Jacobites (band)

Jacobites
Origin	England
Genres	Indie rock, alternative rock, roots rock, jangle pop, post-punk
Years active	1982–2004
Labels	Mammoth Glass What's So Funny About Bomp! Secretly Canadian Regency Sound Glitterhouse Por Caridad Producciones Swamp Room Records Ultra Under Records Chatterbox
Associated acts	Swell Maps Subterranean Hawks TV Eye Nikki Sudden Dave Kusworth Crime & the City Solution
Website	http://www.nikkisudden.com/jacobites/
Past members	Nikki Sudden Dave Kusworth Epic Soundtracks Mark Lemon Glenn Tranter Carl Eugene Picôt Mark Williams Terry Miles

Jacobites were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1982 by Nikki Sudden and Dave Kusworth, following the breakup of their respective previous bands, the Swell Maps and the Subterranean Hawks.

The two had met in early 1980, with an initial live performance together in May 1982 under the name Six Hip Princes, but it was not until 1984, after Sudden had already issued two solo releases, that the duo adopted the name Jacobites (after the rebel movement to restore the Stuart line to the British thrones) and completed the lineup by adding Nikki's brother Epic Soundtracks, also formerly of the Swell Maps, and bassist Mark Lemon. The Jacobites were a more traditional, song-oriented outfit than the Swell Maps had been. Sudden and Kusworth were both strongly influenced by The Faces, Bob Dylan, glam rock, and, most vitally, The Rolling Stones — their open worship of the group (Kusworth's entire body of work would later be described as "A tear-stained meeting of Johnny Thunders' 'You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory', the Rolling Stones' 'Wild Horses', and Neil Young's 'Down by the River' wrapped in scarves, bound up in leather pants, and shrouded by cigarette smoke", while Sudden called the Stones "the best band there has ever been" and was working on a Ronnie Wood bio at the time of his death), combined with their velvet-and-scarves style of dressing and their girls-and-drugs style of living, made for a natural comparison with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

The group released a string of albums and EPs between 1984 and 1985, garnering increasing critical interest, a certain appreciation in the British underground, and great popularity in Germany, but also began shedding its original members in the latter year — Soundtracks to Crime & the City Solution, Kusworth to a well-regarded but ill-remembered solo career.

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