Jon Allen - ...meanwhile
Flyctory.com Pros
- Versatile blend of folk and rock music
- Amazing voice
- Great songwriting
Flyctory.com Cons
- Album is really great at the beginning, but slightly weaker thereafter
You might not have heard about Jon Allen as an artist – but you might have heard at least one of his songs in a TV commercial. The English singer-songwriter, who is doing a mixture or pop and rock music with a blend of folk, is quite an interesting artist. On 21st May 2021, he will his fifth album called …meanwhile. Here is my review.
Jon Allen – About The Artist
Jon Allen (or: Jonathon Allen) was born in Winchester, a city between Southhampton and London. Nowadays, he is living in the British capital. His career as a musician had some quite famous supporters. While being at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, Paul McCartney encouraged him to do keep on songwriting and Mark Knopfler assisted him after listening to his music in West London. In 2009, Allen released his debut album Dead Man’s Suit. The most well-known song is likely Going Home, as this has been featured by Land Rover in their international TV commercial campaign. Two other songs, the title track and In Your Light have more than one million streams on Spotify nowadays.
In the 2010’s, Allen added three more albums, Sweet Defeat (2011), Deep River (2014) and Blue Flame (2018).
Jon Allen – …meanwhile – Track by Track
The eleven track album lasts 40 minutes.

1. Blame It All On Me
There’s fire on the doorstep
Searchlights in the hall
What a difference a day makes
Just to think that yesterday we had it all
Blame me for the sorrow
And the dark clouds in the sky
You can say you’re justified
I’ll be your alibi
The first song of the album is coming with a really rich arrangement. Brass and strings give this track an almost majestic touch. The new title track for a James Bond movie? It would definitely be a worthy one!
2. Can’t Hold Back The Sun
I have so many thoughts and references in mind while listening to …meanwhile. The melody reminds of Beatles tunes. When Allen is singing with his powerful voice, it could be a Bryan Adams song. And if you are not as mad as me, you simply get a really good rock song.
3. Cruel Word
I’m in love with the sadness
It’s the devil I know
Now there’s nowhere I’m going
That’s why I walking so slow
I know it’s making me crazy,
I know it’s making me sick
It’s a dirty habit
That my heart don’t how to quit
The third song is slower and more melancholic than the two songs before. Just some chords by the acoustic guitar and a decent work on the drums and the piano is all what this song finally needs. It impresses with its lyrics and the voice of Jon Allen.
4. Looking For The Light
Looking For the Light is the song on the album so far with the strongest touch of folk music. The song is rather slow – beautiful listen.
5. Mercy
Mercy is the first track of the album, which has already been released as a single.
But now I feel so small
With my back up against the wall
Give me time
And a peaceful mind
Give me mercy
Lovely, deep track, which beautifully connects to the song before.
6. Suzanne
After the rather slow part of the album, Suzanne is a more energetic track again featuring more instrumental involvement. A song about a broken heart, about an unlucky relation – in a not that melancholic environment.
7. How Long
How Long is almost coming with a blues music touch at the beginning, which gives it a lovely dramatic and deep touch. One of the best songs of the album to me – I just have to listen to it from the beginning until the end. Nice arrangement as well.
8. The Other Side
Help me find a way
Across the great divide
Make this doubter see
The other side
The piano is the leading instrument in this song, which is again deep and thoughtful. Great voice, great storytelling, great song.
9. Western Shore (feat. Sharon Shannon)
For this track, Jon Allen is joined by Irish folk artist Sharon Shannon, who is however just adding instrumental skills. The song is a praise of the landscape at the Atlantic coast of her home country – and it even closes with the sound of the sea and some birds singing.
Western Shore
Western Shore
In my heart the wild waves are crashing
Western Shore
Western Shore
I’m dreaming of the western shore
10. Hold On
The third pre-release on the album is one of the most catching songs of the album. Hold On easily comes with mainstream radio potential. Lovely listen.
11. Wrong
Jon Allen closes the album with a rather slow track. The acoustic guitar and the piano and feeling to create a gentle trip out of the world of …meanwhile. Nice.
Jon Allen – …meanwhile – Spotify
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Jon Allen – …meanwhile – My View
I was really impressed by …meanwhile. Especially the beginning of the album is massive, but the songs thereafter are indeed a great listen as well. If you like thoughtful soft rock songs with a touch of folk, you should definitely give Jon Allen a try.
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Some cool music from Germany: the album New Songs And Untold Stories was soloely flagged as pop music in a promotion ...
Gary Louris is quite successful as a musician and even worked on Grammy Award-winning albums by Tedeschi Trucks Band and ...
Some music from Scandinavia: Anders Enda Barnet is a Swedish singer-songwriter, who is doing alternative pop songs. On 21st May ...
Music by a German artist with Armenian roots - I am always curious when it comes to have a listen ...
If you are a Harry Potter fan, I unfortunately have to refer you to my Hogwarts Express posting - Always ...
