Jon Gomm

Friday 22nd October - Edinburgh (Venue TBC)
Saturday 23rd October - Glasgow (Venue TBC)

Our good friends at Juniperberries Promotions will be putting Jon on in Edinburgh and are currently sorting out the venue and we will be putting Jon on in Glasgow as part of the Glasgow Guitar Night (sponsored by CC Music). We will hopefully have all the venues confirmed by the end of the week.

Jon Gomm is a singer-songwriter and acoustic solo performer who discovered all kinds of new sounds he could make with an acoustic guitar – hitting the surface of it to make snare drum, bass drum and bongo sounds, re-tuning the strings to get bass sounds and teasing high harmonics from the guitar for synthesizer-like effects.

He worked all these techniques into his own songs and put his years of singing blues into use. The emphasis is still on the soulful vocals and songwriting however and his original material is influenced by everything from Robert Johnson to Radiohead, Roni Size to Prince.

He began to get high-profile gigs supporting some of the most-respected names on the acoustic circuit such as Tommy Emmanuel (Australia), Nick Harper and Bob Brozman (U.S.). He has performed at many festivals including The Italian National Guitar Festival and The London Guitar Show at Wembley.

Nowadays he tours Europe, playing at festivals from Rometo Athens, has a huge cult following and is regarded by those in the know as one of the world’s most talented and innovative acoustic guitarists. Even with only one CD so far released he is already cited as an influence by many other performers. His videos are watched thousands of times within days of appearing on Youtube, and his home-recorded CD Hypertension has sold many thousands of copies with no industry backing. He is now sponsored by Takamine and appears around the UK at their numerous guitar master classes.

"Sheer bloody genius… sublime, impassioned songwriting" Sandman Magazine

"One of the world's most successful, gifted and inspirational guitar players" Acoustic Magazine

"If you closed your eyes there’d be an ensemble playing... A huge emotional range, swinging between sentimental and just plain mental. This is style and content, solo work at its best" LeedMusicScene.com

"This guy has it all - great heartfelt vocals, inspired and original songs, and guitar playing as good as you will ever hear. The new Hendrix." ReviewCentre.com

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