Jak Housden
| Jak Housden | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | John Paul Housden |
| Born | 12 June 1969 |
| Origin | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Genres | Rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Labels | Boffin |
| Associated acts | Daryl Braithwaite Band, The Badloves, The Whitlams |
| Website | jakhousden |
John Paul "Jak" Housden (born 12 June 1969) is an Australian musician. He was the founding guitarist for the Badloves and later joined the Whitlams. As a solo artist he issued a studio album, Mad About Disco, in 2004.
John Paul "Jak" Housden has played guitar since he was about 10 years old. He joined his first professional band, Show of Hands, at 16. Housden was a member of the Hound Dogs. In 1989, Housden on guitar, joined Daryl Braithwaite Band in Sydney, which included Stephen O'Prey on bass guitar (also ex-the Hound Dogs) and Michael Spiby on lead guitar and backing vocals (ex-Screen Idols).
Housden, O'Prey and Michael Spiby (now on lead vocals) founded the Badloves in Melbourne with Spiby's brother, John, on keyboards and saxophone and Chris Tabone on drums. According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, they "became a popular live attraction courtesy of regular gigs and a fine set of laid-back, 1970s-styled blues, Memphis soul and New Orleans R&B material. The band's sound was simple, soulful and very funky. The Badloves were immediately labelled as 'organic', 'neo-hippies' and 'retro', which may have been the case, but at least it showed a band working within a rich musical tradition." The group released two studio albums, Get on Board (June 1993) and Holy Roadside (September 1995), before disbanding in 1997.
In 1999 he was one of the session musicians on the Whitlams fourth studio album, Love This City. Then in 2001 he became a band member, on guitar, for their next studio album, Torch the Moon (2002), alongside founding mainstay lead vocalist and pianist, Tim Freedman, bass guitarist, Warwick Hornby and drummer, Terepai Richmond. As of September 2015, Housden has remained a member of the Whitlams.
Housden released his debut solo album, Mad About Disco, in 2004 through Boffin Records, which provided his first single, "To Die For", in the following year. On the album, Housden provides guitar, bass guitar, roland synthesiser, drums, electronic harpsichord, cheese machine, shaker, cowbell, cabassa, tambourine, wobble bass, mellotron, Yamaha organ, Wurlitizer electric piano, fuzz bass, and the Casio keyboard submarine sound.
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