released October 2, 2018

There are LOADS of bloody brilliant blighters I'd like to credit on this album....: -
Steve Beighton - saxes, flute and all horn arrangements
Benny Lee - Trumpet
Stuart Garside - Trombone
Jem Hewitt - vocals track 9
Billie and Jodie Johnson bvs on tracks 1,3,& 13
Phil Johnson and Curt Russell bvs on track 13
Roo Walker - guitar tracks 1,3,5,9,10,11,12,13
Bryan Walker - guitar tracks 2 & 6, guitar and vocals track 7
Sam Dunn - guitar tracks 4 & 8
Dougie Stevenson - dobro steel guitar tracks 2 & 7
Ryan Taylor - organ tracks 2, 5,6,7,8,9, keys & organ track 12
Christian Madden - organ tracks 1,3,11 and 13
Piero Tucci - piano tracks 2,6,7 and 8
Rachael Gladwin - harp tracks 4, 5 and 10
Shaun Perry - bass guitar track 9
Aron Bicskey - drums tracks 1,3,4,9,10,12 and 13
Phil Johnson - drums tracks 2,6,7,& 8
Ali Mac - drums and percussion track 11 & percussion tracks 5,8 & 11

I wrote, arranged and sang on all the tracks whilst also playing the following instruments (not at the same time obvs) : -
bass guitar, double bass, various keys, bass synth, fender rhodes, piano (track 10), cello, violin, viola

I created all the tracks in Farnon Studios(!) and then finished them in the following two studios: -
All tracks recorded at Farnon Studio and with Martin Smith at MU Studio, Sheffield apart from -
Tracks 2,6 &7 recorded with Keith Angel at Wavelength Studio, Doncaster

Special thanks to Martin at MU Studio where the bulk of this album was recorded - whose patience was probably massively tested, on many levels - especially when trying to decipher the occasional unintelligible but dramatically passionate stream of consciousness that would routinely verbally pour forth..

Special thanks to Steve Beighton for his brilliant horn arrangements that were an unexpected surprise and joy.

Stuart Hukin - for all his encouragement

Phil - just cos

Nicola Farnon - Short Bio
Widely recognised as one of the classiest Jazz and Swing musicians in the UK, Wiltshire born and now Sheffield resident, Nicola has a remarkable musical pedigree, both parents being professional classical musicians and her great uncle no less than the late Robert Farnon. After an early start on piano and cello (grade 8 in both by the age of eleven), she followed her dad's love of the 'standards' into jazz via the double bass and an enchanting voice which was developed during her Performing Arts studies at Middlesex University. Her sparkling trio and quartet appears regularly on the jazz circuit and the band's arrangements are all done by her - with some melodic and extremely catchy originals thrown in for good measure! She has played with such Jazz luminaries as Dave Newton, Digby Fairweather, Jim Mullen, Bruce Adams, Martin Shaw, Roy Williams and Alan Barnes and alongside class jazz acts as diverse as Eliane Elias, Courtney Pine, Georgie Fame,Tony Kofi, Michael Garrick Jazz Britannia Orchestra, Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine, Humphrey Lyttleton and Acker Bilke.
Nicola's performances, with her wide variety of music, versatility and attention to detail, keeps audiences spellbound with classic songs ranging from 1930's to the 1970s. A truly talented singer, Nicola is a class act with a passionate and swinging style, outstanding personality and a charismatic stage presence to match - and an uncanny ability to adapt her performance to captivate and embrace any audience.

Scarborough Jazz Festival
The Nicola Farnon Trio combine first class musicianship with a genuine enthusiasm for being on stage at a prestigious jazz festival. Time and again Farnon’s bass playing swung, her winning vocals a delight.

Durham Jazz
Ms Farnon is everything a performer should be; accomplished, communicative and effervescent, her expressive voice a delight. [She] writes her own material and gives it 100%, winning new fans wherever she goes.

Southport Jazz festival
When your uncle is the highly acclaimed arranger and composer Robert Farnon (arranger for Sinatra and Tony Bennett amongst others) - you'd hope some of that talent might brush off on you.. For vocalist / double bassist Nicola Farnon it certainly has..