John Jenkins

Friday 7th Sept 2018 - It always a pleasure to hear nice words about you and your music and songwriting - The feature on the liverpooletc website is up there with my favourite's of mine and i'm always grateful for…

Tuesday 4th Sept 2018 - As an aside from promoting the "Day After Day" EP  the monthly Cornmarket Folk Acoustic Night came around and for the first time in 2 years i played some Piano tunes rather than Acoustic Guitar…

John Jenkins And The James Street Band, Day After Day. E.P. Review. 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10 

To be able to reflect upon life, to look upon the world and your place within it and understand that…

Sun 26th Aug 2018 - Despite the torrential rain while we played our set we all had a great time and the audience stuck around and sang along - It was quite an afternoon - Our set was as follows:

Friday 24th Aug 2018 - Very pleased to announce the release of my new EP "Day after Day" by John Jenkins and the James Street Band. It contains 5 tracks 

1. Day After Day  * 
2. Luxury Stains Everything it Touches 
3. …

Aug 9th 2018 - Well that was a fabulous gig at the Handyman Bar in Smithdown Road. 19 songs performed over 2 sets. Started out without an audience but by 2nd song had people bouncing in clapping along to us. Lovely…

Monday 6th Aug 2018 - Been a busy week to say the least. All the recordings for the "Day after Day" EP now completed and mixed. Wont be long till a release date is confirmed this month. 

Me and…

Sat 28th July 2018 - A little break from "live" performances this month and a holiday in between. Saturday i and the James Street Band were kindly asked to perform at a charity event alongside the amazing Marc Vormawah and…

Sat 7th July 2018 - Mixed and Mastered "Day after Day" on Tuesday 3rd in time for it's first broadcast on Mighty Southport Radio from Russ Broadbent and his Saturday Cafe Show.

In the afternoon we had a lovely afternoon…

June 23rd - Another day at Crosstown Studios with Jon Lawton putting down Drums and Bass on another 7 songs with Steve Atkinson, Dave Orford and Denis Parkinson - Songs started this weekend:

1. Looking for That American Dream
2. Can…

Tuesday 19th June 2018 - Very enjoyable few hours spent in Chirk near Wrexham recording 3 tracks for the Infamous Narrowboat Sessions to be aired over 3 months from the end of July. It was a real James Street Band…

June 16th 2018 - Happy to say my new album got underway at Crosstown Studios with the James Street Band with Ian Davies (from Two Black Sheep) stepping in for Steve Atkinson on Bass due to Steve's holidays

Put…

June 14th 2018 - Very pleased to say that a further date at West Kirby Arts Centre has been confirmed for Friday November 30th 2018 - One for your diary 

Wed 6th June 2018 - Second visit to Southport in 10 days with Denis and Dave - This one was a bit special with a return to the Atkinson Theatre and part of the wonderful Grateful Fred evenings of Americana…

June 2nd 2018 - Great Festival and all for a good cause - to raise money for Clatterbridge Cancer Charity - We played our little set of 7 songs to a packed audience and it was a lot of fun…

Thur 31st May 2018 - Relaxed (maybe too relaxed) photo of our recording session at Crosstown Studio courtesey of David Nixon last night. 

Probably one of the very first Persuaders songs i wrote (with John Gillin) - Day after…

Sat 26th May 2018 - Big thank you for Russ Broadbent for putting the show together and David Starr allowing me, Denis and Dave to do the support on the first date of David's tour - Our show coincided with…

Just an update on things and about the next series of shows I have lined up, a couple are quite intimate shows in Southport. 

Saturday 26th May 2018 -  “The Cheshire Lines”, Duke Street, Southport. 

First off with the…

Monday 7th May 2018 - Made my appearance at this year's festival with The James Street Band at The Brookhouse in Liverpool with a 5pm kick off - Beautiful weather meant quite a lot of clientele where outside the venue sunning…

Tuesday 1st May 2018 - Monthly Acoustic night at the Cornmarket - This month featured James Street Band member "David Nixon" doing a 7 song big spot with me and Denis Parkinson and Amy Chalmers helping out on several songs.

Sat 21st April 2018 - We all had a fabulous night at Thornton Hough Village Club last night and quite emotional too. 

Wonderful sets from Denis Parkinson's new band "Northline " to start us off and Vanessa Murray…

Sat 14th April 2018 - Liverpool Acoustic set up a challenge to write a song from 1pm based on a theme "Across the Threshold" and register to perform it within 24 hours. I wrote a song called "Across the Threshold…

Sun 8th April 2018 - I popped into the Wallasey Acoustic & Folk Club for the first time and had a splendid night of music to listen to - Did two songs of my own which went down very well…

Sat 7th April 2018 -  As always it’s a real pleasure to be a guest on Billy’s show and this was no exception – With the James Street Band minus Dave O & Sarah but with the ably helping hand…