tag:www.jongomm.com,2005:/blogs/latest-news-from-the-blog?p=5Latest News2024-02-26T19:24:08+00:00Jon Gommfalsetag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/73575792024-02-26T19:24:08+00:002024-02-26T19:26:00+00:00My Top Tips For Adventurous Acoustic Guitarists<p dir="ltr">“Basically, I climb up telegraph poles late at night, tear down the cabling with my bare hands and use that to string my guitar!”</p><p dir="ltr">But seriously, I gave my top tips for adventurous acoustic guitar playing to Guitar World, and you can read them right now and literally steal my best ideas.</p><p dir="ltr">Here's the interview:<span style="color:#000000;"> </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.guitarworld.com/features/jon-gomm-tips-for-acoustic-guitar" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">https://www.guitarworld.com/features/jon-gomm-tips-for-acoustic-guitar</a></p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.guitarworld.com/features/jon-gomm-tips-for-acoustic-guitar" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/eb5fe8f03b849ab93cf64c8a2b31f42fbb272b53/original/adobe-express-20240226-1919370-1.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="1080" width="1080" /></a><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/6034510a23f1c500aefadd1b4b7311db4c32cc43/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_left border_" height="272" />Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/73026872023-11-12T20:48:43+00:002023-11-12T20:50:10+00:00New Self-Portrait T-shirts - Pre-order Now<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://jongomm.com/merch" data-link-type="url"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/e22883188f30eee3b28960255bd5f97078b558c3/original/0-modelling-self-portrait-shirt-2023-13.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/6b3ce10009e3822400cfa15f71a603902d94297e/original/pre-ordergrey-pill-wesbite-buy-link-button.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></a></p><p>I drew a self-portrait, and people seemed to think it would look pretty on a shirt. So I got the screen-printing masters at Shirty Something in Sheffield to print it on some organic cotton fairtrade Stanley/Stella Creator unisex tees. Now you can be among the first to wear one! Sizes S to 3XL. </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big">PRE-ORDER AT: </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://jongomm.com/merch" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big">HTTPS://JONGOMM.COM/MERCH</span></a></p><p>I decided to call the picture “Stringbeams”, by the way. And if you don't do T-shirts, you can get a digital-print poster, framed print, canvas print, hoodie or even phone case (just scroll down that same page!)</p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/6034510a23f1c500aefadd1b4b7311db4c32cc43/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_left border_" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/72816052023-10-02T18:27:54+01:002023-10-22T16:21:15+01:00UK Tour with Jo Quail<p>I've wanted to do a double-header tour with another solo artist for a long time, but I needed to wait until I found the perfect person. Finally I heard cellist <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.joquail.co.uk/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">Jo Quail</a>, and it was like the doors and windows in my mind all blew open. She shares my vision of striving to use one instrument, and a load of technique, to create a sound as big and deep and detailed as possible, to build a world around the listener. Hopefully the two of us on the same show will be a special experience.<br><br>Ticket links below. (On sale 03-10-23 at 10am)</p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/3dc6920658d14e309f2707442a54d08342b16523/original/jg-jq-uk-2023-2024-poster-yt-1x1-ogino-design.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><figure class="table"><table style="background-color:hsl( 0, 0%, 10% );"><tbody><tr><td><p style="text-align:center;">07/12 - <strong>Southampton</strong>, Papillon (moved from 1865)<br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://bit.ly/TicketsGQSo">https://bit.ly/TicketsGQSo</a><br>08/12 - <strong>Brighton</strong>, The Arch<br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://bit.ly/TicketsGQBr">https://bit.ly/TicketsGQBr</a><br>09/12 - <strong>Frome</strong>, The Tree House<br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://bit.ly/TicketsGQFr">https://bit.ly/TicketsGQFr</a><br>10/12 - <strong>Gloucester</strong>, Guildhall<br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://bit.ly/TicketsGQGl">https://bit.ly/TicketsGQGl</a><br>11/12 - <strong>Swansea</strong>, Sin City<br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://bit.ly/TicketsGQSw">https://bit.ly/TicketsGQSw</a><br>13/12 - <strong>Bristol</strong>, The Gryphon<br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://bit.ly/TicketsGQBris">https://bit.ly/TicketsGQBris</a><br>14/12 - <strong>Bristol</strong>, The Gryphon<br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://bit.ly/TicketsGQBris">https://bit.ly/TicketsGQBris</a><br>15/12 - <strong>Bristol</strong>, The Gryphon<br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://bit.ly/TicketsGQBris">https://bit.ly/TicketsGQBris</a><br>16/12 - <strong>Worcester</strong>, St. Swithun's<br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://bit.ly/TicketsGQWo">https://bit.ly/TicketsGQWo</a><br>17/12 - <strong>Manchester</strong>, Deaf Institute<br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://bit.ly/TicketsGQMan">https://bit.ly/TicketsGQMan</a> <br><br>26/01 - <strong>London</strong>, Oslo<br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://bit.ly/TicketsGQLo">https://bit.ly/TicketsGQLo</a><br>27/01 - <strong>Leeds</strong>, Old Woollen<br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://bit.ly/TicketsGQLe">https://bit.ly/TicketsGQLe</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></figure><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="JQSPnD-m2OY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JQSPnD-m2OY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/72917732023-08-24T16:00:00+01:002023-10-22T16:21:15+01:00Passionflower 6th in Total Guitar's "Greatest Acoustic Songs Of All Time"<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/e6d95c963b90c7e3f5be80bd4e22fcd27b506e22/original/img-4729-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p>So... 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 lot of you! </p><p>It's only one poll and it doesn't mean anything, but f**k that I'm buying my own gravestone now and getting this carved into it.</p><p>Most of the top 50 are big classic hits (in fact Passionflower is the only song in the top 20 from this century!), but it was lovely to see my contemporary comrades Andy McKee, Mike Dawes and Tommy Emmanuel make the list too. Love you dudes.</p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/9dac42fd8da2c1b3ea6ead0a162a41cb2290944b/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_left border_" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/72481892023-07-23T11:00:00+01:002023-10-02T18:26:05+01:00Your beautiful cover versions of Song For A Rainy Day<p>I'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 <a class="no-pjax" href="/rain" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="rain">Song For A Rainy Day</a> by Jonny Walker, and raising some money for <a class="no-pjax" href="/swan-song-project" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="SWAN SONG PROJECT">The Swan Song Project</a> in the process.</p><p>Every single one of you helped me and others through our grief, and you're still helping us now. I made this compilation of some of them, and in my opinion it's beautiful. Jonny would have loved it. Happy birthday dude.</p><p> </p><div id="fb-root"> </div><script async="" defer src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2"></script><div class="fb-video" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/jongommofficial/videos/995566261449743/" data-width="auto" data-show-text="false"> </div><p> </p><p>You can still download the complete Guitar Tab for my version, or my handwritten and illustrated lyrics/chord sheet for Jonny's original version, both for free or with a donation of however much you like to The Swan Song Project. <br> </p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://jongomm.com/product/771370" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/994631bf621bb4ffde963e4b944852a0829675e2/original/song-for-a-rainy-day-handwritten-lyrics-sheet-chords-thumbnail.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></a> <br> </p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://jongomm.com/product/722368" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/6a712b7693ee3f600f80e43f50738d5f00fbc16b/original/song-for-a-rainy-day-tab-thumb-image-for-store.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></a></p><p><br>Every time someone learns this song, or any of my arrangements or compositions, it is special for me. Knowing they inspired somebody else makes musicians feel like their work has value, and inspires us to keep going. Basically it's one perfect feedback loop of inspiration. And if you think you're not good enough, you're wrong. If you want to learn to play my guitar parts, then it will take time and practice, and the best place to start that process is at the beginning. But if you want to play it your own way, that's fine with me. Me and Jonny would both happily watch someone scream out of tune at our local open mic night, or pound on a broken guitar, if it moved us. Just go for it. <br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/6548747bc98f7093ee082206f25e2a5cf35353c8/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_left border_" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/72453952023-07-21T20:40:32+01:002023-07-21T20:42:16+01:00Road Report: Thomas Leeb's Acoustic Bootcamp '23<p style="text-align:justify;">What a week on the mountain. <a class="no-pjax" href="https://thomasleeb.com/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">Thomas Leeb</a> is one of my oldest friends in the guitar world, we're like family really. He grew up on this very Austrian alp, and I've been teaching at his Bootcamp every few years since 2008. <br><br>Music, schnapps, birthday cake, and a bunch of guitar nerds from all over the world. Catching up with old bootcamp friends is a deep relief now, after doubting I might ever see them again during the plague. And I think I made loads of new friends too, although you'd have to check with them. <br><br>Sign up for next year's <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.acousticbootcamp.com/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">Acoustic Bootcamp</a> as soon as it's announced, or if you can't wait that long there's a few places left at <a class="no-pjax" href="https://andymckeesmusicarium.com/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">Andy McKee's Musicarium</a> in Nashville next month.<br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/9dac42fd8da2c1b3ea6ead0a162a41cb2290944b/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><br> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/f0fe5807c0f69dafc052812278d1ec2fc86acbe0/original/fb-img-1689347394568.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" />"Anyone want a photo", chaos ensues<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/0f358b1ac6f82ea2fec7f1de6228489ee5425035/original/img-20230711-wa0009.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" />They're about to find out that I secretly smeared their strings with butter<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/4edacd22737279db8dd1d083919dca9c46c2720f/original/img-20230711-wa0017-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Happy birthday to me<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/3f9b87cc93d96c040d5cdbe4f3e45ee11d391f3a/original/received-243175725233740.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Ski lift crew<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/bdb5fe1a9be24a7eb5368f5733833c36f17a312a/original/fb-img-1689347410783.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><a class="no-pjax" href="https://whelanguitar.com/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">Christian Whelan</a> gets in some sneaky practice in his sneaky practising hat, before wowing us at the Students Concert<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/f8c22d2e82b0fc8742288c8b217866e3d9765f8e/original/fb-img-1689347405046.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/SalvatorDeo" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">Deo Salvator</a> and <a class="no-pjax" href="https://guy-palumbo.com/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">Guy Palumbo</a> reading Doctor Suess at the Students Concert<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/16049ceeef01f901998925750356c262016a552b/original/img-20230711-wa0008.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Bootcamp veteran <a class="no-pjax" href="https://jackybastek.com/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">Jacky Bastek</a>. Took us ages to get this natural pose<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/642c2ccb9c6a650dd4552841b9ffa7c8e9c84dfc/original/fb-img-1689346835752.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Our host Herr Leeb emitting grooves<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/d48d3eec385617175502e55c1ab5f15ce400f765/original/fb-img-1689346838357.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><a class="no-pjax" href="https://sophiemusic.de/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">Sophie Chassée</a>, queen of the mountain, at the Teachers Concert<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/febbc1360e381ac456ed030101bf7fefdb1bcca0/original/fb-img-1689346843230.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Making guitar faces at the Teachers Concert<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/c81dcca189406eebe425d2b6660cb7ff470d2596/original/fb-img-1689344764450.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Obligatory foot shot<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/8a0554530d3efe95c7faa8d278a68dc88a2f9e6b/original/fb-img-1689344704695.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Bootcamp family 2023<br><br> </p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/71583882023-02-22T08:50:05+00:002023-03-14T17:40:28+00:00Mental health update. Spoiler: I have ADHD and I'm ok.<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/736519140800af1ca1425f4e6047d795671193a6/original/img-20230222-083141-783.webp/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p>My mental health is chronically… OK. To see that written down is so weird. I still have freak-outs and meltdowns, but they’re rare and require something actually to happen, externally, and not just my own mind trying to kill me. And I still have moods and anxieties, but they seem more normal, or what I suspect is normal - It’s very hard for me to gauge never having been normal (but who is, huh). </p><p>I had given up on medical help, many years ago, having been given so many diagnoses and so many chemicals. The last one I’d tried (an anti-seizure drug used for bipolar) had left me with one pupil permanently dilated (it still is 6 years later) and tremors in my left hand (now gone, thank fuck). But during the plaguedemic, I was so stressed - about my job, my family - that I was fixed in a state of hyper-anxiety, and my mind was a very dark place offering very dark solutions, like an automatic machine producing terrifying ideas. I had to seek help again. I did some research, reading about the now dwindling number of disorders I hadn’t yet been labelled with. I thought maybe I had Borderline Personality Disorder, and went to see a psychiatrist and he agreed, responding with a familiar pharmaceutical riposte. </p><p>I got the pills, and was working up the courage to take them, when a friend suggested to me that I might have ADHD. I thought that was frankly ridiculous. ADHD = wild and uncontrollable kids, right? Bart Simpson syndrome. That’s the stereotype I stupidly believed in. When I was 6 or 7, my friend, who loved causing mischief, was diagnosed with ADHD and put on the drugs. Meantime I was a total space cadet, a weird little social misfit who was happiest playing in his own technicolour surround-sound imagination, who would read Shakespeare but couldn’t tell the time, who didn’t sleep more than 4 hours a night, who would blurt out anything to anyone with no thought of consequences, who was constantly lost, late, injured, confused or upset. </p><p>I found a specialist I could afford, and answered a lot of questions. I think I knew what was coming when she eventually said “I don’t often ask this question to adults, but how are you at crossing the road Jon?” “Fine, obviously! Except… I do sometimes just forget, or run out of patience. So I’ve been hit by cars a few times but that’s normal, right?”</p><p>Being diagnosed with ADHD has changed my life. At first I found it very hard to come to terms with. I was in denial. I felt like “Is this it? After a lifetime of struggle, all the pain and fear of not being able to cope, all the things I’ve missed out on, it’s just… this?” </p><p>Like most psychiatric diagnoses, it’s a broad brush, and I identify with some of the symptoms extremely strongly, others less. I learned about them, and it gave me a new window through which to see myself, and understand what I’m capable of and what I’m not. When things do still go wrong, I blame myself less. And blaming yourself less leaves to free to take responsibility more, ironically.</p><p>Now I’m on the meds, like my childhood friend was (rightly or wrongly, for him). They work subtly, but fundamentally. Now when I look out at the world, everything isn’t flying around me at breakneck speed. There are still seven TV screens playing in my head, but it turns them down, places them in the background. It means I don’t have to try so fucking hard every fucking day just to do the basics, and as a result I burn out less often and less hard, and the cycle of depression I live with is less intense. </p><p>The best thing is: I can be here, and now. With you, in this moment. Living. </p><p>That’s all. I just needed to tell it. (I still need to tell everybody everything all the time, but now I understand why, and I actually think it’s pretty cool.) Thanks for reading. New music is coming soon. I promise. Seriously, very soon. Almost definitely.</p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/8045/8ff8f16e1d145c6e4b440369e6c93ada15778901/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_left border_" /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Photo by Karl Hockless</p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/71438492023-01-26T17:23:24+00:002023-01-26T18:10:28+00:00Blackstar Sonnet Clinic Tour<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="SHOWS" data-link-type="page" href="/shows"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/1a080594254c9c86294ee5f00b6236c870f17139/original/square-flyer-jg-blackstar-jan-2023-edit.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>I'll be talking about how I helped develop the Sonnet with the folks at <a contents="Blackstar Amplification" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://blackstaramps.com/" target="_blank">Blackstar Amplification</a>, taking questions from the audience on anything from gear to songwriting to football as well as performing some of my songs in an intimate setting. You don't have to be a guitarist to attend, everyone is welcome. These promise to be relaxed events where you can get up close and personal with me in one of my favourite places - the local guitar shop.</p>
<p><strong>BLACKSTAR SONNET CLINIC TOUR 2023</strong><br>March 20 <a contents="The Boiler Room, Guildford, UK" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/event/4958393/628861625/blackstar-sonnet-clinic-tour">The Boiler Room, <strong>Guildford</strong>, UK</a> <br>March 21 <a contents="Absolute Music, Bournemouth, UK" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/event/4958400/628861633/blackstar-sonnet-clinic-tour">Absolute Music, <strong>Bournemouth</strong>, UK</a> <br>March 22 <a contents="GAK, Brighton, UK" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/event/4958417/628861651/blackstar-sonnet-clinic-tour">GAK, <strong>Brighton</strong>, UK</a> <br>March 23 <a contents="GuitarGuitar, Birmingham, UK" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/event/4958428/628861665/blackstar-sonnet-clinic-tour">GuitarGuitar, <strong>Birmingham</strong>, UK</a> <br>March 24 <a contents="PMT, Leeds, UK" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/event/4958503/628861755/blackstar-sonnet-clinic-tour">PMT, <strong>Leeds</strong>, UK</a> <br>March 27 <a contents="Music Street, Huntingdon, UK" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/event/4958511/628861764/blackstar-sonnet-clinic-tour">Music Street, <strong>Huntingdon</strong>, UK</a> <br>March 28 <a contents="GuitarGuitar Camden, London, UK" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/event/4958563/628861841/blackstar-sonnet-clinic-tour">GuitarGuitar Camden, <strong>London</strong>, UK</a> <br>March 29 <a contents="PMT, Bristol, UK" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/event/4958567/628861845/blackstar-sonnet-clinic-tour">PMT, <strong>Bristol</strong>, UK</a> <br>March 30 <a contents="PMT, Manchester, UK" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/event/4958570/628861848/blackstar-sonnet-clinic-tour">PMT, <strong>Manchester</strong>, UK</a><br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/8ff8f16e1d145c6e4b440369e6c93ada15778901/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p> </p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/71109792022-11-26T21:30:05+00:002023-03-14T17:40:28+00:00LIMITED OFFER: One-to-one Guitar Lessons available<p><span style="color:#969696;"><strong>Xmas special: One-to-one guitar lessons</strong></span></p><p>I get a lot of requests from fans and fellow guitarists for online lessons. I don't often have time in my schedule to do these but I have some down time in January and February, so I thought I'd offer people the chance to book a session. </p><p>If you're buying it as a gift, we'll send out a card to the recipient with a handwritten message. </p><figure class="table" style="width:100%;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr>
<td><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/f5fdbbdc5ee5174922cc452065f01a8eebdc706f/original/rene-4161-bw.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></td>
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</tr></tbody></table></figure><p>We can cover guitar technique, composition/songwriting, or any other aspect of music you like. Or if you prefer you can send me a video of your music-making in advance, and I'll decide what I think you need to know.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/lessons" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Lessons" contents=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/ce88ff6ba2af6de1de2a0db2e02ec3c47d51e56e/original/book-now-grey-pill-wesbite-buy-link-button.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">Numbers are very limited so please book soon. </p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/70820402022-10-28T15:00:00+01:002022-11-02T23:14:52+00:00Full Concert Video - Watch now<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="crCAitzWRXg" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/crCAitzWRXg/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/crCAitzWRXg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe><br>Video link: <a contents="https://youtu.be/crCAitzWRXg" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/crCAitzWRXg" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/crCAitzWRXg</a></p>
<p>My performance at this year's <a contents="Montreux International Guitar Show" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.migs.ch/" target="_blank">Montreux International Guitar Show</a> was captured in 4k, with HD sound. The lighting design was particularly awesome. And you can watch the whole thing, now, free. Pretty cool. Towards the end I duetted with brilliant local guitarist <a contents="Vincent Schmidt" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.vincentschmidt.ch/" target="_blank">Vincent Schmidt</a> (I first met Vincent at Thomas Leeb's guitar bootcamp, and since then he wrote his thesis on fingerstyle arrangement, using my version of Ain't Nobody as his example. Always nice to be academically analysed, I guess?) Anyway. ENJOY THE SHOW. </p>
<p>Thanks to MIGS founders Emmanuel Cottier & David Rosset and lighting designer Steve Wary. <br><br>Gear used (with affiliate links, so I get a small percentage if you buy them):</p>
<ul> <li> <p><strong>Ibanez JGM10 signature model guitar</strong><br> UK / EU: <a contents="http://bit.ly/JGM10UK" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/JGM10UK" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/JGM10UK</a> <br> US: <a contents="https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14436046" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14436046" target="_blank">https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14436046</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Blackstar Sonnet 60 acoustic amplifier </strong><br> USA: h<a contents="ttps://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14450953" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14436046" target="_blank">ttps://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14450953</a> <br> UK / EU: <a contents="http://bit.ly/SonnetJG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/SonnetJG" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/SonnetJG</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Fishman Rare Earth Blend pickup system </strong><br> USA: <a contents="https://www.jdoqocy.com/click-100195279-14450955" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.jdoqocy.com/click-100195279-14450955" target="_blank">https://www.jdoqocy.com/click-100195279-14450955</a> <br> UK / EU: <a contents="http://bit.ly/REBLendJG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/REBLendJG" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/REBLendJG</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Boss OC-5 octave pedal</strong><br> USA: <a contents="https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14450957" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14450957" target="_blank">https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14450957</a> <br> UK / EU: <a contents="http://bit.ly/OctaveJG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/OctaveJG" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/OctaveJG</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Zoom MS70CDR Multistomp effects pedal (for special reverbs and delays)</strong><br> USA: <a contents="https://www.jdoqocy.com/click-100195279-14450958" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.jdoqocy.com/click-100195279-14450958" target="_blank">https://www.jdoqocy.com/click-100195279-14450958</a> <br> UK / EU: <a contents="http://bit.ly/MS70CDRJG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/MS70CDRJG" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/MS70CDRJG</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Newtone Jon Gomm signature guitar strings </strong><br> <a contents="https://bit.ly/StringsJG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/StringsJG" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/StringsJG</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Sennheiser E965 vocal mic </strong><br> <a contents="https://www.thomann.de/gb/sennheiser_e_965.htm?offid=1&amp;affid=574" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.thomann.de/gb/sennheiser_e_965.htm?offid=1&affid=574" target="_blank">https://www.thomann.de/gb/sennheiser_e_965.htm?offid=1&affid=574</a></p> </li> <li> <p><strong>TC-Helicon Voicelive 3 guitar & vocal multi-effects pedal </strong><br> <a contents="https://bit.ly/36wT06T" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/36wT06T" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/36wT06T</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><strong>MOTU Ultralite AVB mixer/interface </strong><br> <a contents="https://bit.ly/MotuJG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/MotuJG" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/MotuJG</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Klotz Cables</strong><br> </p> </li>
</ul>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/70817572022-10-14T23:41:42+01:002022-10-15T17:07:22+01:00New Black Edition vinyl of The Faintest Idea<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="DHgneExpnf8" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/DHgneExpnf8/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DHgneExpnf8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>Now with the entirety of The Faintest Idea fit onto just one disc, and in a striking new black cover. With Lee Zimmerman's beautiful artwork, full song lyrics, and liner notes. <br><br>Available signed (don't worry, I've got a white pen!) from <a contents="my web store" data-link-label="New album The Faintest Idea" data-link-type="page" href="/new-album-the-faintest-idea"><strong>my web store</strong></a>, and from merch tables at my gigs. But only WHILE STOCKS LAST! <br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/9dac42fd8da2c1b3ea6ead0a162a41cb2290944b/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/70820302022-10-13T15:30:00+01:002022-10-15T15:24:33+01:00New Merch: Passionflower Tote Bags<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="bzeabsxvOAQ" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/bzeabsxvOAQ/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bzeabsxvOAQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>Your eco reusable shopping bag, in black ethical cotton with the Passionflower artwork screen-printed on one side, and the lyrics on the other. Perfectly fits a vinyl album. Or a human head...</p>
<p>Available now <a contents="on the merch page" data-link-label="Merch: Clothes / Accessories / Art" data-link-type="page" href="/merch-clothes-accessories-art">on the merch page</a>.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/9dac42fd8da2c1b3ea6ead0a162a41cb2290944b/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/69817792022-05-28T10:49:40+01:002022-05-28T12:15:02+01:00UK Tour 2022 Announcement<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/e80f4492733887e45a12ddcc9442279cc45ace71/original/ig-jon-gomm.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br>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 nice noise and move my hands on my guitar in confusing ways and try to make you laugh and cry. </p>
<p><span class="font_xl">TICKET LINKS: </span></p>
<p><strong>Oct 07 LEEDS</strong><br><a contents="https://oldwoollen.co.uk/event/4519799/586008360/jon-gomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://oldwoollen.co.uk/event/4519799/586008360/jon-gomm" target="_blank">https://oldwoollen.co.uk/event/4519799/586008360/jon-gomm </a></p>
<p><strong>Oct 29 SALE, Greater Manchester </strong><br><a contents="https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-waterside-15326430/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-waterside-15326430/" target="_blank">https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-waterside-15326430/</a> </p>
<p><strong>Oct 31 GLASGOW </strong><br><a contents="https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-st-lukes-15322608/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-st-lukes-15322608/" target="_blank">https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-st-lukes-15322608/</a> </p>
<p><strong>Nov 05 LIVERPOOL </strong><br><a contents="https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-music-room-at-the-liverpool-philharmonic-15322616/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-music-room-at-the-liverpool-philharmonic-15322616/" target="_blank">https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-music-room-at-the-liverpool-philharmonic-15322616/</a> </p>
<p><strong>Nov 15 LONDON </strong><br><a contents="https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-cecil-sharp-house-15322633/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-cecil-sharp-house-15322633/" target="_blank">https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-cecil-sharp-house-15322633/</a> </p>
<p><strong>Nov 17 MILTON KEYNES </strong><br><a contents="https://stables.org/event/jon-gomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://stables.org/event/jon-gomm" target="_blank">https://stables.org/event/jon-gomm</a> </p>
<p><strong>Nov 18 BIRMINGHAM </strong><br><a contents="https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-mac-15322637/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-mac-15322637/" target="_blank">https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-mac-15322637/</a> </p>
<p><strong>Dec 2 SELBY, North Yorkshire </strong><br><a contents="https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-selby-town-hall-15322639/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-selby-town-hall-15322639/" target="_blank">https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/jon-gomm-selby-town-hall-15322639/</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Please tell your clan / kin / colleagues / congregations.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/8ff8f16e1d145c6e4b440369e6c93ada15778901/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/69695132022-05-18T07:20:00+01:002022-05-18T07:20:01+01:00Join In With Me And Win A Private Concert<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">JOIN IN WITH ME AND WIN A PRIVATE CONCERT</span></p>
<p>Sing or play along with <a contents="Song For A Rainy Day" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iT0EqlX_18" target="_blank"><em>Song For A Rainy Day</em></a>, and I'll play a gig just for you (and any friends you want to invite), or if you prefer I'll give you a one-to-one guitar lesson, or we can even just chat if you want. No musical ability is necessary, but if you do want to learn the song then there's full Tab and a simple chord/lyrics sheet, both available for free or Pay What You Want. (Anything you choose to donate will go to <a contents="The Swan Song Project" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/swan-song-project" target="_blank">The Swan Song Project</a>). Everything you need to know is at <strong><a contents="https://jongomm.com/rain" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/rain" target="_blank">https://jongomm.com/rain</a> </strong></p>
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width:85%;"><tbody> <tr> <td> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">HOW TO ENTER</span> </strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="font_large">1. </span>Download the lyrics / chords / guitar Tab (whichever you need) from <a contents="here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/rain" target="_blank">here</a>.</strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="font_large">2.</span> Make a video or audio recording of you singing/playing some or all of Song For A Rainy Day. Don't worry about the quality! Phone is fine. You can do it on your own, or with friends, or play my or Jonny's version in the background. </strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="font_large">3. </span>Upload it somewhere (youtube, facebook, insta, soundcloud, etc), with the hashtag #swansongproject. </strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="font_large">4. </span>Fill in the short form <a contents="here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/rain" target="_blank">here</a> to enter it into the competition</strong></p> </td> </tr>
