“Basically, I climb up telegraph poles late at night, tear down the cabling with my bare hands and use that to string my guitar!”
But seriously, I gave my top tips for adventurous acoustic guitar playing to Guitar World, and…
Read more“Basically, I climb up telegraph poles late at night, tear down the cabling with my bare hands and use that to string my guitar!”
But seriously, I gave my top tips for adventurous acoustic guitar playing to Guitar World, and…
Read moreSo... Passionflower is 6th in the '50 Greatest Acoustic Songs Of All Time' in Total Guitar. Just behind The Beatles, Clapton, Pink Floyd and Led Zep. Pretty crazy. Thank you to everyone who voted, I guess there were quite a…
Read moreI'm writing this on the day that would've been my mate Jonny's 43rd birthday, so I want to say a slightly teary-eyed thank you to the people around the world who joined in with me in covering Song For A…
Read moreI'll be talking about how I helped develop the Sonnet with the folks at Blackstar Amplification, taking questions from the audience on anything from gear to songwriting to football as well as performing some of my songs in an…
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Live music coming back has felt like a miracle. I feel like an actual physical person. I think we're made real by connecting with others. So I'm taking to the road again in my homeland. Please come, I'll make a…
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Sing or play along with Song For A Rainy Day, and I'll play a gig just for you (and any friends you want to invite), or if you prefer I'll…
Read moreNEW VIDEO: SONG FOR A RAINY DAY
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iT0EqlX_18
This song was written by my beloved friend Jonny Walker, whose death in 2018 cracked me open and let in the light.
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Read moreBlown away to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at Ards International Guitar Festival this weekend. Look, it's my guitar case! The one everyone sent me stickers for. Immortalised in ceramic by artist Andrew Cooke. I was completely stunned, and a…
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Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe8nAQDtFYQ
I am honoured to become the 1st ambassador for The Swan Song Project.
The Swan Song Project is a unique small charity which helps people who are facing the end of their life to write and…
September 25th 2021 is the 10th anniversary of the release of Passionflower. The song that changed my life. It sent me spinning round the world on stages and TV shows and all that. But suddenly, people were connecting with me…
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I reckon everybody should be helping everybody get back to live music, so I've decided to open up the support slots for my long-delayed UK Tour to applications from local performers (musicians, bands, poets, comedians, I love it all).
If…
Read moreMy apocalyptic love song from the album The Faintest Idea. If you wrote a love song like this, who (or what) would you dedicate it to? Tell me via socials or email, and I’ll pick one answer and…
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Watch on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcmecyoZgjo
Incredibly emotional watching this. To have been on this adventure with my childhood dream guitar company, to design a guitar perfect for my style of playing... I do not deserve it.
I literally drew body shape…
Puzzled to discover that I am officially not rubbish. To be honest it's ridiculous for me just to be mentioned on such an incredible list of proper guitarists.
By far the best thing about recognition like this is the pride…
Read moreKinda embarrassing using myself as a model, but when you get a new T-shirt in lockdown there's not much choice. So, here's the new limited edition The Faintest Idea unisex shirt in vintage black with white art screenprint. Ethically produced…
Read morePlease take a second to vote here https://www.musicradar.com/news/who-is-the-best-acoustic-guitarist-of-2020, so maybe I can win Best Acoustic Guitarist Of 2020, which would be really nice.
If I lose I'll just claim it was rigged by my competitors, because that's democracy in…
Tickets here:
Things are not looking great for real-life gigs here in the UK at the moment, so to mark the release of The Faintest Idea, I'm streaming a gig from my home studio, live on my website.
The…
It's not unexpected, but I'm still crushed to announce that I'm having to reschedule The Faintest Idea UK/Eire Tour. Here are the new dates for late 2021.
Tickets are on sale now, and any tickets already purchased are transferable, except…
Read moreNew album out today, plus new video
This song is my maximum rhythm, I hope it finds your feet. It’s called Dream Factories, it’s about how music, our lives, our dreams - they’re taken, remade and sold back to…
This is the last single before album release day on October 16th. You can pre-order The Faintest Idea now on CD, Vinyl double-LP, or the Deluxe edition: A beautiful book of art and words, plus 3 discs…
Read moreI'm proud beyond words to announce that I've joined the Ibanez Guitars roster.
When I was a kid in the 1990s, Ibanez was the name I associated with the progressive guitar playing I loved. My local guitar store (Tower Music…
Read moreMy first new single in 7 years, Cocoon, is out today on all streaming platforms. Here's the video, I hope you like it (if you do, please share it with others).
Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/km1fp0tIagA
Watch on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1199783960359570
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New album The Faintest Idea, coming October 16th.
I have bled and wept trying to forge an album of intensely personal songs, with my solo acoustic guitar and voice placed in an immersive sonic landscape of vast digital skies and…
TICKETS HERE: https://jongomm.com/gig
To mark my debut on Spotify with the release of a new recording of Passionflower, I'm streaming a gig from my home studio, live on my website.
SUNDAY JUNE 14, 2020
8:15pm UK /…