If you're into it, pleeeeeease share it with your friends. Without online sharing, I'd still be playing pretend gigs in my bedroom to my stuffed toys.
Get the Guitar Tab at
http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabsTo try to entice some new fans to take the plunge and actually buy something, I've made the song available
for a penny, only from
http://jongomm.com/downloads (offer ends soon!) 10% of all proceeds (from the music and tab) go to Save The Rhino
http://www.savetherhino.org/ Tour NewsNext week I'm heading up to Scotland for a few gigs, and then Belfast, playing at the Lowden Guitars 40th Anniversary concert. (A Lowden Jon Gomm signature model guitar is in the works, by the way!)
The Germany tour is in January, and
the full UK Tour will be March 2nd to April 5th, but we're still finalizing dates so I can't announce them just yet. And I'm trying desperately hard to finally get to the USA for a tour, so hopefully 2015 is the year.
And I'm teaching at a
Residential Guitar Bootcamp at a beautiful resort in the Austrian Alps, if you feel like a guitar-centric summer holiday!
2014November 13 - AIRDRIE,
UKNovember 14 - IRVINE,
UKNovember 15 - ARBROATH,
UKNovember 16 - EDINBURGH,
UKNovember 20 - BELFAST,
Northern IrelandDecember 6 - YORK, UK - SOLD OUT!
2015January 24 - GROßKARLBACH,
GermanyJanuary 25 - KARLSRUHE,
GermanyJanuary 26 - MÜNCHEN,
GermanyJanuary 29 - DRESDEN,
GermanyJanuary 30 - SEIDENROTH,
GermanyJanuary 31 - KAISERSLAUTERN,
GermanyFebruary 1 - VIERSEN,
GermanyFebruary 3 - KÖLNE,
GermanyFebruary 4 - MÜNSTER,
GermanyFebruary 5 - BREMEN,
GermanyFebruary 6 - BERLIN,
GermanyFebruary 7 - HAMBURG,
GermanyJuly 11-17 -
Thomas Leeb's Guitar Bootcamp,
AustriaTickets and information about every concert at http://jongomm.com/live-datesSo, Jon, what have you been up to?Well since my last email, I've had a head-spinning tour of Brazil, with 18 flights in 21 days. Including being beamed into millions of homes across South America on the Jo Soares talk show:
Since then I've been at a festival virtually every weekend, from classical guitar festivals in Eastern Europe and Canada, to Electric Picnic in Ireland and metal festivals like Download and Techfest in the UK, to mention just a few. I know, me at a metal festival? WTF right? Well I just played my songs and they seemed to like it:
Another highlight was meeting funk legend Nile Rodgers backstage at the London Acoustic Guitar Show. He wanted to try Wilma, and who was I to refuse:
To everyone who's come to see me play, or sent their friends to see me, or organised or worked at a gig: THANK YOU. :)
Viral madness...In a completely unexpected development, Passionflower is going viral
again. A lad named
Alexis Hadefi made a video of himself playing the guitar part of the song. A radio station pinched this from his youtube channel and uploaded it to their own facebook, and currently it's over 10 million views! Mental. At first the radio station didn't credit me at all, sadly, but after overwhelming public pressure, they begrudgingly added my name to it.
In the wake of this,
I uploaded the original video to Facebook, and that is currently heading for 3 million views! It's incredible that lots of new people are still discovering the song. THANK YOU to everyone who has made this happen by sharing my music.
So, Jon, what's next?Aside from touring, writing new stuff, and the Lowden signature guitar, I've been busy with my production friends, and we're filming at least 8 new videos for release next year! I made a list of songs people request at gigs, and Tab transcription requests, and just some songs which I've neglected and have slipped under the radar, and none of which have good performance videos representing them online. And we're filming them.
So, watch this space.
Keep up to date with all my adventures at: Facebook :
http://facebook.com/jongommofficialTwitter :
http://twitter.com/jongommInstagram :
http://instagram.com/jongommGoogle Plus :
https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusicYoutube :
http://youtube.com/jongommThanks so much for giving a d*mn about an independent musician. If you see me somewhere - on the internet or on the road - please stop and say hello. :)
Love from,
Jon