“…stunning.”
- Michelle Ward, Phoenix 98FM
“Possibly spurned one of the best quotes I’ve heard…I love this…‘it’s like Bruce Springsteen & Paolo Nutini are cruising in the backseat of Jeff Buckley’s car and Tom Waits is driving.’ Yeah. That pretty much sums it up”
- Pete Steel, Brum Radio.
“…an uplifting blast of sunshine, whose soulful warmth we could all do with right now.”
- Music News.
“If you’re sick of vapid Rock and Roll melt into the ardent grooves of Andy John Jones”
- A&R Factory
With his virile and literate Soul Rock sound, Jones is hauling himself out of obscurity with his sights set firmly on headlining the Glastonbury main stage where his desire to play was born. If you find yourself tolerating modern culture, all its vapid tag-lines and divisiveness, then you’re not alone.
Always looking for the extraordinary in ordinary things, Jones is often covering the seemingly unremarkable pleasures and pains of our times with wild, romantic imagination and reverence. Through demanding a sound that is as slick & sexy as it is raw and intimate, and a poetic lyricism that balances equal measures of playfulness and poignancy, Jones is working to build a legendary body of albums that’s matched only by the lingering adrenaline of his live performances.
Taking much of his inspiration from working in places like McDonald’s, local pubs and as a labourer for local tradesmen, Jones honed his live skills and distinctive, soulful sound in the open mics and pubs around his home city Birmingham, UK, before moving to the streets of London as a busker and beyond into the pubs, cocktail bars and hotel lounges building himself a growing, enthusiastic fanbase that crowdfunded the recording of his debut album - A Night On The Boomtown - in 2019.
The thunderous three and a half octaves of his vocal range have brought him comparisons to singers-songwriters like Bruce Springsteen, Paolo Nutini and Jeff Buckley and his guitar work has had him compared to John Mayer and John Frusciante. His debut album, A Night On The Boomtown, is a collection of fourteen songs, written and recorded between 2017 & 2020 and inspired by various first and second hand experiences working and witnessing the various night lives of Tamworth, Birmingham and London. The album also seeks to display the wide array of eclectic influences on Andy’s musical tastes from Rock to Soul, Blues to Jazz and Electronica to Folk.
Inspired by such albums as Arctic Monkey’s AM and Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness On The Edge Of Town, the collection has sought to craft songs that can stand on their own, but within the context of the album, capture the mood, stories and character of a Friday night and serve the broader theme of the nuances, complexities and dashed expectations of modern culture’s iterations of a night out, drug culture, youth, love, dreams and self-realisation.
Andy John Jones would find his calling after skipping exams, in 2009, to go to Glastonbury music and arts festival. In the mud and sunshine Andy John Jones was blown away by performances from Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Nick Cave, Pete Doherty, Paolo Nutini and many more. It was during the Bruce Springsteen headline show, however, that his future would be decided. “I only knew one song, I think. Born in the USA. That was it. But I had a friend that I went with who was really into him. He was also the headline act so we had to go and see his show. I was just blown away. This guy’s aura, his energy, his lyrics, his power, his passion…I felt like I was at church and that I’d found my religion.” Andy John Jones has since poured over music in many of its forms from Jazz to Blues, Folk to Classic Rock, Alternative Rock to Indie Rock, Soul to Funk, Rock n Roll to R&B and Dance to Pop culminating in a sound Andy defines as Soul Rock, “a sort of Soul/Blues/Indie Rock hybrid”. Some of his primary influences include Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, John Martyn, John Mayer, Ray Charles, Paolo Nutini, Arctic Monkeys, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Rolling Stones, The Black Keys and many more.
Creativity seems to run in Andy John Jones’s family. On his father’s side, he is the great-great nephew of Alfred Janes a welsh painter and Dylan Thomas contemporary who composed three of Thomas’s most famous portraits. “My great grandmother was also a dear friend of Dylan Thomas’s. She used to type up his poems for him. Apparently my great-grandfather, a burly fisherman, didn’t get it at all. He used to come home from a hard days graft and exclaim ‘what pish and rubbish are you typing for him now!?’” On his mother’s side he is a direct descendent of Sir Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy.
