John Verity Band

John Verity began his music career in the early 1960's, playing guitar in various local groups around his home town of Bradford, Yorkshire. He was offered a full time gig with the 'Richard Kent Style'. Soon gigging – sometimes twice a night, 7 nights a week all across the UK and Europe, the band became tight in the way that only a hard working band can.

By the spring of 1970 the Kent Style had morphed into 'Tunnel'. Living and working in the US, doing prestigious support slots with many of the big names of the day including Jimi Hendrix, Mountain, Canned Heat, Savoy Brown, and Janis Joplin. Very soon, Tunnel would morph into the very first John Verity Band.

Whilst on tour promoting the album, JV was spotted by Rod Argent who was looking for new lead vocalist for his band following the departure of Russ Ballard. John eventually joined Argent late in 1973 and there followed a period of intense recording and touring until the band decided to come off the road late in 1976. Argent never did go back on the road, and decided to disband, at which point John became involved with various new projects both as Artist and Record Producer.

First of all, along with Bob Henrit and Jim Rodford he formed Phoenix, which soon signed to CBS records. John produced the Phoenix albums and co-produced the Charlie album 'Good Morning America' as well as the first Saxon album during this time, and decided to divide his time between sessions and record production.

The next few years were spent in recording studios throughout the world, producing, playing guitar, or doing backup vocals with various acts including Motorhead, Tank, Ringo Starr, Russ Ballard, Colin Blunstone, Brian Connolly, John Parr, BowWowWow and The Searchers amongst many others, until late in 1981 when PRT Records MD Matt Haywood asked JV to record a comeback album.

By now living in his native Yorkshire, John had built his own 38-track studio achieved by synchronising together 24 and 16 track tape machines - state of the art at the time, and had moved into full time record production. The Matt Haywood offer meant that JV could get back out on the road again to promote the album, and touring always seemed to bring out fresh ideas... "Interrupted Journey", released under the name Verity in 1982, was highly acclaimed in the UK, USA and Europe and successfully relaunched Johns performing career, as he once again took to the road. John was approached by many big name acts for recording and performing projects during this period - Mike Rutherford of Genesis wrote three songs for inclusion on JV's next set of recording sessions, and both Keith Emerson and Greg Lake used John on their current recording projects.

The next two albums were also well received, and John soon had offers to join various name bands including MSG, Ted Nugent, and Asia which he declined, deciding instead to come off the road to record an album with newly reformed Zombies. This project took the best part of a year and was mostly recorded at Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland and finished in London... After a short break John was soon back on the road again with John Coghlan's Diesel Band (Status Quo), in the UK and Europe, before reforming his own Band for similar venues and recording here in the UK. In 1992 John decided to re-locate, away from his native Yorkshire to rural Bedfordshire and closer to friends from the Argent days.

Since the move south the JV Band gigs have continued, with different line-ups chosen from a shortlist of fine musicians. At the 1994 Manchester Festival "Fender Stratocaster 40th Anniversary" concert, JV guested, along with many Rock Legends past and present including Sonny Curtis, Frankie Miller and Rory Gallagher. Johns performance of "Stay With Me Baby" was one of the high spots of the evening, bringing the capacity crowd at the Manchester Free Trade Hall to its feet!

During this period JV also did vocal sessions and another guest spot with the 'Strat Pack', for the Australia Day (1995) celebrations at the Hippodrome in London's West End. 2000 saw a 32 date UK tour, opening the show on the Jools Holland Sex Jazz and Rock'n'Roll tour at major venues across UK finishing at the London Albert Hall.

JV always said that live work was his first love and that holds as true today as ever. After playing the Cambridge Rock Festival in the summer of 2009 JV and the band went into the studio once more – The resulting recordings were released April 2010: VERITY – A Phoenix Still Rising... yet another stage in JV's amazing journey... Back on the road the band worked solidly until mid-2011 when JV went back into the studio. 'It's a Mean Old Scene' is Verity's strongest so far, and new dates are in the diary - early 2012 and the band is on the road again... first major date being the GB Rock & Blues Festival. The new album Tone Hound looks set to follow the success of It's a mean old scene, which charted in late 2013.

Next up in 2014 JV went into the studio the record tracks for 'TONE HOUND on the road to Corona' and took this one on the road with the band, to an ever expanding group of followers across the UK.

2015 saw the band in the studio recording live for the 'Boske' album, an opportunity for JV, Bob Henrit and Bob Skeat to work together in the studio just laying live tracks down like in the old days!! Bianca Kinane added some amazing vocals, and Tom Wilson performed keyboard duties on this entertaining set.

Fast forward to May 2016 and the release of 'My Religion'. Surely JV's strongest to date, with 6 of JV's own songs together with 4 of his favourite covers. For the first time in ages, this JV album is released on Vinyl - a double album with bonus tracks in a gatefold sleeve.

Any spare time was be spent in the studio writing/recording - "Blue to my soul", released in 2018...

Throughout 2018 & 2019 JV had 2 albums consistently featured in the UK album charts - "Blue to my soul" and and an EP, "Where's the love?", with the JV Band touring to promote them pretty much non-stop.

2020 brought a brand new album to celebrate the 50th anniversary of John forming the very first John Verity Band. "Passion" released on CD and Vinyl, and once again the band hit the road to promote it. Life is good!

Things are moving on in '22 with the JV Band continuing as before, but an exciting new project with John's great friend Del Bromham.

The 'Verity Bromham Band' is a celebration of some of JV & Del's favorite songs from over the years - not slavish copies of the originals, but simply given the JV/Del treatment. Check it out, it's fun!!!

Now in 2025 John still enjoys life on the road. In his mid 70's he see no reason to give up. The road is where he belongs.

A true Rock and Roll Survivor