The Jaded Hearts Club features frontmen Miles Kane (The Last Shadow Puppets) & Nic Cester (Jet), guitarists Graham Coxon (Blur) & Jamie Davis, Matt Bellamy (Muse) on bass & drummer Sean Payne (The Zutons).

The band was formed in 2017 when Davis, who previously ran Coxon’s Transcopic Records label in England, wanted to book a Beatles covers band to play at his birthday party. “I knew a bunch of half-decent British musician friends living in Los Angeles so I thought I’d ask if they’d come together to form an early ‘60s Cavern-era Beatles band. Everyone had such a good time that we decided to do it again.”

Following the hype and success of their debut show, Stella McCartney asked Bellamy if the band would play her fashion show in Los Angeles in January 2018, where Sir Paul McCartney joined them on stage and led the Hearts through ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ and ‘Helter Skelter’.

They played SXSW; a late night gig in Chicago after Bellamy had completed a stadium show with Muse; supported Roger Daltrey at The Royal Albert Hall in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust; and headlined London’s 100 Club.

Bellamy and Davis wanted to develop the band further and started working on an album. They decided to focus primarily on recording lost classics from the world of Northern Soul.

The band’s motivation, states Davis, is simple. “It goes back to the purest point of why people started bands in the first place - a group of great musicians getting together to play for fun with no pressure. We’re doing it because we have a bloody good time.” Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.