Nigel Mazlyn Jones On Tour Autumn 2017
Fri Sept 22nd No 8 Launceston / Sat 30th Sept Newport Memorial Hall Pembrokeshire plus Scene Red / Sat 14th Oct Shammick Acoustic unplugged Combe Martin Devon / Thurs 19th Oct, Foxlowe Arts Centre Leek Staffs / Fri 20th Oct Katie Fitzgerald’s Stourbridge /Sat 21st Oct HermonChapel Arts Centre Oswestry Shropshire - Updates see
"Nigel Mazlyn Jones acoustic guitarist and lyricist, is a veteran of the first wave of British acoustic warriors, along with Roy Harper, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Mick Softley and Mike Chapman. He returns to the front line after a five-year breather invigorated and enthused to bewilder and bemuse your singular and most excellent delight" Richard Allen Shindig!
Biography
A veteran of the ‘70s acoustic music scene, NMJ weavessounds andatmospheres with 6 and 12 string acoustic guitars and the kind of ecologically aware political commentary championed by his peers. Since 1976 he has been entrancing audiences on the live and festival circuitsas well as on radio and TV. Nigel is the real deal, a battle-hardened survivor for his art, enthused,principled and still breaking the envelope. Well known on the UK festival scene he has often toured UK and European major venues supporting the like of Barclay James Harvest,Renaissance, Camel and Bob Geldofwhilstcollaborating with Steve Hillage, Banco de Gaia, Roy Harper and Guy Evans of Van Der Graaf Generator on various projects.
Nigel has recorded eleven albums. His first two albums the majestic Ship to Shore and the world-wearySentinel have been re-released and are rightly regarded as classics of the genre. His recent release ‘Raft’echoes his early work featuring12-stringdexterity to the fore embellishing some great tunes and poignant lyrics of hope, love, wonder and exasperation athumanity. Guest players include Guy Evans, drummer-percussionist with Van Der Graaf Generator and Rog Patterson onfretless bass.Nigel loves the natural worldhaving once worked in conservation with the great Apes at Gerald Durrell’s Wildlife Trust. Living near the Cornish coastnatural influences are woven into his music creating an artistic reflection of the raft on which we all individually sail. As Nigel notes “Like this planet rafts are fragile”
Live video extract onYou Tube August - Bacon Theatre Cheltenham 2015 with guest player Phil beer
What the Press said about Nigel live:
MOJO"There is a complexity to his approach, ferocity edged with a brittle beauty, joy of living pervades often rainbow lit."
UNCUT“Since the mid-70s NMJ has quietly been making some of the best acoustic music in the UK.”
F’ROOTS“A first-rate producer of acoustic brain food”
Selected Album Reviews
MOJO“Beautifully woven folk rock”
UNCUT "… lyrical inspiration, daring instrumental tracks that shine. 8 out of 10"
SHINDIG!"entirely original acoustic folk sound, some of the best acoustic music in the UK"
R2 (ROCK n REEL)"An undoubted musical maverick, there is something profoundly elemental about his music"
SHINDIG! “Ship to Shore NMJ’s 1st album from 1976 is one of the great UK 70’s singer-songwriter albums. Easily holding its own alongside the likes of Roy Harper, Nick Drake and John Martyn Ship to Shore captures that free-spirited innocence and optimism which momentarily eclipsed the commercial considerations of the music industry”
UNCUTreviewinga 2014 reissue of his 1976 album Ship to Shore
“Ship to Shore was a breath of fresh air in the fallow folk years of 1976, a distinctive combination of sincere songs, shape shifting acoustic guitars and glissando techniques. A well-known figure on the live circuit he featured as guest act for many bands.”
LINKS:
Press photos: