Blog: Acid Ted

Spring Heel Jack are John Coxon and Ashley Wales. They started as a drum and bass act, on the strings and skippy beats side of things before veering off into discordant jazz. How can I exlain it? Ah, if Wire magazine had a competition for houseband, these would be contenders. Which is a shame as their early dnb work is really good. And I never knew their Betty Boo connection. The recordings of John Coxon and Ashley Wales as Spring Heel Jack were one of the earliest and best applications of hard-edged drum'n'bass to the full-length [...]