Found a review of a gig we did at the 12 Bar a few weeks back:

Tonight Jon and his minions were on fire. As a four piece, JTB really create some wonderful noise. Too many bands are happy to hide behind the image of keyboards having to pave the way for laid back and non intrusive music. Not so here, the music was neither timid nor compromising. Fierce slabs of piano fronted rock, played by some of the most consummate musicians the town has to offer.

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Here's a live video of the song "Free Your Mind" from a gig we did last weekend:

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We played at the monthly Frequently inSwindon gig last Saturday along with 3 other bands. It's an open air gig held in the middle of Swindon town centre, the aim of which is to get the locals interested in the bands coming out of the town. We had a great time and lots of people seemed to enjoy it which was ace, even though it started pissing it down with rain 5 minutes before we went on!! Luckily it stopped just as we started and we managed to entice a fair few people over to come and watch us do our thing! Here are some photos

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We played the monthly Songs of Praise evening @ The Vic in Swindon last week was ace, and the guys at http://mmamblive.blogspot.com/  have done a little review:

There has been a wave of piano led bands in British music in the last few years, I won’t name them, you know who they are. I have always felt a bit cheated by them however. It’s as if the piano acts as a boundary, one that keeps these bands in a more timid and wishy-washy musical environment. Thankfully, The Jon Trowbridge Band seems oblivious to these considerations and make a music that is hard hitting and full of bravado. It’s not without its more delicate moments, but it does seem to be at its best when all four members of the band are pushing their instruments to the extremes. Made up of a combination of ex-Durera and Broken Daylight personnel, they certainly haven’t lost the art of making a big impression and the night bows out on some pounding, well rounded tunes that seem at once familiar and original. And its only Thursday.

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Did a gig for Brunel FM last week and it was a good laugh! Loads of people there and the sound was fantastic. Really enjoyed the other bands as well, Good Dog and Arc. Here are some videos of our performance!

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Last week we did a radio interview and an acoustic set for local station Brunel FM. I've chopped up the relevent bits and stuck em up for your listening pleasure! We had a good laugh doing it, and the songs have come out reasonably well just using a couple of room mics

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Haven't posted anything for a while so thought i'd put up an update of whats going on at the mo!

Firstly, me and the boys have been picked for the Frequency Airborne competition running on Brunel FM along with 8 other bands. We will be going into the studio this Thursday to do an interview and an acoustic-ish session which will be broadcast on the Frequency show this Sunday between 12-4 (which non Swindoners can listen to by going to http://www.brunelfm.com/ and clicking on listen at the top!) . Then on the 29th of May we get to gig with Arc and Good Dog @ the 12 Bar, which should be a laugh!

We've also been asked to headline the Sunday @ The Beehive for this years Swindon Shuffle which we are really chuffed about! It's gonna be another great weekend of music and booze i'm sure!

We've lined up a few gigs for the coming months which are listen on the main page. The first of which will be the 8th May @ The Beehive with the wonderful Josh Kumra! It will be our first gig together and we can't wait!!

Hopefully we will record a little EP or something in the coming months that we'll stick up for you all to listen to, so stay tuned!!

Cheers

Jon

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Here is the video for my song "Survive". It was done by a mate of ours called Carl Spring, and I loves it!

Jon Trowbridge - Survive

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Found a little review of a gig I did last year:

Jon Trowbridge. Many of you may know him as the front man of Broken Daylight. Tonight, he was going solo. I've been a big fan of Jon's solo work for quite some time now. He has soul and passion and a stunning voice. All released at once creates a real wall of sound quality. Just close your eyes and drift into another plane. Don't ask why, but he reminds me of Alicia Keys, weird I know, but true. We should be seeing a lot more of Jon's solo work as Broken Daylight have reached their sell by date. Sad for BD fans, great for us JT fans. A well polished performance. Jon claims that they only had 15 minutes for practice for this. God help the rest of us if he only needs 15 minutes to be that good. Don't you just hate these gifted people? Jon Trowbridge – Vocals/keys was ably assisted by Jamie Trowbridge – Bass, Dave Staynings – Drums.

Cheers to Sean!

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Spent the weekend recording a music video for the song "Survive". Me, Jamie, Chris and Dave spent Saturday pissing about in the Wiltshire countryside, and on Sunday played band style in The Furnace in Swindon. It's being done by a guy called Carl Spring who is a friend of Chris. He seems to know what he's doing and had some great ideas on the go, and we had great fun doing it. He's hoping to have a rough cut done in a week or two for us to look at, as well as a finished version in glorious Hi Def, so hopefully i'll have something to stick up here soon!

Getting perilously close to finishing the album i'm working on. Started off with about 50 or so songs i'd written in the past year, and have narrowed it down to 18 or so song as recording has gone on. Just need to finish up some vocals and drums and then mix it down. I'll stick a track or two up as I get them done!

Once that's done i'll be looking to start gigging again, hopefully in a couple of months or so!

Cheers

Jon

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