Jet McDonald

Here’s a pic of me and Andy Skellam playing at the Scary Canary in Stourbridge last Feb.

Not sure who that is in the background. Maybe Bertrand Russell about to break out a riff on the mandolin.

Gideon Coe aired “I’m Hung Up on You (Like a Hanglider With a Rusty Screw)” on his BBC 6 Music show just before Andy and I played the BBC 6 Music Fringe Festival at Start the Bus in Bristol.

You can listen to all the tracks from “All Wrapped Up and All Undone” and download the EP at Bandcamp.

Hey I’ve got a new EP coming out in Feb 2016

“All Wrapped Up and All Undone…”

(I’ll be touring with fingerpicking and mulchy wood wanderer Andy Skellam who will be releasing his Album “Green Moat” (recorded and produced by Jesse Vernon of This is the Kit))

Here’s the video for my first song off the EP…

“All the fallen leaves are broken…”

More to follow soon…!

This is my songwriting site but also check out my AUTHORS SITE where I explain about my crowdfunding project

for an exciting new book called “Mind is the Ride” – An Adventure through Cycling and Philosophy.

Summer Dates Harbourside Festival on the Grain Barge Stage Bristol Saturday 18th July “By the River” Festival 2pm Saturday 29th August Stowford Farm Nr. Bradford on Avon

Spring Dates: Saturday 23rd May and Sunday 24th May at “How the Light Gets In” Music and Philosophy Festival at Hay on Wye (Runs alongside Hay) Wed 28th Jan Get thee down to Folk Tales at the Scout Hut. I’ll be playing / telling a tale 8.30pm £4.00 Sat 31st Jan Boiling Wells St Werbs Farm 2.45pm £3.00 Feb 3rd The Canteen Stokes Croft Acoustic Night with Rosina Buck Wed 21st Jan I’ll be playing a couple of songs at The Undergrowth Collective Night. The Greenbank 8.30pm Free.

There’s a great audio interview out now with Jack Thurston on the Bike Show. Jack and I roll out from Bristol on a gorgeous summers evening after Jack’s talk on cycle touring as part of the Bristol Bike Festival. We brave Avonmouth’s apocalyptic industry, find a wild camping spot by the River Severn, run away from cows, discover an abandoned chapel and generally chew the cud. There’s also time for a couple of tunes with the guitar I brought along the way.

http://thebikeshow.net/severn-serenade/

I’ll be playing a couple of tunes at Jack Thurston’s talk at Bristol Bike Festival on Wed 9th July 6-8pm on the history of cycle touring.

Jack is the author of “Lost Lanes” and host of Resonance FM’s “The Bike Show”.

Afterwards we’ll be cycling back to Jack’s home town of Abergervenny and chatting

about the India trip and the Sparrow Sings album in “A Rolling Interview”, playing a few songs along the way.

Look out for a “rolling interview” sometime in the Springtime with the Bike Show from Resonance FM. I’ll be taking to my bike with guitar  on the pannier rack and playing songs from the Sparrow album.

You will be able to buy the Sparrow album from the brilliant bicycle magazine Boneshaker here with a special deal on the CD and magazine, in what I believe what’s known in the trade, as a “bundle”.

Meanwhile Jet will be playing at the Undergrowth Collective’s folk night on Wed 26th February. It’s a great little evening, with top folk acts in the cosy room upstairs and tasty ales to sup from the bar below.

See you in the sunshine and the moonshine.

Jet

I’m playing at the recently refurbished train signal box in Warmley by the Bristol Bath cycle path on Sat 12th Oct 2-3pm. It’s part of  a festival to celebrate the reopening of the signal box-see here

I’ll be singing songs from “Soft Soft Soft the Sparrow Sings” album and photos from the bike trip to India will be up in the signal box.

It’s a great place to be playing as the bike trip to India began and ended on the Bristol to Bath bike path.

Train whistle. Bike ping. Ping Ping.