Always looking for the extraordinary in ordinary things, Jones is often covering the seemingly unremarkable pleasures and pains of our times with wild, romantic imagination and reverence. Through demanding a sound that is as slick & sexy as it is raw and intimate, and a poetic lyricism that balances equal measures of playfulness and poignancy, Jones is working to build a legendary body of albums that’s matched only by the lingering adrenaline of his live performances.
Taking much of his inspiration from working in places like McDonald’s, local pubs and as a labourer for local tradesmen, Jones honed his live skills and distinctive, soulful sound in the open mics and pubs around his home city Birmingham, UK, before moving to the streets of London as a busker and beyond into the pubs, cocktail bars and hotel lounges building himself a growing, enthusiastic fanbase that crowdfunded the recording of his debut album - A Night On The Boomtown - in 2019.
The thunderous three and a half octaves of his vocal range have brought him comparisons to singers-songwriters like Bruce Springsteen, Paolo Nutini and Jeff Buckley and his guitar work has had him compared to John Mayer and John Frusciante. His debut album, A Night On The Boomtown, is a collection of fourteen songs, written and recorded between 2017 & 2020 and inspired by various first and second hand experiences working and witnessing the various night lives of Tamworth, Birmingham and London. The album also seeks to display the wide array of eclectic influences on Andy’s musical tastes from Rock to Soul, Blues to Jazz and Electronica to Folk.
Inspired by such albums as Arctic Monkey’s AM and Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness On The Edge Of Town, the collection has sought to craft songs that can stand on their own, but within the context of the album, capture the mood, stories and character of a Friday night and serve the broader theme of the nuances, complexities and dashed expectations of modern culture’s iterations of a night out, drug culture, youth, love, dreams and self-realisation.
Andy John Jones would find his calling after skipping exams, in 2009, to go to Glastonbury music and arts festival. In the mud and sunshine Andy John Jones was blown away by performances from Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Nick Cave, Pete Doherty, Paolo Nutini and many more. It was during the Bruce Springsteen headline show, however, that his future would be decided. “I only knew one song, I think. Born in the USA. That was it. But I had a friend that I went with who was really into him. He was also the headline act so we had to go and see his show. I was just blown away. This guy’s aura, his energy, his lyrics, his power, his passion…I felt like I was at church and that I’d found my religion.” Andy John Jones has since poured over music in many of its forms from Jazz to Blues, Folk to Classic Rock, Alternative Rock to Indie Rock, Soul to Funk, Rock n Roll to R&B and Dance to Pop culminating in a sound Andy defines as Soul Rock, “a sort of Soul/Blues/Indie Rock hybrid”. Some of his primary influences include Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, John Martyn, John Mayer, Ray Charles, Paolo Nutini, Arctic Monkeys, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Rolling Stones, The Black Keys and many more.
Creativity seems to run in Andy John Jones’s family. On his father’s side, he is the great-great nephew of Alfred Janes a welsh painter and Dylan Thomas contemporary who composed three of Thomas’s most famous portraits. “My great grandmother was also a dear friend of Dylan Thomas’s. She used to type up his poems for him. Apparently my great-grandfather, a burly fisherman, didn’t get it at all. He used to come home from a hard days graft and exclaim ‘what pish and rubbish are you typing for him now!?’” On his mother’s side he is a direct descendent of Sir Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy.
“British, soulful and sexy…”
- Where The Music Meets
“Reminiscent of Paolo Nutini with the guitar stylings of John Mayer"
- The Other Side Reviews
"A very British-esque unhinged rock n roll vibe, a fresh, brash and ragged sound that tingles every pore of the body.”
– The Partae
“…comes from the street but is ready to conquer all digital platforms.”
- rockandmore.net
- Where The Music Meets
“Reminiscent of Paolo Nutini with the guitar stylings of John Mayer"
- The Other Side Reviews
"A very British-esque unhinged rock n roll vibe, a fresh, brash and ragged sound that tingles every pore of the body.”
– The Partae
“…comes from the street but is ready to conquer all digital platforms.”
- rockandmore.net