Archive for September, 2010
It gives us great pleasure to announce what will be a very special show: Tom Jones Performs Praise & Blame At The Union Chapel on Wednesday 15th September, Stage time 8pm. The show will be Announced and is going onsale 9am tomorrow morning the 2nd September. Union Chapel address: Compton Avenue, London N1 2XD Tickets [...]
Welsh crooner Tom Jones has confirmed details of his new single ‘Run On’ backed with ‘Didn’t It Rain’. Tom Jones is busy defying expectations. The singer’s image of a tanned lothario has been shattered on his raw, honest new album ‘Praise & Blame’ which returns the Welsh icon to his roots. Inspired by American gospel, [...]
Tom Jones follows the phenomenal success of his recent ‘Praise & Blame’ album – currently hitting gold status in the UK having spent the past month in the Top 10 – with news of a brand new AA sided single ‘Run On’ / ‘Didn’t It Rain’ on 20th September. ‘Praise & Blame’, a collection of [...]
By ROBERT TRUSSELL And so begins a new chapter in my love-hate relationship with the great Welsh singer Tom Jones. I got to talk to Jones on the telephone in advance of an appearance at the Midland back in 1988. The show itself was vintage Jones nonsense — he sang medleys of his pop hits [...]
For the next 6 days you can listen to Tom’s Maida Vale session with Janice Long for Radio 2. Tom sings, ‘Lord Help’, ‘What Good Am I?’ and ‘Burning Hell’ at 13 minutes into the iplayer. Listen here
Long Live Tom Jones – Long Live the King – Tom Jones is a King. He’s a force of nature like a flood or a hurricane. If you could splice the DNA of Sinatra together with Elvis, Tom Jones would be the result. TJ’s musical career spans a few decades and a lot of material. [...]
Dave Bidini, National Post · Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 He was like a lot of what was conjured in those times: seeing the neighbours drunk at a block party; stripmall Chinese food; plywood basement wet bars; Penthouse Letters found mud-splatched near the creek and the guy who wrote in to tell how he liked to [...]
Having been to the intoxicating heights of panty-throwing Vegas indulgences with old running mates Sinatra and Elvis, we assume Tom Jones is well aware that the Devil does indeed have the best tunes. Yet the man justifiably known as ‘The Voice’ also possesses a set of lungs that could rival God’s for earth-shattering reverberations; we’ve [...]
An album of deeply felt spiritual music from the face that launched a thousand panties? The man who once titled an album “The Lead and How to Swing It?” That Tom Jones? Well, yeah. And it’s actually kind of flawless, setting the tone with a haunted rendition of Bob Dylan’s poignant “What Good Am I?,” [...]
I’ve been with The Morning Express team for a few years now, and I can’t think of any stories we’ve ever done involving singer Tom Jones. So it was unusual to be showing his latest music video on the show yesterday. In fact when I said I was a Tom Jones fan, one of our [...]
