Jah Wobble (born John Joseph Wardle, 11 August 1958, Stepney, London) is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd (PiL) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two years. Following his departure from PiL, he went on to a successful solo career, continuing to the present. Jah Wobble has two daughters from his first marriage, the actress Hayley Angel Wardle and Natalie Wardle, and two sons with his wife, the Chinese-born guzheng player and harpist Zi Lan Liao. In 2009, he published his autobiograpy, Memoirs of a Geezer.