Jass

Experimental/industrial group from Sheffield, England which existed from 1985.

The original members were Dave Thompson and Davis Howarth. in 1985-6 they worked with other local musicians like Nick Banks (later in Pulp) Richard Hardcastle (One Stop The World) and Matt Swift (co-founder of the Jive Turkey nights in Sheffield from Nov 1985). Matt was invited to play with Jass after he played percussion with One Stop The World at the University of Sheffield in March 1986, which Dave Thompson videoed).

Later collaborators: Jo Cammak was a member of the Forced entertainment Theatre Coopertive, Russell Senior was with Pulp and Terry Todd was with The Box (and Clock DVA before that).