Where are they now? - Jay Schellen

Where are they now? - Jay Schellen

This page last updated: 24 Aug 2025

YES and projects with several Yesmen Jon
Anderson Chris
Squire Steve
Howe Alan
White

Geoff
Downes Trevor
Horn Tony
Kaye Peter
Banks Patrick
Moraz

Bill
Bruford Rick
Wakeman Trevor
Rabin Billy
Sherwood Igor Khoroshev
Oliver Wakeman

Benoît David
Jon Davison Asia CIRCA: Anderson & Wakeman Others associated with the band

Jay Schellen's official sites: Official website

Schellen has been the sole drummer in Yes since Alan White passed away in May 2022. Having first worked with the band in Jul 2016, he was announced as a new permanent band member in Feb 2023. He was briefly announced as playing in Billy Sherwood's touring band for a May 2025 US tour, but was not in the final line-up: see under Sherwood.

Schellen was also in Arc of Life with Billy Sherwood, Jon Davison, Jimmy Haun and Dave Kerzner (In Continuum, Mantra Vega, worked with Francis Dunnery, Jon Anderson, Steve Hackett, Steven Wilson, Genesis, ex-Giraffe), although the band is now on hiatus: see details on main page. Sherwood, Haun and Schellen are also in CIRCA: with Tony Kaye, with a new album "nearly complete" according to a Mar 2023 interview with Sherwood by Aymeric Leroy (author of "Yes").

In a May 2023 interview with Yes Music Podcast, asked about whether Schellen writes material, Jon 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 was.

In an Oct 2022 interview with Yesshift, Schellen mentioned a plan to release 1982 recordings with a line-up of Badfinger including Tony Kaye: see under Kaye.

In the Yesshift interview, Schellen also said that Unruly Child are continuing. The band is based around the songwriting partnership of Marcie Free (lead vocals), Bruce Gowdy (guitar) and Guy Allison (keys). They released Our Glass House (Frontiers) in 2020.

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YES and projects with several Yesmen	Jon Anderson	Chris Squire	Steve Howe	Alan White
Geoff Downes	Trevor Horn	Tony Kaye	Peter Banks	Patrick Moraz
Bill Bruford	Rick Wakeman	Trevor Rabin	Billy Sherwood	Igor Khoroshev Oliver Wakeman
Benoît David Jon Davison	Asia	CIRCA:	Anderson & Wakeman	Others associated with the band

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