Where are they now? - Jon Davison
This page last updated: 24 Feb 2025
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[...] John Lodge had a serious medical issue over Christmas, however John is already well on the mend. He is at home with his family recuperating.The tour resumed with 15 US dates Jul/Aug 2024 (promo video), again with Davison. Davison was now singing "The Voice", "Nights in White Satin", "Tuesday Afternoon" and "Ride My See-Saw". Davison continued with Lodge's tour for 5 US dates 12-19 Nov 2024. They are now playing 19 Feb-24 Mar 2025 with 12 US dates and an appearance on the Rock and Romance Cruise. This is followed by a 6-date UK tour 6-15 Apr 2024.
“[...] unfortunately I am going to have to postpone my tour in February/March. I hate to disappoint everyone, but whilst I can’t wait to get back on the road with my new show, I won’t be able to travel for the next couple of months. I’m doing well, surrounded by the love and support of my family, and spending my time writing music. I would like to thank everyone for keeping the faith’. John Lodge, Jan 2024.
John’s album ‘Days of Future Passed - My Sojourn’ is being released in the USA in March, and John has been working on a new album due for release later in the year [2024].
| Davison guests on 3 albums from In Continuum (Facebook;
Twitter;
YouTube),
a project by Dave
Kerzner (Sound of Contact,
worked with Jon Anderson, Steve Hackett, Steven Wilson, ex-Giraffe).
Out are Acceleration Theory Part One and Part
Two. This is a science fiction, concept album about a
female alien named AlienA (Leticia Wolf), who falls in love
with a human, Kai (Gabriel Agudo). She warns the Earth that
we are in danger of being annihilated by aliens who have
been responsible for man's evolution over millions of years.
The project arose from material by Kerzner had originally
written for Sound of Contact, including with Matt Dorsey,
Simon Collins (son of Phil Collins)
and Kelly Nordstrom, before that band split up. The band are
working on a third album (no longer using any Sound of
Contact leftovers) and Davison has already recorded parts
for it, Kerzner said in Aug 2020. In a Feb
2021 interview with SOAL Night Live, Kerzner said the
album was "on the back burner" due to the pressure of other
work and because he was keen to record some vocals, e.g.
with Agudo, in person, which has not been possible during
COVID. Asked whether anything was going on with In Continuum
in a Jun 2021
interview, Kerzner said, "Well, there is. I'm
backlogged". He continued, "Once I'm done with all that,
then the new music will come", but did also say they had
already "started work on" the new album. He mooted a
possible 2022 release, but that didn't happen. In a Feb 2023 interview,
Kerzner said John Mitchell (It Bites,
Frost*) guests on the third album. In an 18 May
2024 Facebook comment, Kerzner said he's "working on [...]
In Continuum as soon as Leticia Wolf reads her DMs (!!!)".
In a Nov
2024 interview with YesShift, Kerzner again said he
was working on the album. Mapping out plans for the year in a
Bandcamp mailout on 9 Feb 2025, he said, "There is also a new In Continuum album
in the works".
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Yeah, I do, I've got so many bits, but I really feel like I need to collect a band around me [...] I write better just in a collective. [...] there comes a time when I hit a wall and I think, I need to bounce these ideas off other people. I need outside stimuli and creativity from other musicians I trust and respect. And Yes have been so busy lately that they have filled that void, beautifully, but we'll see, yeah, I would like to, if time allows, you know, piecing together a band. It's all also a financial thing. You know, when it's your own thing, you're at the head of it, so you're responsible for [...] how do people get paid, can I afford to do that? You know, there's a lot of logistics involved and I haven't ever done that before, so that would be a huge learning curve. And I can just settle in comfortably with Yes, you know, all that's taken care of and that's a beautiful thing that I'm so grateful for. I really don't look outside of Yes much, for that reason.In a Jul 2020 interview, Davison talked of work with keyboardist Claudio Pesavento (worked with Chris Squire, Frank Marino): "We have [...] some songs sort of in the wings waiting to be further developed and hopefully we can do more together". Asked if this would be a solo project, Davison replied, "I think it would be a solo project [...] solo of mine, but he would be certainly involved [...] I've got a lot of irons in the fire. Not always enough time, but." In a May 2023 interview, Davison said, "I hope to do a solo album at one point".
| Projects
relating to Taylor Hawkins/Sylvia The Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins died in Mar 2022. He and Davison had been friends since childhood. Davison was at the second Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert in Sep 2022, raising money for MusiCares. Davison sang "Owner of a Lonely Heart" with Chevy Metal and The Police's "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" with Stewart Copeland (ex-The Police) and the Foo Fighters. In an interview published Sep 2022 but conducted shortly after Hawkins' death, Davison said, "Through all the phases of our career, we were always doing something together. We recorded a lot of odds and ends. There's some Coattail Riders stuff that's unreleased that I've played bass on and sing vocals on. We did some stuff with Chris Squire, cos Taylor was friends with him even before I joined the band." In an Aug 2014 interview, Davison said he, Hawkins and Squire had "done some demo work. Chris has played bass on some of Taylor's stuff [...] And Chris has done some stuff that actually hasn't been released." The Sep 2022 interview continued, "It was really just a jam. We never did vocals, but we did record it. I'd like to approach the rest of the guys in Yes and see about finishing it off. I'd love to bring that music to life and share it with the public. I hope it will come out in some form one day, as a tribute to Taylor and to Chris." Davison, Hawkins and Riz Story (Rudolph Zahler) were in a band called Sylvia in the late 1980s. Story continued Sylvia as Anyone, with the band re-emerging in 2014. Davison guested with the band a number of times, most recently on Miracles in the Nothingness (TogethermenT Records) in 2023. Story wrote, performed and produced the album, with a guest vocal from Davison on "Symptom of the Miracle", which he recorded in 2019. Future collaboration is not expected with Story having sued Yes, claiming that "Dare to Know" on The Quest is based on a piece he recorded entitled "Reunion". The similarity between the pieces seems minimal to me and to these independent analyses: on YouTube and on the Musicologize blog. Davison responded here to the allegations and Howe responded here. Other projects In the May 2023 interview with Yes Music Podcast, asked about whether Jay Schellen writes material, Davison replied, "[Schellen] and I have already worked on a few things, in years past, that we're going to re-visit." It's unclear what the context here is. Davison recorded vocals for a track with Edison's Lab and also talked to the band about the possibility of an EP or album together: see details on the main page. |
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