Images may be subject to copyright
On this day, 22 March 1993, alternative rock band Jesus Jones played Cardiff University. The band had recently released their third studio album Perverse.
Jesus Jones, especially band leader Mike Edwards, conceived Perverse as a darker, more contemporary album. Fusing rave and techno music into more traditional rock and pop song structures, the album is heavier than its predecessors with a much greater inclusion of industrial music and features lyrics that concern the future. Edwards wrote the lyrics of the album during the band's 1991 tour, using a Roland W-30 sampler to conceive songs in their earliest stages.
According to Trouser Press, Perverse "enjoys the historical distinction of being the first album recorded entirely (except for Edwards' vocals) on computer." The band recorded the entire album onto floppy disks in Edwards' house, which were then used on his computer to turn the music into "zeroes and ones".
Edwards described it as "the second rock album of the nineties," after The Young Gods' T.V. Sky, due to both albums embracing full-on computer technology. Although the band were ridiculed at the time for the recording process, it later became an influential technique.
Upon its release, Perverse peaked at number 6 on the UK Albums Chart.
Set List
Spiral
Good Thing
International Bright Young Thing
Magazine
The Devil You Know
The Right Decision
Right Here, Right Now
Love To War
Don’t Believe It
Zeroes and Ones
Real, Real, Real
Idiot Stare
Encore: Who? Where? Why?
