About.
Over the years Phillip Jackson has played in a number of bands and with musicians both in the UK and Japan. Starting out with the five piece classic rock group Jaded Rose in 1992, the band (Phillip Jackson on guitar, Adrian Troop on bass, Justin Morris on vocals and keyboard, Phil Johnson
on guitar, and Tony Mitchell
on drums) played an extensive
number of live gigs for two
years in the North of England.
As well as covering classic rock
the band also incorporated
some of their own original
material, recording the
original prog-rock track Butterfly Glade.
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Between 94 & 95 Phillip and drummer Tony Mitchell
put together a soul, blues, rock outfit, Sentimental
Overdose, with multi-instrumentalist and vocalist
Nick Battles. Pic right, live with Sentimental Overdose.
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Relocating to London in '95 Phillip
joined the MC5/Cult inspired band
The Bad Lizard Club. Quickly picking
up management and garnering
record company interest the Lizards
found a good following through
playing live at notable London venues.​
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Around this time Phillip also contributed guitar to a studio album 'CARNIVAL' with ex-Jaded Rose and Sentimental Overdose members.
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In 2003 Phillip relocated again, this time to Kyoto Japan. Becoming involved in the Japanese live music scene Phillip was, from 2004 to 2019, the music pages writer for the magazine Kansai Scene, contributing gig listings, band pick-up information and interviewing band members (including Soul Asylum, Eddi Reader, Adrian Vandenberg, Level 42, The Stick Men, Gus G, Praying Mantis, Ben Watt). Pictured below left with Michael Lindup of Level 42 backstage at Blue Note Osaka, below right backstage at Club Quattro, Osaka with Praying Mantis.
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Although moving back to the UK for a brief period, Phillip has been based and living in Kyoto, Japan again since 2012. In 2016 he collaborated with his old band mate and friend Adrian Troop, who had been working on music under the title ULTRAMORPHIC, with guitar parts for one of Adrian's ULTRAMORPHIC tracks called Double Negative Dub. The link to the finished track is here - https://soundcloud.com/user3288559/double-negative-dub
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Adrian had also been working on a new album
of instrumental music. After finishing the
Double Negative track Phillip began work on
adding guitar to all of the tracks of the album.
The guitar recording took about eight months
to complete and the album is available to
download from BANDCAMP. For full details go
to the JADED ROSE page on this website.
Since then Phillip has also been recording some of his newer instrumental electric and acoustic original tracks. On this site in the 'My Songs' page you will find some of those pieces. You can also listen to Phillip's music at his YouTube channel, please go to - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCegcI6pcSSzhoWiXrb0MxJg
For further information you can also visit and like the Facebook page @phillipjacksonmusic https://www.facebook.com/phillipjacksonmusic/
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And for X go to @pjacksonmusic
​Blue Sky @pjacksonmusic.bsky.social
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Two albums featuring a selection of Phillip's instrumentals recorded between 2017 and 2019 are also now available to download from Bandcamp at the following link.
https://phillipjackson.bandcamp.com/music
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