Jay Williams (guitarist/composer)

Jay Williams is a British musician who co-founded Broken Family Band with Steven James Adams Micky Roman and Gavin Johnson - Jay was also the guitarist in Cambridge based indie rock band Hofman. (both bands appeared on John Peel's radio sessions)

Since the demise of The Broken Family Band:

Jay, Gav and Mick joined forces with old friend Justin Crane (Jazz) in his band The Judge Reinholds. Jazz, sometimes roadie/driver for The Broken Family Band, was a member of the Cambridge sickpop indie band The Saphs, who enjoyed double headliners (mostly at the now defunct The Boat Race) and friendly rivalry with Hofman, back in the mid 1990s. The Judge Reinholds recorded but never releasing material - the band in that form was short lived, playing a handful of gigs including The Water Rats in London, before Gav and Mick departed, with Jay following after a short run of gigs with Jazz as a duo.

2014 saw Jay releasing a double album entitled 'The Nature of Things' (released on gatefold vynil) (title inspired by De Rerum Natura ) - under the name 'Jay Williams & i strip for couples'. 'The Nature of Things' contains influences from rap, rock, alt country to opera with 'classical' strings, and brought together around 40 instrumentalists from various Cambridge bands/orchestras, including Broken Family Band's bass player Gavin Johnson and Micky Roman on drums, plus drums from Neil Rogers and bass fromChad Young (Hofman), strings from Sharon Jayne Sullivan of Keltrix, Pru and Cliff Ward of The Willows, and keyboards from Georgie Guns from Beverley Kills , and a number of local musicians. Cambridge Evening News interview: Cambridge News article link to music

Jay has also played a few gigs with Buzzard Lope and on their 'Pyrrhi Victories' album:

Played guitar, bass, programmed drums and keys for Keltrix on Endure (remix) and Long Long Way (elector mix): Endure remix Long Long Way

Jay formed a Thrash Metal/Classic Rock band One Less Good, with [Dirty Kirst drummer K Buckham link {https://dirtykirst.bandcamp.com/} along with Sturge B, and Chris Cassidy from Cambridge based Melodic Metal band Synthetic link - their debut album is due for release in August 2018 entitled 'RAZED' link

Discography

in Jay Williams & i strip for couples
  • The Nature of Things (Feb, 2015 Touching Cloth Records)

in Broken Family Band
  • Please and Thank You (April 2009), Cooking Vinyl
  • Hello Love (July 2007), Track & Field
  • Balls (February 2006), Track & Field
  • Welcome Home, Loser (February 2005), Track & Field
  • Cold Water Songs (June 2003), Snowstorm Records
  • Jesus Songs EP
  • The King Will Build a DIsco

in Hofman
  • Ladies On/In the way - single
  • Caesar - single
  • Reach Around Hofman - EP
  • Keep your receipts and deny everything - LP
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