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
Catherine Ashcroft Catherine Ashcroft Catherine Ashcroft (* in North West England) is an English musician (Irish Folk). She plays self-told whistles and Uillean pipes. In 2008 Ashcroft recorded her first CD "Take Flight and Follow" in the "Stenkrith Studios" in Kirkby Stephen. There she met Belfast's songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and singer Maurice Dickson, both form the band "Mochara" (Irish for "my friend") since that year. They perform Celtic music. In common Ashcroft and Dickson have published three music albums: "In Your Blood" in 2010, "Spirits and Dreamers" in 2013 and "Live at the Island" in 2015. Ashcroft participated in Riverdance's China tour in