Kev Ward
Kevin James Ward (credited also as Kev Ward) was a bassist who played in Big in Japan. A fellow student of the Liverpool School of Art, he did artwork for the mid-1970s Liverpool band Deaf School. Later, in May 1977, he founded Big In Japan along with Bill Drummond (later in The KLF), with whom he attended art school,[1] and Phil Allen (brother of Enrico Cadillac, frontman of Deaf School), after seeing The Clash in concert. When Ambrose Reynolds joined by mid-to-late 1977, Ward was placed on backing vocals, but quit around December. The only released Big In Japan recording in which he participated was "Suicide A Go Go", featured on the From Y to Z and Never Again EP, released in 1978.
After Big In Japan, Ward never played with any other band, but did artwork for many Liverpool bands, before moving to Kent, where, as for early 1990s, he made models for petro-chemical engineers.[2]