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<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/rain" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/12917b1874fe36f5938742ecb18494c51eb9780c/original/img-20220512-095349-964.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/ca3432ff57dc9345e4b7da20a952e1b37031ed07/original/grey-pill-wesbite-join-in-link-button.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>My friend Jonny Walker (1980-2018) lived for bringing people together, whether he was busking in the streets or live-streaming. It'd be incredibly emotional for the thousands of people who loved him to see you express yourself with his song. </p>
<p>I have no idea how I'm going to choose a winner. Maybe I'll just pick one at random. So just do it however you want to.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/8ff8f16e1d145c6e4b440369e6c93ada15778901/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/69695102022-05-18T07:15:00+01:002022-05-20T11:49:27+01:00New video: Song For A Rainy Day<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">NEW VIDEO: SONG FOR A RAINY DAY</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iT0EqlX_18" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/2bc53780576f49a7f07e03eaa964110db177d41e/original/sfard-video-thumbnail-with-logos-and-play-button.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><span class="font_small">Video link: <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iT0EqlX_18" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iT0EqlX_18" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iT0EqlX_18</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">This song was written by my beloved friend Jonny Walker, whose death in 2018 cracked me open and let in the light.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>JOIN IN WITH THIS SONG AND WIN A PRIVATE CONCERT</strong></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/rain" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/ca3432ff57dc9345e4b7da20a952e1b37031ed07/original/grey-pill-wesbite-join-in-link-button.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="" style="text-align: center;" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sing or play along with <em>Song For A Rainy Day</em>, and I'll play a gig just for you (and any friends you want to invite), or if you prefer I'll give you a one-to-one guitar lesson, or we can even just chat if you want. No musical ability is necessary, but if you do want to learn the song on guitar then there's full Tab and a simple chord/lyrics sheet, both available for free or Pay What You Want. (Anything you choose to donate will go to <a contents="The Swan Song Project" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/swan-song-project" target="_blank">The Swan Song Project</a>). Everything you need to know is at <a contents="https://jongomm.com/rain" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/rain" target="_blank"><strong>https://jongomm.com/rain</strong></a> </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/5882c5e9de6178b501d13d96b005df0c1ff4b56e/original/camden-meet-1062279.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_left border_none" alt="" />A human whirlwind, Jonny Walker seemed to live two days for every one of mine. Performing, activism, and endlessly helping others. He was loved as a street performer for his emotional openness and honesty, which was entirely genuine. You could be feeling down and he'd just knock the wind out of you with a smile that beamed love and optimism. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">He was the most frustrating but rewarding guitar pupil I ever had: Trying to teach him was always like trying to hit a moving target, but what he did with that knowledge was take to the streets and create special moments in people's lives. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">His last 18 months were the most painful and scary I have seen anyone endure, and the strength and kindness Jonny showed throughout were an inspiration to me, but in the end it was too much for him, and he took his own life. I desperately miss the support we gave to each other. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I love you mate. I got the last line from this song tattooed on my left forearm. I wish I could show you.</p>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;">This track is from my album<em> The Faintest Idea</em>: Get it on vinyl, CD or Deluxe 3-disc Book Edition from <a contents="https://jongomm.com/new-album-the-faintest-idea" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/new-album-the-faintest-idea" target="_blank">https://jongomm.com/new-album-the-faintest-idea</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Thanks for watching.<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/8ff8f16e1d145c6e4b440369e6c93ada15778901/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/69721142022-05-16T13:36:52+01:002022-05-16T16:07:08+01:00Online World Tour<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/gig"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/1758dbd932e61bf40ce8e13f7389be462ec392f1/original/online-world-tour-july-2022-4-5-color.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_none" alt="" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><a contents="TICKETS: JONGOMM.COM/GIG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/gig">TICKETS: </a><a contents="JONGOMM.COM/GIG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/gig">JONGOMM.COM/GIG</a></span></p>
<p>It's great to be back to performing, and I feel like my playing and sound are the best they've ever been. But I'm acutely aware that most people still can't get to see my shows, as I can still only travel as far as this unstable world and my unstable brain will let me right now. <br><br>So I'm playing 3 online shows at different times of day to suit different time zones. And I've ostentatiously decided to call it an "Online World Tour" which is ridiculous, but f**k it. <br><br>They'll be streamed live on my website from my studio, with HD sound. You'll need a <a contents="ticket" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/gig">ticket</a>, but they're Pay What You Want (including free).<br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>TUESDAY JULY 12, UTC🌐11:00 </strong><br>ASIA / PACIFIC</span><br>Mumbai 16:30 <br>Jakarta 18:00 <br>Beijing 19:00<br>Tokyo 20:00 <br>Sydney 21:00</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>WEDNESDAY JUL 13, UTC🌐19:00</strong><br>EUROPE / AFRICA</span><br>London 20:00 <br>Berlin 21:00 <br>Cape Town 21:00 <br>Kyiv 22:00</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>THURSDAY JUL 14, UTC🌐23:00</strong><br>NORTH + SOUTH AMERICA</span><br>Pacific Time 16:00 <br>Mountain Time: 17:00 <br>Central Time 18:00<br>Eastern Time 19:00 <br>Rio De Janeiro 20:00</p>
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<p>Send your song requests to me via my <a contents="socials" data-link-label="CONTACT" data-link-type="page" href="/contact">socials</a>. See you there! </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/9dac42fd8da2c1b3ea6ead0a162a41cb2290944b/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/69455172022-04-11T09:31:51+01:002022-04-11T09:31:51+01:00Watch This Beautifully Shot Live Session<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="WuSJQdx57xE" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/WuSJQdx57xE/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WuSJQdx57xE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>I think this video came out ok. It's a live, single take performance, perfectly captured by <a contents="Backlight Sessions" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.instagram.com/backlightsessions" target="_blank">Backlight Sessions</a>.</p>
<p>If you like it, please don't keep it to yourself. </p>
<p>The full session is at <a contents="https://youtu.be/WuSJQdx57xE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/WuSJQdx57xE" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/WuSJQdx57xE</a></p>
<p>I played 3 tunes: Song For A Rainy Day, The Ghost Inside You, and Universal Biology - they sit side by side on my album <a contents="The Faintest Idea" data-link-label="New album The Faintest Idea" data-link-type="page" href="/new-album-the-faintest-idea">The Faintest Idea</a>.</p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/69818032022-04-10T11:00:00+01:002022-05-28T11:38:19+01:00I got an award!<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/11923dd89b5057551bac0203127ac96de95ce405/original/ards-award.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Blown 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 bit tearful to be honest. I'm so grateful to everyone at the festival for chipping away at my insecurity and forcing me to accept that maybe I'm not completely crap. </p>
<p>I told my mum, she said "That'll look nice on my mantelpiece." I told her to win her own f**king award. (Don't panic, that's how we roll, my mum is the best.) <br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/8ff8f16e1d145c6e4b440369e6c93ada15778901/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/69337752022-03-29T08:00:00+01:002022-03-29T08:00:02+01:00I'm Now The Ambassador For An Amazing Charity<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Qe8nAQDtFYQ" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/Qe8nAQDtFYQ/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qe8nAQDtFYQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe><br><span class="font_small">Video link: <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe8nAQDtFYQ" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe8nAQDtFYQ" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe8nAQDtFYQ</a></span></p>
<p>I am honoured to become the 1st ambassador for <a contents="The Swan Song Project" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://swansongproject.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Swan Song Project</a>.<br><br>The Swan Song Project is a unique small charity which helps people who are facing the end of their life to write and record an original song.<br><br>Writing a song in those circumstances is an amazing idea. Sometimes it’s incredibly hard to express things in words or face to face. So being able to put it into that form, that people can then listen to forever, seems to me an incredible way of having a real memory of a person, to help you cope with the fact that they’re not there anymore. <br><br>I was very surprised when they asked me to become their ambassador (<em>"Why me! I am clearly unqualified"</em>), but I'm delighted to pledge my support to them, and grateful for the chance to do something good by helping them in their work.<br><br>For more information about The Swan Song Project please visit <a contents="www.swansongproject.co.uk" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://swansongproject.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.swansongproject.co.uk</a></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://swansongproject.co.uk/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/bd0ec5f9ed7ffb222ff24485cb1cef19ec241299/original/the-swan-song-project-logo-transparent-small.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></a></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/69247862022-03-17T16:26:22+00:002022-03-17T17:01:46+00:00Germany Tour 2022<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/JonGommLive2022" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/296c6b410c9a6e39a931b8ff1c7cd4a98a12438e/original/0969-jon-gomm-fb-event-1920x1005-02.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>Deutschland! Ich komme zu dir. Es ist zu lange her, aber selbst Brexit, Pandemie und Krieg werden uns nicht voneinander trennen. Bitte informieren Sie Ihre Freunde / Kollegen / Familien / Haustiere / Mitinsassen. </p>
<p>Germany! I am coming to you. It's been too long, but even Brexit, pandemic & war will not keep us apart. Please tell your friends / colleagues / families / pets / fellow inmates.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>J O N G O M M<br>G E R M A N Y 2 0 2 2</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">9th/10th September - <a contents="Mannheim - Guitar Summit" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/JonGommMannheim2022"><strong>Mannheim </strong>- Guitar Summit</a><br>Tue 13th September - <a contents="Hamburg - Imperial Theater" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/JonGommHamburg2022"><strong>Hamburg </strong>- Imperial Theater</a> <br>Wed 14th September - <a contents="Essen - Zeche Carl" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/JonGommEssen2022"><strong>Essen </strong>- Zeche Carl</a> <br>Fri 16th September - <a contents="Freiburg - Jazzhaus" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/JonGommFreiburg2022"><strong>Freiburg </strong>- Jazzhaus</a> <br>Sat 17th September - <a contents="Frankfurt - Brotfabrik" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/JonGommFrankfurt2022" target="_blank"><strong>Frankfurt </strong>- Brotfabrik</a> <br>Sun 18th September - <a contents="Cologne - Stadtgarten" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/JonGommCologne2022"><strong>Cologne </strong>- Stadtgarten</a> <br>Tue 20th September - <a contents="Leipzig - Werk2" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/JonGommLeipzig2022"><strong>Leipzig </strong>- Werk2</a> <br>Wed 21st September - <a contents="Dresden - Jazzclub Tonne" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/JonGommDresden2022"><strong>Dresden </strong>- Jazzclub Tonne</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Tickets: <a contents="https://bit.ly/JonGommLive2022" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/JonGommLive2022">https://bit.ly/JonGommLive2022</a></strong></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/68842632022-01-31T11:08:13+00:002022-01-31T11:08:13+00:00Introducing the Ibanez JGM5<p>Please ask me anything you want to know about it, but here's the basics on the <a contents="Ibanez JGM5" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.ibanez.com/eu/products/model/jgm/" target="_blank">Ibanez JGM5</a>: About half the price of the JGM10 but with all the playability and key features - including the unique triple-pickup system with its flexible simple mono, split stereo or full triple outputs. This was the dream: An accessible, affordable guitar tailored for percussive fingerstyle. You get 20 years of my research and testing, straight out of the case. I did my best.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ZoihrgJJdXg" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZoihrgJJdXg/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZoihrgJJdXg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe><br><span class="font_small">Video link: <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoihrgJJdXg" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoihrgJJdXg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoihrgJJdXg</a></span></p>
<p>Ask your questions (or read other people's) at <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/jongommofficial/videos/465993368457090/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/jongommofficial/videos/465993368457090/">https://www.facebook.com/jongommofficial/videos/465993368457090/</a></p>
<p>I also wrote a full expo on the JGM10, which you can read here: <a contents="https://jongomm.com/guitar" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/guitar">https://jongomm.com/guitar</a> The main differences with the JGM5, are that it has laminated Pau Ferro back and sides, and the finish is different (don't ask me how, but it feels a little different). The scale length and all other dimensions (body, neck, bridge, etc) and the pickup system are the same. So it's just as easy to play, and the amplified sound is very (very!) similar.</p>
<p>I hope you get to try one of these guitars in a store near you some time. Let me know what you think! I love it, obviously. <br><br>jg x</p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/68214102021-11-25T20:36:52+00:002021-11-26T09:52:27+00:00Original Handwritten Lyric Sheets Available For Limited Time<p>For this holiday season, I'm making available one-of-a-kind custom handwritten lyric sheets for any of my songs.</p>
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width: 100%;"><tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/73d10bd677735aaf353d13defee740874a2c134c/original/handwritten-lyics-examples.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/6937429d607ba776be7fc15c8a4d45e0f68bb7db/original/handwritten-lyics-passionflower.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="" /></td> <td><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/40568f18409bb33abe92de6013992436d4698461/original/handwritten-lyics-deep-sea-fishes.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="" /></td> </tr>
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<p>On very lovely paper in my best handwriting, with doodles. Each sheet will be different, and I'm happy to add personal dedications. Numbers very limited (for obvious reasons), first come first served.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/merch-clothes-picks-strings-art"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/03494dfea79ca2f4aa71ace200536c1c02f58d60/original/buy-now-button-tiny.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="" /></a><a contents="https://jongomm.com/merch-clothes-picks-strings-art&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/merch-clothes-picks-strings-art">https://jongomm.com/merch-clothes-picks-strings-art</a></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/67323012021-09-02T10:00:00+01:002021-09-02T10:00:14+01:00New song video up: 'Swallow You Whole'<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="2JpM3qL6xr4" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/2JpM3qL6xr4/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2JpM3qL6xr4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>This song is weird. It's my attempt at the calm frenzy and cold warmth of Drum & Bass. The lyrics are about being consumed by need. This music captures how weird I feel, all of the time. Always somehow chasing and fleeing at the same time. <br><br>You can support my music by sharing the video with your friends, on <a contents="youtube" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JpM3qL6xr4" target="_blank">youtube</a> or on <a contents="facebook" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3062685580627106" target="_blank">facebook</a>. Or you can support me even more by buying stuff: </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The guitar tab for Swallow You Whole comes with detailed performance notes all written by me - <a contents="It's a complete lesson for learning this guitar tapping extravaganza." data-link-label="Guitar Tabs" data-link-type="page" href="/guitar-tabs">It's a complete lesson for learning this guitar tapping extravaganza.</a></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="Guitar Tabs" data-link-type="page" href="/guitar-tabs"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/0b0698db6987130dc447d81b928253294c789f77/original/grey-pill-wesbite-buy-tab-button.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="" style="text-align: center;" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br>The album the song is from - The Faintest Idea - <a contents="is out on CD, Vinyl and Deluxe Book." data-link-label="New album The Faintest Idea" data-link-type="page" href="/new-album-the-faintest-idea">is out on CD, Vinyl and Deluxe Book.</a></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="New album The Faintest Idea" data-link-type="page" href="/new-album-the-faintest-idea"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/7da2ac4879b280adf7597e7102c7cbc5e9b4dcb5/original/grey-pill-wesbite-the-music-link-button.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="" style="text-align: center;" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br>Even the guitar I'm using - the new Ibanez JGM - <a contents="is out now too." data-link-label="guitar" data-link-type="page" href="/guitar">is out now too.</a></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="guitar" data-link-type="page" href="/guitar" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/7cbcbf56538df190849fd2afb0861d6e8727fb4e/original/grey-pill-wesbite-guitar-info-link-button.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="" style="text-align: center;" /></a></p>
<p><br>I hope you liked this strange song, but if you didn't that's probably not your fault. My heartfelt thanks to you for listening. <br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/029586910e84aefd3e8e7a74e475b86b639a1062/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/67317332021-08-31T09:17:51+01:002021-08-31T10:03:11+01:00New Passionflower 10th Anniversary T-shirt<p><a contents="Pre-orders now open" data-link-label="Merch: Clothes / Picks / Strings / Art" data-link-type="page" href="/merch-clothes-picks-strings-art"><strong>Pre-orders now open</strong></a> (for two weeks only) for this special Passionflower 10th Anniversary T-shirt. </p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/merch-clothes-picks-strings-art"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/0bc9e757081682998a65febba2af87a09dea5f6a/original/passionflower-t-shirt-blog.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a>Organic cotton unisex tee in Vintage White, made sustainably & ethically by Stanley/Stella. With my original Passionflower artwork on the front and hand-written lyrics on the back, all screen printed in Vintage Black ink by Shirty Something. Sizes 2XS to 3XL. <br><br>Pre-order now at <strong><a contents="https://jongomm.com/merch-clothes-picks-strings-art" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/merch-clothes-picks-strings-art">https://jongomm.com/merch-clothes-picks-strings-art</a></strong> </p>
<p>It'll look better on you.<br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/029586910e84aefd3e8e7a74e475b86b639a1062/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/67119832021-08-10T11:25:43+01:002021-08-26T16:37:30+01:00"Secrets" Album Reissue - Passionflower 10th Anniversary <p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://burningshed.com/jon-gomm_secrets-nobody-keeps_cd" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/2eca748441e980880b2b0daefced4eb07e1c9076/original/inkedkscope717-4pp-digipack-tube-pocket-guides-li.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>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 emotionally in ways I never thought possible. That connection was hard to accept, but it has given my life meaning, and given my music purpose. </p>
<p>To mark the date, Kscope are releasing a reissue of <em>Secrets Nobody Keeps</em> on CD, with updated cover art, liner notes and photos, and the updated version of Passionflower as a bonus track. </p>
<p><strong>You can Pre-order it now from </strong><a contents="▷ https://jongomm.lnk.to/SecretsNobodyKeeps&nbsp;◁" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.lnk.to/SecretsNobodyKeeps">▷<strong> https://jongomm.lnk.to/SecretsNobodyKeeps </strong>◁</a></p>
<p><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/029586910e84aefd3e8e7a74e475b86b639a1062/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_left border_none" alt="" /></strong></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/67053762021-08-03T11:31:52+01:002021-08-03T14:39:52+01:00Competition - Win guitar gear from Fishman<p>How would you describe the sound of my guitar in two words? <br><br>Go watch my new video on either my <a contents="Facebook" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/jongommofficial/posts/432012294950035" target="_blank"><strong>Facebook</strong></a> or <strong><a contents="Instagram" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CSG0DvvqqRT/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> </strong>and post your two-word description in the comments. <br> </p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/jongommofficial/posts/432012294950035" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/a4d5123cd5df6e6abfc37689e072acf8b1fa2c19/original/competiton-video-thumb.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p><br>I'll pick my 5 favourite answers, and each person will get all of this stuff: </p>
<ul> <li>A <strong><a contents="Fishman" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.fishman.com/" target="_blank">Fishman</a> Powertap Earth</strong> pickup (a dual source system combining the same soundhole pickup and body sensor as inside my new guitar, which is why you can hear the notes and the drum hits all so clearly)</li> <li>A <strong>Fishman Platinum acoustic guitar preamp</strong> to make it sound even lovelier</li> <li>A <strong>signed Deluxe Book/DVD/2-CD Edition</strong> of my album <a contents="The Faintest Idea" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea" target="_blank"><em>The Faintest Idea</em></a>
</li> <li>A <strong>Fishman T-shirt</strong> and <strong>luggage tag</strong>.<br> </li>
</ul>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/8a647961bb06944dcdb24c88b187754cd59a28a0/original/jon-gomm-fishman-competition.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_none" alt="" /><br>Crikey, that is quite the bundle. Good luck! <br><br>P.S. If you're not on those social platforms, don't worry, you can email me your answer via the <a contents="Contact page" data-link-label="CONTACT" data-link-type="page" href="/contact">Contact page</a>.<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/9dac42fd8da2c1b3ea6ead0a162a41cb2290944b/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/66878342021-07-22T08:15:00+01:002021-07-22T08:20:03+01:00New video - Butterfly Hurricane - out today<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="BqFNey-u_aw" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/BqFNey-u_aw/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BqFNey-u_aw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>Today is a Jon-Gomm-Has-A-New-Video day. The full video for <em>Butterfly Hurricane</em> is now up at: </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">▷ <strong><a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqFNey-u_aw" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqFNey-u_aw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqFNey-u_aw</a></strong> ◁</span></p>
<p>I came from a tiny community of weirdos, huddled together in dark, loud nightclubs, in a freak of a town. When I moved to the big city, and was suddenly buffeted in immense clouds of faceless people and traffic, it was really scary. Every face I saw, whether static, opposite me on the train, or smearing past in a millisecond from the window - I was acutely aware that they were all someone I would never know. Feeling isolated, but aware of so many lives, all affecting each other in unknowable ways. That’s what this song is about.</p>
<p>Featuring the stunning production/synths of <a contents="Andy Sorenson - https://www.andysorenson.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.andysorenson.com" target="_blank">Andy Sorenson - https://www.andysorenson.com</a> (Thanks for making my music beautiful.) </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/7da2ac4879b280adf7597e7102c7cbc5e9b4dcb5/original/grey-pill-wesbite-the-music-link-button.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_none border_none" alt="" /></a><br>Butterfly Hurricane is from the album The Faintest Idea. Stream or buy CD/Vinyl/Deluxe Edition book at <a contents="https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea" target="_blank">https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea</a> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/0b0698db6987130dc447d81b928253294c789f77/original/grey-pill-wesbite-buy-tab-button.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_none border_none" alt="" /></a><br>Guitar Tab with simple explainers for every technique: <a contents="https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs">https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs</a> <br>This is one of my easiest songs to play, and a great place to start with percussive guitar. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/guitar"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/7cbcbf56538df190849fd2afb0861d6e8727fb4e/original/grey-pill-wesbite-guitar-info-link-button.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_none border_none" alt="" /></a><br>Played on my Ibanez JGM10 guitar: <a contents="https://jongomm.com/guitar" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/guitar">https://jongomm.com/guitar</a></p>
<p><br>Thanks for listening, watching and perhaps even sending this song to somebody. Please stay safe over the coming weeks as we crush this pandemic and rediscover life. My next video will be along soon.<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/9dac42fd8da2c1b3ea6ead0a162a41cb2290944b/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_none border_none" alt="" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/66655022021-06-29T07:35:00+01:002021-06-29T10:04:59+01:00Support acts wanted<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/936fcb4757664ce04cf7b7c8dd7f50a8009a86c5/original/2021-uk-tfi-tour-flyer-supports-wanted.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_none" alt="" /><br><br>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). </p>
<p>If you'd like to support me:</p>
<ol> <li>Please <strong>post a video of your endeavours to the facebook event page (links below).</strong>
</li> <li>If you invite people to head over there and like your post, it'll get bumped to the top of the list. Then I'll watch as many as I can, starting with the most liked posts. </li>
</ol>
<p><em>Small-print: Please only apply for one gig, the closest one to where you are based (to keep it fair). The final decision, and any subsequent arrangements/agreements, for any and all support bookings rests with the promoter of each show. </em><br> </p>
<h3><span style="color:#bdc3c7;"><span class="font_large"><strong>THE FAINTEST IDEA TOUR 2021</strong></span></span></h3>
<p>Oct 01 - Academy 2, <strong>DUBLIN</strong>, Ireland <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/UO843fPt" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/UO843fPt" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/UO843fPt</a> </p>
<p>Oct 08 - Haverhill Arts Centre, <strong>HAVERHILL</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/1ns4BmSCZ" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/1ns4BmSCZ" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/1ns4BmSCZ</a></p>
<p>Oct 09 - Hare & Hounds, <strong>BIRMINGHAM</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/4UHtUuYlr" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/4UHtUuYlr" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/4UHtUuYlr</a> </p>
<p>Oct 10 - The Crescent, <strong>YORK</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/1As9CBqZS" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/1As9CBqZS" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/1As9CBqZS</a> </p>
<p>Oct 15 - Emmanuel's Yard, <strong>TROWBRIDGE</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/3K3fYvL1y" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/3K3fYvL1y" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/3K3fYvL1y</a> </p>
<p>Oct 16 - Sin City , <strong>SWANSEA</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/1bRPpkOn1" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/1bRPpkOn1" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/1bRPpkOn1</a> </p>
<p>Oct 17 - The Globe, <strong>CARDIFF</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/1aDyt7rrM" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/1aDyt7rrM" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/1aDyt7rrM</a> </p>
<p>Oct 21 - Thekla, <strong>BRISTOL</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/1u5ZRVEQt" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/1u5ZRVEQt" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/1u5ZRVEQt</a> </p>
<p>Oct 22 - Craufurd Arms, <strong>MILTON KEYNES</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/2hi1DmAmo" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/2hi1DmAmo" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/2hi1DmAmo</a> </p>
<p>Oct 23 - Rescue Rooms, <strong>NOTTINGHAM</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/L3nPfERR" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/L3nPfERR" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/L3nPfERR</a> </p>
<p>Oct 29 - The Parish, <strong>HUDDERSFIELD</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/6R1Uo5YcR&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/6R1Uo5YcR" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/6R1Uo5YcR</a></p>
<p>Oct 30 - Òran Mór, <strong>GLASGOW</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/BM4qzytN" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/BM4qzytN" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/BM4qzytN</a> </p>
<p>Oct 31 - The Cluny, <strong>NEWCASTLE</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/15gbnMxVM" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/15gbnMxVM" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/15gbnMxVM</a> </p>
<p>Nov 04 - Leaf, <strong>LIVERPOOL</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/1GuyVwXrC" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/1GuyVwXrC" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/1GuyVwXrC</a> </p>
<p>Nov 05 - Bootleg Social, <strong>BLACKPOOL</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/9G4ZoOEmc" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/9G4ZoOEmc" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/9G4ZoOEmc</a> </p>
<p>Nov 06 - The Ferret, <strong>PRESTON</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/2itwxEfNl" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/2itwxEfNl" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/2itwxEfNl</a> </p>
<p>Nov 13 - The Boileroom, <strong>GUILDFORD</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/PSz1rRS8" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/PSz1rRS8" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/PSz1rRS8</a> </p>
<p>Nov 14 - The Joiners, <strong>SOUTHAMPTON</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/CGqar5Vy" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/CGqar5Vy" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/CGqar5Vy</a> </p>
<p>Nov 15 - Komedia , <strong>BRIGHTON</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/W7201ZZN" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/W7201ZZN" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/W7201ZZN</a> </p>
<p>Nov 27 - Bush Hall, <strong>LONDON</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/1cmlB3x4p" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/1cmlB3x4p" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/1cmlB3x4p</a> </p>
<p>Dec 04 - The Bread Shed, <strong>MANCHESTER</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/UDZOAuwV" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/UDZOAuwV" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/UDZOAuwV</a> </p>
