BIO

Jay is a perennially underrated independent Glaswegian songwriter & musician on a lifelong mission driven by sheer force of bloody will, hobbled by years of illness, & a contradictory chronic disinterest in fame & attention. He may well just be your favourite undiscovered cult music artist you haven’t discovered & don’t yet know about. 

“your music. Had a listen – great stuff!” John Reed Director of Catalogue Cherry Red Records

“You remind me a bit of that great singer songwriter from Paisley. ..Gerry Rafferty! There’s a real sophistication in your music that’s rare nowadays and ‘m surprised your not more well known down here.”

Brendan Lynch, Producer (Paul Weller/Primal Scream/OCS)

“This man has been going through some shit lately and to be in that room when he got up there for the first time in a very long time was something that I’ll remember for the rest of my life, I was genuinely moved to tears! I truly believe he’s one of the best singers on the planet (best vocal to come outa Scotland since Frankie Miller). Keep fighting the good fight brother we’re all here for ya! 🖤” – Cammy Black of 13 Crowes

If you are a fan of legendary players with veteran past members of influential groups from classic bands/acts such as XTC, David Bowie, Jeff Buckley, Paul Weller & The Style Council, Jellyfish, Noel Gallagher, Beck, Morrisey, and Captain Beefheart that he admires from music’s most notable eras and has collaborated with then Jay The Mighty Roadflower’s Songbook is a must have addition to your music collection.

“Very impressive and you’ve got a Great voice. I like all the Dave Gregory parts .. was a fan of XTC.” 

Brendan Lynch, Producer (Paul Weller/Primal Scream/OCS)

His evocative lyrics and use of discordant notes amongst tuneful melodic changes create song soundscapes that are distinctly different – a refreshing change for the ear, full of layered nuance (so you’ll hear a little something new each time you listen), creating tracks that provide musical exploration for classic music lovers; featuring new contributions from influential musicians from your favourite bands of the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Writing songs as a means of escape in the Gen X post-industry, high unemployment wasteland of the social housing schemes of greater Glasgow. 

Dreaming up melodic impassioned tunes for a band to break out together from the low opportunity cycle of factories, joblessness, drinking in the streets, drug dealing, addiction, and decay amid the ever present territorial young team gang culture hangover from the broken Britain of the grey despairing 80’s. 

The new blooming hope-filled, drugged fuelled, colourful, hedonistic, dirt under the fingernails resurgent guitar boom of the 1990’s briefly promised to give permanent voice to the frustrations and aspirations of the salt of the earth everyman and gave us back for an unrepeatable beautiful moment a joyful confidence and a purposeful swaggering spring of self-esteem in our stride at the top of our pop culture once more after a seemingly eons age of demoralising wilderness years treading stagnant mainstream water. 

The guitar a tool, our pent up feelings, in melody, our apprenticeship; our collective life experience, a trade; and the determined fighter’s heart to never give up gave us the grit, skills, & endurance to graft our way out of these manicured dead ends and build a new more deserving future that we can all ultimately share responsibility for. Crafting this by sheer bloody force of will, one which brings us together, one and all, in celebration of the many bonds that connect us over the incessantly trivial “manufactured faultlines installed by bitter design to keep us all together apart. When we unite in song, harmonising, we feel and see our true strength, as family, estranged evidently, though still connected, all together, stronger as one. 

It’s not political, not everything has to be, but for those who insist that everything human is political, then it is our intrinsic propensity for goodness & decency that drives us as a whole, as a species; it is our common connective tissue, our essential collective humanity that transcends the divisive opinionated politics of the mind, & the overwrought emotional politics of the heart. This emphasis on melody in song as a binding agent is the only true politicking that matters; a leveller for all mankind, the nameless politics of the soul, true politics, politics that unite us. One love. Together. Eternal. 

Oh wait! Is it bin day? j…”