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Jocasta
12+ albums
rockbritpopalternativealternative rock90s
about
Jocasta were Tim Arnold (Vocals, Guitar and Piano), Jack Reynolds (Lead Guitar), Adrian Meehan (Drums) and Andy Lewis (Bass). They formed whilst Arnold and Reynolds were still at school in the early nineties, but became what you might call professional in 1995 when all four members of the band moved to London and after doing six gigs (the last of which included a string section). By 1995, Jocasta had signed a worldwide record deal with Sony. They were signed by the then titled subdivision of Sony ‘LRD’ or ‘Licensing Repertoire Division’. A company within Sony that was set up to work with smaller record labels in the UK, most effectively so with Alan McGee’s Creation Records’ stable of artists such as Oasis, Primal Scream, The Boo Radleys etc. Jocasta’s management set up their own label, V4 records and were distributed by Sony for their first two singles ‘Go’ and ‘Change Me’. The success of the singles earned the band much praise at Radio and a rosy future was believed to be likely. However, in early 1996, Jeremy Pierce, the managing director of LRD announced he would be leaving Sony to set up Richard Branson’s newly formed label V2 Records. Although he had intended to take Jocasta over to V2, the band had recently been getting attention from Radio DJ’s Steve Lamacq and Mark Radcliffe. Ever keen to protect their investment, Sony kept the band and moved them over to Epic Records to be looked after by the head of the company, Rob Stringer. Epic released the single ‘Someth