<p>Dec 05 - Brudenell Social Club, <strong>LEEDS</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/hFJz4pkO5" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/hFJz4pkO5" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/hFJz4pkO5</a> </p>
<p>Dec 16 - The Brindley, <strong>RUNCORN</strong>, UK <br>▷ <a contents="https://fb.me/e/Z9tREDxH" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/Z9tREDxH" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/Z9tREDxH</a> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>OK, I look forward to hearing everyone's doings! Thanks for taking an interest and good luck to everyone in our totally ridiculous, totally vital industry. </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/9dac42fd8da2c1b3ea6ead0a162a41cb2290944b/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<div id="gtx-trans" style="position: absolute; left: -61px; top: 234.6px;"><div class="gtx-trans-icon"> </div></div>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/66541302021-06-10T07:31:12+01:002021-06-10T07:31:12+01:00New instrumental fingerstyle guitar video. (Plus competition, news)<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="VmDcXQfel5I" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/VmDcXQfel5I/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VmDcXQfel5I?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>If you head over and comment on the video at <strong><a contents="youtube" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmDcXQfel5I" style="" target="_blank">youtube</a></strong> or <strong><a contents="facebook" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/jongommofficial/videos/478128569958042" target="_blank">facebook</a></strong> (and please share it while you're there), you could be one of 3 people who will each win this bundle of stuff: A signed Deluxe album/book, a G7th Newport Capo, a set of my signature Newtone strings, and a tuner, T-shirt and luggage tag from Fishman. </p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">CHECK YOU'RE STILL BREATHING</h2>
<p>Nobody tells you before you have a newborn child that they sometimes stop breathing for a few seconds while they are asleep. You don’t even realise you were listening to them sleep, until you notice the silence with a rising panic. You wait for the next inhale, and the wave of relief it brings. </p>
<p>But soon inevitably you’re captivated by the peaceful perfection of your sleeping child. Until you notice another silent stillness... Oh no, the breathing has stopped again. But this time - It’s you. </p>
<hr><p><a contents="" data-link-label="Guitar Tabs" data-link-type="page" href="/guitar-tabs"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/0b0698db6987130dc447d81b928253294c789f77/original/grey-pill-wesbite-buy-tab-button.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="" style="text-align: center;" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Get the guitar tab for <em>Check You're Still Breathing</em> at <a contents="https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs">https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs</a> </p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/7da2ac4879b280adf7597e7102c7cbc5e9b4dcb5/original/grey-pill-wesbite-the-music-link-button.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="" style="text-align: center;" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">From my latest album <em>The Faintest Idea</em>, described by Steve Lukather (Toto) as “Maybe the best thing I've heard in years". Listen or buy vinyl, CD and Deluxe Edition book/DVD version at <a contents="https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea" target="_blank">https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea</a> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/guitar" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/7cbcbf56538df190849fd2afb0861d6e8727fb4e/original/grey-pill-wesbite-guitar-info-link-button.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="" /></a>Get more info on the Ibanez JGM10 guitar at <a contents="https://jongomm.com/guitar" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/guitar">https://jongomm.com/guitar</a> </p>
<hr><p>Meanwhile, I'm just getting back into practising as my voice is recovering. I'm trying really hard to be patient with myself. After all this time, the UK tour feels like a mirage in the desert. <a contents="Please make it real with me, if you can be there." data-link-label="SHOWS" data-link-type="page" href="/shows">Please make it real with me, if you can be there.</a> <a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/jongommofficial/posts/5922133377798479" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/37996eeb7bd06447e7b38337a61f79eefabb638f/original/leeds-museum-newspaper-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_thin" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>By the way, I had a nice experience recently when <a contents="Leeds City Museum asked to acquire one of my new signature model guitars" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CPkqX3unKPv/" target="_blank">Leeds City Museum asked to acquire one of my new signature model guitars</a> for their permanent collection. It's on display already in their Sounds Of Our City exhibition, alongside antique instruments and memorabilia from other Leeds musicians and bands through the ages. It feels like a huge honour for me, especially to feel so accepted as being kind of "officially adopted" by the city where I built my music career. </p>
<p>More videos are coming soon: The next one is - for me - all about the beautiful synth soundscaping of producer <a contents="Andy Sorenson" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.andysorenson.com/" target="_blank">Andy Sorenson</a> and I love it a lot. It's nearly ready. You can sign up to my mailing list to be totally sure of not missing it, if you want. </p>
<p>Thanks for reading / giving a f**k. 🤍 <br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/029586910e84aefd3e8e7a74e475b86b639a1062/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
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<p> </p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/66112142021-04-29T07:30:00+01:002021-04-29T07:40:03+01:00Until The Sun Destroys The Earth<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="vknKFaWzr0k" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/vknKFaWzr0k/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vknKFaWzr0k?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>My apocalyptic love song from the album <em>The Faintest Idea.</em> If you wrote a love song like this, who (or what) would you dedicate it to? <strong><a contents="Tell me via socials or email" data-link-label="CONTACT" data-link-type="page" href="/contact">Tell me via socials or email</a></strong>, and I’ll pick one answer and give you a signed CD and a private video chat with me (if you want such a thing. I talk a lot.)</p>
<ul> <li>Listen or buy vinyl, CD and Deluxe Edition book/DVD version at <a contents="https://jongomm.com/new-album-the-faintest-idea" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/new-album-the-faintest-idea">https://jongomm.com/new-album-the-faintest-idea</a> </li> <li>Guitar Tab from <a contents="https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs">https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs</a>
</li> <li>Donate so I can keep making music/videos at <a contents="https://jongomm.com/donate" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/donate">https://jongomm.com/donate</a> </li>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">UNTIL THE SUN DESTROYS THE EARTH</h2>
<p>Once, I was sitting in the balcony of a theatre, waiting for a concert to start. Up there you’re near the spotlights, and I was watching the dust particles glowing and flurrying in the hot white beam, and it looked to me like a galaxy but almost infinitely sped up. Each second was a million years. </p>
<p>And I thought of the moments I yearn to make last a million years, the moments of closest, breath-swapping intimacy, the dropping of your ultimate defences, with the one you love. </p>
<p>To take that small, fleeting moment and make it vast and enduring. That’s what that song is for. </p>
<p>For Natasha. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Played on my new <a contents="Ibanez JGM10 signature model guitar" data-link-label="guitar" data-link-type="page" href="/guitar">Ibanez JGM10 signature model guitar</a> - Pre-order UK / EU: <a contents="http://bit.ly/JGM10UK" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/JGM10UK" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/JGM10UK</a> <br>Pre-order US: <a contents="https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14436046" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14436046" target="_blank">https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14436046</a> <br> </p>
<hr><p><br><a contents="I've got a poorly throat at the moment" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CNXUzTNHMNB/" target="_blank">I've got a poorly throat at the moment</a>, so I'm doing some #lockdownDIY refurbing my little studio while it heals up ready for the painfully-delayed <strong><a contents="album launch tour" data-link-label="SHOWS" data-link-type="page" href="/shows" style="">album launch tour</a></strong>, but I already have more videos being prepped for release. You should <a contents="sign up for my mailing list" data-link-label="CONTACT" data-link-type="page" href="/contact">sign up for my newsletter</a> if you don't want to miss them. <br><br>Thank you as always for listening, watching, giving me a passing thought, or sharing my work with others. 🤍<br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/9dac42fd8da2c1b3ea6ead0a162a41cb2290944b/original/jg-initials-transparent-white.png/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/65317032021-02-02T15:53:22+00:002021-02-23T11:44:21+00:00The Ghost Inside You - new video<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-9GRnsPo0iE" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/-9GRnsPo0iE/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-9GRnsPo0iE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe><br>Watch on youtube (please share too): <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9GRnsPo0iE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9GRnsPo0iE" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9GRnsPo0iE</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Listen on Spotify: <a contents="https://sptfy.com/jongomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sptfy.com/jongomm" target="_blank">https://sptfy.com/jongomm</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>From the album <em>The Faintest Idea </em>: Vinyl / CD / T-shirt / Deluxe Edition Book/DVD at <a contents="https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/new-album-the-faintest-idea" target="_blank">https://jongomm.com/new-album-the-faintest-idea</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Guitar Tab with full walkthrough from <a contents="https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs">https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs</a></strong></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<br>THE GHOST INSIDE YOU</h2>
<p>Miscarriage is devastating. So difficult to understand. It’s like grieving in reverse: Instead of memories, you have hopes to hold on to. Who are you mourning? </p>
<p>I believe in a soul - I have to now - in as much as something to represent the difference between being alive, or inert. The force that is at the source of every person, the fundamental burning core. That place inside us where, when we are totally alone and in darkness, we are all the same. And, being the same, never truly alone. </p>
<p>This music was written in a blur after driving home from an abandoned tour in Germany to collapse inward in grief. I'm sorry to everyone I let down then. I can remember the hour or so it took to write only as a single snapshot from outside myself. </p>
<p>It is dedicated with constant love to a life never lived. I wish we’d got to meet you. </p>
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<hr><p> </p>
<p>Here's all the gear I used in creating this music. If you wanna buy any of it, if you use the links below then I get a small commission: </p>
<p><strong>The new Ibanez JGM10 guitar</strong> - Pre-order UK / EU: <a contents="http://bit.ly/JGM10UK" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/JGM10UK" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/JGM10UK</a> <br>Pre-order US: <a contents="https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14436046" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14436046" target="_blank">https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14436046</a> </p>
<p><strong>Blackstar Sonnet 60 acoustic amplifier</strong> <br>USA: <a contents="https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14450953" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14450953" target="_blank">https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14450953</a> <br>UK / EU: <a contents="http://bit.ly/SonnetJG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/SonnetJG" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/SonnetJG</a> </p>
<p><strong>Fishman Rare Earth Blend pickup system </strong> <br>USA: <a contents="https://www.jdoqocy.com/click-100195279-14450955" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.jdoqocy.com/click-100195279-14450955" target="_blank">https://www.jdoqocy.com/click-100195279-14450955</a> <br>UK / EU: <a contents="http://bit.ly/REBLendJG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/REBLendJG" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/REBLendJG</a> </p>
<p><strong>Boss OC-5 octave pedal (for sub-bass) </strong> <br>USA: <a contents="https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14450957" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14450957" target="_blank">https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14450957</a> <br>UK / EU: <a contents="http://bit.ly/OctaveJG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/OctaveJG" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/OctaveJG</a> </p>
<p><strong>Zoom MS70CDR Multistomp effects pedal (for special reverbs and delays) </strong><br>USA: <a contents="https://www.jdoqocy.com/click-100195279-14450958" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.jdoqocy.com/click-100195279-14450958" target="_blank">https://www.jdoqocy.com/click-100195279-14450958</a> <br>UK / EU: <a contents="http://bit.ly/MS70CDRJG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/MS70CDRJG" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/MS70CDRJG</a> </p>
<p><strong>Newtone Jon Gomm signature guitar strings </strong><br><a contents="https://bit.ly/StringsJG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/StringsJG" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/StringsJG</a> </p>
<p><strong>Sontronics SOLO vocal mic </strong><br><a contents="https://bit.ly/SoloMicJG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/SoloMicJG" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/SoloMicJG</a> </p>
<p><strong>TC-Helicon Voicelive 3 guitar & vocal multi-effects pedal </strong><br><a contents="https://bit.ly/36wT06T" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/36wT06T" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/36wT06T</a> </p>
<p><strong>MOTU Ultralite AVB mixer/interface </strong> <br><a contents="https://bit.ly/MotuJG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/MotuJG" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/MotuJG</a> </p>
<p><strong>Klotz cables </strong><br> </p>
<hr><p><br>Video filmed by <a contents="The Samsara Collective" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/samsaracollective/" target="_blank">The Samsara Collective</a> at <a contents="Niamos Radical Arts Theatre" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://niamos.co.uk/" target="_blank">Niamos Radical Arts Theatre</a>, Manchester, England. <br>Synths, effects and production by <a contents="Andy Sorenson" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.andysorenson.com/" target="_blank">Andy Sorenson</a>. <br>Audio mastered by <a contents="Tom Woodhead" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hippocraticmastering.com/" target="_blank">Tom Woodhead</a>. </p>
<p>Kscope records <a contents="https://kscopemusic.com/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://kscopemusic.com/" target="_blank">https://kscopemusic.com/</a> <br>AMF publishing <a contents="http://amfmusicpublishing.com/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://amfmusicpublishing.com/" target="_blank">http://amfmusicpublishing.com/</a></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/65239172021-01-18T13:27:30+00:002021-01-18T13:28:08+00:00Story of the JGM - New Ibanez Jon Gomm signature model guitar<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="QcmecyoZgjo" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/QcmecyoZgjo/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QcmecyoZgjo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe><br><strong>Watch on youtube: <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcmecyoZgjo" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcmecyoZgjo" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcmecyoZgjo</a> </strong></p>
<p>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. <br><br>I literally drew body shape concepts, and supplied pages and pages of ideas for the first meeting, when they flew in from Japan to Saltaire, the village in Yorkshire where I live. They never once asked me to compromise on anything, except when my ideas broke the laws of physics (pesky laws)<br><br>There's loads more information about the guitar - design, woods, pickups and all specs - at the link below. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="guitar" data-link-type="page" href="/guitar"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/456ab380a3426711e8320df68f2c1f1b0a5a8660/original/grey-pill-wesbite-more-info-and-preorder-button.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></a></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/65007852020-12-16T16:59:19+00:002020-12-16T17:16:10+00:00So, apparently I officially don't suck.<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/756e04b19eea474246f961315b0d243e6b472ca1/original/musicradar-best-acoustic-2020-winner.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_thin" alt="" /></p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>By far the best thing about recognition like this is the pride it might bring to anyone who cares about me. So, <strong><span class="font_large">thanks </span></strong>so much for voting. 🤍<br><br>jg x<br><br>Link >> <a contents="https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-10-best-acoustic-guitarists-in-the-world-right-now-as-voted-by-you" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-10-best-acoustic-guitarists-in-the-world-right-now-as-voted-by-you" target="_blank">https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-10-best-acoustic-guitarists-in-the-world-right-now-as-voted-by-you</a></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/64867952020-11-27T15:43:22+00:002020-12-21T16:15:11+00:00The Faintest Idea T-shirts have landed<p>Kinda 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 + eco friendly. <br><br>Get yours only at <a contents="https://www.omerch.com/shop/jongomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.omerch.com/shop/jongomm">https://www.omerch.com/shop/jongomm</a> also with discount bundles (shirt + signed CD / deluxe edition) <br><br>It'll look better on you.<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/32bc1a749722ace0e3562ae3bb750910a199fd1f/original/pxl-20201124-141706500-portrait-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="1" style="width:90%;"><tbody> <tr> <td> <p><a contents=" The Faintest Idea artwork T-shirt :&nbsp;£16.99" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.omerch.com/shop/jongomm/products/jon-gomm-the-faintest-idea-t-shirt" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/deb458accfee80be185a419019b65d15d275a3a0/original/tfi-t-shirt-mockup.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></a></p> </td> <td>The Faintest Idea artwork T-shirt : <strong>£16.99<br> <a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.omerch.com/shop/jongomm/products/jon-gomm-the-faintest-idea-t-shirt" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/03494dfea79ca2f4aa71ace200536c1c02f58d60/original/buy-now-button-tiny.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_none border_" /></a></strong>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/64819912020-11-20T11:10:51+00:002020-11-20T11:10:51+00:00Please vote for me to win Best Acoustic Guitarist 2020<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="PVpebw_SKJs" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/PVpebw_SKJs/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PVpebw_SKJs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>Please take a second to vote here <a contents="https://www.musicradar.com/news/who-is-the-best-acoustic-guitarist-of-2020" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.musicradar.com/news/who-is-the-best-acoustic-guitarist-of-2020" target="_blank">https://www.musicradar.com/news/who-is-the-best-acoustic-guitarist-of-2020</a>, so maybe I can win Best Acoustic Guitarist Of 2020, which would be really nice.<br><br>If I lose I'll just claim it was rigged by my competitors, because that's democracy in 2020.<br><br>jg x</p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/64476932020-11-02T14:06:01+00:002020-11-17T13:24:05+00:00Online Album Launch Gig<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/gig"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/2581a1c19f71a9ff9015c1dedfbbba3d03b61314/original/album-launch-gig-flyer-square-1000x1000.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">Tickets here: </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><a contents="https://jongomm.com/gig" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/gig"><strong>https://jongomm.com/gig</strong></a></span></p>
<p>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. <br><br>The audio will be HD and I'll set up a live chat on the page, so you can ask questions / request songs / heckle me mercilessly. The gig will be saved on the stream page for one month afterwards, in case you miss it live, but you'll only be able to access that if you have a ticket.<br><br>You can get a Pay What You Want ticket, and if you're struggling through the pandemic, don't feel bad about paying nothing. I know how you feel - it's very tough for me, not being able to tour the new album.<br><br>I'm also doing a bundle: Get a ticket for £20 (approx $25) or more, and you'll also get a signed copy of the new album on CD in a beautiful illustrated digipack, a signed artwork postcard, and 2 of my signature plectrums. If you'd like to treat yourself to one (or one for you and another 5 for Christmas presents) I will be very grateful. <br><br>See you at the gig!<br><br>jg x</p>
<hr><p><strong>UPDATE NOV 17 2020: To everyone who was at my online album launch gig - Thanks for being there with me. Your warmth & support is etched in me forever. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Full video (2 hours! Oops) is online for 1 month, then it'll self-destruct. Get access at <a contents="jongomm.com/gig" data-link-label="gig" data-link-type="page" href="/gig">jongomm.com/gig</a> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Wilma's last stand. </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="44n1j1bSy_M" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/44n1j1bSy_M/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/44n1j1bSy_M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/64632632020-10-26T11:50:35+00:002020-12-18T15:49:32+00:00Social Distance Gigs - now moved to JANUARY / FEBRUARY<p>Seeing my desperation to play songs from my new album <em>The Faintest Idea</em> to a living, breathing audience, after my album tour was postponed, my intrepid booking agents Glasswerk have organised a few Social Distance Gigs for the coming weeks.</p>
<p>It's been very tricky - some have already been cancelled, succumbing to local lockdowns before we could even announce them. But we persevere! I hope these are really special nights in this lonely winter. </p>
<p>Tickets will be highly limited, so rules can be observed to keep us all safe. I CAN NOT WAIT to see you. 🤍</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Social Distance Gigs</strong> (tickets highly limited)<br>JAN 2021<br>06 <strong>Bury St Edmunds</strong> APEX<br>07 <strong>Bedford </strong>ESQUIRES<br>FEB 2021<br>18 <strong>Blackpool </strong>BOOTLEG<br>21 <strong>Leeds </strong>BRUDENELL<br>24 <strong>Leicester </strong>FIREBUG<br>26 <strong>Liverpool </strong>TBC</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Tickets and info: <a contents="https://jongomm.com/shows" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/shows">https://jongomm.com/shows</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="SHOWS" data-link-type="page" href="/shows"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/f905c4e362ebd71834829a89363d2d102bcaa9cf/original/2021-uk-social-distance-gigs-flyer-square.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><br>UPDATE 01.11.2020 - These gigs have now also been postponed, as the national lockdown was brought in. It's particularly tough to take, as most of these venues were only old they could resume hosting shows the week before we announced them, hence our confidence that they would be able to happen. They all sold out or nearly sold out in the first few days - THANK YOU so much to everyone who bought tickets. As soon as the lockdown is lifted, I'll be there. It'll be amazing. jg x <br>______________<br><br>UPDATE 11.11.2020 - OK I'm going for it, DECEMBER / JANUARY! The government are adamant the lockdown will be lifted on December 2nd, so we've gone ahead and reorganised the dates. I told you I was crazy.<br>______________<br><br><strong>UPDATE 16.12.2020 - So, I got to play a gig at the weekend. Felt like going back a decade in my life, driving 150 miles to play to a handful of people, but it was amazing, just to physically place my new songs inside other people, and feel their reaction. I loved it so much, and I will never take it for granted again. </strong></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/4d96669d177306025110189e0ef1a15f3ca1d902/original/img-8339.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><br><strong>However, tonight's Leeds gig and the rest of the shows this month can't happen. We've rearranged them already, so here's the new and remaining dates, plus one new one in Liverpool: </strong><br><strong> <br>Jan 06 - Bury St Edmunds <br>Jan 07 - Bedford <br>Feb 18 - Blackpool <br>Feb 21 - Leeds <br>Feb 24 - Leicester <br>Feb 26 - Liverpool </strong></p>
<p><strong>All info at <a contents="on the gigs page" data-link-label="SHOWS" data-link-type="page" href="/shows">on the gigs page</a>. Ticket links may still show old dates - it takes a while for things to update. The situation right now has turned everything liquid. I'm trying to learn to be flexible but I still seem to break pretty easily. jg x</strong></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/64595072020-10-20T11:58:42+01:002020-10-22T16:21:23+01:00The Faintest Idea UK / Eire Tour - Rescheduled dates<p>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. </p>
<p>Tickets are on sale now, and any tickets already purchased are transferable, except a couple with venue issues which we haven't been able to rehome yet. </p>
<p>I am desperate to play these new songs. They don't feel completely born until I've physically felt a human reaction to them. </p>
<p>I can't help but feel angry with those governments which have let an ideological obsession with the free-market, direct public health, and so ruined both. It's the same heedless dollar-chasing which unlocked a vault of rainforest pathogens and spilled it into a city street. </p>
<p>Anyway. I can't wait for these gigs. Online Album Launch Gig in a couple of weeks too. <strong><a contents="Information about everything ever at jongomm.com/shows" data-link-label="SHOWS" data-link-type="page" href="/shows">Information about everything ever at jongomm.com/shows</a></strong> </p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="SHOWS" data-link-type="page" href="/shows"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/d349422d3fea71852ef800c93c9ada1a7247b1e6/original/2021-uk-tfi-tour-flyer-square.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/64537822020-10-16T07:50:00+01:002020-10-16T12:35:24+01:00New album out TODAY, plus new song/video<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>New album out today, plus new video</strong></span><br>This song is my maximum rhythm, I hope it finds your feet. It’s called <em>Dream Factories</em>, it’s about how music, our lives, our dreams - they’re taken, remade and sold back to us. <br><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="03GJRdyvEVA" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/03GJRdyvEVA/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/03GJRdyvEVA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Watch it on Youtube: <a contents="https://youtu.be/03GJRdyvEVA" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03GJRdyvEVA" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/03GJRdyvEVA</a> </strong></p>
<p>So, I can now nervously announce that the whole new 11-track album <em>The Faintest Idea</em> is live on streaming platforms now. Find it anywhere via this link: <a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/9513057e85c7b09d0cf8fba91f63bb8a60003fcb/original/listen-now-button.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a contents="https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea" target="_blank">https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea</a></strong></p>
<p>You can buy <em>The Faintest Idea</em> now in 3 formats: </p>
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<strong>CD</strong> in a beautiful illustrated digipack </li> <li>
<strong>Double-vinyl LP</strong> in gatefold sleeve with an artwork etching on side D</li> <li>
<strong>Deluxe Edition</strong> - A gorgeous 12 inch hardback book with illustrations, hand-written lyrics and stories for every track, and a full guitar transcription of one instrumental track, plus THREE discs:<br> 1) The album CD<br> 2) An exclusive "Naked Artist Mix" CD of stripped-back mixes by Jon himself<br> 3) An exclusive DVD with live acoustic performances in a medieval church, a 35 minute interview, and guitar technique demos, plus high-definition audio of the album.</li> <li>I now also have <strong>T-shirts</strong> and <strong>T-shirt album bundles</strong> available </li>
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<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/new-a%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Blbum-the-faintest-idea" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/84da259ab132947ee079e0c8981184d101e5884a/original/deluxe-and-tishrt-bundle-mailout-version-small.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a contents="https://jongomm.com/new-album-the-faintest-idea" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/new-album-the-faintest-idea" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/9ffe139619eb2bda658dbec409996efcc57077d3/original/buy-album-button.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></a></strong><a contents="https://jongomm.com/new-album-the-faintest-idea" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/new-album-the-faintest-idea" target="_blank"><strong>https://jongomm.com/new-album-the-faintest-idea</strong></a> </p>
<p><br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>Online launch gig</strong></span><br>Things aren't looking great for real life gigs here, so I'm gonna stream the album launch gig live from my home studio, on Sunday November 15th, 8:15pm UK (12:15pm LA, 3:15pm NY, 9:15pm EU).</p>
<p>Tickets are Pay What You Want (including free) at <a contents="https://jongomm.com/gig" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/gig" target="_blank">https://jongomm.com/gig</a> but if you pay £20 (approx $25) or more, I'll also send you a signed copy of the <em>The Faintest Idea</em> on CD, a signed artwork postcard, and 2 of my signature plectrums (with free shipping worldwide). If you'd like to treat yourself to one I will be very grateful. 🤍</p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/gig" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/2581a1c19f71a9ff9015c1dedfbbba3d03b61314/original/album-launch-gig-flyer-square-1000x1000.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="https://jongomm.com/gig" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/gig" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/1a96a36b53100f8cd3c2f8586b0e61ac394aa51a/original/get-tickets-button.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><strong>https://jongomm.com/gig</strong></a><strong> </strong></p>
<p><br>So whether I see you at the gig, or you listen to the album today, or you’re saving yourself until your vinyl or CD arrives in the mail, THANK YOU for supporting new, original, independent music, and giving meaning to my work. Please feel good about yourself. </p>
<p>jg x <br> </p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/64276982020-09-18T10:00:00+01:002020-09-18T10:00:04+01:00See / hear my new song Deep Sea Fishes, out today<p>This is the last single before album release day on October 16th. You can pre-order <em>The Faintest Idea</em> now on <strong>CD</strong>, <strong>Vinyl double-LP</strong>, or the <strong>Deluxe edition</strong>: A beautiful book of art and words, plus 3 discs: CD album, Naked Artist Mix CD, and exclusive DVD with live performances in a medieval church, guitar technique demos and more, only at:<strong> <a contents="https://burningshed.com/tag/Jon%20Gomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://burningshed.com/tag/Jon%20Gomm" target="_blank">https://burningshed.com/tag/Jon%20Gomm</a> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Ei4nRyWV0Gc" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/Ei4nRyWV0Gc/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ei4nRyWV0Gc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="480" width="854" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Watch it on Youtube: <br><a contents="https://youtu.be/Ei4nRyWV0Gc" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/Ei4nRyWV0Gc" target="_blank"><strong>https://youtu.be/Ei4nRyWV0Gc</strong></a> <br>or on Facebook: <br><a contents="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=342667150095141" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=342667150095141" target="_blank"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=342667150095141</strong></a> <br>Listen on Spotify: <br><strong><a contents="https://sptfy.com/jongomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sptfy.com/jongomm" target="_blank">https://sptfy.com/jongomm</a></strong> </p>
<p>Get the Guitar Tab at <a contents="https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" target="_blank"><strong>https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs</strong></a> - 12 pages of Tab, and 5 pages of detailed instructions on how to play it. </p>
