Live celebration of The Jam's music by From The Jam, with original members Rick Buckler and Bruce Foxton.
From The Jam play The Live Rooms in Chester on Sunday 6 December, bringing a live celebration of The Jam's music to Room L1. The band was formed in 2004 by Russell Hastings, who started out with two-thirds of the original line-up: drummer Rick Buckler and bassist Bruce Foxton. When Buckler left in 2010, Hastings and Foxton teamed up with Mark Brzezicki of Big Country on drums, and they've continued to tour since then. Bruce Foxton retired from touring in August 2025, but the band is still on the road.
They've put out two albums of their own. The first, Back In The Room, was recorded at Paul Weller's Black Barn Studios, with Weller himself on piano and vocals for 'Number Six'. The second, Smash The Clock (2015), brought in guests like Steve Cropper, Wilco Johnson, Paul Weller and Paul Jones. The set, though, is built around the songs of The Jam.
For context, The Jam formed in Woking in 1972 and split in 1982, leaving four UK number ones and eighteen straight Top 40 singles. Their influence runs from The Smiths through to Britpop's Blur and Oasis, so the songs they're playing here have a fair bit of history behind them.
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Doors open at 19:00 and the curfew is 23:00, so it's a full evening's run. Tickets are £32.
