20 September 2024
Newsdesk
South Wales songwriter/wordsmith Jack Jones releases a beautiful new single The Mountains (You & I) through Strap Originals today. The Mountains (You & I), a sticky tune anthem about overcoming the trials and tribulations of everyday life, is the fifth track to be lifted from Jack’s much anticipated debut solo album ‘Jack Jones’ also released today.
Jack’s previous singles Breathe , Peaches Out Of Reach , Who Let The Bass Pump Though The Floor and Gladys all picked up multiple plays on BBC6 Music, BBC Wales and Radio X.
Jack Jones says of The Mountains (You & I): “I went to live in a silent Buddhist monastery near Newcastle, trying to live a healthier lifestyle. There's so much of life where you're expected to talk, but then if all of a sudden you decide not to for a bit, it really calms you, chopping wood for the monks, carrying stuff around and fixing the monastery, doing gardening and living together with other people in this hall. We’d listen to the monks singing in the morning, which was beautiful, and watch them living out their lives. In the past, I've struggled so much to meditate – by the time I got out of the monastery I did feel like that normal anxiety that lives in me felt less tight when I got back.”
The one-take video for Mountains (You & I) starring Jack and directed by Jack, was filmed by Jack on the emergency stairs at Covent Garden Tube station, using every single one of its 193 steps - the equivalent of a 15 storey building. Watch the video here: The Mountains (You & I) .
Jack’s album ‘Jack Jones’ is available on vinyl in multiple colour formats, CD and digital download and was co-written, produced and mixed by Adam French. Also available will be Jack Jones’s new book ‘Tour Diaries’ Volume 1 featuring Jack’s time with Trampolene, The Libertines and Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres.
Jack Jones is a compulsive wordsmith, an obsessive jotter-down of phrases, and weird things that people say. Across three studio albums and a hatful of singles and EPs since 2013, his work with TRAMPOLENE has always drawn from this humungous, ever-accumulating verbal resource. On his own, he has also published a novel (2023’s ‘Swansea to Hornsey’) and recited poems and delivered spoken-word onstage.
For this album Jack Jones has put away his guitar and embraced a fresh and highly contemporary sound in which to couch his hard-hitting state of the nation poems of existential fear and loathing. His lyrics tackle many of today’s burning issues: mental health, drug addiction, mortality, and the tortuous demands of technology. There’s also joy and hope in there. The new direction arose out of an introduction to Mancunian artist/producer/songwriter/laptop warrior Adam French. For Jones, French’s way of composing and recording was like being teleported into a parallel dimension.
Jack Jones will be playing the following headline shows in November:
NOVEMBER
2nd SAT Glasgow - The Poetry Club SWG3
3rd SUN Liverpool - Jacaranda
6th WED North Shields - Three Tanners Bank
7th THU Manchester - YES Basement
8th FRI Cambridge - The Six Six Bar
9th SAT Shrewsbury - Albert & Co Frankville
13th WED Bristol - The Exchange
14th THU London - Old Blue Last
15th FRI Swansea - Bunkhouse
16th SAT Cardiff - The Moon
Jack Jones also plays the following show with TRAMPOLENE: Salt Market Social - North Shields (28th September).Jack will be performing and signing at the following in-stores this week:
SEPTEMBER
20 Friday Bristol Rough Trade 6:30pm Doors, 7:30pm Onstage, 8:30pm Signing
21 Saturday Swansea Derricks 4pm SIGNING ONLY
22 Sunday Nottingham Rough Trade 6pm Doors, 7pm Onstage, 8pm Signing
23 Monday Liverpool Rough Trade 12pm SIGNING ONLY
Bury Wax & Beans 7pm Doors, 7:30pm on stage, 8:15pm Signing
24 Tuesday Leeds Crash Records 5pm Doors
25 WednesdaySouthampton Vinilo 7PM Doors
26 Thursday Kingston Banquet Records 6pm on stage, 6:45pm signing
Jack Jones has enjoyed Top 10 success with TRAMPOLENE on the Independent Album Charts with three Top 10 Albums, hit the road as special guest to Liam Gallagher at the personal request of the iconic frontman, supported The Libertines on an Arena Tour as ‘Tour Poet’ and had the honour of being the first act to headline Swansea Arena.
