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The Guardian has an editorial from Mike Edwards, the not-former lead singer of Jesus Jones (of “Right Here, Right Now” fame). I say “not-former” because it turns out they are still around and still touring; the article is about the travails of being a band for corporate gigs.

Like other teens, when I was younger I formed a notion about the purity of art versus payment for art (this correlates inversely with the number of 15-year-olds paying mortgages) that made it an Offence In Rock to accept an honest month’s pay for an honest three minutes’ work.

It’s well-written and intelligent and fairly self-deprecating, the kind of thing that makes me root for someone and hope the absolute best for them.

Funny thing is, I was this close to seeing them in concert when I was in high school. My girlfriend had bought tickets and was going to take me (I think they were playing on my birthday), but she was in a car accident, the car was totalled, and the tickets that were in the glove box were stolen. Turns out later, they weren’t actually stolen; one of the police officers who reported at the scene thoughtfully cleared out the vehicle and gave it to her stepfather, who was a cop as well. He never bothered to give the bag of remainders to her until a few weeks later. We broke up too.

On a whim, I just looked up their band site jesusjones.com, and it’s fairly witty. You go Jesus Jones!