Josh Ansley

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Josh Ansley
Born New Jersey, U.S.A.

Josh Ansley was the bass player for the ska band Catch 22. Raised in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey, United States, Ansley was a Ford model as a child/pre-teen and an actor. He then was in Social Butterfly, an alternative band with the guitarist for his current band, Paul Spatola. He then joined the pop-punk band The Youth Ahead before graduating and joining Catch 22. He played a fretless bass when he started but later for Streetlight Manifesto he played a five-string bass. Ansley left Catch 22 a few months after the album Keasbey Nights was released, because he wanted to be an actor. Later he joined with Tomas Kalnoky to form Streetlight Manifesto. He played with them for a while and recorded bass on the album Everything Went Numb, released on Victory Records and the RISC Group, {before later leaving again to try for a career in acting — when he was replaced by Chris Paszik, who was recently replaced with Pete McCullaugh.
Josh Ansley was also the bass player for the band HURT on Capitol Records. He played on HURT's major label debut "Volume I" which came out March 21, 2006, and "Volume II" was released on September 25, 2007. On April 3, 2008, he announced via HURT's forums & Myspace that he would be leaving the band to pursue his dreams in the field of Acting/Writing/Directing. He is engaged to be married to actress Rebecca Mozo (Zerophilia).