Simon Jones (musician) Simon Jones (musician) Simon Robin David Jones (born 29 July 1972) is an English bass player. He played bass and provided occasional backing vocals for the English band The Verve. Jones attended Rudston Road primary school in Childwall, Liverpool and moved to Wigan when he was 13 years old. He is married to Myra and has two sons - Jude and Jonah Jones. Away from the musical side of The Verve, Jones is the only other band member other than the band's main mouthpiece, lead singer Richard Ashcroft, who tends to speak publicly and in interviews. Most notably, he, along
Wigan Post Wigan Post The Wigan Post (formerly Wigan Evening Post and Chronicle and later just the Wigan Evening Post) is a daily tabloid British regional newspaper for Wigan in Greater Manchester, formally the traditional county of Lancashire. It is owned by Johnston Press and published by Lancishire publications, which has its offices in the town. The main area for the paper's distribution is around the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan. It is published six days a week (daily except Sundays). It was founded in the 1950's as a subdivision of the Lancashire Evening Post. It was formally a fully paid-for paper till