About The Mary Janes
In 1990 Mic Christopher formed the band, the Mary Janes with former Kila bass player and fellow busker, Karl Odlum, guitarist, Simon Goode and Steven Hogan on drums. Simon Good and Karl Odlum had met while taking a 'Rock School' college course. Karl brought in his friend Mic who he used to busk with as he had great voice and was very popular with the ladies – a perfect front man for the band. Over the next nine years The Mary Janes played together in three different guises. Firstly with Steven on drums and then after he left the band stayed together and recorded their first album, Bored Of Their Laughing, as a three piece without drums.
In 1994 the Mary Janes signed a publishing deal with Warner Chappell and in '96 the band acquired the drumming talents of Mark Stanley from Australia and went on to record their second album, Sham, in 1998. Over the years The Mary Janes played everywhere from Feile and the Fleadh in Ireland, to Glastonbury festival in England, to the CMJ in New York. Ultimately finishing with a six week stint in Bosnia with the WarChild charity organization.
Despite two acclaimed albums and years of relentless gigging, The Mary Janes never took off in the way they had hoped to so they finally split in 1999. Following this, Christopher embarked on a solo tour in Australia and released a solo EP, Heyday in 2001.
Tragically, Mic Christopher died in 2001 after suffering a critical head injury during a fall while in the Netherlands on tour with The Waterboys. (see more about Mic Christopher here)
In 2021 a large cohort of Mic and The Mary Janes’ friends including Glen Hansard, The Frames, Kila, assembled to honour a deeply missed friend, recording a previously unreleased song from The Mary Janes titled ‘Heartbreaker' and released as 'The Mary Janes & Friends' (see video below).
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The Mary Janes - Come What May
The Mary Janes - Heartbreaker
The Mary Janes - Queen of Hearts
The Mary Janes & Friends - Heartbreaker (2021 remake)
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