working on the then new market of long form Music video. He then went on to work for A&M records as Product Manager (1985-88) then Chrysalis Records as Marketing Director(1988-1991) then he went back to A&M (1991-1993) as Marketing Director before a brief stint helping set up Echo at Chrysalis. Having Left Echo he went on to Polydor as marketing director (1994-96), he then left the music business to study Philosophy at London University (Heythrop College 1996-99) on leaving college, he worked briefly as General Manager of Island Records and then Marketing Director of Sony S2 later to become Marketing Director of Sony Music UK.
Having left Sony (2004) he worked for the then fledgling B-Unique only to leave in 2005 to set up his own artist development label Smack Productions.
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
band Faith Global
Faith Global
Faith Global was a synthpop and New Wave band composed by Stevie Shears , original Ultravox! guitarist and Jason Guy ....
, formed by 1982 by him and ex-Ultravox!
Ultravox
Ultravox is a British New Wave rock band. They were one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the late 1970s/early 1980s. The band was particularly associated with the New Romantic and New Wave movements....
guitarist Stevie Shears
Stevie Shears
Stevie Shears is a musician known for playing in english rock bands Tiger Lily and Ultravox! , alongside electronic musician John Foxx.-Tiger Lily and Ultravox!:...
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Guy met Shears in 1978 soon after Stevie had left Ultravox! having teamed up with Ice, Gloria Mundi
Gloria Mundi
Gloria Mundi was an early punk rock/gothic rock band. The name comes from the Latin for the glory of the world. This could be a reference to the phrase "Sic transit gloria mundi" meaning "this is how the glory of the world passes"....
bassist, the three of them started a project called New Men, which came to nothing; Shears went on to join Cowboys International
Cowboys International
Cowboys International were a New Wave and synthpop band formed by vocalist and songwriter Ken Lockie that put out one album in 1979, the influential The Original Sin, and a handful of 45s before dissolving in 1980...
and Jason went on to form The Emotional Joes a.k.a Emojos with Adam Hart-Dyke and Steen Joffe. David Rome of Survival records encouraged Stevie and Jason to re-form, they did, using the name Faith Global the pair released an E.P "Earth Report" in 1982 and the album "The Same Mistakes" the following year. Although the album received favourable press Stevie and Jason had decided to split as soon as the record had been released.
Jason had already started to work for Stephen Woolley and Nik Powell at Palace Video (1982) and then Palace Pictures (1983). He then Worked for Palace, Virgin, Gold (1984) as Label manager working on the then new market of long form Music video. He then went on to work for A&M records as Product Manager (1985-88) then Chrysalis Records as Marketing Director(1988-1991) then he went back to A&M (1991-1993) as Marketing Director before a brief stint helping set up Echo at Chrysalis. Having Left Echo he went on to Polydor as marketing director (1994-96), he then left the music business to study Philosophy at London University (Heythrop College 1996-99) on leaving college, he worked briefly as General Manager of Island Records and then Marketing Director of Sony S2 later to become Marketing Director of Sony Music UK.
Having left Sony (2004) he worked for the then fledgling B-Unique only to leave in 2005 to set up his own artist development label Smack Productions.
External links
- http://www.ultravox.org.uk/cgi-bin/ImageFolio31/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Press_archive/Stevie_Shears Faith Global press interviews and photos