Linda Mar (or Linda Marlen Runge, which is her civil name) is truly a multi-talent in performing: Likely, most people ...
Folk music with a touch of rock and reggae: Jon and Roy is a West Coast Canadian band, who are ...
Twelve cover songs of German music legends - when I recently reviewed a similar concept, #Schlager by Stereoact, my rather was ...
Watershed is one of these bands which make you ask yourself "What are these guys doing now?"... and then, surprisingly, ...
Sing meinen Song ("Sing My Song") is definitely one of my favorite German TV music shows. A group of music artist ...
The fourth album by the multi-national project Mighty Oaks on 7th May 2021: boosted by lead singer Ian Hopper in ...
From time to time, I just feel urged to leave my "traditional" track by track review format. For example, when ...
Seasons by the project VINTER is a typical Flyctory.com review. I scanned future new releases in a promotion database and got ...
When I listened to Robert John Hope's solo album debut Plasticine Heart, I felt that I should definitely share these ...
Todd Snider is a quite buzy artist. The Memphis resident, who is having is very own style, is already releasing ...
The naming of Beharie's EPs so far might not be that creative - but his songs are a g good ...
Adam Douglas feels to be rather a Norwegian than a US artist nowadays. He is living in Hadeland North of ...
Even though the name sounds quite German at first sight, this review of Modern Age, the new album by Vanessa ...
Zugzwang (which literally means "being forced to move") sounds like a German album. But in fact, the band Barbarisms, who ...
Some interesting folk music on Flyctory.com: Ray Cooper is in the music business since the 1970's. After working with several ...
The EP Storm in Summer by Skullcrusher to me was one of these records you receive over promotion platforms you ...
Croatian folk-rock with a metal touch? Sounds quite interesting, doesn't it? And, indeed, when I scanned one of the music ...
The Fray is the new album by John Smith. The British singer-songwriter, who is independent and self-funding all his publications, ...
The promotion material to Timo Scharf's new EP Everything Ever Always Is All Forgotten contains a magical sentence. He is writing ...
Frances Luke Accord was one of my first Spotlight interviews in 2021. Among many other topics, we chatted about their ...
Releasing your first EP some one and a half year after you started to learn the guitar feels like a ...
Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night - the two masterminds behind the US folk-rock band Blackmore's Night, are indeed big names ...
More Australian music on Flyctory.com. Down under became more and more popular (and frequent) in my media review section. On ...
I enjoy the collaboration with promotion agencies, which feed Flyctory.com with new music. The key reason for that is that ...
Jack McBannon does a quite interesting and versatile fusion of different Americana music styles. Being on stage for twenty years ...
Apart from global mainstream sounds, there are some genres, which have a quite local popularity. The German Schlager is one ...
Since I ran into the music of Korpiklaani at a Lordi gig in Helsinki, I am really a fan of ...
Emma Stevens is not only one of the big names of the British country / folk music scene, she is ...
Frances Luke Accord is a US-American folk music duo, which has been founded during their common time at high school ...
Passenger had a massive hit in 2012, which lead to billions of streams. Even though the solo artist could not ...
It is hard to put a create a good definition of the music Andrew Bird is doing. It is folk, ...
I am a huge critics of the fact that music, especially radio airplay, becomes more and more streamlined. The more ...
All five albums of the 2010's of the US folk rock band Dawes made it to the US overall album ...
I ran into the music of Diana DeMuth some weeks before her debut album release, when I was scanning for ...
The Yonder Boys are definitely an interesting, but also kind of weird and funny combo, which is based in Germany, ...
Riley Whittaker contacted me just some one or two weeks ago. She is a young artist from Sedona, Arizona, who ...
In the recent past, my Spotlight interview section hosted some very interesting young artists as well. For example, I chatted with ...
It's quite a while since I published my latest Spotlight interview episode with Carolyn Miller in mid-June 2020. The more ...
Lori McKenna is regarded to be one of the best female songwriters in the country music scene. On 24th July, ...
Lucy LaForge is the head and lead singer behind Lucy & La Mer. Based in Los Angeles, the singer / ...
Some weeks before the release of their debut EP Petals, the Indie Folk band Phavors contacted me whether I'd like to review ...
Steve Earle is definitely one of the big names in music in general. The country and folk artist had very ...
Due to my cooperation with the Greywood Records Label, I ran into another interesting album, which might be out of ...
Covid-19 has a huge impact on the music industry. My home town Cologne's local country music heroes, Mrs. Greenbird, were ...
Lucinda Williams is quite a big name in the US music business. The 67-year-old, who made it big in folk ...
There are a lot of album release postponements at the moment, as the Corona crisis does not allow the acts ...
Due to my collaboration with Greywood Records, I received a quite interesting CD from the folk song genre: An Ounce of ...
One of the few German country/folk acts, which gained some international reputation in the past is Cologne-based Mrs. Greenbird. Before ...