<p>When depression grips, I hide in worlds sheltered from human emotion. One time I was hunkered down watching a documentary about fish. This was new footage, of undiscovered creatures who live in the very deepest parts of the very deepest oceans. Down there it's cold, bleak, there's no light, and almost no life. The fish that roam this wasteland alone are hideous beasts with terrifying fangs and luminescent lures. </p>
<p>Thinking about these tragic monsters left me pretty upset. For days. Until eventually I realised, they must come from somewhere. There must be a daddy hideous sea monster, and a mummy hideous sea monster, and, despite the odds, they must meet, and fall in love, and make little baby hideous sea monsters. </p>
<p>And is that so very different from us? So I wrote this love song. </p>
<p>Thanks so much for listening. I’m getting another new video ready for album launch day, so I’ll be back in touch then. </p>
<p>Jon x </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_small">The Faintest Idea Tour dates: </span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small"><strong>December 2020 </strong><br>Sat 5 - Huddersfield - Parish Pub <br>Sun 6 - York - The Crescent <br>Thu 10 - Trowbridge - Emmanuels Yard <br>Fri 11 - Cheltenham - Frog And Fiddle <br>Sat 12 - Swansea - Sin City </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small"><strong>Jan 2021 </strong><br>Mon 4 - Southampton - Joiners <br>Tue 5 - Brighton - Komedia <br>Wed 6 - Bury St Edmunds – Apex <br>Fri 15 - Nottingham - Rescue Rooms <br>Sat 16 - Bristol – Thekla <br>Sun 17 - Birmingham - Hare & Hounds <br>Fri 22 - Manchester - The Bread Shed <br>Sat 23 - Liverpool - Leaf <br>Fri 29 - Leeds - Brudenell </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small"><strong>Feb 2021 </strong><br>Wed 3 - Runcorn - Brindley Theatre <br>Fri 5 - Milton Keynes - Craufurd Arms <br>Sat 6 - Haverhill - Haverhill Arts Centre <br>Sun 7 - Reading - Sub 89 <br>Thu 11 - Cardiff - The Globe <br>Fri 12 - Blackpool - Bootleg Social <br>Thu 18 - Preston - The Ferret <br>Fri 19 - Newcastle - Cluny <br>Sat 20 - Glasgow - Oran Mor <br>Sat 27 - Dublin - Academy 2 </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small"><strong>March 2021 </strong><br>Fri 5 – London - Bush Hall <br>Sat 6 - Guildford - Boileroom </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small">Tickets at <a contents="https://jongomm.com/shows" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/shows" target="_blank"><strong>https://jongomm.com/shows</strong></a></span></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/64133732020-08-20T11:11:05+01:002020-08-20T11:11:55+01:00I've signed with Ibanez Guitars<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/b25741569f0e3fef7830e00f31e64c820beb477a/original/ibanez-1st-announce.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>I'm proud beyond words to announce that I've joined the <a contents="Ibanez Guitars" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.ibanez.com/usa/news/detail/20200729132601.html" target="_blank">Ibanez Guitars</a> roster. </p>
<p>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, Blackpool ♡) used to get an extra copy of every new Ibanez catalogue for me, so I could take it home and pore over the photos of my heroes, and the state-of-the-art guitars that gave them the sonic and technical freedom they needed. My dream is that we can build something similar for the modern acoustic guitar world in the 2020s. </p>
<p>You might have seen a prototype guitar in my latest video, <a contents="Cocoon" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/km1fp0tIagA" target="_blank">Cocoon</a>. Ibanez have been so patient and open minded. (I've been crazy and demanding, obvs.) We'll have something exciting to show you very soon.<br><br>jg</p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/64062642020-08-12T10:02:54+01:002020-08-12T10:02:54+01:00New single / video Cocoon out today<p>My first new single in 7 years, <em>Cocoon</em>, is out today on all streaming platforms. Here's the video, I hope you like it (if you do, please share it with others).</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="km1fp0tIagA" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/km1fp0tIagA/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/km1fp0tIagA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="480" width="854" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe>Watch on Youtube: <a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/km1fp0tIagA" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/km1fp0tIagA</a> <br>Watch on Facebook: <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1199783960359570" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1199783960359570" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1199783960359570</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>From the forthcoming album <em>The Faintest Idea</em> out 16th October 2020. Listen and pre-order here: <a contents="https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea" target="_blank">https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea</a> <br><br>Full guitar tab with all techniques explained, here: <strong><a contents="https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea" target="_blank">https://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs</a> </strong></strong><br><br>If it’s your job to protect another person, and that overwhelms you with anxiety sometimes, remember that the most important job a cocoon has, is to break open and let the being inside it go free. And if you’re a cocoon for yourself: Remember that the caterpillar has to dissolve itself into mush to become a beautiful, rule-breaking moth. So if you're a sobbing mess wrapped up in your bed right now: Keep going, you're gonna turn out amazing. </p>
<p>This song is for my intrepid daughter, Indigo. “Stop worrying dad.” - Indi, aged 3. I will try.<br><br>Another new single will be out next month. I'm so happy to be releasing music again. Thank you so so much for watching, sharing and supporting it. With your help I can survive these insane times and still be a musician at the other end. (No pressure.)<br><br>love from<br>jg<br><br> </p>
<hr><p>Here's all the gear I used. If you wanna buy any of it, if you use any of the links below then I get a small commission: </p>
<p>Ibanez JGM10 prototype guitar (out soon)</p>
<p>Newtone Jon Gomm signature strings <br><a contents="https://newtonestrings.com/shop/jon-gomm-signature-master-class-strings/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://newtonestrings.com/shop/jon-gomm-signature-master-class-strings/" target="_blank">https://newtonestrings.com/shop/jon-gomm-signature-master-class-strings/</a> </p>
<p>Blackstar Sonnet 60 amplifier<br><a contents="https://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?sw=blackstar+sonnet&amp;offid=1&amp;affid=574" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?sw=blackstar+sonnet&offid=1&affid=574" target="_blank">https://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?sw=blackstar+sonnet&offid=1&affid=574</a> </p>
<p>Sontronics SOLO vocal mic <br><a contents="https://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?sw=sontronics+solo&amp;offid=1&amp;affid=574" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?sw=sontronics+solo&offid=1&affid=574" target="_blank">https://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?sw=sontronics+solo&offid=1&affid=574</a> </p>
<p>Fishman Rare Earth Blend and PowerTap pickup systems <br><a contents="https://www.thomann.de/gb/fishman_pickups_for_acoustic_guitars.html?offid=1&amp;affid=574" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.thomann.de/gb/fishman_pickups_for_acoustic_guitars.html?offid=1&affid=574" target="_blank">https://www.thomann.de/gb/fishman_pickups_for_acoustic_guitars.html?offid=1&affid=574</a> </p>
<p>MOTU Ultralite AVB mixer/interface <br><a contents="https://www.thomann.de/gb/motu_usb_audio_interfaces.html?offid=1&amp;affid=574" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.thomann.de/gb/motu_usb_audio_interfaces.html?offid=1&affid=574" target="_blank">https://www.thomann.de/gb/motu_usb_audio_interfaces.html?offid=1&affid=574</a> </p>
<p>Boss OC-3 octave pedal <br><a contents="https://www.thomann.de/gb/boss_oc3_superoctave_bodeneffekt.htm?offid=1&amp;affid=574" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.thomann.de/gb/boss_oc3_superoctave_bodeneffekt.htm?offid=1&affid=574" target="_blank">https://www.thomann.de/gb/boss_oc3_superoctave_bodeneffekt.htm?offid=1&affid=574</a> </p>
<p>Zoom Multistomp effects pedal <br><a contents="https://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?sw=zoom+multi+stomp&amp;offid=1&amp;affid=574" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?sw=zoom+multi+stomp&offid=1&affid=574" target="_blank">https://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?sw=zoom+multi+stomp&offid=1&affid=574</a> </p>
<p>Klotz cables <br> </p>
<hr><p>Filmed by The Samsara Collective at Niamos Radical Arts Theatre, Manchester, England</p>
<p>Audio produced by Andy Sorenson </p>
<p>Mastered by Tom Woodhead</p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/63981972020-07-31T11:00:00+01:002020-08-06T10:07:23+01:00New album The Faintest Idea coming October 16th - Pre-orders and Tour<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="8xJ2jnW6Vvw" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/8xJ2jnW6Vvw/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8xJ2jnW6Vvw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe><br><strong>New album The Faintest Idea, coming October 16th. </strong><br><br>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 warm organic depths. </p>
<p>You can pre-order now from Kscope Records at <a contents="https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea"><strong>https://jongomm.lnk.to/TheFaintestIdea</strong></a>, in these formats: </p>
<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="&gt;&gt; CD&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://burningshed.com/store/kscope/jon-gomm_the-faintest-idea_cd" target="_blank">>> CD </a></span></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://burningshed.com/store/kscope/jon-gomm_the-faintest-idea_cd" target="_blank"><span class="font_large"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/36e5d6a10487a49a1e9765b7a72577426ad56259/original/cd-sleevpac-mockup-resize.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_none border_" /></span></a></p>
<p><br><span class="font_large"><a contents="&gt;&gt; Gatefold Double vinyl LP with D-side artwork etching" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://burningshed.com/store/kscope/jon-gomm_the-faintest-idea_double-vinyl" target="_blank">>> Gatefold Double vinyl LP with D-side artwork etching</a> </span></p>
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<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://burningshed.com/store/kscope/jon-gomm_the-faintest-idea_double-vinyl" target="_blank"><span class="font_large"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/b8dff51a698d3c3fce522a2f176b13f0e77fd14e/original/double-lp-mockup-web-resize.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_none border_" /></span></a><br> </p>
<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="&gt;&gt; Limited edition deluxe 3 disc hardback book" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://burningshed.com/store/kscope/jon-gomm_the-faintest-idea_2cd_dvd" target="_blank">>> Limited edition deluxe 3 disc hardback book</a></span> containing: <br>CD1 - The Faintest Idea album, CD 2 - The Naked Artist Mix – a stripped back version of the album; a DVD containing 6 exclusive performances filmed in a medieval church, guitar technique presentations, a 35 minute interview and The Faintest Idea in high resolution stereo audio produced by Any Sorenson. The beautiful book will feature illustrations by Lee Zimmerman, song descriptions, handwritten lyrics, and full guitar tablature for 1 instrumental track. </p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://burningshed.com/store/kscope/jon-gomm_the-faintest-idea_2cd_dvd" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/20f5379abdba15214613c5e5750bf51d53ad00c6/original/book-mockup-3-disc-flat-resize.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_none border_" /></a><br> </p>
<p>And you can bundle a gig ticket with your order too. Tour runs Dec 2020 to March 2021, just UK/Ireland dates are so far confirmed. (Tickets are obviously limited cos of everything). <br><br>This music is the product of 7 years of vertigo - Touring the planet to thousands of faces, the birth of our daughter, the loss of loved ones. It’s about a human waking up in the universe blinking at the stars, as the fleeting expression of the faintest idea. <br><br>jg x</p>
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<hr><p><br><br><br><strong>The Faintest Idea Tour dates: </strong></p>
<p>December 2020 <br>Sat 5 - Huddersfield - Parish Pub <br>Sun 6 - York - The Crescent <br>Thu 10 - Trowbridge - Emmanuels Yard <br>Fri 11 - Cheltenham - Frog And Fiddle <br>Sat 12 - Swansea - Sin City <br><br>Jan 2021 <br>Mon 4 - Southampton - Joiners <br>Tue 5 - Brighton - Komedia <br>Wed 6 - Bury St Edmunds – Apex <br>Fri 15 - Nottingham - Rescue Rooms <br>Sat 16 - Bristol – Thekla <br>Sun 17 - Birmingham - Hare & Hounds <br>Fri 22 - Manchester - The Bread Shed <br>Sat 23 - Liverpool - Leaf <br>Fri 29 - Leeds - Brudenell <br><br>Feb 2021 <br>Wed 3 - Runcorn - Brindley Theatre <br>Fri 5 - Milton Keynes - Craufurd Arms <br>Sat 6 - Haverhill - Haverhill Arts Centre <br>Sun 7 - Reading - Sub 89 <br>Thu 11 - Cardiff - The Globe <br>Fri 12 - Blackpool - Bootleg Social <br>Thu 18 - Preston - The Ferret <br>Fri 19 - Newcastle - Cluny <br>Sat 20 - Glasgow - Oran Mor <br>Sat 27 - Dublin - Academy 2 <br><br>March 2021 <br>Fri 5 – London - Bush Hall <br>Sat 6 - Guildford - Boileroom<br><br>Tickets at <a contents="https://jongomm.com/shows" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/shows">https://jongomm.com/shows</a></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/63844762020-07-13T16:06:28+01:002020-07-13T16:06:28+01:00A Fond Farewell<p>Some news. Ok. Deep breath. I'm sad to announce that I'm leaving the Lowden Guitars family. I have adored my beloved Lowdens as they've helped shape the sound of my music and accompanied me on global adventures, at times my only friend and confidant in a remote backstage area or hotel room, for 20 years. </p>
<p>When Lowden offered me a signature model, even my ruinous self-doubt could not deny the feeling of respect and validation that gave me, and I can never thank them enough for that. </p>
<p>Most of all, I'm grateful for the dear friendship of the Lowden family: Master George, Flo, David Ausdahl and Bryony, Daniel, Aaron, Johnny, Alastair Simpson and every other person and craftsperson who makes up this incredible company. </p>
<p>The reason is obviously nothing to do with the wonderful guitars. I've been given the chance elsewhere to help design a guitar for modern fingerstyle from scratch, and I couldn't resist such an exciting challenge. </p>
<p>Thanks for all the birthday messages this weekend. I can really feel that passage of time this year. For me, this is the end of a huge part of my life. </p>
<p>jg x<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/03712144ddf2209363f4cb2d161d7dee91880845/original/jon-gomm-photo-by-tom-martin-1.jpeg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpeg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/63335452020-05-29T10:00:00+01:002020-06-19T12:20:26+01:00Live Online Gig<p><a contents="" data-link-label="gig" data-link-type="page" href="/gig"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/b9ee07faf9d5f83edd0f13bdc4a35c6dc9b58e62/original/passionflower-2020-gig-only-facebook-post.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><span style="color:null;">TICKETS HERE: </span><a contents="https://jongomm.com/gig" data-link-label="gig" data-link-type="page" href="/gig"><span style="color:null;">https://jongomm.com/gig</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="color:null;">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. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:null;"><span class="font_large">SUNDAY JUNE 14, 2020 </span><br>8:15pm UK / 9:15pm EU / 12:15pm Pacific / 2:15pm Central / 3:15pm Eastern / 4:15pm BRT </span></p>
<p><span style="color:null;">Tickets are Pay What You Want: If you're struggling through lockdown, don't feel bad about paying nothing. I'm in the same boat. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:null;">I'll set up a live chat on the page, so you can ask questions / heckle / request songs, and generally interact. The gig will be saved on the stream page for a week afterwards, in case you miss the live stream, but you'll only be able to access that if you have a ticket. </span></p>
<hr><p><strong><span class="font_large">UPDATE (June 15 2020) : </span>Thanks so much to everyone who showed up for the gig. It was strange and scary at first, but once we got going, and the messages came in, and I could feel you were there behind the camera, it was beautiful. I'll never forget it. I feel quite alone today without you all. </strong></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/e3131c95d63dbf0eee02c6dc253c09469346255e/original/online-gig-audience-selfies-14-06-2020.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small">A random selection of the selfies sent by the audience. You're all gorgeous. x</span></p>
<hr><p> </p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/63331812020-05-29T10:00:00+01:002020-05-29T10:00:57+01:00I'm now finally on Spotify, with a brand new version of Passionflower, via Kscope Records<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/ea2630a3a1e09f2e40962a7099d289cb3f95c857/original/facebook-profile-header2.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><br>So, to answer my most asked question in recent years: <em>“When will you be on Spotify?”</em>, the answer is… today. </p>
<p>I’ve recorded a brand new version of <em>Passionflower </em>with my new producer Andy Sorenson. And not just that: I’ve signed with Kscope Records. Wow. I know. It’s a big change, but I’m very happy about it. </p>
<p>Find me on Spotify or your preferred streaming platform by clicking here: <a contents="https://jongomm.lnk.to/passionflower" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.lnk.to/passionflower" target="_blank">https://jongomm.lnk.to/passionflower</a> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">So Jon, you’re not independent anymore? </span></p>
<p>I’ve always been known as a fiercely independent artist, with whatever successes and failures all achieved by my own merit. </p>
<p>In reality, it was a team, with my wife Natasha as my manager for over a decade. And when our daughter was born, it quickly became too hard, too much pressure. </p>
<p>So after my own internal battle like when Clarke Kent fights a drunken Superman clinging to his old powers, I had to admit to myself that a big part of my working alone was that I was scared of being rejected. And because of that I’d fostered a lot of mistrust, to protect myself. I realised that it’s not compromising my ethics to work with other independents who can help me. And maybe it was time to finally grow the f--k up. </p>
<p><span class="font_large">Why Kscope Records? </span></p>
<p>As soon as I mentioned to friends I was looking for a label, <a contents="Kscope" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://kscopemusic.com/" target="_blank">Kscope</a> came up twice - once from Dan Tompkins (Tesseract, White Moth Black Butterfly), and once from someone who works in music promotion, and they both thought it would be a good home for me. So I met with the label, and they just want to help artists they love release music. It’s that simple. They don’t want to change me or my music, or control it. And they are so, so patient. Thank f--k. </p>
<p>It feels like a symbiosis of two independent entities. I have not been eaten. In fact they’ve given me freedom I never had. </p>
<p>Kscope being known as a progressive label suits me. I love the music they’ve released over the years, I love Mick Karn’s solo work, I love White Moth Black Butterfly. My music is essentially pop and acoustic, but I hop genres a lot, and sometimes I slip things in which seem normal to me but then people are totally thrown. And all my songs have fairly crazy technical guitar playing built around them, as I try to find the next note I need, the next beat, as I try as best I can to use my guitar to create something beautiful which tells a story. </p>
<p><span class="font_large">Why Spotify now? </span></p>
<p>I’ve always been pretty anti-streaming services, because they seemed to make it so hard to make a living from music. But I’ve watched how they’ve grown, and how much people use them to find the most obscure musical anomalies, and ancient musical artifacts, and how it allows new musicians to flourish. And I’m still standing there like, Canute on the beach, water up to my f--king chin. Time to learn to swim, I guess. </p>
<p><span class="font_large">Why did you re-record Passionflower? </span></p>
<p>Judging by what people tell me, it’s the song everyone wants to be able to stream. And it’s the song that changed my life. But I’ve actually never recorded a version of Passionflower that I’ve been happy with. </p>
<p>So I called up an old friend, from Australia, who’s the most brilliant producer I have ever heard, called <a contents="Andy Sorenson" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.andysorenson.com/" target="_blank">Andy Sorenson</a>. </p>
<p>Andy has taken my raw, intimate solo acoustic performance, and placed it in an expanded landscape. There's something about the reverberating stereo space that feels open, like lying beneath an enormous sky, but also the warmth just envelopes you at the same time, like being swaddled in some familiar, trusted place. It’s the sound I’m taking with me for the new music I’m creating now. </p>
<p>This, now, is the Passionflower’s final form. </p>
<p>Step inside this sound, get a feel for it, we’re building more of it every day. </p>
<p>jg x</p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/62972402020-04-28T19:50:24+01:002020-04-28T19:51:58+01:00A Lockdown Letter<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/6560bcf43810f3c6ff87268d4d0a3fb7dcbc21e8/original/058-1095.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><strong><em>“Dear Jon </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Can I have a questions? How can I become the one of the best guitarists like you? It is my dream since I was young to become one of the best guitarists in the world, too. And I will be happy, that one day we will play together. I wish you lot of strength through these days. </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Luděk H” </em></strong></p>
<p>Dear Luděk, </p>
<p>“Best” is a comparative term, which means you will only be satisfied if you think you’re a better musician than someone else. This can make you forget why you love music, but worse still, it might make you either bitter, or mean. (Believe me, I’ve seen it.) </p>
<p>Who do you think is the best right now? Let's imagine it's me. (Yessssss! I win! In your face, school) What am I the best at? Am I the best technical guitarist? No, I doubt it. I'm pretty good but there's lots of things I can't do. Am I the best songwriter? Well that's totally subjective: some - disturbed and misguided - people even hate The Beatles. Am I the best singer? LOL </p>
<p>What I am the best at, is being myself. Nobody else can do exactly what I do, and *it's my flaws which make me impossible to replicate*, not the correct bits. </p>
<p>Everyone has a unique perspective on the world, and if they can communicate that through their unique mind and body, then it will always be inherently fascinating to others. We all want to see inside each other. </p>
<p>Take love songs. Don't write about "love". Examine your particular, personal experience, with its mix of joy or fear or contentment or frustration which is unique to you. If you dare look close enough, then you might find that it’s indescribable with words alone. The more powerfully you can express that inexpressible thing through your music, the greater the rewards. </p>
<p>So, for all the time you spend practicing on your instrument, sometimes stop and make sure you are actually learning to make noises you can use to express yourself. Seeking perfection is OK, as long as you fail. </p>
<p>Be Luděk. You can do it Luděk! Nobody else can. </p>
<p>jg x<br><br><br><br><span class="font_small">(Reproduced with correspondent's permission.)</span></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/62818472020-04-14T10:59:03+01:002020-04-14T11:20:24+01:00This will pass. <p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/6fac954295fbd13f26c4d2eafb9cf3566f75b6b9/original/this-will-pass.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>To anyone else struggling with their mental health through lockdown: THIS WILL PASS. </p>
<p>To all the anxious parents, to the addict withdrawing in isolation, to the lonely kid with nobody to video call, to the OCD with nothing to break their stream of thoughts. </p>
<p>At your deepest core where you feel most alone, that is the place where we are all the same, and so the least alone of all.<br><br>jg<br>x</p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/62437922020-03-10T13:58:06+00:002020-04-14T10:31:39+01:00Blackstar Sonnet amp - UK Clinics<p><span style="color:#dddddd;"><strong>UPDATE: These events have been postponed cos of the stupid virus. We'll reschedule them as early as possible. </strong></span><br><br>I got sick of "acoustic amps" which all squash and confine my sound. So Blackstar let me help them come up with a new amp for us all to use. And this month, it's finally unleashed upon the world! #proud </p>
<p>In May (2020) I'll be doing a few clinics in the UK to demo the Blackstar Sonnet, playing some songs, and there will be a Q&A where you can ask me anything: My specialist subjects are guitar, music, mental health and football. <br><br><a contents="Click here for more info about the events." data-link-label="Shows" data-link-type="page" href="/shows" style=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/c8a8ec786c8e5512d648e93748c3a4073c3b82a5/original/blackstar-clinic-tour-may-2020-jon-gomm-poster-flyer.jpeg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpeg" class="size_l justify_none border_" /><br><strong>Click here for more info about the events.</strong></a><br><br>And there's loads more info about the amps here: <strong><a contents="https://jongomm.com/amp" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/amp" style="">https://jongomm.com/amp</a> </strong></p>
<p>And here's a video of my playing with it (well, with two of them actually). <br><br><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OK9gyprlvv8" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/OK9gyprlvv8/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OK9gyprlvv8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="240" width="426" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe><br> </p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/59128182019-10-08T06:50:00+01:002019-10-15T16:30:14+01:00The final chapter is here - Essential Percussive Guitar 3<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnN_m7gsGvM" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/c5516eb72aed27bdeffb27d7054c733cc8325ba9/original/epgr3-promo-video-thumbnail-for-mailout.jpg" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /></a><br><br>The final chapter is here: <strong>Essential Percussive Guitar Riffs Volume 3</strong>, with a <em><strong>special launch offer price of £15.99 this week only</strong></em> (full price £19.99) Only from <a contents="https://jongomm.com/lessons" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/lessons">https://jongomm.com/lessons</a> </p>
<p>This is a huge three hour video of personal instruction, with yet more new techniques, new riffs to learn and compositional ideas for you to use. </p>
<p>> 10 extraordinary riffs <br>> Multiple camera angles <br>> Every technique explained <br>> Full accurate tab <br>> 3 hours of HD video </p>
<p>Watch the new trailer for Volume 3 here: <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnN_m7gsGvM" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnN_m7gsGvM" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnN_m7gsGvM</a> </p>
<p>You'll learn how to play music that will give you the deepest possible insight into modern approaches to the guitar. </p>
<p>Every riff is in the same tuning, and I've written full guitar tab to go along with the video. </p>
<p>There's more ways to use percussion, tapping, harmonics and impossible seeming skills which I will break down for you and make yours to command. </p>
<p>All the secrets, revealed. </p>
<p>:) </p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who's bought these lessons, and let me know how much they've enjoyed them, and developed their playing. Meanwhile, I have big new music announcements coming very soon. </p>
<p>jg <br>x</p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/55385182018-12-04T11:15:49+00:002018-12-04T12:00:52+00:00Essential Percussive Guitar Riffs VOLUME 2, plus Xmas Gift bundles...<p><em>Volume 2</em> of my guitar instructional video is here! Only from <a contents="https://jongomm.com/lessons" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/lessons">https://jongomm.com/lessons</a> <br><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/lessons"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/94cb92cf4b1ca732274b25c835ae12b7e6f42a43/original/jg-epgr2-cover-400x566.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_none border_" /></a></p>
<p>An even longer lesson, over 2.5 hours of detailed instruction from me, covering a huge range of modern techniques, and showing how to use them to build musical guitar ideas. </p>
<p>There's 10 new riffs to master, every riff is still in the same tuning, and I will give you every insight I've gained in decades of study - secret tips you won't find anywhere else, and traps to avoid which would limit your music. </p>
<p><strong>Also, only for Xmas 2018, get the GIFT BUNDLE of Volumes 1 & 2 for yourself or a loved one, and save 15%. Only from <a contents="https://jongomm.com/lessons" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/lessons">https://jongomm.com/lessons</a> </strong></p>
<p>• 2 hours 35 minutes HD video <br>• Multiple video angles <br>• Incredible riffs <br>• Full accurate tab <br>• Melodic two-hand tapping <br>• Guitar drumming techniques and grooves <br>• Insane harmonic slapping <br>• Incorporating fingerstyle with percussion <br>• Multi-part playing (combining bass, melody, percussion, harmonics) <br>• Playable on any acoustic guitar <br>• Every technique fully explained <br>• Expert advice and guidance <br>• The impossible, made possible!<br><br><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dkUzILpCX38" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/dkUzILpCX38/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dkUzILpCX38?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="270" width="480" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/52674732018-06-06T07:35:00+01:002018-12-04T10:38:04+00:00My first ever Guitar Instructional video is here.<p>I'm proud and excited to announce my first guitar instructional video, <em>Essential Percussive Guitar Riffs</em>, available today from <strong><a contents="http://jongomm.com/lessons" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/lessons" target="_self">http://jongomm.com/lessons</a> </strong><br><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/lessons" target="_self"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/772e95c1d9f5b7d2e6ca96505932f7aa8e1e8127/original/jg-epgr1-cover-400x566.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_inline border_" /></a></p>
<p>A huge lesson with me, over 2 hours long, based around 10 riffs which I've specially composed to break down modern techniques like percussion, tapping, harmonics and upside-down playing, step by step, so that you can understand them, master them, and make music with them. </p>
<p>I will teach you not just what to learn, but how to learn it. All the secrets, revealed. </p>
<ul> <li>2 hours 25 minutes running time </li> <li>Multiple video angles </li> <li>10 incredible riffs </li> <li>Full tab for every riff </li> <li>Every riff in the same tuning </li> <li>Playable on any acoustic guitar </li> <li>Every technique fully explained </li> <li>Advice and guidance </li> <li>The impossible, made possible! </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Only from <a contents="http://jongomm.com/lessons" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/lessons" target="_self">http://jongomm.com/lessons</a> </strong></p>
<p><strong><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="fc6kBF011vM" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/fc6kBF011vM/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fc6kBF011vM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="270" width="480" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></strong></p>
<p>I've put my heart and soul into making this. If you're not a guitar player yourself, please recommend this video to any that you know, or maybe share my facebook video commercial: <a contents="http://bit.ly/gommlesson" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/gommlesson" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/gommlesson</a></p>
<p>If you are a guitarist but you don't think you can manage these techniques: That's because I didn't show you how yet! YOU. CAN. DO. IT. :)</p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/49407272017-11-22T07:40:00+00:002020-07-31T15:18:09+01:00New video, with tab and Fishman pickups competition<p><span class="font_large">New vid:<strong> The Secret Of Learning To Fly Is Forgetting To Hit The Ground </strong></span><br><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj7yFt8rhrI"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/97b02d5425d21f42f5b1a795b1a40df4dcedd0f0/original/orville-youtube-thumb.jpg" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /></a></p>
<p>Watch it on <a contents="Youtube" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj7yFt8rhrI">Youtube</a><br>or on <a contents="Facebook" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/jongommofficial/videos/1932151386796718/">Facebook</a></p>
<p>This tune is the hardest thing I have ever written, or attempted to play, or imagined existing on a guitar. I'm curious to see if anyone else can play it, so I've transcribed the guitar tab and instructions (all nineteen pages of it) and it's available from my website, and the first person to learn it to any vaguely OK-ish standard (as judged by me) wins my complete guitar pickup system - a Fishman Rare Earth Mic Blend plus a Fishman BP100, total list price over $750. Submit your entry at <a contents="http://jongomm.com/win" data-link-label="win" data-link-type="page" href="/win">http://jongomm.com/win</a></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/49407082017-11-06T16:35:00+00:002020-07-31T15:18:46+01:00Germany Tour 2018<p>I'm taking the rest of 2017 at home to finish writing my next album. I just have a couple more tunes to finish. So far they're digging deeper into my psyche than anything I've written before. For the first time when making an album, I have a clear image in my mind of the sound, the themes, the videos, the artwork, and I've found a great videographer and an artist, plus an old friend of mine with a background in electronic music who will be producing. It'll still be an acoustic guitar and vocal record, but with added depth and colour and bigness. </p>
