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Northumberland songwriter, poet and raconteur PETER ALEXANDER JOBSON had announced his rescheduled UK tour dates this spring, in support of his new album ‘Burn the Ration Books Of Love’.
Following the release of his debut solo album in November, Peter Alexander Jobson will play a run of shows across the United Kingdom this March and April. The tour will begin at The Hallamshire Hotel in Sheffield and culminate at the Folklore Rooms in Brighton on 23rd – Folklore Rooms, Brighton.
Burn The Ration Books of Love’ is an album full of observations and reflections on the life choices I have made and the wages of the future dealt to me by those choices. I am passing on my experiences as I would if we were both sat together and the silence became unwelcome.” Peter Alexander Jobson
When he was a little boy, Peter Alexander Jobson set his village on fire. For 40 years the cause of the blaze in the Northumberland fishing village of Alnmouth has remained a mystery to its 444 inhabitants. But no more. With the release of his first solo album ‘Burn The Ration Books Of Love’, the truth is finally revealed by Peter Alexander Jobson.
“I was 11 or 12, out cycling with an older kid I grew up with, and we’d gone to the shop to buy fags. We went to the sand dunes to smoke and were playing with matches. Next thing the dunes caught fire – then the golf course, and about two miles of the coast, a massive conflagration heading towards the village. We jumped on our bikes and pedalled as far as we could and as fast as we could to get away. Then we hid on the top of the hill overlooking the village and watched as half the village came to help put it out. We waited until it got dark fearing the worst – that we would be locked up or beaten by our parents. We almost burned the village down! And I’ve never told anyone before – not even my parents.”
The secret is out now, on an extraordinary collection that blends genres as diverse as country-flavoured psychedelia and cocktail jazz with the spirit of the Northern variety circuit. With his Northumberland accent and a voice that tells the tale of two decades in smoke-filled rooms followed by late-night drinking sessions, his vocals answer the question: what if Serge Gainsbourg had been born in the North East of England? Inspirations include Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Scott Walker, blues and country legends like Robert Johnson and Hank Williams, and Northern entertainers of days past like Les Dawson and the great Jake Thackray.
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