Each week I'm putting up one of the best performances from my latest gig or Unlit so that you don't miss out even if you didn't make it down...
This weeks offering is:
Jont - Lucky Leaf Falls - Balcony Demo
i set off on an adventure recently, hoping to take my music round the world, play in the street, in people's kitchens, on stage, everywhere, and see what it brought me. this new song has already brought me several new friends....this is for them and for you, i hope you like it....i think there is a bit of a glitch in chorus two and its a very lo fi demo but hopefully you will get the idea.....thankyou to all of you who have sung along so far and been so generous to me on this journey so far....
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here's a collection of different films of me playing, or vids for songs I put out, mostly done by my friend Mick Paulusma
Jont - Australia - Balcony Demo
I wrote this song, then in the afternoon bought a plane ticket for australia. And now here i am. in Sydney, meeting amazing people, and playing my songs in the street, on the beach, on the balcony and in the sunshine....bring it on x
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Jont - Kasbah de Freija - Live in the Studio
Jont performs a track from the exclusive And In Dreams EP, which was only available from the Jont shop at www.jontnet.com/shop.php
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Jont - Drink Up - video by Lee Lester
To mark the release of the album Set It Free, my friend Lee (the other half of Unlit Records) made this video with footage he found of me hanging out with my friends in LA circa 2004, and of me and my friends in London recording the album, circa november 2008. Put to "Drink Up", a song i wrote in that room in LA, it's a song - i think - about friendship, about aspiration, about not waiting to be happy. Check it out...
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Jont - Unlit Trailer - video by Dave Depares
My friend Dave Depares was my constant companion with his camera on all of the Unlit tours...check out this trailer for a taste of what it's about.
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Jont - All My Life - video by Simon Ratigan
Here is the incredible music video made by my friend, the director Simon Ratigan for All My Life. It is made from 100,000 photos taken of people Simon met wandering through the desert and in the Los Angeles area and then rendered together to make a moving image. The use of a stills camera means it was incredibly painstaking to make but the visual result is quite extraordinary. Hope you like it.
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Jont - Set It Free - The Concept
My album Set It Free comes with a visitors book and a game...here's me explaining a bit about it.
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Jont - Song No. 1 - Live in The Studio
Here's an old song I performed to camera during the mixing of Get So Low from my new album Set It Free...
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Jont - Let's Roll - Live at The Lexington
This is a song from my album launch party at The Lexington at the start of 2010 - shot and edited by Dave Depares
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Jont - The Way Home - Live at The Drawing Room
Here's a song from a gig I did at The Drawing Room - run by the wonderful Richard and Amy...
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Jont - Supernatural - Live at The Lexington
This is a song from my album launch party at The Lexington at the start of 2010 - shot and edited by Dave Depares
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Jont - Candlelit - Live Kentish Town City Farm
See what happened when things didn't go exactly to plan at the Kentish Town City Farm Album Delivery Gig...
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Jont - All My Life - Live London Unlit
Shot at Jeff's Place in London Fields in May 2009
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Jont - Supernatural - Fun In Broadway Market
Jont, Sharon Lewis and Lilli mess around the morning after the first Unlit of spring...
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Jont - The Book That Never Touches The Ground - Live Unlit, Portsmouth
My biggest fan Pete asked me to play a real oldie from my first album...was good to dust it off again and he was on hand to help me remember the words!
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Jont - Rescue Me - Live House Concert York
Unreleased track performed at a House Concerts York gig - a not too dissimilar thing to Unlit, though more of a standard performance style...
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Jont - Candlelit - Live at Unlit, Hackney
This is what I aim to happen at an Unlit...beautiful!
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Jont - Don't Waste All Your Tears - In Memory of Nick
On 2008's summer Unlit tour, we passed by my friend Johnnie Walkers house. He invited us in and we played a tribute gig for his friends son, Nick, who had tragically died a couple of weeks before. This was one of the songs I played at that gig. We were astounded by the grace with which his parents were dealing with their tragic loss. It turned out to be a very beautiful and inspiring evening.
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Jont - Album Launch Gig - Behind The Scenes
Video created by my friend Lee featuring the best moments from the biggest gig of my life - my album launch party for "Supernatural" at The Purcell Room in the South Bank Centre. The venue was packed, I played with a full band, and there was even a backstage masseuse!
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Jont - Can't turn the sea off - music video by mick paulusma
Ok so forgive the hair (i'd had the idea to dye it blue, then when it washed out it went this horrible greeny blonde colour you see before you), but the vid is cool. Even forgive the song if you like, but the vid...well its fun and my idea was that we'd shoot it only on the video capability of a canon powershot sd200 stills camera (mine) and the video capability of Mick's phone. with the last shot of the video mick dropped my camera. or at least that became the last shot of the video cos we couldn't do any more after that. obviously hats off to bob and sub.homesick blues....but more hats off to mick paulusma really...he has a fine touch with the editing....which he is now bringing to bear on the first feature he is directing this summer in Canada....it is called Clearlake... (more)
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Jont - Exile Song - by jont and andrei codrescu, home vid
As part of this february in 2006 trying to write 14 songs in the month, I got in contact with a bunch of different writers, musicians and poets. Andrei Codrescu, the respected American man of letters, novelist and poet sent me a sheaf of poems he had written in the wake of the New Orleans Disaster. This one fell beautifully in to song. had to change the words a bit, make some things a little clearer, as the addition of melody allows, but he liked it enough to let me put it up on my site.
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Jont - Nothing Nowhere - home vid
Another vid Mick Paulusma shot when I was staying in their place in feb 2006. this was another song I had written that month. count the buses.
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Jont - You Can Be The Stars - video by Mick Paulusma
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After I went round the 'states putting on Unlit in the homes of different people I'd met through myspace, the bbc asked me to put on a special Unlit as part of the electric proms and three of my fave US artists I'd met on the tour came over to play in Camden, one rainy night. Also my pal and genius songwriter derek meins came down.
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jont - fucking up - shot by geraldine
jont supernatural unlit geraldine sweetheart singer songwriter troubadour house concert
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