Bruce Foxton

A concert by Bruce Foxton, the bass guitarist and songwriter of The Jam, marking fifty years since the band's formation, with a line-up of musicians and guest performers. The show is part of a day-long mod-themed event.

Bruce Foxton was the bass guitarist on every recording The Jam made, and he also took the lead vocal and wrote songs for the band, among them 'News of the World', which serves as the theme tune of the BBC comedy quiz 'Mock The Week', and 'Smithers-Jones'and 'Carnaby Street'. The Jam emerged in the late 1970s with the single 'In The City', released on Polydor Records in 1977, and went on to score several chart-topping singles including 'Start!', 'Going Underground', 'Town Called Malice'and 'Beat Surrender'.

This evening is billed as a celebration of fifty years of The Jam, with Foxton performing alongside Mark Brzezicki of Big Country, Andrew Fairclough of Secret Affair and Craig Joiner of Romeo's Daughter, and with further guests. The concert forms part of the Mods Mayday event, a day of live music that also features The Beat featuring Ranking Jnr, Secret Affair, Purple Hearts, The Chords UK and The Len Price 3, alongside DJs.

The performance takes place at 229, a concert venue on Great Portland Street in central London. The night will appeal to those interested in the mod and two-tone scene and in The Jam's catalogue.