Biography
One off x-mas theme side-project (joke release?) from Toy Love‘s Chris Knox and his soundman cohort Doug Hood (who both lived in Jessel Street in Grey Lynn, Auckland) featuring their partners Barbara Ward and Carol Hood. Sometimes credited to David Kilgour and Martin Phillips too.
It was basically whoever happened to be in the flat. That was a Christmas single for ’81 or ’82.
There was one song based on Doug’s cat, Bob, and a Christmas song.
Chris Knox, taken from a Bryan Foley interview on forcedexposure.com
The 7″ single (300 produced) featured a sleeve printed in a haphazard manner on the reverse of left-over covers from random releases.
Members
- Chris Knox ( Chris Knox and the Nothing, Knoxious, Right Left And Centre, Tall Dwarfs, The Jessels, Bill Direen, Chris Knox and the Nothing, Knoxious, Right Left And Centre, Tall Dwarfs, The Axemen, The Builders, The Enemy, The Jessels, Toy Love)
- Barbara Ward (The Jessels)
- Doug Hood (The Clean, The Jessels)
- Carol Hood (The Jessels)
Discography
- ‘Bobzilla’/’The Worst Noel’ 7″ single (1982, Flying Nun Records, XMAS001)
Links
- Discogs Entry
- The Jessels – Bobzilla/The Worst Noël, 1982 (Roger Shepherd on Flying Nun Records website)