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SUMMARY:Dylan John Thomas
LOCATION:Tramshed Cardiff
DESCRIPTION:SJM Concerts Present\n\nDylan John Thomas\n\nPlus Support\n\nFo
 rty million streams and 60\,000 tickets can’t be wrong. The numbers don
 ’t lie\, and nor do the tunes – impassioned songs of love and regret\,
  faith and fatalism\, rejection and connection\, realism and idealism.\n\n
 After selling out six nights at the Barrowlands\, Dylan John Thomas is Sco
 tland’s worst kept musical secret. From pavement to arena\, the DIY arti
 st who did it all for himself\, all the way to a sell-out homecoming show 
 at Glasgow’s 14\,300-capacity Ovo Hydro. A self-taught\, multi-instrumen
 talist\, mainlining the old-time rhythm of Johnny Cash (“boom-chicka-boo
 m…”)\, the high-picking melodies of Simon & Garfunkel\, the lyrical po
 eticism of Leonard Cohen – but all retooled with a twentysomething’s f
 reshness\, rigour and vigour\, and the ardent fandom to match. Boom-chicka
 -BOOM.\n\nHis second album\, Nothing Here Worth Taking\, was recorded at M
 agic Box studios over the past year with Scotty Anderson (The Snuts). Enti
 rely written by Dylan\, with most of the instruments self-played too\, the
  10-track set is a rousing\, carousing blast of brass\, blues\, banjo\, pi
 ano and classic\, retro-futureproof\, singalong songwriting.\n\nThat spiri
 t is there in vivid form on lead single ‘Got You on My Mind’. The firs
 t song completed for the album\, it’s a banjo-and brass-driven anthem. 
 “I got into banjo two years ago\, just after the first album came out\,
 ” Dylan explains. “We went on a wee trip round Scotland\, and I took i
 t with us. We were just kicking around\, playing all the old folk songs. A
 nd by the time it came to recording this album\, I'd written a couple of s
 ongs on it.”\n\n“It gives a different type of sound to the guitar. It
 ’s still sticking within that bluegrass feel\, I suppose\, with the roll
 ing fingerpicking. But I wanted to see if we could fit it into the new tun
 es.”\n\nThe thrilling blast of brass is also there in the title track\, 
 a song of encouragement and support for a mate whose relationship was brea
 king down. That brass sound\, he explains\, calls back to the ska he loved
  as a kid. ‘Nothing Here Worth Taking’ and ‘Got You on My Mind’ re
 present the overall palette of the album: “It's an amalgamation of all d
 ifferent kind of influences pulled together to create the sound. Which see
 ms to kick off live all around the country.”\n\nThat music was first sho
 wcased in 2024’s self-titled debut album. Rousing and impassioned\, it
 ’s a record that distilled everything Dylan had learned growing up as a 
 kid in foster care and finding his way. Mentored by Gerry Cinnamon and han
 d-picked for arena-scale supports slots by Liam Gallagher\, Sam Fender and
  Stereophonics\, his is a story of letting his music do the talking\, the 
 fans do the shouting and the music industry playing catch-up.\n\nThat word
 -of-mouth enthusiasm was built by Dylan and the band-of-brother mates who 
 play with him over years of grassroots gigging. Like Cinnamon\, the Scotti
 sh “unknown” who sold out the country’s national football stadium Ha
 mpden (twice)\, behind a microphone is where Dylan is at his most eloquent
 .\n\n“Aye\, it's been a bit mad\,” he acknowledges with a wry grin of 
 his fans know-all-the-words fervour. “To headline at arena level off the
  back of first album was mental.”\n\nDylan’s introduction to music was
  unconventional.\n\nBoletos: https://dice.fm/event/8eld57-dylan-john-thoma
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