She Can’t Stand The Pain is the second track to come out of the deliBass collaboration with Ruva. It also features Damo Diggler on keyboards. Plenty more from these sessions coming soon.
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She Took What She Wanted is the latest track by deliBass, and the first to come from their collaboration with Ruva. It was released in January 2017 and features the wonderful Ruvarashe Ngwenya on vocals and Toby Bender on percussion. It’s another spacey downtempo track with a haunting groove and[…]
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I played bass and sang backing vocals on the show during December 2016. It was a special Christmas show featuring Ben Thompson, one of the world’s top Elvis tribute artists. The 17-date theatre tour of Holland played to 500 to 1500-seater venues throughout the country. Ben, who was voted Europe’s[…]
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Got the bass gig on a 34-date tour of Holland with the British Pop Invasion show. It’s a well established production, playing British music from the 1960s, featuring artists such as the Beatles, the Kinks, the Hollies, the Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Lula and Petula Clark. The production[…]
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This track has been mixed for us by Preben Raunsbjerg in London. He is a Danish producer who is holed up in a studio in Harlesden, NW London. But he also happens to be a virtuoso guitarist! He’s added his genius to a track we put together with Alexander Nettlebeck[…]
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I’ve just finished a new deliBass collaboration with Portugese guitarist, Andre Leitao. It’s Andre’s composition, The Flying Submarine but we’ve given it a new arrangement and, naturally, plenty of bass! We love the downtempo groove and hope you do too. The collaboration was set up through the hitrecord.org site. Check[…]
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Psychotronic is the latest track by deliBass, Jon’s partnership with DJ Oomz, released in October 2016. The two have been producing music together for 2 years with a variety of esteemed collaborators. This one features the voice of Leighton Hema aka Mr Leigh. But previous tracks have showcased the fabulously[…]
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At the beginning of 2014, Jon played his first gig with Tania Rose and her equally talented sidekick, Simon Rigby, in The Oaks, NSW. The 3-piece played a set of Simon’s arrangements of Beatles, Sting, Carpenters and Peter Gabriel tracks and went down a storm. Tania, Simon and Jon are[…]
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I moved to Melbourne in 2009, leaving behind 20 years of music contacts and a career which included two No. 1 singles in Japan, a feature film score and major record deals with two different bands. In between the highlights, I had been playing covers on the pub, cabaret and[…]
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Jon signed his first record deal in 1988, as bass player/backing vocalist with white soul band The Foundation.The London-based band originally signed to Magnet Records, but when the company was bought by Warner Brothers later in the year, the project was shelved. In 1989, Jon formed Funky Dad with keyboard[…]
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