22nd August 2010
Final warm-up show for the December tour announced at Corporation in Sheffield on Friday 3rd December.
18th August 2010
Work on EP3 is coming along nicely apparently....Toby's latest blogs lists the titles (subject to change) as: Rear View Mirror, Small Talk, Better Off Dead, Got To Have It, Backslide, Back In The Day....
Although Toby had previously mentioned that 'Back In The Day' would be a download track but who knows....
10th August 2010
Overwhelming Me is available for download/streaming at www.tobyjepson.com right now. I love this song to say the least! Lyrics below.....
Overwhelming Me
I’ve been waiting for so long
Am I crazy – I don’t understand what’s going on
Didn’t see where you came from
Thought that I would end up living out my life alone
Please forgive me if I seem a little out of my head
Oh it’s overwhelming me
So unexpectedly
Is this how I should feel? Is it real?
Oh it’s overwhelming me
So unexpectedly
Finally I feel something real
But it’s hard to change routine
Cos I’m a creature comforted by falling in-between
Can you give me a little time
To adjust I spent so long preparing for the fight
Please forgive me if I seem a little out of my head
Oh it’s overwhelming me
So unexpectedly
Is this how should I feel? Is it real?
Oh it’s overwhelming me
So unexpectedly
Finally I feel something real
Is this real enough
Is this
the real thing we’ve got
I could not take rejection
Not again I’d rather stop it now
So tell me please I’ve got to know
Can we let this love grow
Oh it’s overwhelming me
So unexpectedly
Is this how should I feel? Is it real?
Oh it’s overwhelming me
So unexpectedly
Finally I feel something real
Oh it’s overwhelming me
So unexpectedly
Is this how should I feel? Is it real?
Oh it’s overwhelming me
So unexpectedly
Finally I feel something real
2nd August 2010
Actual proper bona-fide EP 3 news-it will be available for the Skin tour! It may include some bonus tracks but the titles released so far are 'Better Off Dead', 'Rear View Mirror' and 'Small Talk'.
Also, this weeks track is the phenomenal 'Overwhelming Me'-coming in the next few days. Other tracks coming soon on the free download list are 'Back In The Day' and 'Gina'. Exciting times :)
Oh, and finally-another warm up gig has been announced-The Diamond Rock Club in Ballymena on Saturday 27th November 2010.
31st July 2010
Two new Warm Up shows added to the list of upcoming tourdates; Stereo in York on Saturday 4th December and Bootleggers in Kendal on Tuesday 7th December....
17th July 2010
Lyrics to the new songs, Hurts and The Chosen One available for download on www.tobyjepson.com, along with songs on the jukebox you may not have heard before......
Hurts
There’s always something taking place
Beneath my happy smiling face
That I wear a frown
It isn’t that I have a doubt
It’s more about the feeling
That’s hanging round
It isn’t like a new phenomena
I was just a commoner
Way back when
But at the time I’m flying
There’s no point in us denying
Whats happening
[Chorus]
Cos it hurts just a little bit more
Than it ever did before
Yeah it hurts just a little bit more
Than it ever did before
Dice is always loaded
So the game I can’t control
It’s never fair
The crumbs beneath the table
Aren’t sufficient to disable
All that I fear
Where in this equation
Is the source of our salvation
And happiness
Still waiting for an answer
I’m a lover not a dancer
Of all your sweet tenderness
But it hurts just a little bit more
Than it ever did before
Yeah it hurts just a little bit more
Than it ever did before
And it takes all my time to ignore
Everything that gone before
Yeah it hurts just a little bit more more more
But it’s a good ?????
Yeah it hurts just a little bit more
Than it ever did before
Yeah it hurts just a little bit more
Than it ever did before
And it takes all my time to ignore
Everything that gone before
Yeah it hurts just a little bit more
Than it ever did
Yeah it hurts just a little bit more
Than it ever did before
Yeah it hurts just a little bit more
Than it ever did
And it takes all my time to ignore
Everything that gone before
Yeah it hurts just a little bit more more more more
The Chosen One
Though it’s hard to admit
I stopped making sense
Between the blood and the spit
I lost my confidence
But I never thought
That I would live to see
All my hopes fade away
The rests just bad memories
So hold on tight, don’t be scared
Don’t look down unless you’re well prepared
Turn my face to the sun
I’m not gonna be the chosen one
This foolish work of art
Has everything but taste
While cautious men slow down
The idiot makes haste
And the tracks of my tears
As plain as the egg on my face
And as I crack a smile
It’s hard to imagine what those tears erase
?????? rides down, another fall
Just you wait until your dad gets home
Happiness, worn and gone
I’m not gonna be the chosen one
Footloose, two left feet
Sometimes hell the only place to be
Putting your faith in fools
??Fool is wrong???
