Jesus Jones 35th anniversary tour with special guest Discoveries of the American Scientific + Transmission's DJ Jake Rudh
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
6:30 pm Doors & Transmission’s DJ Jake Rudh // 7:30 pm Live Music
All Ages
$59 Premium Seating
$49 Preferred Reserved Seating
$39 Advance General Admission // $49 At The Door
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Jesus Jones are back – but to be strictly accurate, they never actually went away.
Jesus Jones first came together back in 1988, and their distinctive brand of sample-heavy pop found an instant, and receptive audience. Throughout the early 90s the band enjoyed phenomenal success, particularly in America, where their single “Right Here Right Now” rose to number one, and their second album “Doubt’ sold over a million copies. They played the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury, supported INXS at Wembley Stadium, and performed to a quarter of a million people in Brazil.
Now, 35 years after their debut, the British sensations come to Minneapolis along with Chicago electronic-indie rockers, Discoveries of the American Scientific.
DJ Jake Rudh of Transmission opens the night with an hour-long set of 80s & 90s music & video hits!
Jesus Jones are back – but to be strictly accurate, they never actually went away. “We just dropped off the radar, for a while” says singer and principal songwriter Mike Edwards. “We never split, or gave up altogether; we just needed to rediscover how to be a fully-functioning band again.” So – what changed? Well, around a decade ago, the band were merely existing, playing the occasional show when the urge took them. “But then” says Edwards, ‘ we just realised: look, this is still fun, so why don’t we do more, and we’ll have more fun?”
Since then, they’ve overhauled their management (they’re now managed by the band’s keyboard player, Iain Baker), have revamped their web presence and social media, toured the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, and have taken charge of their back catalogue. In 2011 they released “the Collection,” a double CD featuring never-before heard demos and rarities, and in 2014 reissued expanded versions of all four of their EMI albums. Each album featured a huge treasure trove of demos, rarities, alternate versions, live tracks and rare videos. With original drummer Gen back on the drum stool, the line-up is now exactly the same as it was, over twenty-five years ago, when the band was first formed.
Jesus Jones first came together back in 1988, and their distinctive brand of sample-heavy pop found an instant, and receptive audience. Throughout the early 90s the band enjoyed phenomenal success, particularly in America, where their single “Right Here Right Now” rose to number one, and their second album “Doubt’ sold over a million copies. They played the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury, supported INXS at Wembley Stadium, and performed to a quarter of a million people in Brazil. Whilst they don’t seem in any great rush to revisit some of the excesses of their past, they are hungry to get back in the studio again – they’re soon to release their first new single for almost fifteen years, “How’s This Even Going Down?” and are busy writing tracks for a new album.
“How’s This Even Going Down?” finds the band reflecting on their place in the world, and the throes of the mid-life crisis everyone expects them to inhabit. Talking about the single, Edwards explains: “This is a great time for us. We’re doing the best shows we’ve ever done, it’s the original line up getting really inspired by so much great new music and as a result we’re making new material which stands up really well next to the older songs. To be honest I wish we’d been this good when we were more in the public eye - the praise and success would have sat more comfortably!”
Kicking off this special night of 80s & 90s music is DJ Jake Rudh, both a Minneapolis club and radio DJ hosting "Transmission" the program heard on 89.3 The Current every Thursday night at 10 pm. Jake's worked in music for over 30 years including Capitol Records, NPR and Twin Cities alternative favorites REV 105 and Radio K. Having been voted "best club DJ" in the Twin Cities for ten straight years by the readers of City Pages magazine, he brings the varied mix of the club nights to the airwaves each week with a different theme to his show.