Jules Ames is the singer-songwriter stage name of UK actor and author, Julian Amos.
Originally from Birmingham, Jules grew up in Tamworth from the age of 10, where he began playing in his first bands when still at school. He has since built a muti-faceted career that spans decades across several different creative fields.
Jules has played and toured as a singer-songwriter and musician in the UK, Italy and the USA, and it was whilst playing his own songs solo in New York clubs in the mid 90’s that his music writing style began, being described as a cross-over between Americana and country when local music fanzines, Roller Derby and The Bob, started comparing his voice, style and music to the likes of Chris Isaak and Lyle Lovett.
That period in New York was more suited to punk and electro music during the 90’s, but there were still some venues where he was welcomed to just walk in with a guitar and play opening support slots for local groups and bands, which built him a small following during the period.
After returning to the UK, Jules’ solo music career had to take a break while he spent a number of years working with Triumph and Royal Enfield as a consultant motorcycle test rider. Many years later he eventually escaped and returned his body and soul to more artistic and creative work, training as an actor, and later successfully auditioning for notable roles in several TV series and films, such as in the role of Old Boy in Channel 4/DMAX series, Get Millie Black, along with other supporting featured roles in, Pennyworth, D.I.Ray, Three Little Birds and Two Tone, and also lead roles in the independent horror films, Goldilocks & the Three Bears: Death & Porridge playing Norman, and as the character Sam Richardson in The 8.
He also appeared as a motorcycle specialist in the TV documentary, Who Killed Lawrence of Arabia, and as the presenter of the YouTube and Roku TV paranormal series Dark Encounters UK.
Jules is the author of several books, such as his autobiographical account of his life working as a motorcycle development test rider, called, Test Rider – The True Motorcycling Adventures of a Secret Development Test Rider’, which also details stories of his musical career and the struggles of touring as a musician while trying to hold down a ‘proper’ job. Other books include The Strange Case of The Navigator, which also touches on his musical background, though is actually a non-fiction story about past life regression and hypnosis. He has also written a series of children’s stories which were combined into paperback entitled, The Amazing Adventures of Mike Motorbike.
Latterly, Jules has finally returned to concentrate on his first love of writing and recording music, most often co-written with his friend and fellow musician, Alan Hodgetts, an ex-BBC Radio presenter and studio owner. Between them they craft and record the music you’re hearing today.
The first single, ‘The Less You Say’ is being released on Spotify and other platforms, and further work is also ready for release and will be available soon.
