After the June Brides split in 1986, I had no plans to go solo, or ever release any more records. But I was quickly persuaded by Alan McGee that I should do so. It probably didn't take a lot of persuading...There followed 2 singles on Creation Records  - "Waiting for a Change" and "10 Miles". There had been talk of recording an album, but the disappointing sales of the two singles meant it never happened. I released one more single, "Better Days", on CAFF Records, but by the time it was released,  in 1988, I had given up on music and was working for the Civil Service.



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​Following that, I didn't write any new songs for 20 years, and only played live a handful of times - mostly playing guitar in my father's Country and Western band in the North East of England. I wasn't interested in writing or performing, because I felt there was no point in doing so. Who would care?

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But by 2008, I had decided that the call of music was too strong to resist any longer, and I determined to do a little bit more while I could...Possibly even to make that second album I had hoped to do on Creation all those years ago. ..."God Bless Jim Kennedy" was released in 2010, and was, in all but name, really a June Brides album. And the time soon became right to return to being the Junies.....