Amazing Life: John Reilly and Lewis Nitikman launch single with online gig

Boy On A Dolphin frontman John and his keyboard co-writer Lewis performed a full set at the Peak Cavern in Castleton.

But because of the coronavirus pandemic they didn't have anybody in the audience.

It was filmed though and fans are being asked to support them by buying a ticket to watch it in full from Friday, June 19.

BUY A TICKET: Tickets are £10, plus 75p booking fee, at artmusicltd.com or by calling Elaine on 07918 556 552,

Fans will be emailed a link to watch the gig at their convenience and as many times as they wish.

The concert will end with the lyric video of new single Amazing Life, which has its release on Saturday.

John explained it was a way of off-setting the effects of the virus which has brought live concerts to a temporary standstill.

He said: " From the beginning of March my diary was completely decimated - with noi live events for the rest of the year.

"We have to be as creative as we can to keep going.

"We have got a really good following in Sheffield and people are really looking after musicians and buying tickets to watch them online. So we came up with this idea.

"For the foreseeable future this is the way we have got to go."

New single Amazing Life is a celebration of inspirational life milestones.

John's intensely personal vocal and lyric are wrapped in the sweeping anthemic rollercoaster of co-writer Lewis's arrangement with weighty atmospheric piano and strings leading to a powerful, passionate vocal.

It is all the more poignant set against the current global crisis.

John added: "In most people's living memory there has not been a time such as now,where literally worldwide and simultaneously, humanity has been focused on how precious life is."

Produced by James Jayawardena, the single was recorded at the city's famed Steelworks Studio and mastered at Abbey Road Studios in London .

Liverpool born singer songwriter John - now Sheffield’s adopted musical son - has followed his success in the US and Canada with his band Boy on a Dolphin by returning to begin a solo career which is growing with the emergence of his powerful and moving albums Tea Cozy Hat, Zebulon and Bad Vibe Shredder.

He helped to raise £170,000 with his performances and song Women of Steel, co written with John Parr and Grammy Award winning producer Eliot Kennedy which culminated in a major statue in the centre of Sheffield honouring the women who worked in the steel Industry during both wars.

John performed the song on the BBC1 show The People Remember and is now writing the screenplay for The Women of Steel story.

\BBC Radio have supported his singles Not Alone, Living with it and Building Avalon and the exciting release of his spiritually uplifting Christmas single Peace Sign, co-written with Canadian writer and pianist Lewis.

LINKS

Web: www.johnreilly.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/iamjohnreilly

Twitter: @johnreillymusic

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