<p>Then early 2018 I'm heading back to what is rapidly becoming my second home...</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/05579914d2050ddb09a56af4323e319af058bf35/original/germany-2018-tour-poster-small.jpg" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /></p>
<p>All info and ticket links on <a contents="the Live Dates page" data-link-label="live-dates" data-link-type="page" href="/live-dates">the Live Dates page</a>.</p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/49406882017-10-02T16:25:00+01:002020-07-31T15:16:35+01:00London Masterclass 2018<p>If you wanna be there when I demystify guitar techniques like percussion, tapping and tuning, explain my unique approach to composition and how I see the guitar, and explain my gear setup, or ask me the question you've always wanted to ask like "Hey Jon, what's with the bare feet?"... then get to London on March 7th for this... </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/b555598acced8e677787b66fa88a3b555a789aa1/original/masterclass-london-2018-480px.jpg" class="size_orig justify_none border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>Tickets from <a contents="http://www.eventim.co.uk/masterclass" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.eventim.co.uk/masterclass">http://www.eventim.co.uk/masterclass</a> </p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/45689052017-02-06T08:05:00+00:002018-10-08T17:23:49+01:00New vid: High & Dry out today<span class="font_large"><strong>New vid: My cover of High And Dry by Radiohead</strong></span><br><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88L0D4UFl9Q"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/d1a271b18c5396a0a8cb9986365cc047a1c89393/original/high-and-dry-youtube-thumbnail.jpg?1485785667" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /></a><br><br><span class="font_large">Watch it at <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88L0D4UFl9Q" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88L0D4UFl9Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88L0D4UFl9Q</a></span><br><br>Guitar Tab finally available for this song at <strong><a contents="http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs">http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs</a></strong> Every technique is explained. It’s a complete walkthrough guide to the song.<br><br>High And Dry is the 7th video from from the <em>Acoustic Asylum</em> series. Get the song and album and Pay What You Want from <strong><a contents="http://jongomm.com/music" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/music">http://jongomm.com/music</a></strong><br>Also on iTunes <a contents="http://j.mp/iTunesGomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://j.mp/iTunesGomm">http://j.mp/iTunesGomm</a> or Google Play <a contents="http://j.mp/GooGom" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://j.mp/GooGom">http://j.mp/GooGom</a> or Amazon <a contents="http://j.mp/AmzGomUSA" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://j.mp/AmzGomUSA">http://j.mp/AmzGomUSA</a> <br><br>I've been playing this song for the best part of two decades. For my very oldest fans and friends, this is the one they think of when they think of me, even though it's a cover. I love the song deeply. I’ve always been convinced it’s about Gene Kelly's character in the movie "Viva Kneivel!", an alcoholic ex-stunt motorcyclist. <br><br>Performance wise, this arrangement channels Michael Hedges maybe more than anything else I've ever come up with. Not just the guitar techniques, but the vocal, even the bare feet. <br><br>I've played it better than this, but I've played it worse. It's kinda slow: I was a bit bipolar, so I'm dragging it back, fighting myself, and I probably over-compensated. Maybe that makes it me.<br> Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/45638642017-01-25T22:33:12+00:002018-11-30T12:44:14+00:00UK Tour Spring 2017 - Support Artists Wanted<p>I'm playing out this spring. UK test subjects needed for the unsafe experimental trials of new songs (and plenty of old ones obviously). Check the <a contents="Live Dates" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jongomm.com/live-dates">Live Dates</a> page for all the info.<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/93f52580d31919263de33f6caa0381fe1cb9b733/original/2017-uk-tour-poster-jon-gomm-web-smaller.jpg?1485429734" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /><br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>Support Artists Wanted...</strong></span><br>I've decided to throw open the support slots for the gigs to local musicians. I know how hard it is to get on good shows in your own city, because so many are sewn up by national agencies, sometimes on a pay-to-play basis. FTS.<br><br><strong><span class="font_large">To apply:</span><br> <span class="font_large">1)</span> Choose your closest city<br> <span class="font_large">2)</span> Find the facebook Event: Search facebook for “jon gomm live in [city]”, or click the link below<br> <span class="font_large">3)</span> On the Event page, post a link to a piece of your work on youtube/soundcloud, and a contact email address<br> <span class="font_large">4)</span> Please ask your friends to Like your post!</strong><br><br>I will listen to as many entries as humanly possible starting at the top of the Event page, and choose one. Solo artists, bands, poets, comedians, magicians... anything welcome. :)<br><br>May 02 - <strong>Chester </strong> <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/events/347246338992487/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/347246338992487/" target="_blank">facebook event</a> <br>May 04 - <strong>Newcastle </strong> <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/events/150416028780733/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/150416028780733/" target="_blank">facebook event</a> <br>May 05 - <strong>Glasgow </strong> <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/events/1231650673585230/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1231650673585230/" target="_blank">facebook event</a> <br>May 12 - <strong>Manchester </strong> <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/events/1865806360366125/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1865806360366125/" target="_blank">facebook event</a> <br>May 14 - <strong>Bristol </strong> <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/events/309167922817851/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/309167922817851/" target="_blank">facebook event</a> <br>May 15 - <strong>Nottingham </strong> <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/events/624157177771283/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/624157177771283/" target="_blank">facebook event</a> <br>May 17 - <strong>Birmingham </strong> <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/events/372919533084753/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/372919533084753/" target="_blank">facebook event</a><br>May 19 - <strong>London </strong> <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/events/228394780903871/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/228394780903871/" target="_blank">facebook event</a> <br>May 22 - <strong>Brighton </strong> <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/events/1610980405876987/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1610980405876987/" target="_blank">facebook event</a> <br>May 24 - <strong>Milton Keynes</strong> <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/events/1646160415689158/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1646160415689158/" target="_blank">facebook event</a> <br>May 27 - <strong>Liverpool </strong> <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/events/1583912738300490/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1583912738300490/" target="_blank">facebook event</a> <br>June 02 - <strong>Leeds </strong> <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/events/365062627205038/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/365062627205038/" target="_blank">facebook event</a><br><br><span class="font_small">Smallprint: My choice will be subject to agreement by my manager, my booking agent, the promoter of the concert and the venue. The support artist will then have to agree any and all terms with the promoter of the show. I reserve the right to withdraw the show at any time. Basically this is fun for me, hopefully a great experience for them, and helps me get the word out with local musos that the gig is happening. :)</span></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/45631932017-01-04T15:05:00+00:002018-12-01T11:05:22+00:00My Face, Your Local News-standI've been on not one but two magazine covers recently. You can see me glowering at passers-by from the shelves of your local store, on the cover of <a contents="Acoustic magazine" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.acousticmagazine.com/" target="_blank">Acoustic magazine</a>. What a surreal honour. I felt kinda nervous when <a contents="I went to buy my own copy" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://twitter.com/jongomm/status/801411276937302016" target="_blank">I went to buy my own copy</a>.<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/3525dc95309f0f327463f3f4a940633e242e5f46/original/acoustic-magazine-cover-web.jpg?1485354419" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /><br><br>There's an interview with me, and another one with <a contents="George Lowden" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.lowdenguitars.com/guitar-range-gomm" target="_blank">George Lowden</a> about the designing and building of my signature model guitar. And there's a lesson, with some of my riffs transcribed. If you missed it, <a contents="you can still buy a copy here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/music/acoustic-back-issues/acoustic-december-2016/" target="_blank">you can still buy a copy here</a>.<br><br>And I'm also very grateful to be the first ever acoustic artist on the cover of <a contents="Guitar Interactive magazine" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.guitarinteractivemagazine.com/issues/issue-46/" target="_blank">Guitar Interactive magazine</a>. In this one, there's 5 videos of me playing songs on my signature model, including an unplugged (i.e. recorded straight into a microphone) version of my old instrumental tune Topeka, which I'm really happy with. And there's a really in depth review of the guitar too.<br><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.guitarinteractivemagazine.com/issues/issue-46/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/d1b83a46517095f2476c0481c6e97c72ebbb7994/original/guitar-interactive-cover-web.jpg?1485355882" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /></a><br><br>Happy reading, don't get a paper cut.<br> Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/44646312016-11-20T09:05:00+00:002018-11-16T06:25:03+00:00I just wanna play you this thing... <strong><span class="font_large">New video: Watch me play my song <em>Afterglow</em> </span> </strong><br><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGur18OFXZ4" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/39c6c9ccb5ada37917d576ba494fc36ec82eca21/original/afterglow-youtube-thumbnail.jpg?1479048066" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><br><br>You've never heard an acoustic trip-hop song with an eight-finger-tapping solo before, or if you have then I quit. I can’t tell you what this song is about because it’s pure sleaze and my mum will see this. <br><br><strong>If you like it, share it. The internet needs you right now. Drown out the bickering with music. <br><br>Link for sharing on facebook: <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/jongommofficial/videos/1428787377133124/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/jongommofficial/videos/1428787377133124/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/jongommofficial/videos/1428787377133124/</a><br>Link for sharing everywhere else: <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGur18OFXZ4" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGur18OFXZ4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGur18OFXZ4</a></strong><br><br>Get the Guitar Tab from <a contents="http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs">http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs</a> Every technique is explained. It’s a complete walkthrough guide to the song.<br><br>Afterglow is the 6th video from from the <em>Live In The Acoustic Asylum</em> series. Get the song and album and Pay What You Want from <a contents="http://jongomm.com/music" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/music" target="_blank">http://jongomm.com/music</a> Also on iTunes <a contents="http://j.mp/iTunesGomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://j.mp/iTunesGomm" target="_blank">http://j.mp/iTunesGomm</a> or Google Play <a contents="http://j.mp/GooGom" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://j.mp/GooGom" target="_blank">http://j.mp/GooGom</a> or Amazon <a contents="http://j.mp/AmzGomUSA" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://j.mp/AmzGomUSA" target="_blank">http://j.mp/AmzGomUSA</a>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/41858892016-05-18T12:30:43+01:002018-11-14T05:08:10+00:00New signature model guitar!<p>I'm bursting with pride to finally announce that the Jon Gomm <em>Hybrid Top </em>Signature model is now available from Lowden Guitars.<br><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/guitar"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/c6805c57d03234d4207832bfd914e70c20873e51/original/lowden-jon-gomm-signature-model-announcement-image-mailout.jpg?1462225137" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /></a><br><br>It's much more than just a replica of Wilma, my beloved Lowden. It's a guitar with every aspect tailored specifically for the modern player, including the world's first spruce and cedar layered soundboard which I've dubbed the <em>Hybrid Top</em>, for added resilience and epic, deep, powerful tone. I REALLY REALLY LOVE THIS GUITAR! </p>
<p><strong>Register your interest at <a contents="http://jongomm.com/guitar" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/guitar">http://jongomm.com/guitar</a> to get free stuff and find out more. </strong></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/41858882016-05-18T12:29:51+01:002018-12-01T15:42:27+00:00New video Temporary out now<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/diEc9TLa5M8" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/2fc3c0e431ab99343c8c2998c65427909d610c11/original/temporary-youtube-thumbnail.jpg?1462223771" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /></a><br><br>Links so you can spread the love : <br><strong>Youtube:</strong> <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diEc9TLa5M8" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diEc9TLa5M8" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diEc9TLa5M8</a> <br><strong>Facebook:</strong> <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/jongommofficial/videos/1237274052951125/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/jongommofficial/videos/1237274052951125/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/jongommofficial/videos/1237274052951125/</a> </p>
<p><em>Temporary </em>is the 5th release from the <em>Live In The Acoustic Asylum</em> series. The lyrics are blurry, flickering childhood memories of being with my mum at a really difficult time in our lives. The message, if there is one, is: Emotions pass. So, this one’s for my empowering and inspirational friend, Elizabeth Gomm. </p>
<p><strong>Get the Pay What You Want song + album here:</strong> <a contents="http://jongomm.com/music" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/music" target="_blank">http://jongomm.com/music</a> Also on iTunes <a contents="http://j.mp/iTunesGomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://j.mp/iTunesGomm" target="_blank">http://j.mp/iTunesGomm</a> or Google Play <a contents="http://j.mp/GooGom" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://j.mp/GooGom" target="_blank">http://j.mp/GooGom</a> or Amazon <a contents="http://j.mp/AmzGomUSA" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://j.mp/AmzGomUSA" target="_blank">http://j.mp/AmzGomUSA</a> </p>
<p><strong>Guitar Tab available here: </strong><a contents="http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" target="_blank">http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs</a> Transcribed by me, with detailed notes explaining every technique.</p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/41858872016-05-18T12:27:16+01:002018-10-01T12:04:27+01:00Back on TV - Guitar Star series 2<p>I'm gonna be back on TV for an episode of <em>Sky Arts Guitar Star</em>, on air in the UK and Ireland this summer. I think I managed to genuinely improve some kids' technique last year, so hopefully this year's batch will be just as open to my meddling. This series features the actual George Benson among other luminaries. Can't wait to get his autograph. <br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/db5f4979f29234b1da052f13e7cbee7447e48b78/original/jon-gomm-guitar-star-2016.jpg?1462467548" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/41672442016-05-09T10:10:00+01:002018-08-31T14:20:28+01:00Tour Break<p>I'm taking a little break from touring right now, to work on new songs, and to do some big life stuff at home. I'll be back on the road before you can say "epic emotional eight-finger-tapping solo". </p>
<p>There will still be new videos from <em>Acoustic Asylum</em> coming to your internet very soon! </p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who came out to see me in Germany recently. And thanks to anyone who has ever told another person about my music. Last time I toured Germany was right after I had a viral video, so I thought "this is the peak, it's all downhill from here!" (I don't mind that, I spent years playing little pubs and I loved it, and I fully expect to return.) Now 3 years later, my audiences are twice the size. I can't really explain this, so it must be you! Thanks for caring enough to spread the word, it has genuinely changed my life. <br> </p>
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<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/523eb9c3b4db917b8d1c59145ab3e56c0fdc2793/original/berlin.jpg?1462295898" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /> <p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small">Beautiful people in Berlin</span></p> </td> <td>
<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/109bc9e9263f7f59686d85772a84b6bd9761c742/original/onstage-in-cologne.jpg?1462295910" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /> <p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small">On stage in Cologne</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>
<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/1c7f2253038ab86a37ad9e1c668d7ccd28c509f5/original/frankfurt-above-and-hamburg-below.jpg?1462295910" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /> <p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small">Sold out crowds in Frankfurt above and Hamburg below</span></p> </td> <td>
<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/e34e37f9f3ffdc9722a22244f4c9ebce05e400e7/original/with-kugler-und-waloshick-in-cottbus.jpg?1462295910" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /> <p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small">With my German road warriors Kugler & Waloshick </span></p> </td> </tr>
</tbody></table>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/39920242016-01-18T07:35:00+00:002018-09-18T12:24:43+01:00I just uploaded a new video...<span class="font_large"><strong>New video out today, hope you dig it. (And if you do, please share.)</strong></span><br>It's an instrumental tune called Stupid Blues, and it exists purely for the joy of playing.<br><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/7BVUPmRiaXQ"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/62f5716e177e2c9a01ff87fc42aa95886482d97a/original/stupid-blues-youtube-thumbnail.jpg?1452880194" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /></a><br><span class="font_large"><strong>Link: <a contents="https://youtu.be/7BVUPmRiaXQ" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/7BVUPmRiaXQ">https://youtu.be/7BVUPmRiaXQ</a> </strong></span><br><br>This is the 4th release from the Live In The Acoustic Asylum series. Buy the song + album (Pay What You Want) here: <a contents="http://jongomm.com/music" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/music">http://jongomm.com/music</a> or from iTunes <a contents="http://j.mp/iTunesGomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://j.mp/iTunesGomm">http://j.mp/iTunesGomm</a> or Google Play <a contents="http://j.mp/GooGom" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://j.mp/GooGom">http://j.mp/GooGom</a> Amazon <a contents="http://j.mp/AmzGomUSA" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://j.mp/AmzGomUSA">http://j.mp/AmzGomUSA</a><br><br>Guitar Tab only available here: <a contents="http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs">http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs</a> Transcribed by me, with detailed notes explaining every technique.<br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>Tour stuff.</strong></span><br>Just Germany/Switzerland left now, then I'm taking a little break from touring while I concentrate on other stuff, including writing some new songs. (Got a few almost finished that I'm actually quite proud of. A bit.)<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" style="width:800px;"><tbody> <tr> <td><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/live-dates"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/61c0e2ff374add7b1515bf845b552c20ac50ff0e/original/mailout-germany-tour-feb-2016-0266-plakata3-jongomm-04.jpg?1452882129" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /></a></td> <td>Feb 10 - Lagerhaus, BREMEN - DE<br> Feb 11 - Privatclub, BERLIN - DE<br> Feb 12 - Gladhaus, COTTBUS - DE<br> Feb 13 - Beatpol, DRESDEN - DE<br> Feb 15 - Ampere, MÜNCHEN - DE<br> Feb 16 - Franz K, REUTLINGEN - DE<br> Feb 17 - Cubus, BIRRHARD - CH<br> Feb 18 - Kiff, AARAU - CH<br> Feb 20 - Brotfabrik, FRANKFURT - DE<br> Feb 21 - Rathausdiele, SCHWEINFURT - DE<br> Feb 22 - Studio 672, KÖLN - DE<br> Feb 24 - Nochtspeicher, HAMBURG - DE<br> Feb 25 - Pavillion, HANNOVER - DE<br> Feb 26 - Tommy's Workshop, VIERSEN - DE<br> Feb 27 - Edith-Stein-Haus, KAISERSLAUTERN - DE</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Karten / Informationen: <a contents="http://jongomm.com/live-dates" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/live-dates">http://jongomm.com/live-dates</a> </strong></td> </tr>
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<p>Special guests: Kugler & Waloschik <a contents="http://www.kugler-waloschik.de/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.kugler-waloschik.de/">http://www.kugler-waloschik.de/</a></p>
<p>Please take note: Some of these concerts are rescheduled from 2015. Check with the venue to see if your original ticket is still valid.<br><br><span style="font-size: 16.8px;"><b>Hey, nice to meet you.</b></span><br>Thanks to everyone who came out to see me in Canada, the UK and around Asia at the end of last year. Every gig was awesome. How lucky am I? Very. Here's just a few highlights...</p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" style="width:650px;"><tbody> <tr> <td> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/d38a11630f31ada68168605f0d7fd62d0055005a/original/with-don-ross-in-canada.jpg?1452956255" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small">With the kind, hilarious genius Don Ross in Canada.</span></div> </td> <td> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/315e71966efff3580fe269ddcf2f2c4377e1a17a/original/southampton-audience.jpg?1452956443" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small">Tweet after this gig in Southampton:<br> "If I die today, at least I saw Jon Gomm live." :)</span></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/226afd80e85af2e437cf1e26ac8d65e408aaf056/original/the-fans-in-huddersfield.jpg?1452956695" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small">Bar 122 Huddersfield, a venue that's part of my DNA.</span></div> </td> <td> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/44ef2915b768c44710ec23e4a3f5b770b2fefd49/original/jazz-cafe-london.jpg?1452956815" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small">An unforgettable night at The Jazz Cafe, London.</span></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/392cc82c055d026eb167c940fa173214b262e651/original/10598178-570390119780429-1010494839-n.jpg?1452957539" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small">On stage in China. Guitar + Human = Music.</span></div> </td> <td> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/c1d7356e365853b742fd4b9ea0452ede99ea73cf/original/mongolia-press-conference.jpg?1452957637" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small">Just another average day holding a press<br> conference in Mongolia. O_O</span></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/8d3b8d50c4623c1d6a83cda89dc57a2a9b8d8e33/original/hong-kong-festival-crowd.jpg?1452957849" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_small">The beautiful crowd at Clockenflap festival, Hong Kong.</span></div> </td> <td> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/8e9629eb1e6b5f3c960526837937d3c54be141eb/original/shanghai-gig.jpg?1452957930" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></div>
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<span class="font_small">A global audience in Shanghai.</span> </div> </td> </tr>
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<p>Another new video and more VERY exciting news soon (Argh I so wanna spill about this one thing. Soon!) In the meantime, please stay in touch with me at: <br><br>Facebook : <a contents="http://facebook.com/jongommofficial" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://facebook.com/jongommofficial">http://facebook.com/jongommofficial</a><br>Twitter : <a contents="http://twitter.com/jongomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://twitter.com/jongomm">http://twitter.com/jongomm</a><br>Instagram : <a contents="http://instagram.com/jongomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://instagram.com/jongomm">http://instagram.com/jongomm</a><br>Google Plus : <a contents="https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusic" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusic">https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusic</a><br><br>Love from,<br>Jon<br>x</p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/38410512015-09-08T08:15:00+01:002018-11-20T03:01:34+00:00I made a new album and a new video, and they're both out today...<div>
<span class="font_large"><strong>New video and album out today.</strong></span><br>This song means a lot to me, so releasing it is terrifying, like a bird pushing her baby out of the nest and hoping it flies. Hope you like it. If you do, please tell somebody about it. </div>
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<a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKdbLhuSAyg" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKdbLhuSAyg" style="color: rgb(0, 1, 92);" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/2c37317a3b474cad92d552fcda18ce072293f5a3/original/whats-left-for-you-youtube-thumbnail.jpg?1441287022" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /><br><span style="color:#0000FF;"><strong>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKdbLhuSAyg</strong></span></a><br><br>Get the album <em><strong>Live In The Acoustic Asylum</strong></em>, out today, Pay What You Want, from <strong><a contents="http://jongomm.com/music" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/music" style="color: rgb(0, 1, 92);" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000FF;">http://jongomm.com/music</span></a> </strong>(or from iTunes <a contents="http://j.mp/iTunesGomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://j.mp/iTunesGomm" style="color: rgb(0, 1, 92);" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000FF;">http://j.mp/iTunesGomm</span></a> but it's twice the price and I get less money). Guitar Tab available from <strong><a contents="http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" style="color: rgb(0, 1, 92);" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000FF;">http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs</span></a> </strong><br><br>This is how these songs should've always sounded. Organic, warm, raw. Alive. Signed CDs also available...<br><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/cds" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/21a86df68bbf73a87b9e6d9bff5375a1389e9f18/original/jon-holding-cd-live-in-the-acoustic-asylum-sep-2015-mailout.jpg?1441289264" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /></a><br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>Tour Dates - now with added Germany (and Switzerland)</strong></span><br>Finally I can announce the rescheduled Germany dates I had to cancel earlier this year. Thankyou for your patience. I'm gonna be joined by my old mates <a contents="Kugler &amp; Waloschik" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.kugler-waloschik.de/" style="color: rgb(0, 1, 92);" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000FF;">Kugler & Waloschik</span></a> who will be my support artists for the entire tour. <br><br>And don't forget, the Leeds gig with Antoine Dufour is this week, and the Canada Tour with Don Ross is imminent. Some dates just announced for Asia too.<br><br><strong>Tickets and information about every concert at <a contents="http://jongomm.com/live-dates" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/live-dates" style="color: rgb(0, 1, 92);" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000FF;">http://jongomm.com/live-dates</span></a> </strong><br><br>September 10 - Jon Gomm & Antoine Dufour - <strong>LEEDS, UK</strong><br>September 12 - London Acoustic Guitar Show (Live Stage)<br>September 13 - London Acoustic Guitar Show (Masterclass)<br><br>September 18-20 - Guitar Weekend with Don Ross - <strong>Port Hope, CANADA</strong><br>September 19 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Port Hope, CANADA</strong><br>September 20 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Toronto, CANADA</strong><br>September 22 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Québec City, CANADA</strong><br>September 24 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>London, CANADA</strong><br>September 25 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Kitchener, CANADA</strong><br>September 26 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Calgary, CANADA</strong><br>September 27 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Vancouver, CANADA</strong><br>September 30 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Victoria, CANADA</strong> <br><br>October 15 - <strong>Huddersfield, UK</strong><br>October 17 - <strong>Devizes, UK</strong><br>October 18 - <strong>Bristol, UK</strong><br>October 20 - <strong>Milton Keynes, UK</strong><br>October 21 - <strong>London, UK</strong><br>October 24 - <strong>Cardiff, UK</strong><br>October 25 - <strong>Newton Abbot, UK</strong><br>October 27 - <strong>Southampton, UK </strong><br><br>November 27 – <strong>HONG KONG</strong><br>November 28 – <strong>HONG KONG</strong>, TBA<br>November 29 – Seoul, <strong>SOUTH KOREA</strong>, TBA<br>December 2 – Ulaanbaatar, <strong>MONGOLIA</strong><br>December 3 – Beijing, <strong>CHINA</strong><br>December 4 – Luoyang, <strong>CHINA</strong><br>December 5 – Shanghai, <strong>CHINA</strong><br><br>February 10 - <strong>Bremen, GERMANY</strong><br>February 11 - <strong>Berlin, GERMANY</strong><br>February 12 - <strong>Cottbus, GERMANY</strong><br>February 13 - <strong>Dresden, GERMANY</strong><br>February 15 - <strong>München, GERMANY</strong><br>February 16 - <strong>Reutlingen, GERMANY</strong><br>February 17 - <strong>Birrhard, SWITZERLAND</strong><br>February 18 - <strong>Aarau, SWITZERLAND</strong><br>February 20 - <strong>Frankfurt, GERMANY</strong><br>February 21 - <strong>Schweinfurt, GERMANY</strong><br>February 22 - <strong>Köln, GERMANY</strong><br>February 24 - <strong>Hamburg, GERMANY</strong><br>February 26 - <strong>Hannover, GERMANY</strong><br>February 27 - <strong>Kaiserslautern, GERMANY</strong><br><br><strong>Tickets and information about every concert at <a contents="http://jongomm.com/live-dates" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/live-dates" style="color: rgb(0, 1, 92);" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000FF;">http://jongomm.com/live-dates</span></a><span style="color:#0000FF;"> </span></strong><br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>Another dodgy new interview</strong></span><br>I was asked "who is the most over-rated guitarist?" and I was on a bipolar day so, stupidly, I answered, and with some enthusiasm. Seriously hope the guitarist in question never hears this. Argh. Pretty funny interview with the lovely Scott Cowie, here (audio):<br>iTunes: <a contents="https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/ep-75-jon-gomm/id815283888?i=350236048" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/ep-75-jon-gomm/id815283888?i=350236048" style="color: rgb(0, 1, 92);" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000FF;">https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/ep-75-jon-gomm/id815283888?i=350236048</span></a><br>Soundcloud: <a contents="https://soundcloud.com/scowiemusic/ep-75-jon-gomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://soundcloud.com/scowiemusic/ep-75-jon-gomm" style="color: rgb(0, 1, 92);" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000FF;">https://soundcloud.com/scowiemusic/ep-75-jon-gomm</span></a><br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>Thanks.</strong></span><br>Thankyou SO MUCH to everyone who has watched and shared my two recent videos. Thanks to you, <a contents="The Weather Machine" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/jongommofficial/videos/vb.130391886972686/1073477269330805" style="color: rgb(0, 1, 92);" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000FF;"><em>The Weather Machine</em></span></a> hit 250,000 views after the first week. There's still 6 more videos in the can from the <em>Acoustic Asylum</em> series. My friend Owen "Passionflower" Plummer is busy editing the footage, and I'm busy transcribing the guitar tabs, and the next video will be out as soon as we can get it ready. <br><br>Keep in touch, yeah? :)<br><br>Facebook : <a contents="http://facebook.com/jongommofficial" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://facebook.com/jongommofficial" style="color: rgb(0, 1, 92);" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000FF;">http://facebook.com/jongommofficial</span></a><br>Twitter : <a contents="http://twitter.com/jongomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://twitter.com/jongomm" style="color: rgb(0, 1, 92);" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000FF;">http://twitter.com/jongomm</span></a><br>Instagram : <a contents="http://instagram.com/jongomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://instagram.com/jongomm" style="color: rgb(0, 1, 92);" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000FF;">http://instagram.com/jongomm</span></a><br>Google Plus : <a contents="https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusic" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusic" style="color: rgb(0, 1, 92);" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000FF;">https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusic</span></a><br>Youtube : <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/jongomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/jongomm" style="color: rgb(0, 1, 92);" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000FF;">https://www.youtube.com/jongomm</span></a><br><br>Love from, <br>Jon</div>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/38374682015-09-01T20:07:28+01:002018-11-07T09:30:28+00:00Canada Tour with Don Ross + one-off Leeds gig with Antoine Dufour <span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I'm honoured to be touring Canada this month with <a contents="Don Ross" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.donrossonline.com/" target="_blank">Don Ross</a>. Don is one of the few true über-gods of the contemporary acoustic guitar style, and is a massive influence on me and my generation of guitarists. He is one of the kindest, most thoughtful people I've ever met. OK, now I'm embarassing myself, so I'll move on. Here's one of my favourite Don Ross tunes, and the tour dates below...</span>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ktFwCQrLJDM" data-video-thumb-url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/ktFwCQrLJDM/0.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ktFwCQrLJDM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="300" width="480" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/1ed1eb56d094bbf4f9fc83d0353d74b21f39e02f/original/don-ross-jon-gomm-canada-2015.jpg?1441132053" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><br><span class="font_regular">But before I leave, I have a special one-off gig with Quebecois guitar-genius <a contents="Antoine Dufour" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.antoinedufourmusic.com/" target="_blank">Antoine Dufour</a>, in Leeds, to launch my album <em><a contents="Live In The Acoustic Asylum" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/home/blog/i-made-nine-new-videos-first-one-drops-next-month-and-i-m-releasing-the-audio-as-an-album-brace-ev" target="_blank">Live In The Acoustic Asylum</a>. </em><a contents="Tickets here [CLICK]" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://glasswerk.co.uk/concerts/gig/12717/Jon+Gomm+&+Antoine+Dufour-Brudenell,+Leeds/" target="_blank">Tickets here [CLICK]</a> and here's a Dufour classic to whet your appetite...</span></span>
