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Agia Napa - Blog

Agia Napa – Blog

Arrival Not the most enjoyable of flights, but I am arrived intact by Budget air : ) Revisited Brussels airport, where as a 9 year old I arrived back from Africa… and breathed with the most profound and lasting joy the chill mist laden air. The Agia Napa accomodation is blissful after the cooped up...
Book: Robert Frank's 'The Americans'

Book: Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’

Jonathan’s bestselling book, included on the National Gallery of Art, Washington USA essential reading list. In the mid 50s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs of all levels of a rapidly changing society. The resultant photo-book, The Americans, represents a seminal moment in...
Album: "Carved In Bone"

Album: “Carved In Bone”

Carved in Bone Contemporary rural music from Shropshire, this album collects together the work of vagabond songwriter and composer Jonathan Day. After two critically acclaimed albums and several years touring Europe, Jonathan moved out of the spotlight to follow a reclusive and itinerant life, making music in his remote home in the hills and sometimes...
America Tour

America Tour

Article 'Love Shrewsbury'

Article ‘Love Shrewsbury’

After spending a crazy weekend at Shrewsbury folk festival I have brought some jewels with me that I hope over the next few articles to share with you. Firstly, local singer/songwriter Jonathan Day, later this Autumn will be taking his Between the Worlds, tour to China and Thailand. He has several gigs in Hong Kong...
Rooftop Gig Tsim Sha Tsui

Rooftop Gig Tsim Sha Tsui

Rooftop gig in Hong Kong.

Review “Netrythms”

Jonathan has a keen talent for songwriting, and there are some really lovely songs here. There’s a clear lineage back to classic 70s singer-songwriters.. including Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Peter Hammill and CSN&Y, I can also hear folks like Nick Drake and David Ackles in there. It sounds really good – intimate and well-recorded, with...
Review "Northern Sky"

Review “Northern Sky”

The Shropshire countryside is embedded in the very fabric of this first proper release by Jonathan Day, a writer, painter and poet whose curiosity has taken him around the world and back on a journey of self-discovery, from Johannesburg to the heart of the Black Country, his true inspirational home. Rich in atmosphere, the album...

Review “fRoots”

  Honest, sensitive, gently visionary.  

Review “System Records”

Contemporary rural music from Shropshire, sixteen years in the writing and making, this album collects together the work of vagabond songwriter and composer Jonathan Day. After two critically acclaimed albums and several years touring Europe, Jonathan moved out of the spotlight to follow a reclusive and itinerant life makjing music in his remote home in...