A gifted songwriter with a soulful, whiskey-soaked voice, Jon Allen has established a cult following which has seen him exceed 40 million streams, feature on ‘Later… with Jools Holland’, write alongside Sir Paul McCartney, tour with Mark Knopfler and support Kaleo. Now Jon introduces his most ambitious album project, ‘Seven Dials’ which will be released on May 2nd, by sharing his new single ‘White Gold’. Listen HERE.
Operating on the intersection between folk rock, British roots and rugged alt-country, ‘White Gold’ transports us back to 18th century London and into the midst of the nefarious underground sugar trade of the time. Conveyed with a vocal that feels like the missing link between Paul Rodgers and Paolo Nutini, Jon evocatively depicts a forgotten time in the capital’s history: one in which entrepreneurship, nefarious plotting, and the sheer desperation to survive were all intertwined.
‘White Gold’ offers a taste of the rich narratives that run throughout the upcoming ‘Seven Dials’ album. Nowadays, Seven Dials is a memorable location in central London: one with an inimitable mix of the old and the new; longstanding institutions such as the Cambridge Theatre and The Crown pub next to corporate coffee houses and upmarket shops. But back then, Seven Dial was a dilapidated slum, thriving only via the mass of down-on-their-luck souls who reluctantly called it their home. Pre-order ‘Seven Dials’ HERE.
Collectively, the album imagines the struggles of the area: the desperation, the poverty, the scheming and the low-level criminality. Yet while its stories are very much centred in time and place, the emotions that flow from it are curiously indistinguishable from many of our present day experiences.
Jon Allen will celebrate the release of ‘Seven Dials’ by hitting the road with his band The Luna Kings: Randall Breneman (guitar), Phil Brickell (bass) and Adam Skinner (drums). Tickets for the following shows are available HERE.
MAY
16th – Cardiff, Acapela Studio
24th – London, Bush Hall
29th – Haarlem, Patronaat
30th – Rotterdam, Rotown
31st – Utrecht, Tivoli
JUNE
1st – Groningen, De Oosterpoort
5th – Odense, Dexter
19th – Barnoldswick, Music and Arts Centre
20th – Newcastle, The Cluny
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