Hello again,

I’ve been drinking coffee and working on blues songs in strange tunings. I’ve also booked some shows:

January 28th 2012 The Malt Cross, Nottingham
February 4th 2012 Spanky Van Dykes, Nottingham
March 6th 2012 Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
April 6th 2012 Nottingham Contemporary w/Frontiers
July 7th 2012 Johnsonbury Festival, Nottingham
August 18th 2012 The Maze, Nottingham

I’m trying my best to get a driving license, so hopefully dates in London and Manchester will not be too far away. As always, I hope everyone out there is well.

jack x

I’m on a bit of an acoustic recording detox. Listening to leonard cohen, tim buckley, neil young, bob dylan, james taylor, joni mitchell, nick drake, john martyn, elliott smith and a little too much simon & garfunkel…

In July I was lucky enough to play alongside Scott Matthews at Splendour Festival – you can read about it here.

We’ve been driving around in a 1973 VW campervan to Scotland for T in the Park Festival and Leicester for the Summer Sundae Weekender. Also, Tom Robinson has been playing ‘Otherwise’ regularly on BBC 6music. The song is featured this month on his emerging artist podcast.

In other news, Calla the cat has been returned to us by the RSPCA after she had been missing for nearly two months. I’m sure I could write about the new album or something, but this seemed more important…

Thanks very much to Ally McCrae for playing a live broadcast of ‘Invasion’ on his Radio 1 show last Saturday. You can find it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012f4m1

Very happy to announce a show at this year’s T in the Park Festival. We’re all looking forward to watching Coldplay, Manic Street Preachers, The Strokes, Pulp and Beyoncé. I’ll be playing on the BBC Introducing Stage on Saturday 9th July 2011. For more information see www.tinthepark.com.

So, here is everything you need to know:

The debut album is being released this May, featuring 16 original songs:

1. 20 sec Banjo [03:45]
2. House At The End Of The Road [03:08]
3. Utopian Car Bomb [03:44]
4. Duck Footprints [03:38]
5. Blue Chelsea Girl [02:42]
6. Calla Killed A Bear [03:30]
7. Dolce [03:15]
8. Life in Cotton Wool [01:18]
9. Otherwise [03:11]
10. Memory Exiles [02:42]
11. Dead Tax State Cell [02:44]
12. French Canada [02:52]
13. Narcotic [03:34]
14. New / Inadequate [02:59]
15. In The Cold [03:36]
16. Critic to a Chivalrous Scavenger (Live At The BBC) [03:10]

The album is available in standard CD and 12″ Vinyl format.

You can buy any of these by clicking here.