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Jocasta – No Coincidence (1997)<\/span><\/h2>\n

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\u201cThe mixture of searing power pop, swooning serenades and swelling string sections is often magnificent.\u201d<\/strong>
\nQ Magazine<\/em><\/h4>\n

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I wrote and orchestrated this album between the age of 17 and 20, and then put the songs into the hands of 3 extraordinarily gifted musicians – Jack Reynolds, Adrian Meehan and Andy Lewis. Together, we became known as Jocasta.<\/h3>\n

The ingredients of my writing, their musical muscle and our combined energy got us signed to Sony after ripping through these songs at The Borderline, London in 1995. This is the sound of my first steps into the life of limitless creativity I am blessed to experience today. We didn\u2019t make the rest of the journey together as a band, but the magical musical journey I have taken ever since is forever informed by each band member\u2019s nurturing of my music at that time. Jocasta made enough of a mark on the London music scene to secure a somewhat odd place in Britpop history. However, only the rest of the band understood just what each lyric and note of music meant to me.<\/h3>\n

I’d also like to acknowledge Nick Ingman and The London Symphony Orchestra, without whose collaboration, I would never have been able to discipline the orchestral instincts that have possessed me for the last 3 decades. This album was my university. I learnt a lot from everyone who worked on the album and it gave me the firm push I needed to be a frontman \u2013 something that was never one of my ambitions. It\u2019s an incredible album of extraordinary musicianship, production, ideas and raw angst ridden lyrics that I still believe in now.<\/h3>\n

Jocasta\u2019s album \u2018No Coincidence\u2019 was finally release again exactly 20 years after the original release, June 1st 2017.<\/h3>\n

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