Jim Whiteley is a musician who in the late 1980s played bass guitar in several Birmingham-based hardcore and grindcore bands, most notably Napalm Death.
Jim Whiteley was brought into Napalm Death in 1986 in hopes of restoring enthusiasm and dedication among the rest of the band, and to let bassist and singer Nik Bullen focus on singing.
However, this plan failed, and after several concerts guitarist Justin Broadrick and then Bullen left the group.
After touring to support Scum, Whitely left to join the more established and successful (at the time) hardcore band Ripcord.
In 2004, Whiteley reunited with Napalm Death to record bass for two tracks on their cover album Leaders Not Followers: Part 2: Discharge's "War's No Fairytale", and Anti Cimex's "Game of Arseholes".