Jon Gomm - Dream Factories

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.

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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:

Blackstar Sonnet 60 acoustic amplifier

Fishman Rare Earth Blend pickup system

Boss OC-5 octave pedal (for sub-bass)

Zoom MS70CDR Multistomp effects pedal (for special reverbs and delays)

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
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Filmed by The Samsara Collective at Niamos Radical Arts Theatre, Manchester, England.
Audio produced by Andy Sorenson
Mastered by Tom Woodhead

[just_mat]

"Don't wanna be nobody's idol."

Sir I may have bad news

[jongomm]

Lyrics:
Don't wanna be nobody's idol,
Don't got no X-factor inside me,
Don't wanna be another wannabe,
Or a production line facsimile,
I see a single feather floating on a river, floating out to the sea

They make our dreams in factories,
So we don't aspire to what we can't achieve,
So take your fire and take your belief,
And burn, burn, burn, burn,
Burn the factories down

I live in a house built for a seamstress,
I house with half a million Siamese twins,
But now the seamstress lives in India,
She makes us Che Guevara shirts to wear,
She is a single feather floating on a river, floating out to the sea

They make our dreams in factories,
So we don't aspire to what we can't achieve,
So take your fire and take your belief,
And burn, burn, burn, burn,
Burn the factories down

[nastidivan]

Don't forget what make you quarantine better.

[hxllxhxund]

He doesn't play guitar,
He *is* the guitar.

[GinoGenero]

Wow Jon could be described as a great guitarist, songwriter, creative artist, storyteller, spiritual force etc. And that's the view of someone who has never met the man. I hope to remedy that part one day.

[ChariotOfSouls]

John Gom's music always reminds how beautiful it is to follow your dreams and passion in life. You can be anything if you are willing to be dedicated and take action in life while letting go of all the fears that are holding you back. Your weakness is not your weakness truly. What an inspirational man💫

[eddieguyvh]

I just received your last album in the mail today, and it is awesome! I have not been hit that hard by music since I listened to Iron Maiden's Powerslave album for the first time 13 years ago. You did a great job on that album, sir! The vinyl is now on my shelf sandwiched between Paranoid and Brave new world with Andy Timmons' CDs on the side. I wish you the best, since your music has been part of my life for almost the last ten years. Thank you, Jon!

[francopaskal]

Sos un Maestro para sacarce el sombrero como se dice aca en argentina...capo !!!!

[dreadedronferd]

I can't just call this man a guitarist. He's a serious musician! That guitar is his drums and he treats playing the neck of the guitar like it's a piano and then his singing and songwriting abilities! He even knows alternating tuning and treats it like a bass and everything! This dudes a genius!

[.M]

This is one great performance. Chords like that and to sing is not easy

[emaged]

I would love to see him and ichika nito collaborate, would be an amazing display of talents

[ExtendedGravy]

Thank you so much for everything you do!

[Tero]

Uploaded 3 hours ago, last time I was this early "last time I was this early" jokes were still fresh.

Another excellent song, Jon! I wish I knew how you do it.

[notmakswell]

I’ll never be able to wrap my head around the technical complexity in every one of Jon’s songs

[groovethestrings]

I was just thinking about you and the notification of your video popped up!
😍🤭❤

[thorby]

Heart pounded with joy and awe, breath held with the intricacy, subtlety and love of your musicianship. Thank you.

[johnwoodstock]

Jon.. I hope you'll keep creating amazing beautifull line like that ... You are a great inspiration for all of us .

[TheBruiseBrother]

Beautiful work! Thank you for sharing your gift with us

[cristi]

It had an awesome vibe in Tg. Mures, in September. I am grateful that we had a chance to attend your concert. And in 2017, with that storm too, was one of the most memorable nights in the history of that fortress for sure. Thank you for your art Jon!

[charaiveti-charaiveti]

like from another planet! so beautiful!!