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<div>I have another brand new video for you, it's called <em>The Weather Machine</em>. Watch here: <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kph8r0Rh6M8&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kph8r0Rh6M8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kph8r0Rh6M8 </a><br><br>Pleeeeease share it with your friends (if you like it), to help me get this music into as many ears as possible, and hopefully continue my lifelong mission of not getting a real job. <br> </div>
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<br>The lyrics tell an allegorical tale mocking Western anti-terror propaganda. Musically it's a metal-heavy Arabic-influenced onslaught. It might offend the sensibilities of some of my acoustic purist fans (sorry folks), but to me being a songwriter is sometimes about more than painting pretty pictures.<br><br>This is the second video from the album <em>Live In The Acoustic Asylum</em>, out September 8th. <strong>Download the song, or pre-order the full album, and Pay What You Want, here: </strong><a contents="http://jongomm.com/music" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/music">http://jongomm.com/music</a><strong> Guitar tab available here: </strong><a contents="http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs">http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs</a><br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>New Album Update</strong></span><br>If you're not sure about pre-ordering the album, or need a way to convince your friends, here's quotes from some very flattering reviews it's had already: <br><br><em>"These are the kind of songs only the dead could fail to be moved by."</em> - Musical Melting Pot<br><br><em>"An inexplicably wondrous album that will take your breath away and leave you in a musical daze. And, even though it’s a live album, the recording quality is phenomenal so get your best headphones out, whack up the volume and shut out the world."</em> - Mytacism Music<br><br>And thanks to twitter, my last video <em>Gloria</em> had these lovely endorsements from David Crosby (Crosby, Stills & Nash), Steve Lukather (Toto), and Tommy Lee (Motley Crue)...<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/8bfc865a2a92368463359ee7d266e460aa519539/original/2015-1-1.jpg?1439405552" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /><br><br><span style="font-size: 16.7999992370605px;"><b>Confessional new Interview </b></span><br>I talk about the weird reality of performing with bi-polar disorder, dealing with a drunk docker on stage, and authenticity in music, in this painfully frank and honest new interview: <a contents="http://www.themusicalmeltingpot.com/2015/08/12/jon-gomm-interview/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.themusicalmeltingpot.com/2015/08/12/jon-gomm-interview/">http://www.themusicalmeltingpot.com/2015/08/12/jon-gomm-interview/</a> Maybe I'm too open for my own good. :/ <br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>Sky Arts 'Guitar Star'</strong></span><br>UK and Ireland people might have seen me on the actual TV recently: I was invited to be a guest mentor for the semi-final of TV show Guitar Star. It seemed to me like a cool show about the craft of guitar playing, with no horrible X Factor stuff like tragic back-stories or shady contracts for the winners. The other mentors were people like Tony Iommi, Nitin Sawhney and Paco Peña, so I've no idea why they asked me!<br><br>Meeting Paco Peña was magical for me: I first heard his intensely passionate, powerful music when I checked one of his albums out of Blackpool Library when I was 12 years old. Now I have his autograph on the back of my guitar!<br><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/0f02c87dca2ffb10f6f4a7e3d751319f800c0baf/original/2015-1.jpg?1439406187" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /></span><br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>Tour dates and Asia shout-out</strong></span><br>It looks like I'll be heading to Asia for dates in China, South Korea and Hong Kong at the end of 2015, and we're trying to set up more in the region. So if you know a promoter or venue (or you are one) who might want to organise a show, tell them to give me a shout! The best person to email is my awesome, long-suffering manager Natasha at info@jongomm.com <br><br>Here's the rest of my upcoming dates, including shows with guitar geniuses Don Ross and Antoine Dufour, and some regular solo gigs.<br><br><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Tickets and information about every concert at <a contents="http://jongomm.com/live-dates" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/live-dates" style="color: rgb(11, 113, 182); text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">http://jongomm.com/live-dates</a></strong><br><br>September 10 - Jon Gomm & Antoine Dufour - <strong>LEEDS, UK</strong><br>September 12 - <strong>London Acoustic Guitar Show</strong> (Live Stage)<br>September 13 - <strong>London Acoustic Guitar Show</strong> (Masterclass)<br>September 18-20 - Guitar Weekend with Don Ross - <strong>Port Hope, CANADA</strong><br>September 19 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Port Hope, CANADA</strong><br>September 20 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Toronto, CANADA</strong><br>September 22 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Québec City, CANADA</strong><br>September 24 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>London, CANADA</strong><br>September 25 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Kitchener, CANADA</strong><br>September 26 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Calgary, CANADA</strong><br>September 27 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Vancouver, CANADA</strong><br>September 30 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Victoria, CANADA - New show!</strong><br>October 15 - solo show - <strong>Huddersfield, UK</strong><br>October 17 - solo show - <strong>Devizes, UK</strong><br>October 18 - solo show - <strong>Bristol, UK</strong><br>October 20 - solo show - <strong>Milton Keynes, UK</strong><br>October 21 - solo show - <strong>London, UK</strong><br>October 24 - solo show - <strong>Cardiff, UK</strong><br>October 25 - solo show - <strong>Newton Abbot, UK</strong><br>October 27 - solo show - <strong>Southampton, UK</strong> <br><br><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Tickets and information about every concert at <a contents="http://jongomm.com/live-dates" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/live-dates" style="color: rgb(11, 113, 182); text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">http://jongomm.com/live-dates</a></strong><br><br>OK, that's all my news, thanks for caring enough to read it, it means the world to me. I'll be back in touch on September 8th with another brand new video for you, and that'll be album release day too! <br><br>In the meantime you can keep in touch with me at<br><br>Facebook : <a contents="http://facebook.com/jongommofficial" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://facebook.com/jongommofficial" style="color: rgb(11, 113, 182); text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">http://facebook.com/jongommofficial</a><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Twitter : <a contents="http://twitter.com/jongomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://twitter.com/jongomm" style="color: rgb(11, 113, 182); text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">http://twitter.com/jongomm</a><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Instagram : <a contents="http://instagram.com/jongomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://instagram.com/jongomm" style="color: rgb(11, 113, 182); text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">http://instagram.com/jongomm</a><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Google Plus : <a contents="https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusic" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusic" style="color: rgb(11, 113, 182); text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusic</a><br><br><em><strong>Love from,<br>Jon</strong></em>
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</div>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/37682492015-07-28T08:30:00+01:002018-08-24T04:51:17+01:00New video out today! Plus new album pre-order + tour dates...<span class="font_large"><strong>Hey! Wanna watch my new video?</strong></span><br>Gloria is probably my most requested song at gigs, it's about my first girlfriend from when I was 16. This performance is 100% live and organic. Watch it here: <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl1sbRi9tRs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl1sbRi9tRs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl1sbRi9tRs</a> <br> <br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl1sbRi9tRs"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/92bd4047d27a6e16d132611406c96fea4d790df8/original/gloria-youtube-thumbnail.jpg?1435842269" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /></a><br><br>Please share it if you like it, it really matters. Most people only know about my music because of you sharing my videos with your friends.<br> <br>Pay What You Want single and album pre-order available here: <a contents="http://jongomm.com/music" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/music">http://jongomm.com/music</a>. Guitar Tab available here: <a contents="http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs">http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs</a><br> <br><span class="font_large">This is the first of nine new videos from the <strong>Live In The Acoustic Asylum</strong> sessions.</span> <br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/music"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/23681c9b4f1413560851d861e6c1b11f727f31bc/original/live-in-the-acoustic-asylum-cover-art-400x400.jpg?1435845357" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /></a><br><span class="font_regular">This 9 track album consists of audio from the live performances filmed for the <em>Acoustic Asylum</em> videos. The tracks are all new and improved performances of fan favourites and hidden gems from my old records. <strong>Pre order the album NOW at <a contents="http://jongomm.com/music" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/music">http://jongomm.com/music</a>.</strong> It's only £3.99 (around 6 bucks), but please pay more if you want to. :)</span><br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>Upcoming Tour Dates...</strong></span><br>If there's nothing close to you: I'm working on it. I've played on every continent, I'm aiming for every country. But for now, maybe there's something close to a friend who you can recommend me to? Oh, and the rescheduled Germany dates will be announced very very soon!<br><br><strong>Tickets and information about every concert at <a contents="http://jongomm.com/live-dates" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/live-dates">http://jongomm.com/live-dates</a></strong><br><br>September 10 - Jon Gomm & Antoine Dufour - <strong>LEEDS, UK</strong><br>September 12 - London Acoustic Guitar Show (Live Stage)<br>September 13 - London Acoustic Guitar Show (Masterclass)<br>September 18-20 - Guitar Weekend with Don Ross - <strong>Port Hope, CANADA</strong><br>September 19 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Port Hope, CANADA</strong><br>September 20 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Toronto, CANADA</strong><br>September 22 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Québec City, CANADA</strong><br>September 24 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>London, CANADA</strong><br>September 25 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Kitchener, CANADA</strong><br>September 26 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Calgary, CANADA</strong><br>September 27 - Jon Gomm & Don Ross - <strong>Vancouver, CANADA</strong><br>October 15 - solo show - <strong>Huddersfield, UK</strong><br>October 17 - solo show - <strong>Devizes, UK</strong><br>October 18 - solo show - <strong>Bristol, UK</strong><br>October 20 - solo show - <strong>Milton Keynes, UK</strong><br>October 21 - solo show - <strong>London, UK</strong><br>October 24 - solo show - <strong>Cardiff, UK</strong><br>October 25 - solo show - <strong>Newton Abbot, UK</strong><br>October 27 - solo show - <strong>Southampton, UK<br><br>Tickets and information about every concert at <a contents="http://jongomm.com/live-dates" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/live-dates">http://jongomm.com/live-dates</a></strong><br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>OK, that's it for now. I'll be back in touch in 3 weeks, when the next video goes live!</strong></span><br>Thanks for giving a monkeys about an independent musician. There's no record label or corporate backing, every time you share my videos or buy my music, you are supporting me directly. Thanks thanks thanks. <br><br><em><strong>Love from,<br>Jon</strong></em><br><br>P.S. If you're not following my antics on a social network, you're missing some fun stuff. 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<br><span class="font_large"><strong>July 28th 2015</strong> - first video and Pay What You Want* single, plus album pre-orders available<br><strong>August 18th 2015</strong> - second video and Pay What You Want* single<br><strong>September 8th 2015</strong> - third video and album release<br><br>Singles will be Pay What You Want, minimum £0.20 (that's about $0.30). The album will be £3.99 (about $6), but you can pay more if you want. Think of it this way: the minimum price covers the costs of making the video/album. Any more you pay goes towards supporting me as a musician so I don't have to quit and get a real job. <br><br>There's no record label or corporate sponsor. There's precisely two people in this relationship: me (the musician) and you (the listener).<br><br>All the singles are new and improved performances of tunes from my old albums.</span>
</div><br><em><strong>So Jon, what's the idea behind Live In The Acoustic Asylum?</strong></em><br><br>At most of my gigs you can kinda split the fans into two groups: the big group of new folks who've known about me since my online video stuff went nuts, and the small group who've been coming to see me for a decade. And the die-hards tend to request older songs which don't have videos online, and most of the audience have never seen me play, and they get really excited by that music, it's like new material for them. So I decided I better make some videos for those tunes!<br><br>So I picked a list of songs which are either the most requested, or are "hidden gems", that I have real love for but don't often play, or songs I wasn't truly happy with the album version of. And I practised the f*** out of them, and spent three days filming. In the end we got performances for 9 songs that I was really happy with.<br><br>I mixed the audio with my friend, producer Ed Heaton, in his basement, and when we finally finished and listened to it all through, we just looked at each other and without even saying anything we knew we were just thinking: "This has to be an album". <br><br><em><strong>How is it different from your usual recordings?</strong></em><br><br>Because these songs are a "performance" - I'm playing for cameras, knowing there's an audience on the other side of the lens. So I'm totally focussed on communicating the stories and emotions, not on getting the notes right. And the sound is all coming through the pedals I use live, rather than studio gear, so it has this more organic, warmer feel. It sounds like you're in the room with me.<br><br>Music in the end is just air set in motion, by my guitar and my voice. Air vibrating in patterns and pulses. I hope that listening to this recording feels like you are there, in the room, with me, feeling that air move against your skin.<br><br><strong><em>What / where is The Acoustic Asylum?</em></strong><br><br>It was a hot, dark room, at a secret location in Leeds, Great Britain. There was no audience, because I was playing the songs for YOU. Live albums are great until the audience start clapping, and you feel sad you weren't there. Think of the Acoustic Asylum as a tiny, intimate venue that exists in my head and in yours.<br><br> <div style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Pay What You Want singles and Guitar Tab will be available <strong>exclusively from jongomm.com </strong><br><br>The album will be available on iTunes and the other usual outlets, but will be <strong>much cheaper from jongomm.com </strong></span></div> <div id="fb-root"> </div><script>(function(d, s, id) {
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<div class="fb-comments" colorscheme="dark" data-href="http://jongomm.com/home/blog/i-made-nine-new-videos-first-one-drops-next-month-and-i-m-releasing-the-audio-as-an-album-brace-ev" data-numposts="5"> </div>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/37155592015-05-21T14:46:00+01:002018-08-25T03:38:36+01:00Rescheduled UK Dates...So you might know that I had a crazy year so far. I was out on tour in Germany, and after 2 gigs I had to rush home to look after my wife, who'd been taken into hospital. Driving home from Munich to Leeds (via a motorway motel and a ferry), abandoning a tour to see a sick loved one, was not a nice experience. <br><br>Then the UK tour was immediately afterwards. We made the decision to go for it, and all was going well. Sadly, however, we had to use our day off to go back into hospital, and Natasha was told she needed surgery. So, we had to cancel more shows. She had the surgery on Monday, we took the rest of the week off at home, then we actually made it back out on the road and finished the tour! Which was hard, but actually we felt so much better for having done it. <br><br>People who've seen me live will know how much emotion goes into my performances. I think the gigs that happened were super-emotional, sometimes the air seemed to be vibrating like the rim of a glass, waiting to crack. For me, it was electric and unforgettable. And mental.<br><br>Thanks to everyone for their support and understanding. The rescheduled Germany dates are on their way, but the UK dates are ready. <br><br><strong>Full venue and ticket information is on the <a contents="Live Dates" data-link-label="live-dates" data-link-type="page" href="http://jongomm.com/live-dates">Live Dates</a> page. </strong><br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/1091547a7de304ebdad9dfe3fd92f26a64547db0/original/rescheduled-postponed-uk-tour-dates-2015-with-logos.jpg?1432214155" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br><br>Here's a nice fan phone video from the UK tour, of Passionflower in it's natural habitat: from the 5th row in a tiny venue: <br><br><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="es8TMxN-sNw" data-video-thumb-url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/es8TMxN-sNw/0.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/es8TMxN-sNw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="400" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe><br><br>Oh and by the way, I have a new release coming soon. And lots of videos. More info on the way.<br><br>Thanks for reading, see you on the road! <br>Jon<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/4b72e2cf01c3fe5e89ec80e1db8ee9076696f33f/original/back-camera-selfie-concentration-face.jpg?1432215878" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/32635552014-11-03T11:00:00+00:002018-08-11T15:03:03+01:00I made a new video. Plus news, tour dates...<div>
<span class="font_large"><strong>I have a NEW video! </strong></span><br>This one's all about the fat groove, it's called <em>Dance Of The Last Rhino</em>.<br>Watch it here: <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOofWEjNInc" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOofWEjNInc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOofWEjNInc</a>
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<div>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. <br><br>Get the Guitar Tab at <a contents="http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs">http://jongomm.com/guitar-tabs</a><br><br>To try to entice some new fans to take the plunge and actually buy something, I've made the song available <strong>for a penny</strong>, only from <a contents="http://jongomm.com/downloads" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://jongomm.com/downloads" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">http://jongomm.com/downloads</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">(offer ends soon!) </span><br><br>10% of all proceeds (from the music and tab) go to Save The Rhino <a contents="http://www.savetherhino.org/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://www.savetherhino.org/">http://www.savetherhino.org/</a> <br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>Tour News</strong></span><br>Next 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!)<br><br>The Germany tour is in January, and <strong>the full UK Tour will be March 2nd to April 5th</strong>, 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. <br><br>And I'm teaching at a <a contents="Residential Guitar Bootcamp" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://www.thomasleeb.com/bootcamp/">Residential Guitar Bootcamp</a> at a beautiful resort in the Austrian Alps, if you feel like a guitar-centric summer holiday!<br><br><strong>2014</strong><br>November 13 - AIRDRIE, <strong>UK</strong><br>November 14 - IRVINE, <strong>UK</strong><br>November 15 - ARBROATH, <strong>UK</strong><br>November 16 - EDINBURGH, <strong>UK</strong><br>November 20 - BELFAST,<strong> Northern Ireland</strong><br>December 6 - YORK, UK - SOLD OUT!<br><br><strong>2015</strong><br>January 24 - GROßKARLBACH, <strong>Germany</strong><br>January 25 - KARLSRUHE, <strong>Germany</strong><br>January 26 - MÜNCHEN, <strong>Germany</strong><br>January 29 - DRESDEN, <strong>Germany</strong><br>January 30 - SEIDENROTH, <strong>Germany</strong><br>January 31 - KAISERSLAUTERN, <strong>Germany</strong><br>February 1 - VIERSEN, <strong>Germany</strong><br>February 3 - KÖLNE, <strong>Germany</strong><br>February 4 - MÜNSTER, <strong>Germany</strong><br>February 5 - BREMEN, <strong>Germany</strong><br>February 6 - BERLIN, <strong>Germany</strong><br>February 7 - HAMBURG, <strong>Germany</strong><br>July 11-17 - <a contents="Thomas Leeb's Guitar Bootcamp" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://www.thomasleeb.com/bootcamp/">Thomas Leeb's Guitar Bootcamp</a>, <strong>Austria</strong><br><br><strong>Tickets and information about every concert at <a contents="http://jongomm.com/live-dates" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/live-dates">http://jongomm.com/live-dates</a></strong><br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>So, Jon, what have you been up to?</strong></span><br>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:<br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://on.fb.me/1E6eJfN"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/212da760ca7f348d7efe64e4a2073efbea8384ad/original/soares-jon-gomm-small.jpg?1414693417" class="size_orig justify_none border_thin" alt="" style="margin: 5px 20px;" /></a><br>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:<br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://on.fb.me/1nTwYRC"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/4142d163ddaabca29382400aa1e0cf39039de227/original/downloadfest-jon-gomm-small.jpg?1414693550" class="size_orig justify_none border_thin" alt="" style="margin: 5px 20px;" /></a><br>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:<br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://on.fb.me/1tmEPqi"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/ffad2d9e4a247e27d786785350f9af08362094ee/original/nile-jon-gomm-small.jpg?1414693706" class="size_orig justify_none border_thin" alt="" style="margin: 5px 20px;" /></a><br>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. :)<br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>Viral madness...</strong></span><br>In a completely unexpected development, Passionflower is going viral <em>again</em>. A lad named <a contents="Alexis Hadefi made a video of himself" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://on.fb.me/1yJYZfE">Alexis Hadefi made a video of himself</a> 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. <br><br>In the wake of this, <a contents="I uploaded the original video to Facebook" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://on.fb.me/1sLHbBl">I uploaded the original video to Facebook</a>, 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. <br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>So, Jon, what's next?</strong></span><br>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.<br><br>So, watch this space.<br><br><strong>Keep up to date with all my adventures at: </strong><br><br><strong>Facebook </strong>: <a contents="http://facebook.com/jongommofficial" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://facebook.com/jongommofficial">http://facebook.com/jongommofficial</a><br><strong>Twitter </strong>: <a contents="http://twitter.com/jongomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://twitter.com/jongomm">http://twitter.com/jongomm</a><br><strong>Instagram </strong>: <a contents="http://instagram.com/jongomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://instagram.com/jongomm">http://instagram.com/jongomm</a><br><strong>Google Plus</strong> : <a contents="https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusic" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusic">https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusic</a><br><strong>Youtube </strong>: <a contents="http://youtube.com/jongomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://youtube.com/jongomm">http://youtube.com/jongomm</a><br><br>Thanks 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. :)<br><br>Love from,<br>Jon</div>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/31691832014-09-03T12:15:52+01:002018-08-25T03:27:07+01:00Road memories #1 - African Township Adventure<div>
<em><strong>My story of diverting my South Africa tour into a township. See what happened....</strong></em><br><br><span class="hasCaption">While I was on tour in South Africa last year, we drove from the airport to our hotel in swanky downtown Cape Town. The drive takes you past some huge townships, which are basically slums - living conditions for most people are not great. People may have no running water, no electricity, no floor even; A large family lives in a one-room shack made of found materials with a dirt floor, and one chem<span class="text_exposed_show">ical portable toilet to share with dozens of other families. Like many tourists, I couldn't believe my eyes.<br><br>As soon as we got to our (very luxurious) hotel I was googling for any music or youth projects happening in these townships, and I managed to get in contact with <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=174416132618565" href="https://www.facebook.com/HappyFeetYouthProject">Happy Feet Youth Project</a> in Langa township. And I offered to to visit and play a gig.<br><br>So, this happened...</span></span><br><br><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag. --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the widget to render. --><div class="g-post" data-href="https://plus.google.com/112968403220107480396/posts/Zb8ojfeNFNj"> </div>
<br><strong><a contents="Click here if you can't see the video" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusic/posts/Zb8ojfeNFNj?pid=6054803039464222786&oid=112968403220107480396" target="_blank">Click here if you can't see the video</a> </strong><br><br>The video here is me jamming with a local Xhosa MC. The electricity was jerry-rigged from a nearby streetlight. Afterwards the MC was tearful in thanking me, saying he never thought he'd get to play with a professional "western" musician. But I had to tell him no, thank YOU, because this was one of the proudest days of my musical life.<br><br>Sorry the sound and picture quality is not great, it's just from Natasha's phone.<br><br>On the plane back to Europe, we sat next to a British woman who'd moved to South Africa in the 1970s. We told her about our experience. She said she'd never ever dream of going into a township, that we must have been insane, it's so dangerous. And that if conditions were so bad, why did "they" keep having children?<br><br>South Africa is a beautiful country of beautiful people and, despite this woman, I departed feeling overwhelmed with hope about the future of the human race. I believe that people like that woman are the past, not just of South Africa, but of the whole world. And people like... well like most of us, who care enough to take responsibility for the problems of our nations and our neighbours, whether strangers or friends - We are the future.</div>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/29100882014-04-30T17:38:33+01:002018-09-24T14:19:54+01:00UK and Ireland Gigs incoming!<div>
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<br><u><b>PRESS RELEASE: Jon Gomm On Home Soil</b></u><br><br>Singer-songwriter and youtube guitar hero Jon Gomm is taking a break from his international touring commitments to play a few intimate shows around the British Isles. </div>He released his latest album <i>Secrets Nobody Keeps</i> last year, with songs described as "masterpieces inflected with tribal rhythms, pop melodic sense and Gomm’s flowing, draped over vocals that would surely make even Eric Clapton blush." Since the release he's been busy traversing the globe, with tours having taken in Africa, Asia, South America as well as Europe. <br> </div>But Gomm is delighted to have a bit of time to reconnect with the audiences he knows best. "Music is communication, and that's easiest when you speak the same language as the people your performing to," he admits. "My lyrics are really personal, and I try to put that across overseas but it will be really nice to not have to work so hard in that way." <br><br><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jon will be playing songs from </span><i style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Secrets Nobody Keeps</i><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, which includes the song </span><i style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Passionflower </i><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">which has been watched 6 million times on youtube, and which was tweeted to fame in the UK by Stephen Fry, who is among other celebrity fans including Rod Stewart and Chaka Khan.</span><br><br>May 16: <strong>London</strong>, UK - 100 Club<br>May 17: Leeds, UK - Holy Trinity Church<br>May 21: <strong>Galway</strong>, Ireland - Roisin Dubh<br>May 23: <strong>Dublin</strong>, Ireland - Button Factory<br>May 24: <strong>Cork</strong>, Ireland - The Pavillion<br>May 27: <strong>Chester</strong>, UK - Telfords Warehouse<br>May 28: <strong>Redditch</strong>, UK - Queens Head<br>May 29: <strong>Clitheroe</strong>, UK - The Grand<br>May 31: The Acoustic Festival of Britain, UK<br>June 3: <strong>Brighton</strong>, UK - Sticky Mike's Frog Bar<br>June 4: <strong>Milton Keynes</strong>, UK - The Crauford Arms, Wolverton<br>June 5: <strong>Maidstone</strong>, UK - The Rafters<br>June 6: London Folk Fest - The Bedford, Balham<br><br><strong>All information and tickets at: <a contents="http://jongomm.com/live-dates" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/live-dates">http://jongomm.com/live-dates</a><br><br>Facebook event: <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/events/444512982359108" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/444512982359108">https://www.facebook.com/events/444512982359108</a></strong>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/28314202014-03-31T13:13:38+01:002018-08-11T15:04:59+01:00New video "Everything" released today, plus tour news...I made a new video. You can watch it here: <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmWQXknDE88" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmWQXknDE88">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmWQXknDE88</a><br><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://youtu.be/fmWQXknDE88"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/3a53440f8271947e95e004747174e07db0048367/original/everything-youtube-video-thumbnail.jpg?1396101856" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Everything-youtube-image" /></a><br><br>The song is called <strong>Everything </strong>and it's the 3rd single from my latest album, <strong>Secrets Nobody Keeps</strong>. It's a twisted love song. It's about obsession, really. It's the song I had the most comments about from the album, which really surprised me, just because it's so prog - nearly ten minutes long, two time signatures, shreddy guitar solo, even cameo appearances from other songs...<br><br>If you like it, please share it by posting it on your social networks or forwarding this email to someone. :)<br> <div>