Well I’m not gonna be the chosen one
I’m not gonna be the chosen one
I won’t wait
Can’t be late
When I’ll be back I can’t say
I won’t wait
Can’t be late
When I’ll be back I can’t say
So forgive my mouth
Exohonorate
Lets’ not holler
Put on the brakes
Guilt complex
Hours of fun
I’m not gonna be the chosen one
Waters on
Little rain
Old men know the truth but still complain
Welcome to this house of fun
I’m not gonna be the chosen one
The chosen one
The chosen one
The chosen one
I’m not gonna be the chosen one
Turn my face to the sun
Cos I’m not gonna be the chosen one
15th July 2010
In the words of Professor Farnsworth - "Good
news Everyone!
Newcastle Academy Dec 9th
Manchester Academy Dec 10th
Norwich waterfront Dec 11th
Bristol Thekla Dec 12th
Bournemouth Academy Dec 14th
London Underworld Dec 15th
Birmingham Academy Dec 16th
Oxford Academy Dec 17th
Nottingham Rock City Dec 18th
For ticket details see www.skinfreak.co.uk
Also I'm told that some previously unreleased Toby solo tracks will very very shortly be available for free download on Toby's official website so keep your eyes wide open. Pun-tastic!
3rd July 2010
Big news this week (which I have been a little slow at posting!)-basically Toby has quit as singer of Gun. The Official website sent out this announcement..
"GUN - Announcement from Toby Jepson
Due to increasing writing and production commitments for other artists, I have decided to leave GUN as the singer. I have had a fantastic time working with Jools and Dante and consider the music we have created together as being amongst the best I have been involved in throughout my career . I wish them well and sincerely hope that we will work together again in some capacity in the future. I stress that that I am in no way leaving the world of live music, far from it, it is simply that at the moment I cannot commit 100% to future GUN plans and would not want to stand in the way of the bands potential further development . I fully intend to resurface as a rock singer in one way or another in the near future so watch this space...
Toby Jepson
Scarborough
June 2010
GUN - Announcement from Jools & Dante.
Following on from Toby's announcement we will take some time out to decide GUN's future.
The last couple of years have been great and we have really enjoyed playing the gigs. Thanks to Toby for being an excellent frontman and thanks to the fans for supporting us.
Dante and I will keep you posted with what's happening.......so don't go away now!"
Toby is currently producing an album for a Russian singer which should be finished in August and then his commitment will be EP3 (finally!). I'll still be reminding him every week though.
In the meantime, enjoy 3 more songs from the Gun Rockers show on the Music page, and expect more news soon regarding Toby live dates of some nature....
6th June 2010
Welcome to the real world
Money
Don't say it's over
Popkiller
Taking on the world
Let your hair down
Better days
Seraphina
Steal your fire
Shame on you
Word up
3rd June 2010
Next 3 tracks from Rockers available for download now :)
30th April 2010
First three tracks of a "new" show Gun show available for download on the Music page - enjoy!
26th April 2010
Fantastic Toby solo show last night in
Interestingly a new song entitled 'The Chosen One' was included on the setlist last night but Toby didn't actually play it during the show (sadly). The final setlist was:
She's A Little Angel / Kickin' Up Dust / All Roads Lead To You / Boneyard / Inside Out / Forgiveness* / Weight Of The World* / I Ain't Gonna Cry* / Don't Pray For Me* / Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind* / Womankind* / Unwind / Happy Ever After / Let Your Hair Down / Radical Your Lover / Young Gods ~ Won't Get Fooled Again / Too Much Too Young / Soapbox* / Pop Killer
* = acoustic tracks
30th March 2010
Toby will be playing a solo show at The
Victoria Hotel in
I’ve also made the last few songs from
Bridlington and
22nd March 2010
March tour setlists uploaded, videos, photos etc coming soon!
24th February 2010
Two new videos today; Toby performing
‘Don’t Pray For Me’ electro-acoustic on the Skin tour, plus Gun playing
‘Popkiller’ live from the November UK tour!
See the TJTV page…..
19th February 2010
For those you impatiently waiting for the setlist from Toby's Irish show last weekend it was....
She's A Little Angel, Kickin' Up Dust, Some People Are More Equal Than Others, All Roads Lead To You, Boneyard, Inside Out*, Forgiveness*, I Ain't Gonna Cry*, Don't Pray For Me*, Unwind*, Soapbox*, Womankind*, Happy Ever After, Let Your Hair Down, Radical Your Lover, Young Gods ~ Won't Get Fooled Again, Too Much Too Young, Pop Killer, Boneyard (again!), Kickin' Up Dust (again!)
* = acoustic
2nd February 2010
Gun have been confirmed as support act
for the forthcoming Lynyrd Skynyrd
Thursday 4 March 2010
Birmingham LG Arena
0844 338 8000
Friday 5 March 2010
Cardiff International Arena
029 2022 4488
Saturday 6 March 2010
London Hammersmith Apollo
0844 844 4748
Monday 8 March 2010
Manchester Apollo
08444 777 677
Tuesday 9 March 2010
Glasgow Clyde Auditorium
08444 999 990
Buy tickets online from www.livenation.co.uk
Unfortunately, this means that the show scheduled for Shetland Burra Hall on
March 5th has had to be re-arranged for Saturday 27th March. All tickets will
remain valid.
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