Jon Gomm first laid his hands on a guitar at the age of two, well, a ukelele at least as there weren't any guitars small enough. He started taking classical guitar lessons, was writing songs by the age of six and by 12 years old was accompanying his father, a music critic, to blues gigs.

The trawl through all styles musical continued as Jon moved into his teens and fell in love with Hendrix and Clapton spending many years working at rock solos and finger speed all the way up to university years when he opted to turn down a prestigious place at Oxford studying English in favour of further training at the Guitar Institute in London.

Digressions continued with a series of jobs playing jazz in cafe-bars, working as a session guitarist and even playing country and western at line dancing shows in working mens clubs to pay the course fees, all culminating in a move to Leeds to take a degree in jazz at the music college.

It was around this time Jon's own unique style began to emerge as he experimented with solo performances, discovering guitars could do a whole lot more than just strum and finger pick he put together songs full of guitar-body percussion, mid-verse re-tuning to create a bass range and high harmonics for synth sounds, blending it all together to get a full band sound out of one guy and a guitar.

Adding some soulful blues vocals to the mix high profile gigs quickly started cropping up with some of the bigest names on the international acoustic circuit; Tommy Emmanuel, Nick Harper and Bob Brozman amongst them. Major shows followed including the Italian National Guitar Festival and the London Guitar Show until eventually, in 2003, the studio started calling with the resulting album, Hypertension, going on to sell thousands of copies purely through gigs and website sales.

Performing up to 200 shows a year every year since 2004 Jon has become one of the most respected and hard working independents on the British and European circuit developing a laid back and intimate stage presence that combines with the intensely complex guitar work and smokey vocals to create a live show that leaves audiences open mouthed and seasoned musicians gushing praise like teenagers. The rest of the world has finally started to catch on with a video recording of him performing going viral on YouTube recently, sailing past a million views and hitting the national press and TV leading to numerous requests for a world tour in the near future.

Jon Gomm is one artist with whom you can believe the hype, in fact words and even recordings fail to do him any real justice; catch a gig as soon as you can, you'll never see anything else like it.



Press

“One of the world's most gifted and inspirational guitar players”
Acoustic Magazine

"We have seen the future of acoustic guitar playing, and it’s called Jon Gomm"
Blues Matters

“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"
LeedsMusicScene.com