Jon Gomm - Dream Factories

From my new album The Faintest Idea, which I can nervously announce is out TODAY! Go here to get it on your streaming platform and buy the CD, Double Vinyl, or beautiful Deluxe Edition 3-disc hardback book. Guitar tab with full walkthrough for every technique here: About Dream Factories: Gigs are my safe place. To be in a room with someone giving their most direct expression of their secret selves. Sharing that with an audience in blissful, reverent communion, whether of peace or chaos. It’s sacred. Pop Idol. The X Factor. [Your Country]’s Got Talent. The Voice. I hate them. They take my place of safety and love and reduce it to a place of fear and judgement. They take a kid who loves to sing. Tell them - You’ve got 60 seconds to make your dreams come true. Fail and it’s back to irrelevance. So they sing, eyes wide with terror and hope. And a celebrity hands down their judgement, like some spoiled, bored god. It’s the perfect example of how everything is commodified: Not just music, but us and our lives, our dreams - it’s all taken, remade and sold back to us. Whether or not you enjoy this pop song, appreciate the fact that nobody told you to. ________________ Here’s all the gear I used in creating this music. If you wanna buy any of it, if you use the links below then I get a small commission: The new Ibanez JGM10 guitar - Pre-order UK / EU: Pre-order USA: Blackstar Sonnet 60 acoustic amplifier USA: UK / EU: Fishman Rare Earth Blend pickup system USA: UK / EU: Boss OC-5 octave pedal (for sub-bass) USA: UK / EU: Zoom MS70CDR Multistomp effects pedal (for special reverbs and delays) USA: UK / EU: Newtone Jon Gomm signature guitar strings Sontronics SOLO vocal mic TC-Helicon Voicelive 3 guitar & vocal multi-effects pedal MOTU Ultralite AVB mixer/interface Klotz cables ________________ Filmed by The Samsara Collective at Niamos Radical Arts Theatre, Manchester, England. Audio produced by Andy Sorenson Mastered by Tom Woodhead