Mrs. Greenbird was the only Germany-based band who were playing at the C2C debut in Berlin 2019. This definitely illustrates ...
UK Hotels
Here are all my postings about hotels / accomodation in the United Kingdom:
In September 2024, I had two Rock of Ages musical amateur shows in Newcastle in Northern England. Not having too many other ...
After I had a stay at the Novotel in the area right before Covid-19 broke out, I haven't been staying ...
In order to cover the Jenn Bostic show in London in February 2024, I was looking for a hotel in ...
After my stay at the Adagio Hotel Bremen in 2023, I really had a certain traveller's crush on the aparthotel ...
I typically stsa in rather solid to good hotels. However, sometimes, they simply exceed the need I have. When I ...
Watching the wonderful former Rock of Ages musical actress Zoe Birkett in Bodyguard brought me back to Newcastle. As I headed on ...
Having a musical night in London in August 2023, I needed an affordable overnight with good connections to the London ...
The very last Rock of Ages shows under the British DLAP production - I just did not feel like doing ...
One of the shows I followed during the European Weird Al Yankovic Tour 2023 has been the one in Glasgow ...
If you need a night at Glasgow Airport (GLA), you might be rather surprised about the rather wide range of ...
Blackpool is one of the classic party and beach destinations in summer in England. However, after my time at the ...
I have been to quite a lot of Premier Inn hotels in recent times. In Germany as well as in ...
Time for Rock of Ages again. The 2023 season of my favorite musical was about to start in early February 2023 - ...
It is hard to argue against that the Sofitel London Heathrow is the most convenient option when you need a ...
Before I headed to Portsmourth for some Rock of Ages shows in Southern England, I had a night at the Premer ...
When I was visiting my favorite musical Rock of Ages in Sunderland (including a great Empire Theatre tour), the Newcastle Great Northern ...
Another Rock of Ages musical trip took me to Inverness in the Scottish Highlands in August 2022. Due to the good location ...
Another set of shows of my favorite musical Rock of Ages in England, another city, another hotel: In mid June 2022, I ...
Being able to have a look into the Courtyard by Marriott London City Airport was the cause of a rather ...
In June 2022, I had a night at the Premier Inn London Paddington Basin. The booking was quite short-noticed after ...
For a Saturday evening show at The O2 in London, I have been looking for a reasonably priced hotel with ...
Quite some hectic a few weeks before I actually visited my favorite musical Rock of Ages again. After the show has been ...
A Hilton Group Hotel located right inside a soccer stadium? When I watched my favorite musical Rock of Ages in ...
Watching by favorite musical Rock of Ages in November 2021 lead me to another interesting place in England: Cheltenham. However, ...
The limited travel intensity during summer and fall 2020 lead to some interesting budget travel opportunities. During a trip to ...
I would say that the opening of the Hilton Garden Inn London Heathrow Terminal 2/3 has been one of the ...
As I delayed some reviews after I saw that Covid-19 will have a significant impact on us and our travel ...
I could not react any more when finally the C2C Country to Country in London 2020 had been cancelled. Thus, ...
Visiting Brett Eldredge's and Lauren Jenkins' final show of their January 2020 European tour (here are reviews of their Amsterdam ...
In early January 2020, I had a British Airways Mileage Run, flying from Cologne/Bonn to Gatwick and then spending a ...
During a November 2019 stay in London, I opted for the DoubleTree right at Victoria Station. Especially as we were ...
In order to see one edition of the "Introducing Nashville" show (I have been on Tenerife during the German ones), ...
As my flight to Barra, which gave my a great day on the Outer Hebrides island, departed (and arrived) in ...
I was visiting Belfast in later June 2019 in order to watch some shows of my favorite musical, Rock of ...
The grand final of the Rock of Ages 2018/19 tour through Great Britain, Ireland and Berlin was a bit of ...
Thousands of people pass Hatton Cross every day without ever getting an impression of the area. The Piccadilly Line London ...
Premier Inn is a branch of budget hotels which is especially active in the United Kingdom. There are, however, also ...
After I stayed at the ibis Styles London ExCeL during the Country 2 Country 2018 already, I chose the hotel ...
On most of my travels, I am rather a chain hotel nerd. Branches of Accor Hotels or Hilton Hotels guarantee ...
In May 2019, I had another weekend trip to London. As my wife and I flew into London City Airport, ...
I chose the ibis Canning Town just North of the River Thames as my stay for the Country 2 Country ...
Watching the amazing "Mike & the Mechanics" in Sheffield's beautiful City Hall, I chose the Novotel Sheffield Centre as my ...
Glasgow is becoming a more and more frequent destination for me. Very often, my visits are linked to music. For ...
Due to a Eurowings flight cancellation on a London daytrip in early January, I got stuck at Stansted Airport. The ...
Visiting the concert of the US country band "Midland", I had the opportunity to stay in the quite central Alexander ...
With my favourte musical, Rock of Ages, touring again through the UK, just a week after I saw Catherine McGrath ...