Featured Tours

Jon Gomm UK Tour

• 7th Jan 2015

Glasswerk is proud to present, astounding guitarist and vocalist Jon Gomm, as he embarks on a staggering twenty five date tour across the uk, you can catch him at the following the dates below:

March 2015
02 – Worcester Marrs Bar
03 – Chester Telfords Warehouse
04 – Nottingham Glee Club
06 – Birmingham Glee Club
07 – Sittingbourne Avenue Theater
08 – Norwich The Owl Sanctuary
09 – Wakefield Hop
10 – York Fibbers
12 – Huddersfield Bar122
13 – The EVI Ebbw Vale
15 – Cardiff Moon Club
16 – Bristol Colston Hall 2
17 – Southampton Joiners
18 – London Jazz Cafe
19 – Milton Keynes Stables
21 – Devizes St Marys
22 – Devon Kingskerswell Church
23 – Cambridge Junction 2
24 – Brighton Komedia
26 – Liverpool Leaf Cafe
27 – Manchester Gorilla
28 – Newcastle Cluny 2
30 – Sheffield Corporation

April 2015
01 – Hebden Bridge Trades Club
04 – Leeds Brudenell
05 – Preston Continental

Jon Gomm, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire in the UK, is an acoustic singer-songwriter with a revolutionary virtuoso guitar style, where he uses one acoustic guitar to create drum sounds, basslines and twisting melodies all at the same time. The emphasis is still on the soulful vocals and songwriting, and his original material is influenced by everything from Robert Johnson to Radiohead.

His live shows combine deeply personal performances and a natural wit, with a once seen, never forgotten two-handed guitar style, both physical and complex, producing sounds people can barely believe are coming from a humble acoustic guitar.

Jon first laid his hands on a guitar at the age of two (actually it was a ukulele – his parents couldn’t find a guitar small enough). He wrote his first song at the age of six, and was soon accompanying his father, a music critic, to gigs in his hometown of Blackpool. Touring musicians would often stay at the Gomm household on the understanding Jon would get a guitar lesson, meaning he had one-to-one instruction from such blues legends as BB King and Jack Bruce of Cream.

Nowadays, Jon tours worldwide. In January 2012 his song Passionflower went viral online, with the video passing 6 million hits, resulting in national TV appearances in the UK, Portugal, Holland, Brazil and Turkey, and plaudits from new celebrity fans, such as:

“Wonderful to watch. Genius.” – Stephen Fry
“I love your work and style so much. You are very special” – Jon Anderson (Yes)
“Wonderful playing and singing” – David Crosby (Crosby, Stills and Nash)
“Hands down the most amazing guitarist I have ever seen!” – Tommy Lee (Motley Crue)
“There are very few musicians on the planet who can actually strike me speechless with the beauty and skill of their playing. Jon Gomm is one of those musicians.” – Randy Blythe, Lamb Of God
“Making music can be a battle between trying to be a technical guitarist and trying to convey emotion. Unless you’re Jon Gomm. Then you can write the most complicated passages and have a heart-breaking melody as well.” – Andy McKee

Suddenly being catapulted from cult obscurity to mainstream acceptance has been a strange experience for someone so devoted to his craft, and Jon is an unlikely star and remains very much true to his roots in the acoustic circuit of the North of England.

Jon is a truly and fiercely independent artist, with his own label and no mainstream industry support, but using mostly online social networks for promotion, he has defied the odds with a huge, truly supportive fanbase resulting in headline tours on all 5 continents, from Australia, Canada and Europe to China and South Africa and South America. His debut CD Hypertension has sold over 50,000 copies at the time of writing, and his second CD Don’t Panic sold out within 3 days of appearing on Amazon. His videos are watched tens of thousands of times within minutes of appearing on Youtube.

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