The 3rd single in The Domestic Science Singles Series is released today - my instrumental solo guitar version of Chaka Khan's Ain't Nobody . Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vCcZIARw9k Song and guitar tab are available only from the store page   and you can  Pay What You Want for the song, and a percentage of what you pay goes to STEPS , a charity that supports people with clubfoot, hip dysplasia and other lower limb conditions, in honour of my beautiful niece Freya. …

I just got back from my second trip to Italy this year. I had some amazing experiences (mostly food or music related, although I can live without ever having cow's tongue again) and some strange ones - for example I had my oddest ever audience-member, a woman in Bologna who yelped, hyena-like, at seemingly random intervals. I managed to calm her by playing some of the concert unplugged, stood right at her table, effectively serenading her. She was awesome. But not at every concert, please. I also got …

It's one month since my first ever single Passionflower was released, and it's so far been watched over 45,000 times on youtube and played on radio stations on 3 continents! Thankyou/Merci/Grazie/Danke/Gracias to EVERYONE who watched it and - most importantly - told their friends about it. The second single, my interpretation of Message In A Bottle by The Police, is out today. You can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-fpLmJHLvw You can download the mp3 right now from …

Since my new video went up online, I've been getting the occasional criticism from guitarists for mistreating Wilma (my lovely, faithful handmade Lowden guitar). "Look at the state of her!" they cry. "That's a cruel thing to do to a beautiful instrument!" they wail. It makes me sad. :( Why? Well, I love my guitar. Anyone who's seen me play will see that I clean her immediately after every gig. If I'm playing two sets, she gets cleaned during the interval too. I lookafter her to the …

My first ever single, Passionflower, has finally arrived! Here's the video (Youtube link) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY7GnAq6Znw You can really help me get my music into more people's ears by sharing it - post it on your facebook, tweet it, blog it, email it to your friends / family / fellow inmates / etc... And you can download the song right now from the store page ,  and Pay What You Want - you can even pay nothing. It's totally your call. :) You can buy it as a download card too - a …

 Gibson Guitars was raided not long ago by US officials, and endangered woods imported from India, Madagascar and elsewhere were seized. Gibson is pleading innocence and has already garnered 10,000+ signature to a petition. They say the law isn't clear, they say they are providing jobs for Americans, they say all kinds of things but they don't say why they need to use these woods. I mean no offence, but in my opinion Gibson are in the wrong here. Harvesting endangered woods in India might not seems …

People say the internet has killed albums. Well I thought about that, and actually I love the idea of a return to the early days of recorded popular music, when people just loved one song at a time, really intensely. Or even to a time before that, when they had to buy the sheet music and learn to play it for themselves. So, I've made some singles to be released in a series this Autumn, available by only as downloads (no CDs this time), only from jongomm.com, and on a Pay What You Want basis – each …

The Leeds Guitar Night is back for 2011, and I'm delighted to be hosting a fantastic international line up at The Wardrobe in the Quarry Hill Arts Quarter, where you’ll see and hear the acoustic guitar played every way you could imagine and possibly more! My guests this year are modern pioneers of the acoustic guitar, revered by their fellow players around the world.  This concert will also be the Leeds launch for my new project ‘ The Domestic Science Singles Series ’. The second …

Welcome to the new website! Thanks to the hundreds of people who voted to help me choose the design for this new site, which was then created by the wonderful Tom Chapman . The artwork was originally created by Martin Simpson in 2007 for the Don't Panic album, but the Don't Panic projected stalled with the pressure of touring, and it needed rebooting in every way and the artwork got replaced, so I'm delighted to have finally made use of it, cos it's frickin awesome. I miss the old place which was my …