DOB: 01/03/1986 (Current Age: 27)
Roles: Lead Vocals, Bass Guitar, SongwritingJack Straw is the front man of
Fathers of Fury and was the original founder with
Isaac Thompson. He was born on the 1st of March 1986, and is currently 27 years old. He does the lead vocals and plays the bass guitar, as well as writing the vast majority of the songs that
Fathers of Fury have recorded.
He started to play the guitar at the age of 7, when his parents bought him a guitar for his birthday as well as the opportunity to take lessons. Jack's teacher got frustrated with how ridiculously slowly he was picking it up, and eventually discontinued his lessons. From this point, Jack taught himself using books and watching other people play. After the restrictions of the guitar teacher disappeared, Jack did actually start to pick it up a lot faster.
After he started secondary school, he met
Isaac who had been playing the guitar since he was 4 years old. The two very swiftly became best friends and
Isaac helped Jack to enhance his ability with the guitar. Unfortunately Jack's love for his music interrupted his school work significantly, and he failed to get the grades to continue at school after he turned 16.
Jack's lack of qualifications left him struggling to find work, so he ended up working for a local fast food restaurant. This was fairly short lived though, as after about 18 months his mother became very ill and he left his job to try to look after her. Unfortunately she died on his 20th birthday however; the untimely death of his mother pushed Jack's father into a state of depression, causing him to become alcohol dependent.
Jack struggled to get back into work again after being unemployed for around a year; and when he did find jobs they were only either temporary or he didn't last in them for very long. Fortunately he did however find a job working as a bartender at a music bar where there was live music three nights a week; this suited him very well as it helped him to maintain his love for music.
On a night out,
Isaac and Jack went into a bar which had an open-mic night on.
Isaac eventually convinced Jack to go up and do a song. The song he picked was
Infinite's Supernova, he performed this to such a standard that the whole bar went silent and paid full attention to his wrenching vocal performance. This was the first time he had really realised his potential, and he regularly went back to the bar with
Isaac for the next few years.
It wasn't until Jack turned 23 that he actually put the idea of being in a band to
Isaac. The two of them were both very good musicians, and Jack was an incredible vocalist. All they needed know was a drummer, and that was when
Freddie was introduced to Jack. The three played some good music together, but when it came to performing live, Isaac was too nervous to stand up and be the lead guitarist. The three of them placed an advert in the local papers, but the applicants weren't to the standard that they had hoped for and continuing the advert for too long was getting expensive.
The three gave up on becoming a proper band and so started jamming together in Freddie's garage. Then one day someone started banging on the garage door as they were playing. They opened up to see
Ollie, who introduced himself and told them how he loved how they sounded. Jack and
Ollie immediately hit it off and became very good friends, and it wasn't long before
Ollie showed them what he could do with a guitar.
The now foursome played together for a short while before deciding to enter the
Manchester Battle of the Bands. Unfortunately they finished second after performing an amazing cover of
Infinite's Blue Nebula. The performance did however gain them a lot of followers, and they were very quickly selling out local gigs and getting interviewed on local radio stations. The boys were scouted by
Junction Records and given a two album deal, which saw them through both of their album releases.
A few months after the release of the first single, Jack takes singer-songwriter
Jenny Hudson to the Chaos Awards. This leads into a long term relationship, which unfortunately ended not long after the boys split up, with poor
Jenny being involved in a car accident and unfortunately not surviving. Since
Jenny, Jack has not had any serious relationships.