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Jah Wobble’s career speaks for itself, spanning over 40 years he’s played on countless albums, with performers such as PIL’s John Lydon, U2's The Edge, Sinead O’Conner, Combining global music, reggae, fusion and punk influences
His own band Invaders of the Heart have been an ongoing project involving many great session players and incorporated many styles all with one commonality, Jah’s skilful bass playing, love of music and his smooth charisma. In January 2020 Jah Wobble & The Invaders of the Heart toured their latest musical offering many of the shows selling better than the preceding tours the band are keen to return to the road in 2022 for UK and European shows.
Jah Wobble has entranced the world with his hypnotic bass riffs for over four decades and has become one of Britain’s most influential and distinct bass players. Accompanied by his band, Invaders of the Heart, Jah Wobble is reborn into a new decade as defiant as ever with a brand new UK tour.
Born John Wardle, the nickname was given to him by Sid Vicious following an evening of drunken antics. Sid Vicious then went on to give Jah his first ever bass guitar. As a bassist, Jah Wobble is well known as one of the founding members and ultimately the back bone of the legendary Public Image Limited (PiL) during the early years. Whilst working with John Lyndon, Keith Levene and Jim Walker, Jah’s notoriously powerful low end bass created PiL’s debut album Public
Image: First Issue, which included the band’s first Top 10 single as well as their prestigious second album Metal Box, which included the post-punk classic Death Disco.
Since departing with PiL, Jah Wobble is now a prevalent solo artist with his band, Invaders of the Heart and was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize for his debut album, Rising Above Bedlam. Following the release of the highly acclaimed second album, Take Me To God, Jah Wobble also became a successful entrepreneur by developing his own independent record label, 30 Hertz Records. Additionally, Jah Wobble has worked with the likes of Primal Scream, Dolores O’Riordan, Sinead O’Connor, Chaka Demus & Pliers, Bill Laswell, Holger Czukay.
'With his mighty bass, Wobble is like an old-fashioned band leader, barking out instructions within a cavernous, space-echoey dub mix.'The Guardian
'Brilliant. Wobble and the band are given a genuine standing ovation.'Warren Miller, Get Into This
‘Guys that are simply at the top of their game.’Graham J Henderson Louder than War