<strong>The song, album and guitar Tab are all available from: <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/store" target="_blank">http://jongomm.com/store</a> (or other inferior shops like iTunes and Amazon)</strong><br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>Tour Stuff:</strong></span><br>Coming up I have tours in Brazil, UK, and Ireland, and we're plotting a trip to Canada in the Summer so please get in touch if you want me to play somewhere.<br><br>April 3 - Guitar Workshop - São Paulo , <strong>BRAZIL </strong>- EM&T Escola de música e Tecnologia<br>April 8 - São Paulo, <strong>BRAZIL </strong>- Bourbon Street<br>April 10 - São Paulo, <strong>BRAZIL</strong> - Manifesto<br>April 11 - Guitar Workshop - Passo Fundo, <strong>BRAZIL </strong>- Centro de Ensino Musical<br>April 12 - Recife Jazz Festival, <strong>BRAZIL</strong> - CANCELLED<br>April - Campinas, <strong>BRAZIL </strong>TBC - Teatro Castro Mendes<br>April 18 - Fernando de Noronha, <strong>BRAZIL </strong>- Sunset Pousada Lun-Mar<br>April 19 - Fernando de Noronha, <strong>BRAZIL</strong> - Paradisus<br>May 7 - Zagreb, CROATIA - Green Gold Acoustic Guitar Festival<br>May 16 - Secrets Nobody Keeps "Play The Album" Concert, London, <strong>UK </strong>- 100 Club<br>May 17 - Secrets Nobody Keeps "Play The Album" Concert, Leeds, <strong>UK </strong>- Holy Trinity Church<br>May 21 - Galway, <strong>Ireland</strong><br>May 23 - Dublin, <strong>Ireland</strong><br>May 24 - Cork, <strong>Ireland</strong><br>May 27 - Chester, <strong>UK </strong>- Telfords Warehouse<br>May 29 - Clitheroe, <strong>UK </strong>- The Grand<br>May 31 - The Acoustic Festival of Britain, <strong>UK </strong>- Uttoxeter Racecourse<br>June 3 - Brighton, <strong>UK</strong> - Sticky Mike's Frog Bar<br>June 4 - Milton Keynes, <strong>UK </strong>- The Crauford Arms, Wolverton<br>June 5 - Maidstone, <strong>UK </strong>- The Rafters<br>July 2 - Mikulov Guitar Festival, <strong>Czech Republic </strong><br>July 13 - "Avebury Rocks", Marlborough, <strong>UK</strong><br>August 1 - August 3 - Canadian Guitar Festival, Kingston, <strong>Canada</strong><br>August 14 - Hersbruck, <strong>GERMANY </strong>- The 15th International Guitar Festival<br>September 19 - September 20 - Clonakilty Guitar Festival, <strong>Ireland</strong><br>October 10 - Vienna Fingerstyle Festival, <strong>AUSTRIA </strong><br>October 11 - Guitar Workshop, Vienna, <strong>AUSTRIA </strong><br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>Other business:</strong></span><br>You can now get Jon Gomm Signature Strings from Newtone. They are handmade in the UK, and they're super heavy (and therefore a little more expensive, as they use almost twice as much materials to make!) You can get them here: <a contents="http://bit.ly/GomString" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/GomString">http://bit.ly/GomString</a><br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/310a6334c00db1a09240554a1e8ec2c6342753a5/large/instagram-collage-for-mailout-march-2014.jpg?1396104138" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="2014-so-far-photo-collage" /><br><br>As you can see, I've had loads of adventures already this year, but too much and too random for this email. The best way to follow my musical doings and global wanderings is to be friends with me in one of these places:<br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>Facebook : <a contents="http://facebook.com/jongommofficial" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://facebook.com/jongommofficial">http://facebook.com/jongommofficial</a><br>Twitter : <a contents="http://twitter.com/jongomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://twitter.com/jongomm">http://twitter.com/jongomm</a><br>Instagram : <a contents="http://instagram.com/jongomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://instagram.com/jongomm">http://instagram.com/jongomm</a><br>Google Plus : <a contents="https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusic" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusic">https://plus.google.com/+JonGommMusic</a></strong></span><br><br>THANKYOU so much for being interested in my music. See you on Earth, or on the internet, or both.<br><br>Love from,<br>Jon</div>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/28135622014-03-26T13:03:44+00:002018-08-25T03:36:39+01:00Brazil Tour April 2014Olá amigos, estou chegando ao Brasil. Aqui terão todas as informações sobre a tour. Avisem a todos seus amigos, familiares, colegas e até mesmo papagaio e cachorro. :)<br><br><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/5dc5cdf7894bca2357821ed0c26beec56a168d43/original/brazil-flag-tour-flyer-poster-banner-april-2014-web.jpg?1395839366" class="size_orig justify_none border_none" alt="" /><br><br>03 Abril: Workshop de violão, EM&T Sao Paolo</span><br style="color: rgb(55, 64, 78); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">08 Abril: Bourbon Street, Sa</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">o Paulo<br>10 Abril: Manifesto , São Paulo<br>11 Abril: Workshop de violão, Passo Fundo<br>12 Abril: Teatro Castro Mendes, Campinas<br>18 Abril: Sunset Pousada Lun-Mar, Fernando de Noronha<br>19 Abril: Paradisus, Fernando de Noronha<br><br>Obtenha mais informações de <a contents="jongomm.com “Live Dates”" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/live-dates">jongomm.com “Live Dates”</a></span>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/26633132014-02-28T12:01:09+00:002018-09-13T10:42:38+01:00Special Play The Album UK gigs<meta name="title" content="Latest News: Special Play The Album UK gigs"><meta name="description" content="Latest News: I'm gonna be performing the whole of Secrets Nobody Keeps at two very special UK gigs - in Leeds and London - in May. I've specially chosen the venues to make the gigs super-intimate and atmospherey. I've never performed some of the songs live before, so it'll be a unique experience for those who manage to get a ticket."><p>I'm gonna be performing the whole of <em>Secrets Nobody Keeps</em> at two very special UK gigs - in Leeds and London - in May. I've specially chosen the venues to make the gigs super-intimate and atmospherey. I've never performed some of the songs live before, so it'll be a unique experience for those who manage to get a ticket. <br><br><strong>Friday May 16th 2014 at The 100 Club, Oxford St, London: <a contents="TICKETS" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://ticketwerk.co.uk/tickets/Jon+Gomm/100+Club,+West+End,+London/1400194800/" target="_blank">TICKETS</a><br>Saturday May 17th 2014 at Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, Leeds (near Leeds City Train Station): </strong><a contents="TICKETS" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://ticketwerk.co.uk/tickets/Jon+Gomm/Holy+Trinity+Church,+Leeds/1400281200/" target="_blank"><strong>TICKETS</strong></a><br><br>Be there or B². <br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/5ba1be344552ffab6b74cb36b1b11885b110ef82/medium/jon-gomm-may-2014-poster-leeds-london-play-album-gigs.jpg?1393588796" class="size_m justify_center border_thin" alt="" /></p>
Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/24449082014-01-22T10:40:31+00:002018-08-24T04:52:14+01:00Win 5 sets of Jon Gomm™ Signature Guitar Strings!<meta content="Win 5 sets of Jon Gomm™ Signature Guitar Strings!" name="title"><meta content="I'm really proud to announce that my favourite strings are now officially available as a Jon Gomm Signature set! Handmade in Derbyshire by Newtone. These are my personal super-heavy gauge specially chosen after years of experimentation to have a really easy tension at low tunings, and to give a tone that is warm and soulful." name="description"><p>I'm really proud to announce that my favourite strings are now officially available as a Jon Gomm Signature set! Handmade in Derbyshire by <a contents="Newtone" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://www.newtonestrings.com/index.htm" target="_blank">Newtone</a>. These are my personal super-heavy gauge specially chosen after years of experimentation to have a really easy tension at low tunings, and to give a tone that is warm and soulful. <br><br>I tune my guitar a tone below concert pitch, and quite often much lower than that. With these strings that brings out a warmth and character completely different to the usual twangy, trebley steel-string guitar tone. Or maybe if your voice has dropped in pitch over time, these strings could be the answer to your prayers! And because of the heavy gauge (14-68) and low tension I have never broken one of these strings on a gig, ever.<br><br>To order some for yourself, just email Neil at info@newtonestrings.com - they are handmade to order, so they might take a few weeks to arrive. <br><br><span class="font_large"><strong>To win 5 sets of Jon Gomm Signature Newtone Strings, just email your name and phone number to <a contents="strings@jongomm.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:strings@jongomm.com" target="_blank">strings@jongomm.com</a> </strong></span><br><br><span class="font_small">If you don't want to be added to my emailing list please write "unsubscribe" as the subject. I only send out 3 or 4 emails per year on average. Lazy, huh?<br>Competition closes Feb 22nd 2014. I promise your personal details will not be shared with ANYONE ever.</span><br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/00184ad0b65026e6f113bd1c0fb5c2b3071d1be9/original/1524887-739411736070695-67570523-n.jpg?1390387177" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/22077742013-12-11T08:30:00+00:002018-08-11T15:07:07+01:00New Video 'Wukan Motorcycle Kid' Released TodayMy brand new video/single <em>Wukan Motorcycle Kid</em> is out today. Watch it here: <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--r3EdSICdM" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--r3EdSICdM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--r3EdSICdM</a><br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--r3EdSICdM"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/ff2a952a757a5f53f88db8d5fe53678ac5b77ae5/original/3a66d.jpg?1386689283" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></a><br>Please share it if you like it. :)<br><br>This is the second single from the new album <em>Secrets Nobody Keeps</em>. The song, album, guitar tab, signed CDs and gift packs are available now from <a contents="http://jongomm.com/store" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://jongomm.com/store">http://jongomm.com/store</a> Order now for Xmas delivery!<br><br>Album also on iTunes: <a contents="http://bit.ly/iT-Gomm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://bit.ly/iT-Gomm">http://bit.ly/iT-Gomm</a> and Amazon UK: <a contents="http://bit.ly/gomm-UK" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://bit.ly/gomm-UK">http://bit.ly/gomm-UK</a> and pretty much every other online music store.<br><br>The song is about the Wukan Uprising of 2011, and today marks 2 years since the death of Xue Jinbo. To find out more, read the youtube video description or websearch "Siege Of Wukan".<br><br>Thankyou for keeping on supporting my guitartistic endeavours. Seriously, thanks, if it wasn't for you I'd be sitting at home playing to my cat, and he really prefers techno.<br><br><em><strong>Love from,<br>Jon</strong></em><br><br>P.S. I have a rare guitar clinic coming up in Leeds, UK, in February. This link gets you cheaper tickets (24) :<br><a contents="http://musicnationleeds.com/events/jon-gomm-acoustic-guitar-masterclass/teacher-deal" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://musicnationleeds.com/events/jon-gomm-acoustic-guitar-masterclass/teacher-deal">http://musicnationleeds.com/events/jon-gomm-acoustic-guitar-masterclass/teacher-deal</a><br><br>Oh, and P.P.S. I'm in Total Guitar magazine this month, I did a guest video lesson on slappy-tappy guitaring. Available throughout Europe.Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/21074742013-11-25T08:15:00+00:002018-11-04T12:39:47+00:00New Video / Single / Album out TODAY!Hello everyone,<br><br>I'm really happy to announce that <em>Secrets Nobody Keeps</em> is out today, and so is my first new Youtube video for nearly 2 years!<br><br>The song is called <em>Telepathy</em>, watch it here:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9b29phQz_I">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9b29phQz_I</a><br><a href="http://youtu.be/J9b29phQz_I"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/d308f616a250170a85d7ab99e2940dfec314448e/original/telepathy-youtube-image.jpg?1385218899" class="size_orig justify_center border_none" alt="" /></a><br>Thanks to all the Pledgers and everybody else on social networks and in real life whose relentless support and enthusiasm has kept me going through making this album.<strong>PLEASE use your power by sharing this video on your facebook or twitter, or just telling your friends about it. You did it with</strong><em><strong>Passionflower</strong></em><strong>and it changed my life.</strong><br><br>You can buy the song, album and Guitar Tab, and T-shirts, posters and gift packs, from my website:<a href="http://jongomm.com/store">http://jongomm.com/store</a><br><br>The album is also on iTunes:<a href="http://bit.ly/iT-Gomm">http://bit.ly/iT-Gomm</a> <br>and Amazon UK: <a href="http://bit.ly/gomm-UK">http://bit.ly/gomm-UK</a><br>and pretty much every music download store. It's not on Spotify or other streaming apps though, sorry.<br><br><span class="font_regular"><strong>Online Launch Gig:</strong>I couldn't decide where to hold a launch gig for the album, so I've decided to have it on the internet, so anybody on Earth can watch it. I'm using a platform called StageIt. Tickets are Pay What You Want and all proceeds go to ChapELFM, a project to build the first ever arts centre/music venue in East Leeds, the grimy place I call my home. Sunday December 1st, 8pm UK time (</span>which is noon in LA, 6pm in Rio, 9pm in Berlin)<span class="font_regular"><strong>Tickets here:</strong></span><a href="http://bit.ly/gommgig"><strong>http://bit.ly/gommgig</strong></a><br><br>I also have a few things lined up for 2014, including a visit to The Isle of Man in January, my first ever gig in Paris in March, and a tour of South America in April. Loads more touring action will be announced soon, as always information is on my website:<a href="http://jongomm.com/live-dates?showall=1">http://jongomm.com/live-dates?showall=1</a><br><br>OK, I hope you enjoy my new music! I have more videos almost ready to launch so I'll be in touch again soon.<br><br><em><strong>Thankyou for supporting a stubbornly independent musician,<br>Jon</strong><br>x</em><br><br>P.S. Massive thanks to everyone who came out to a gig on the UK tour - 30 dates, 28 sold out. Completely wonderful and baffling. :)Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/20393522013-11-13T10:52:20+00:002018-08-11T15:07:37+01:00Album Launch Gig - Live On The Internet!I couldn't decide where to hold the album launch gig for <em>Secrets Nobody Keeps</em>, so... it's gonna be on the internet! I'll be playing live in a studio with 3 cameras and awesome sound, so it should be pretty good! <br><br>Tickets are Pay What You Want, and any money raised will go to ChapELFM, a project to build the first ever arts and music venue in East Leeds, the grimy place I call my home. <br><br>Get your ticket here: <a contents="http://bit.ly/gommgig" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/gommgig" target="_blank"><strong><span class="font_large">http://bit.ly/gommgig</span></strong></a><br><br>It's on Sunday December 1st at 8pm UK time (GMT), which is noon in LA, 6pm in Rio, 9pm in Berlin. There's a Time Zone converter <a contents="here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br><br>And the facebook event, so you can invite your friends/family/pets/fellow-inmates is here: <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/events/181468695389131" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/181468695389131">https://www.facebook.com/events/181468695389131</a><br><br><strong><em>See you there! </em><br>Jon</strong>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/19979552013-11-06T12:18:54+00:002018-08-20T03:11:55+01:00Pre-order Secrets Nobody Keeps Now (out November 25th)So the Pledge campaign is over - we reached 100% in 3 weeks in fact, so THANKYOU everybody who Pledged and made the album possible. The relentless enthusiasm and encouragement from social networks and Pledgers made the recording process a joy, which is a new thing for me!<br><br>And the epic UK tour is over, with 28 of the 30 dates sold out! Completely baffling, flattering and wonderful. And I had an awesome time playing to you all, there were some unbelievably warm and supportive audiences out there. If you came to a gig, whether it was your 10th Jon Gomm gig, or your first time, or even if you were dragged there against your will by a friend, THANKS for coming!<br> <table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr>
<td>And now, the album is ready to pre-order to everyone on planet Earth. There's downloads, CDs and autographed CDs available. They'll be sent to you so they hopefully arrive on the official release date, November 25th. <br><br><strong>Pre-order it here: <a contents="http://jongomm.com/store" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jongomm.com/store">http://jongomm.com/store</a></strong><br><br> And on November 25th, the first new Youtube video will go live too! Which is very exciting. The video is being made by Owen Plummer and Danielle Millea - the same lovely people who made the Passionflower and Ain't Nobody videos. And while we don't expect to get 5 million views again, I think this video is better. </td> <td><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/057c4e7b5d3a1555710c94e7c1b6a8a24062fab3/original/snk-cover-thumb.jpg?1383740177" class="size_orig justify_center border_none" alt="" /></td> </tr></tbody></table><br>In the meantime, I've been busy fiming more videos for Boss (the guitar effects pedal people), Total Guitar magazine and a bunch of other people, and they should materialise online soon. <br><br>And just for fun, here's a video from one of the tour gigs (in Nottingham), where singer <a contents="Dan Tompkins" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.danieltompkinsvocalist.com/" target="_blank">Dan Tompkins</a> came along to jam his Youtube version of Ain't Nobody with me. We'd never met before that night, let alone rehearsed, but it went pretty well. Youtube link: <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_nbQqwmjy8" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_nbQqwmjy8" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_nbQqwmjy8</a><br><br><strong>Thanks for reading, check back on Monday November 25th to see the new youtube video!<br><br>Jon<br>x</strong>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/15260472013-07-22T11:10:00+01:002018-10-08T07:22:57+01:00Pledge campaign<meta content="Pledge campaign - Pre-order new album now!" name="title"><meta content="My new album Secrets Nobody Keeps is all written. I think it's my best work yet, and I’m in the process of recording it, but I need your help..." name="description"><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/a60c2f8dabba7924d6a4499b5eb61d5f55f4a76e/medium/CD_front_idea1.jpg?1378214372" class="size_orig justify_right border_thick" alt="" height="300" width="300" />My new album <i>Secrets Nobody Keeps</i> is all written. New songs inspired by my travels and by my brain-scrambling experiences of the past year-and-a-half. I’ve had a lot of stuff I’ve needed to get OUT. I think it's my best work yet, and I’m in the process of recording it, but I need your help. <br><br>Please please visit my <a href="http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/jongomm">Pledge campaign page</a>, where you can order the album, and you'll get it WAY before the official release date.<br><br>And if you can afford to help out a little more there's lots of other exclusive stuff you can order, like T-shirts, handmade works of art, signed CDs, a guitar lesson, and even one of my guitars.<br><br>The more money I raise, the more I can use towards making my album the best it can be. I don't have any music industry support, YOU ARE my support!<br><br>Here's the link, please use your power by sharing it everywhere you can: <br><br><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/jongomm">http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/jongomm</a></span></b><br><br>Thankyou. <br>Jon<br>x<br> </p><span style="color: rgb(255, 124, 37); "><b>Comment on this using the facebook box (below) or by using the jongomm.com comment box (below that!)</b></span><br> <div id="fb-root"> </div><script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script><comments colorscheme="dark" href="http://jongomm.com/blog?feature=2634793&postid=4713430" num_posts="5" width="500"></comments>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/15260482013-06-12T00:05:00+01:002018-10-23T12:54:24+01:00UK Tour - Support artists wanted!<meta name="title" content="UK Tour - Support artists wanted!"><meta name="description" content="I'm going to be hitting the road on home ground this Autumn with my most extensive UK tour ever! 29 dates across the length and breadth of the UK. Tickets are on sale now. The tour will see the premiering of songs from my brand new forthcoming album Secrets Nobody Keeps to be released in October 2013..."><p>I'm going to be hitting the road on home ground this Autumn with my most extensive UK tour ever! 29 dates across the length and breadth of the UK. It’s going to be MASSIVE! Tickets are on sale now. The tour will see the premiering of songs from my brand new forthcoming album Secrets Nobody Keeps to be released in October 2013. I've chosen to play smaller capacity venues so the gigs can be special intimate musical experiences, so get your tickets early as many shows are likely to sell out.<br><br>
It's been a crazy and amazing 12 months for me and that's thanks to people here in the UK that started the snowball rolling by sharing my music far and wide, and also for supporting me at tiny gigs all over the country for the past decade. But since I got all popular all of a sudden, it seems I've been playing everywhere else on the planet, and I haven't actually had time for a solo UK tour. So it's about time all my fellow Brits got to see me play the youtube classics, and I've got some new stuff I really want you to hear as well, if that's OK.<br><br>
Dates, cities and venues:<br><br>
30th August - <b>Newport </b>- TBC<br>
31st August - <b>Swansea </b>- The Garage<br>
1st September - <b>Kent </b>- Avenue Theatre<br>
4th September - <b>London </b>- Surya<br>
5th September - <b>Bristol </b>- Thekla<br>
6th Septmber – <b>North Devon</b> - The Factory<br>
7th September - <b>Cardiff </b>- The Moon Club<br>
9th September -<b>Guildford </b>- The Boileroom<br>
10th September - <b>Worcester </b>– The Marrs Barr<br>
11th September - <b>Birmingham </b>- Hare & Hounds<br>
12th September - <b>Liverpool </b>- Leaf Cafe<br>
13th September - <b>Leeds </b>- Brudenell<br>
14th September - <b>Manchester </b>- Sound Control<br>
16th September - <b>Nottingham </b>- Bodega<br>
17th September - <b>York </b>- Fibbers<br>
19th September - <b>Belfast </b>- The Black Box<br>
22nd September - <b>Lincolnshire </b>- Alchemy Festival<br>
23rd September - <b>Hull </b>- The Backroom<br>
24th September – <b>Milton Keynes</b> - The Stables<br>
25th September - <b>Bury St Edmunds</b> - Apex<br>
27th September - <b>Glasgow </b>- Berits & Brown<br>
28th September - <b>Troon </b>- The New Troon Folk Club<br>
29th September - <b>Edinburgh </b>- The Voodoo Rooms<br>
2nd October - <b>Preston </b>- The Continental<br>
3rd October - <b>Newcastle </b>- Cluny 2<br>
4th October - <b>Macclesfield </b>- Cabin 5150<br>
5th October - <b>Huddersfield </b>- Bar 1:20<br>
6th October – <b>Penrith </b>- Penrith Playhouse<br><br>
Info from the <a href="http://jongomm.com/live-dates?showall=1">Live Dates page</a> and tickets from → <a href="http://www.ticketwerk.co.uk/" target="_new">http://www.ticketwerk.co.uk/</a> <br><br><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Support Artists Wanted!</b></i></span><br>
If you are a band or solo artist, and you are based within 30 miles of one of the venues, you can apply to play the opening set on a gig! It used to be a pain for me when I was applying for support slots in my city, and it was already taken by a touring support artist, often on the same label or agency roster as the headliners. Where possible, I want to give the chance to local musicians. <br><br><b><u>What to do : </u></b><br><br><b><i>1) </i></b><i>Go to the facebook event for the one gig nearest you (listed below).<br><b>2) </b>Please post a direct link to video or audio of your music (e.g. Youtube, Soundcloud, or Bandcamp) as a post on this event page. <br><b>3)</b> Jon will personally select a shortlist of bands.<br><b>4) </b>We'll invite the guests of the facebook event to vote for who they'd like to see. </i><br><br>
The final choice for support artist will then be made by me in conjunction with the concert venue/promoter, and will be subject to terms and conditions set out by the venue/promoter. For a few gigs, support artists have already been chosen (for special reasons). :)<br><br>
Don't worry what style of performer you are - any genre of music is fine with me, or even non-musical acts like poets or comedians, if I think it'll work!<br><br>
Please don’t suggest bands you like - contact them and ask them to post up their music. We can only consider bands/artists who have posted their music themselves!<br><br>
And here's all the facebook event pages:<br><br><b>Swansea </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/501674929899045/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/501674929899045/</a><br><b>Kent </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/184179501741711/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/184179501741711/</a><br><b>London </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/577831282250696/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/577831282250696/</a><br><b>Bristol </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/463833383703664/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/463833383703664/</a><br><b>North Devon</b> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/605757686116150/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/605757686116150/</a><br><b>Cardiff </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/159049650942248/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/159049650942248/</a><br><b>Guildford </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/143934412462534/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/143934412462534/</a><br><b>Worcester </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/262982653841057/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/262982653841057/</a><br><b>Birmingham </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/375916065861741/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/375916065861741/</a><br><b>Liverpool </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/325030940960159/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/325030940960159/</a><br><b>Leeds </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/606976615993267/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/606976615993267/</a><br><b>Manchester </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/508282212571627/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/508282212571627/</a><br><b>Nottingham </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/134716490060816/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/134716490060816/</a><br><b>York </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/441988019230985/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/441988019230985/</a><br><b>Belfast </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/162737940570826/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/162737940570826/</a><br><b>Cottingham, Hull </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/448533105240738/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/448533105240738/</a><br><b>Milton Keynes </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/551202688254113/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/551202688254113/</a><br><b>Bury St Edmunds</b> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/166077080230212/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/166077080230212/</a><br><b>Glasgow </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/304950072974344/">http://www.facebook.com/events/304950072974344/</a><br><b>Troon </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/172723769564381/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/172723769564381/</a><br><b>Edinburgh </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/644422372251843/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/644422372251843/</a><br><b>Preston </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/140711996122119/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/140711996122119/</a><br><b>Newcastle </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/370223233078328/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/370223233078328/</a><br><b>Macclesfield </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/214976048655625/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/214976048655625/</a><br><b>Huddersfield </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/182949515200286/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/182949515200286/</a><br><b>Penrith </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/324299917701369/" target="_new">http://www.facebook.com/events/324299917701369/</a><br type="_moz"><br>
Good luck!<br><br><i>Jon<br>
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We'll be launching the Pledge campaign next month, so that fans can get really involved, and there will be some awesome stuff available to Pledgers who pre-order the album. <br><br>
In the meantime, I have a special one-off home-town UK gig (the full tour is in the Autumn) at Blackpool's Winter Gardens next week : <a href="http://on.fb.me/17R3wmD" target="_new">http://on.fb.me/17R3wmD</a><br><br>
And next month I’m heading over to South Africa for 3 nights in Cape Town, and 3 in Johannesburg : <a href="http://on.fb.me/ZDXjln" target="_new">http://on.fb.me/ZDXjln</a><br><br><br><span style="font-size: larger;"><i><b>"So Jon, how was China?"</b></i></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br><br>
It was pretty crazy! When we arrived, we had a couple of days sight-seeing, and we trekked up the Great Wall, and visited The Forbidden CIty in Beijing. After that, it was a manic run of 10 gigs in 11 days, and we were traversing the country by bullet train - the first time I've toured by train - and in a tour party of seven people, which is also a first for me. <br><br>
The trains are amazing, they are huge and fast and the stations are like airports. The tour party was wonderful, including our interpreter Lee, who is a student but she's also a wonderful guitarist, our roadie Li Yang who is a fan of English football and who foraged the local area near the venue every night to bring me dinner, which was always "Lee Yang Surprise!" and never the same twice! And CK Chen Liang, a great Chinese fingerstyle guitarist who was my support artist for the tour. <br><br>
The weirdest thing about China is their relationship to western music and gigs. First, they don't really have a culture of having gigs as we know it. They have classical-style concerts, or they have huge rock/pop shows. But they don't have small rock clubs, or intimate acoustic gigs. Second, they don't know much western music. I was playing my cover of Chaka Khan's <i>Ain't Nobody</i> each night, and they all seemed to recognise it, but it took a couple of nights to realise nobody had ever heard the original version. They just knew my arrangement, from watching it on Youku (the Chinese Youtube equivalent. <br><br>
One night I asked for requests, and they didn't really know what to do, and started asking questions instead, like what are my tattoos about or why don't I wear any shoes onstage. I explained what requests meant, and rather than any specific songs, someone shouted out "Rock and roll!" So I slammed on the overdrive pedal and launched into a semi-improvised version of <i>Sunshine Of Your Love</i>. People seemed to go pretty nuts for that, so I segued it into <i>Purple Haze</i>. Not a flicker of applause. I wondered why they liked Cream, but not Jimi Hendrix. Afterwards I realised they hadn't recognised the Cream song, they just liked the loud rock noise I was making. Even most of the Chinese musicians I met didn't recognise most of the classic rock riffs I tested on them.<br><br>
But by far the strangest night was this one (this is my facebook status from the morning after):<br><br>
"Insane night last night in Hang Zhou. During my set, the security staff were wondering around the audience (who were already even more quiet and timid than most Chinese audiences) with their walkie-talkies blaring out. I asked them to turn them down, but they were too ignorant or arrogant to care. After around 30 minutes, they pulled back a big black curtain in the room revealing the rest of the venue, which was a busy pool hall, which ruined the atmosphere even more. In a very un-Chinese act of rebellion, someone in the audience went and drew it closed again. A huge security dude pulled it back open. <br><br>
So I got off the stage, gave him a special British death stare, and drew it closed myself. I went back on stage to resume playing, and there was no sound! My interpreter told me they wouldn't let me play any more! I was just stunned by this childishness. But anyway, they clearly didn't know how acoustic guitars work. :) I just played the rest of the gig unplugged. This transformed the audience, they were electrified by the intense intimacy of the totally acoustic, hold-your-breath-or-you'll-break-the-spell atmosphere. Together we had stood up to authority, and won! Now we could share jokes about their government, and I could tell them the story of my new song about the Wukan Uprising, which has been kept secret in China.<br><br>
If all I achieve on this whole tour is bringing this one tiny moment of rebellion to this small crowd, then it was worth the trip. :)<br><br>
P.S. The Chinese government doesn't bother banning Western music anymore, because it's not a threat. This is the most damning indictment of the modern music industry I can think of. If you make any kind of art, don't forget your responsibility to make it with meaning, intent and real, honest freedom."<br><br>
Overall it was the tour was an amazing experience I'll remember for the rest of my life. I hope I get to return to China before too long, it's an amazing country full of wonderful people, and it feels like a place where making an emotional connection with a room full of strangers is a truly rare and special event.<br><br>
Here's all the photos from the tour: <br><div style="text-align: center;"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/picasaweb.googleusercontent.com/slideshow.swf" width="600" height="400" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&captions=1&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F112968403220107480396%2Falbumid%2F5882978103571360993%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></div>
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Thanks for reading, more news (especially album, Pledge and UK tour stuff) VERY soon. <br><i>Jon<br>
x</i></b><br><br type="_moz">Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/15260502013-02-20T10:55:00+00:002018-08-25T03:29:01+01:00The Next Album Is Coming...<meta name="title" content="The Next Album Is Coming..."><meta name="description" content="So it's a good day to tell everyone - my next album, SECRETS NOBODY KEEPS, is all written. I'm still rehearsing the songs cos they are HARD. But I'll be starting recording soon, and..."><p>Today is Passionflower Has 4,000,000 Views Day! Gomnom style. :D <br><br>
So it's a good day to tell everyone - my next album, SECRETS NOBODY KEEPS, is all written. I'm still rehearsing the songs cos they are HARD. But I'll be starting recording soon, and also I'll be starting a fan-funding campaign via Pledge Music, which means everyone can get involved with some fun stuff, and I can afford make an album properly, for the first time. <br><br>
And it'll mean I can make really lovely-sounding recordings of my singles I released last year, as well as a load of brand new songs. Most of which were written on tour and are dipped deep into the surreal experiences I've had. So they're very personal songs, and already mean a lot to me. They're fun too, though. :)<br><br>
These things take time, but more updates will come along as they come along. Don't worry, you won't be able to miss it when it starts! It'll be like "WOH, what is all that noise and flashing lights in my face!? Oh, Jon is launching his campaign." Not to mention the UK and North American tours that'll be happening to promote it...<br><br><i>Thanks for sharing my music. x <br><br>
Jon</i><br><br><br>
P.S. If reading this made you want to watch it again, or troll me on youtube, here's the video link one more time: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY7GnAq6Znw" target="_new">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY7GnAq6Znw</a></p>
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They happen to believe in fate, and they also happen to run a record label, and they decide this Jon Gomm guy should come do a tour with them in their country. So, I came to Australia. <br><br>
Wilma got a brand new case for the flight, a bullet proof carbon fibre thing that cost a fortune. And off we went, around the world. Stopping only at Dohar Airport, Qatar, which has a separate queue for women and where I could sell my wife. The only reason I would sell my wife might be if I suddenly realised I was gay, which is illegal in Qatar. Medieval laws are rich with irony.<br><br>
Australia was amazing. Andy also happened to be my support artist on the tour, as well as driver, and he is amazing. Check him out →
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I just never got tired of hearing that man play. Incredible. Night after night. <br><br>
Australia is an astonishing place. At night you can be hundreds of miles from the nearest town (not possible in Europe) and the stars are THICK, like spilled sugar. The place is lush with forest, edged with glistening oceans, soaring cities. The animals are unbelievable. I got to lie down right in the middle of a snoozing pack of kangaroos, and just chat with them. I got to hold a shining emerald tree frog which Kathy plucked from the window of their house after a skull-denting rainstorm, and peer into its blood-red eyes. <br><br>
And yet the people are more English than I am. Tea. Biscuits. Tea and biscuits. Cricket. Tea, biscuits and cricket, all at once if you like, like it's NOTHING. The gigs were immense. Brisbane was like playing to a pub in Yorkshire, except with 500 people in it. Sydney was like a British gig, it was electric, it was like I was at home. All these people, here, thousands of miles away from where I come from, but here, for me. It was mind blowing.<br><br>
And somehow it didn't make sense. I'm hanging off the bottom of the world in this alien landscape, but surrounded by famliarity? Then I met Darrell. Darrell is a Gubbi Gubbi elder. He is a very nice man. He performed a ceremony called a Welcome To Country for me, which is an enormous honour, and means I am an honorary Gubbi Gubbi now, so my land stretches 200 miles down the Pacific Coast, so watch it. Darrell explained a lot to me about the history of his people, of Australia, and of their relationship with white settlers, primarily from my country. This is too painful to go into in this blog, but I learnt a lot and came to understand why this country had made no sense to me, up until now. And now it did. <br><br>
What a trip. It was a tour of a lifetime, the best thing about it being making lifelong new friends in Kathy and Andy, whom me and Natasha will treasure for ever. ♥<br><br><br>
Here's my favourite photos from the trip:<br><br><div style="text-align: center;">
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The next stop was Poland. It was organised by the charismatic Michał Szczęsny, who had managed to entice not only me but Poland's biggest rock band Ocean to perform at his little acoustic festival in Poland's oldest town, Kalisz. The gig was amazing. For me, whether a gig is good or not is pretty much down to the audience. A nice venue, good sound - all those things matter, but the audience is key. The audience is the point of the gig, after all. And from this one experience of Polish audiences I can only say they are a perfect blend of the romantic countries (Italy, France - enraptured in the moment, overcome with emotion) and British audiences (drunk). Incidentally it was Maciek's, Ocean's singer, birthday, and somebody bought him a bottle of Jack Daniels which he was determined to share with me. I can't remember anything else of that night. <br><br><div style="text-align: center;">
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Portugal was next. A whirlwind of gigs in stunning venues and theatres, radio shows and because half of the tour was on the Azores islands, which are halfway out into the Atlantic, FLIGHTS. I think the record was 11 planes in 10 days. And the little planes only go twice a day, so I was frequently playing gigs, then getting up for an 8:30 flight the next morning. Which normally would've driven me crazy, but thankfully our tour manager Miguel Bello treated me like a new born child (basically keeping me fed and making sure I took a nap!) <br><br>
Miguel loves wine and food, so I was treated to some Portuguese specialities, such as the <i>Francesinha</i>: a sandwich of doom consisting of steak, ham and two kinds of sausage in bread coated with melted cheese, in a beer, whiskey and tomato sauce, served with french fries and a defibrillator. And Miguel's favourite, his local <i>tripas </i>- intestine. Which was like eating a sausage while changing a diaper. Rancid. God, I can taste it now. Urrrgh. We had some downtime too, the highlight of which was hunting down Lisbon's biggest big TV screen in an awesome bar, and watching Portugal's opening game of Euro 2012 (that's soccer, sports fans) against the mighty Germany, surrounded by baying, whooping (and finally weeping) Lisboeta. <br><br>
Portugal photos: <br><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: smaller;"></span> <br><span style="font-size: small;">Time to head back north through Europe now, and we hit Estonia, Finland and Norway. The highlight of this part of the tour was unquestionably the gigs I did with Petteri Sariola, an astonishing guitarist and singer, with an irresistable groove. Just a great musician. He also offers superb sauna opportunities, as I found out at a mysterious cabin in the bear-infested woods. Fins sauna HOT: 90°C. Then, bodies still steaming, we ran through the trees and jumped into the river, clinging to a guide rope to avoid be swept away by the swollen waters, and trying not to think about Jeff Buckley (RIP). An explosion of cold fills every cell of our bodies. And repeat until insane. Amazing fun. <br><br>
Here's a nice little video of a concert me and Petteri played on a bandstand in the middle of Helsinki → <br><br><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="450" height="279" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pMuPMD5FKDo?HD=1;rel=0;showinfo=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>
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And here's my photos from the Northern escapade →</span><br><div style="text-align: center;">
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Next up, my first ever gigs on the entire American continent, as we set off for Canada. Starting out with a couple of gigs with one of my guitar HEROES, Don Ross, and his good friend (and now mine too!) Jimmy Wahlsteen, was a real treat. I have Don's instructional videos at home, and here I am sharing a stage with the man. Baffling! The gigs were great, Canadians are so nice it's unreal. Their politeness is something to behold. I accidentally jumped a really long queue at an airport, because of an erroneous pillar blocking my view. I stood there for a good few minutes before turning around and seeing the snake of people stretching off into the distance behind me. I spoked to the dude behind me: "Erm, excuse me, is this the queue I'm in, are we in the same queue." "Well, actually, yeah, I didn't want to say anything." Wow. In Leeds I'd have received one warning, then it would start getting violent. :D <br><br>
The Canadian Guitar Festival was another highlight, hosted by the guitar world's answer to an intellectual Fred Flinstone, Del Vezeau. I saw some incredible performances, not least a magical improvised mind-journey from Michael Manring, whose career includes having been Michael Hedges' go-to bass player. Heading across into Quebec you quickly realise you're entering a different country, a hybrid between North America and 18th century France, and dripping with culture. I hung out with luthier-to-the-stars Michael Greenfield, and played a gig with my good buddy Erik Mongrain in his hometown of Montreal. Finally we scooted a couple of thousand miles across Canada to the sparsely populated Atlantic island of Newfoundland. It feels more like the west coast of Britain (except with whales) than North America. The stark landscape and sharp winds felt very familiar and homely! And the gig was so good, we had to do it twice! Our hosts John and Caroline managed to sell out the show, and then John decided during the interval Hey, what the hell, let's announce we're doing it again tomorrow! And - somehow - we sold it out again. It's hard to imagine word-of-mouth working that fast in a big city.<br type="_moz"><br>
Canada photos: <br><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br></span><span style="font-size: small;">OK, there's still my trip to play in some churches Italy, my super-massive UK tour with Andy McKee and Preston Reed, my Germany/Austria tour and some quick trips to France and Bosnia to talk about. Towards the end of the year, I was starting to get physically exhausted and it started to affect my mental state, so it'll take a bit of courage to blog this stuff. So we'll see. I'll think about it. :) <br><br><b>Until then, I have to get back to preparing to record the new album, <i>Secrets Nobody Keeps</i>. More about that SOON. <br><br></b><i><b>Thanks for reading,<br>
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My life this year feels like that thing in old movies where they show a map with a red dotted line crawling from continent to continent, dragging the protagonist around the globe. <br><br>
It started when <a href="http://zekicaglarnamli.com.tr/" target="_new">Zeki Çağlar Namlı</a>, famous Turkish bağlama player, asked me to come to Istanbul to play on his TV Show. The whole show was dedicated to my music, which was unexpected – I played a few of my songs, and also improvised with Çağlar and his band, which was an incredible experience.</p>
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After I got home, the Passionflower video went BLOOOM, as detailed in <a href="http://jongomm.com/blog?feature=2634793&postid=2244699">the last instalment of my blog</a>. However, because my manager Natasha is so awesome, most of the gigs I’m playing this year were booked ages ago, last year, before the craziness. So now, I was just on TV and have millions of Youtube hits, and I am playing in pubs and clubs around England and Wales. This was all, basically, mental. As anyone who knows me will testify, I am no venue snob and some of my favourite gigs have been in tiny village pubs or dingy basements. And a huge part of the fun was bringing my new fans into this world - the number of times I was asked <i>"Jon! Why the hell are you playing here?"</i> The answer was always <i>"Because this venue is the one who were prepared to book me BEFORE I was on TV!" </i>I would never cancel a gig at these wonderful places.<br><br>
But yeah, it was mental.<br><br>
The quintessential moment was on a night with several hundred beautiful people in Swansea, many drunk, going INSANE with excitement. I decided a great challenge for me as an experienced troubadour would be trying to reduce this crowd to pin-drop silence. I unplugged, climbed atop a table and played a song completely acoustically. Complete silence. Mission accomplished! However. I was told afterwards that one man was too drunk and confused to keep himself quiet, so somebody simply punched him in the head, as is the local custom, and knocked him out, and he was dragged by several people – in complete, reverent silence – from the room. I doubt this could happen in many towns. Swansea is SPECIAL. <br><br>
Alternatively, picture a tiny village pub, rammed with people and tingling with an intense, intimate atmosphere, but with an elderley couple in the corner sitting at their usual table wondering what the hell was going on, and talking loudly about cheese. :)<br><br>
Next up was a tour of The Netherlands and Belgium…</p>
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…which was lovely as always, but this time punctuated by a trip to Lisbon to play and chat on a Portuguese prime time talk show, hosted by the charming and lovely Herman José. I was really freaked out to learn they'd reshceduled the filming just to fit in with my diary, and was really nervous. But when they said I could play the WHOLE of Passionflower - at nearly 7 minutes long - I knew these were my kind of people. Imagine that, some unknown guy on a UK or USA talk-show being allowed to play a SEVEN MINUTE song. The guitar solos are longer than you'd get on The X-Factor! <br><br>
Walking on-set to the sound of the house band playing a jazzy theme-tune was truly surreal. See for yourself... <br type="_moz">
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<p>OK, my ride to the airport has arrived, so I have to stop writing. Part Two ASAP, where I’ll be dealing with kangaroos, an aboriginal elder and a Polish rockstar with a bottle of whiskey and an urge to share. <br><br>
Thanks for reading, all comments welcome. :)<br><br>
Jon<br><br>
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</div><br>I got some unexpected and wonderful emails: David Crosby from Crosby, Stills and Nash dropped me a line to say he loved music. He signed off simply “The Croz.” Jon Anderson, the singer from Yes, said he wants to record a song with me – I am working on something. And Rod Stewart’s producer asked me to play a track on his next album – I’m still thinking if I can make that one work, but it’s fantastic to be asked of course. Tommy Lee – Motley Crue drummer and home-video star (and super-talented songwriter too) – is a big fan. Try to imagine two more contrasting celebrities than Stephen Fry and Tommy Lee. Try, for example, to imagine Tommy Lee playing Oscar Wilde. Actually, that would be awesome.<br><br>Possibly my favourite was from Steven Miller, who was the good friend and producer of my personal guitar hero, Michael Hedges. To get real, meaningful praise and respect from him was very special indeed.<br><br><b>But a video going viral isn’t about celebrities, it’s about every single person who watched, enjoyed and shared the video, so if that includes you – </b><span style="font-size: larger;"><b>THANKYOU!</b></span><br><br>Cheers and please (please!) keep listening,<br>Jon<br><span style="color: rgb(255, 124, 37); "><b>Comment on this using the facebook box (below) or by using the jongomm.com comment box (below that!)</b></span><br> <div id="fb-root"> </div><script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script><comments colorscheme="dark" href="http://jongomm.com/blog?feature=2634793&postid=2244699" num_posts="5" width="500"></comments>Jon Gommtag:www.jongomm.com,2005:Post/15260542012-02-12T22:00:00+00:002018-08-11T15:24:07+01:00New Single/Video "Ain't Nobody" Out Today<meta name="title" content="New Single/Video " out=""><meta name="description" content="The 3rd single in The Domestic Science Singles Series is released today - my instrumental solo guitar version of Chaka Khan's Ain't Nobody.
Song and guitar tab available only from http://jongomm.com/store 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."><p>The 3rd single in The Domestic Science Singles Series is released today - my instrumental solo guitar version of Chaka Khan's <i>Ain't Nobody</i>. Watch it here:<br><br><a target="_new" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vCcZIARw9k"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/77f31e3178fcf12bcd5e4b82539a6a40f255500f/original/Aint-Nobody-Youtube-Thumb.jpg?1378214366" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="204" width="311" /></a><br><a target="_new" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vCcZIARw9k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vCcZIARw9k</a><br><br>
Song and guitar tab are available only from <b><a href="http://jongomm.com/store.cfm">the store page</a></b><b> </b>and you can <b>Pay What You Want</b> for the song, and a percentage of what you pay goes to <a target="_new" href="http://www.steps-charity.org.uk/">STEPS</a>, a charity that supports people with clubfoot, hip dysplasia and other lower limb conditions, in honour of my beautiful niece Freya. <a target="_new" href="http://www.steps-charity.org.uk/">http://www.steps-charity.org.uk/</a><br><br>
This is my cover of the Chaka Khan dancefloor classic from 1982. When I was a kid, I played gigs in pubs in Blackpool, and often my audience was mostly elderly ladies spending their pension money on bacardi! Quite often they'd tolerate my original songs and blues covers for only so long, and eventually a representative would be sent over to remonstrate with me. "Excuse me young man, please can you play something we can dance to?" So this is my emergency disco song. Every musician needs an emergency disco song. <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/69870e142f42653c1debb04fd29481257f15d4e5/medium/407475_367028673309005_130391886972686_1453605_373941860_n1.jpg?1378214365" class="size_orig justify_right border_" alt="" height="368" width="300" /><br><br>
You can also buy the song in the form of a postcard, with a painting I did on one side, a bit of guitar tab on the back, and a download code for the mp3. Hand addressed and posted to you! </p>
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I really hope you enjoy the song and the video, and if you do please share it with your friends. The best form of promotion I have as an independent musician is YOU! <br><br><i>Thanks for listening to my music.<br>
Yours,<br>
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I also got "interviewed" by the police in Milan, who basically wanted to know how much cash I had on me, and whether they could have any. They couldn't, because I suddenly and conveniently forgot how to speak any Italian at all. Which resulted in them just pointing at Wilma (my guitar) and saying "Ereek Clapton" over and over. That happens surprisingly often.<br><br>
It's been great fun selling the Music Postcards (<i>Cartoline Musicali</i> in Italian) at gigs for the two singles released so far. Some people have been very generous, so thanks! But some have also paid what little they can afford, which is just as much appreciated. Posting them off around the planet has been awesome too! I sent some to Hawaii this morning. I couldn't fit my body in the letterbox. I tried.<br><br>
Here's the photos from Italy:<br><br><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="600" height="400" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&captions=1&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F112968403220107480396%2Falbumid%2F5674923082951738065%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> <br><br>
And right before I left it was Leeds Guitar Night. It was pretty stressful cos Natasha (my manager) and I were organising and promoting the event. Erik Mongrain had gone to great lengths to get here for the gig, changing his flights and driving the entire length of England. Thankfully there were 250 people there, which was awesome. Thanks SO much to everyone who came, I truly appreciate it. <br><br>
Photos from Leeds Guitar Night 2011:<br><br><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="600" height="400" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&captions=1&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F112968403220107480396%2Falbumid%2F5670129928848973905%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed><br><br>
Right now Wilma is at the doctor - she suffered far more than I did with the changes in temperature and the amazing Autumn humidity in Italy! Then we're travelling around England before a few gigs in Germany to finish off the year. I wonder if they have British Christmas Markets in Bavaria? I'll let you know.<br><br>
See you on the road!</p>
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The second single, my interpretation of Message In A Bottle by The Police, is out today. You can watch it here:"><p>It's one month since my first ever single <i>Passionflower </i>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.<br><br>
The second single, my interpretation of <i>Message In A Bottle</i> by The Police, is out today. You can watch it here:<br><br><a target="_new" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-fpLmJHLvw"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/58b5f8b10453e17a5732252051febd404a04e3c5/original/MessageIAB-youtube-thumbnail.jpg?1378214362" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="294" width="425" /></a><br><a target="_new" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-fpLmJHLvw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-fpLmJHLvw</a><br><br><b>You can download the mp3 right now from <a href="http://jongomm.com/store">http://jongomm.com/store</a> for Pay What You Want</b> (you can pay zero if you like) and 10% of the proceeds from all the Domestic Science Singles Series goes to The Happy House children's home in Watamu, Kenya.<br><br>
The guitar tab is available from the store too. <br><b><a href="http://jongomm.com/store"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/4a76e5f54b7e0e1c1b2e482353cbb54eef921a92/thumb/100_2764-v2.jpg?1378214365" class="size_orig justify_right border_" alt="" height="125" width="122" /></a></b></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000ee"><b><u><br></u></b></font>You can also buy the song in the form of a postcard, with a painting I did on one side, the song lyricsd on the back, and a download code for the mp3. Hand addressed and posted to you! <br><br><b>I hope you enjoy the listening to the song and sharing it with your friends. <i>You </i>know there's more to music than what gets played on pop radio, but maybe some of your friends don't realise there's more out there. Educate them!</b><br><br><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000ee"><b><u><br></u></b></font><i>Thanks for supporting independent music.<br>
Yours,<br>
Jon</i>
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It makes me sad. :(<br><br>
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 point of obsession, and she might look worn but I've played over 1,000 gigs with her and she's still the <b>only </b>guitar I take on the road. That's right - I don't take a spare. "What happens if you break a string?" I can hear you asking in my head. Not sure how you got in my head. But anyway - I have <i>never </i>broken a string on a gig. Well, once in Rome but we were both tired.<br><br>
The damage on my guitar is caused almost exclusively by scratching the top, often with a pick (Jon Gomm signature picks, available in the store!). The same is true with Tommy Emmanuel's famous beat-up Maton (and that's cedar topped too, as I recall, so it's even softer!) Your guitar won't get that scrapheap look from normal drumming techniques. <br><br>
If you are trying out percussion on the guitar - which I HUGELY recommend if you enjoy fun - the only way you'll damage it is if you do it badly, just like any other technique. <br><br><b>1) Don't drum with your nails</b>, especially acrylic or plastic nails. <br><b>2) Don't use your knuckles</b> - but that's at least 50% to avoid hurting yourself! <br><b>3) Don't do it hard</b> - the percussion sounds are naturally far louder than the regular notes, so if you do it hard you'll be all out of balance, volume wise. <br><b>4)</b> Don't do it directly above/below the soundhole (this depends on the bracing pattern of your guitar. If it's a Takamine, for example, you WILL crack it there). <br><br>
The better your guitar is, the better the percussion sounds you will achieve. Hitting a $100 Fender acoustic will sound like slapping drywall. Hitting a £2,000 Lowden, or a £20,000 Michael Greenfield guitar sounds mellow and warm, like a tom tom played with a soft mallet. <br><br><b>DISCLAIMER: If in doubt - chicken out! Don't send me the repair bill, anyway.... <br></b> <br>
Thanks for reading,<br>
Jon</p>
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY7GnAq6Znw</a><br><br>
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...<br><br><b>And you can download the song right now </b><a href="http://jongomm.com/store.cfm"><b>from the store page</b></a><b>, and Pay What You Want - you can even pay nothing. It's totally your call. :)</b><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/22ff7f359d07956321925d6f0e12925b0597461f/thumb/100_2301V2.jpg?1378214361" class="size_orig justify_right border_" alt="" height="125" width="96" /><br>
You can buy it as a download card too - a postcard I designed with artwork on the front and lyrics on the back and a unique download code. It will be hand-addressed and posted to you!<br><br>
The guitar tab is available too: you can download the full transcription for £1.99, with all my crazy guitar tapping and retuning explained. Or there's a free easy version for those who just like to learn the chords and the words. Get them from <a href="http://jongomm.com/tabtechniques.cfm">the Guitarists Only area</a>.<br><br>
I really hope you enjoy listening to and watching the song, sharing it with friends and having fun with the transcription. I feel like this is how music should be released.<br><br>
The second single in The Domestic Science Singles Series will be out on Saturday October 29th 2011, and the launch will be at Leeds Guitar Night - <a target="_new" href="http://www.wegottickets.com/event/131783">http://www.wegottickets.com/event/131783</a><br><br>
THANKS for supporting independent music!</p>
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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.<br><br>
I mean no offence, but in my opinion Gibson are in the wrong here.<br><br>
Harvesting endangered woods in India might not seems serious from a US perspective, but it is extremely dangerous to the short-term environment and long-term economy of the regions being devastated by deforestation.<br><br>
I have read that the discontinuation of their eco-range SmartWood guitars was because the consumers didn't like it. But nobody will buy a guitar which you're clearly saying is not as good! If it was just as good, you'd simply replace the woods in your normal stock, not make a new eco-range. Gibson know this, they aren't dumb. And it meant they could keep using endangered woods, and blame you.<br><br>
And Gibson are also warning YOU might be prosecuted for simply owning a Gibson, which is scaremongering nonsense.<br><br>
All they need to do is switch to sustainable woods! What's the big deal? It will sound the same and look great. <br><br>
Your axe does not need to be an axe. <br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/adb03943cc5711ae2c34249aa599ba6f0f1635ab/original/24682_10150162217565438_560240437_11690379_6500303_n2.jpg?1378214357" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="261" width="200" /><br><i>"Was this worth my house?"<br><br><a target="_new" href="http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/News/gibson-0825-2011/">http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/News/gibson-0825-2011/</a><br type="_moz"><br><br><br type="_moz"></i>
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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.<br><br>
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 song will cost you zero pence, or a million dollars, or anywhere in between! You can listen to it first for free, then choose how much you think it's worth / what you can afford. <br><br>
Or you can receive the song by post, in the form of a specially designed, hand-addressed postcard which will have a unique code allowing you to download the tune. <br><br>
10% of your payment will go to The Happy House orphange and school in Watamu, Kenya. <a target="_new" href="http://www.childrenofwatamu.net/">http://www.childrenofwatamu.net/</a><br><br>
I'm also transcribing the guitar tab for each song – the proper semi-impossible Gomm arrangement, and a basic strum-along version too - so you can learn to play it yourself if you like.<br><br>
The songs were home-produced by me in my house with my battered guitar Wilma, some budget microphones and an old laptop, hence the <i>Domestic Science</i> title, and each one has an accompanying video which has been produced on a shoestring by helpful fans and budding film-makers, keen as always to get involved and help the cause. Thanks dudes!<br><br><b>The first song is called <i>Passionflower</i>, and it'll be out on Wednesday September 28th.</b> The following singles in the series are mix of new songs, unexpected cover versions and instrumentals. Keep an eye out for more info and sneak previews as the date approaches...</p>
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This concert will also be the Leeds launch for my new project ‘The Domestic Science Singles Series’. The second single in the series will be released and revealed on the night of this concert. To celebrate we’re inviting the Leeds Guitar Night audience to an aftershow party at The Wardrobe which will continue til 2am."><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/8045/723f3b0428f2ae9639ee150999571d1dd721feab/medium/leeds-guitar-night-2011-banner.gif?1378214357" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="87" width="300" /><br><br>
The Leeds Guitar Night is back for 2011, and I'm delighted to be hosting a fantastic international line up at <a target="_new" href="http://thewardrobe.co.uk/">The Wardrobe</a> 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. </p>
This concert will also be the Leeds launch for my new project ‘<i>The Domestic Science Singles Series</i>’. The second single in the series will be released and revealed on the night of this concert. To celebrate we’re inviting the Leeds Guitar Night audience to an aftershow party at The Wardrobe which will continue til 2am.<br><br><span style="font-size: medium; "><b>Tickets are £8 from </b></span><a href="http://www.wegottickets.com/event/131783"><span style="font-size: medium; "><b>http://www.wegottickets.com/event/131783</b></span></a><br><br>
My first guest is the incredible <b><a target="_new" href="http://www.erikmongrain.com/">Erik Mongrain</a></b> from Quebec, who astounded guitar lovers worldwide with his phenomenal composition ‘Airtap’ in which debuted his radical lap tapping technique. His 2009 appearance on Later With Jools Holland further expanded his reputation as a virtuoso who constantly seeks to push the boundaries of his instrument.<i> “His awesome talent is audible and visible for anyone who has encountered his playing.”</i> (Acoustic Magazine) Me and Erik have been cohorts for some years but this is the first time we'll share the same stage.<br><iframe width="300" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JnbdKMpM3f4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> <br><br>
The second guest is the wonderfully eclectic acoustic virtuoso <b><a target="_new" href="http://www.giulianomodarelli.co.uk/">Giuliano Modarelli</a></b> whom I met at College studying Jazz in Leeds. Originally from Italy, his unique and exceptionally innovative style is a subtle blend of World Folk, Arabic, Flamenco, Latin and Eastern European. Giuliano regularly tours India and Africa. <i>"A fusion barometer would have registered Modarelli's originality and his ability to tap into Jazz's innate power of seduction."</i> (The Sunday Express)<br><iframe width="300" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pT9hRwUnrIM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> <br><br><span style="color: rgb(255, 124, 37); "><b>Comment on this using the facebook box (below) or by registering with jongomm.com and using the comment box (below that!)</b></span><br>
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I miss the old place which was my online home since 2003, but in reality everything is better here:<br><br><b>There's a proper </b><a href="http://jongomm.com/store.cfm"><b>Store</b></a> where you can buy the my two albums (prices have been lowered cos with this new site I don't have to give a percentage to an online-sales-company), but also now onsale is the Tab for <i>Loveproof</i> and my signature plectrums!<br><br><b>There's detailed info about every gig on the </b><a href="http://jongomm.com/livedates.cfm"><b>Live Dates page</b></a> (just click the "more info" links in the right hand column). <br><br><b>And there's this here bloggy-style news page</b>, which I can easily keep up-to-date with my doings, but where I'll also occasionally unleash my rants which up until now have been restricted to Facebook, really. And you can comment on anything in the blog, using your Facebook/Hotmail/Yahoo/AOL account or by registering with jongomm.com. Please comment, It's too quiet in here, I can hear these words echoing off the walls already.<br><br><b>And in the making right now is </b><a href="http://jongomm.com/guitaristsonly.cfm"><b>the Guitarists Only area</b></a>. I'm preparing some detailed info about my guitar and other gear, and I'll be making some little lessons about guitar techniques from tapping and percussion to harmonics and peg-bending madness. I'll be asking for requests for that, and for the Gomm FAQ page, so I'll be in touch asking for help (again) soon. Soz.<br><br><i>Hope you like it here!<br><br>
Jon.</i></p>
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