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Ags Connolly, Dom Glynn and His Sunday Best, Dylan Earl, Gimme Two Steps, Jamboree

Two Steppin’ Heaven

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In a hidden gem in the city of London, you’ll find yourself transported to an Austin dancefloor like the legendary White Horse Tavern except it’s the– Jamboree – Kings Cross a glorious little venue full of character and atmosphere.

Jamboree Kings Cross, with Dom Glynn and Laurence Kingston doing their signature guitar battle, while Dylan Earl dances with Rosita one half of Gimme Two Steps.

Do you like fun, want to learn how to do two step dancing Austin style by Gimme Two Steps, do you want to dance like no-one is looking while listening to a live band like Dom Glynn and His Sunday Best. Then follow that with the adopted son of Arkansas, Dylan Earl and his band of Northern Cowboys then this is the place for all of this magic to happen in one night.

Dom Glynn and His Sunday Best on stage at Jamboree, Kings Cross

Rosita and Rebekka from Gimme Two Steps are the perfect teachers of the Austin two step dancing, they make it all look so easy, graceful and fun, fun, fun. It’s a great way to meet and dance with people of all ages and abilities.

#singhselfie with Rosita at Jamboree, Kings Cross

The Jamboree, Kings Cross has enough space for a dancefloor, stage and tables for those who only want to join along by tapping their feet. Filled my cynical heart with joy to see so many strangers with smiles and laughter and all in tune to country music.

Two Steppin’ Heaven from Rosita and Rebekka from Gimme Two Steps at Jamboree, Kings Cross.

Hanging out with Dom Glynn and His Sunday Best outside of the venue before they played was like seeing old friends you’ve not seen in a while, the band are a tight knit of ultra professional honky tonkers who bring that electric energy to their live performances. Laurence Kingston says that rehearsals are like a gig with no people.

The coolest of cats Dom Glynn and His Sunday Best outside the Jamboree, Kings Cross

The benefits though where shown by Glynn’s vocal delivery and the band not missing a beat in making music that truly moves you. It’s in the non verbal contract you’ve signed you must move your feet, while Glynn sings modern classics like ‘Gin Makes Me Cry (And Whiskey Makes Me Cry), ‘Do It All Again‘ and ‘I Loved You Cigarettes‘.

Dom Glynn and His Sunday Best on stage at Jamboree, Kings Cross

I’ll let you in a secret if you want to see Dom Glynn and His Sunday Best live then click the link below for the album release show at the Hootenanny, Brixton on September 10th 2026

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Between sets I caught up with that glorious raconteur and disciple of James Hand, Ags Connolly who was also there to enjoy the revelry. Ags is a musicians musician whose albums are pure gold, go listen to ‘Your Pal Slim: Songs of James Hand‘ and ‘Siempre‘ Not only does Connolly provide the intro music to the CloudwatcherUno podcast he’s an author releasing his first novel in 2024 with ‘Outside The Light‘.

Connolly is releasing new music with Yesterday’s Man his latest album Join him for launch gigs in the following venues on 21st OCTOBER – LONDON, The Water Rats (full band) and 22nd October – WITNEY, Fat Lil’s (duo show w/ SARAH JORY) link below.

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#singhselfie with Ags Connolly at Jamboree, Kings Cross

The spotlight then turned to Dylan Earl, the minstrel from the Ozarks, the bard who goes to fight the corruption of the big man, the troubadour who battles against the numbness of modern slavery to our robot overloads with songs like ‘Outlaw Country‘, ‘Level-Headed Even Smile‘ and ‘Lawn Chair‘.

Dylan Earl on stage at Jamboree, Kings Cross

Earl took to the dancefloor himself with microphone in hand and showed off his dancing repertoire with Rebekka (one half of Gimme Two Steps). At times filled with pathos and a reverence for the human condition and at others filling the dance floor with his silky smooth voice reverberating throughout the venue. This whole evening took many months to organise and was the pilot for hopefully many more nights like this. London you need to wake up and get yourself down to nights like this, they are few and far between with it’s perfect ingredients of dance, live music and saving you a few thousand dollars by transporting you into the beating heart of a Honky Tonkin’, Two Steppin’ world.

Dylan Earl holding court at Jamboree, Kings Cross

You can catch Earl as he travels across the UK by clicking the following link:

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Happiness is lifting Dylan Earl on the stage of the Jamboree, Kings Cross.

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CloudwatcherUno Podcast S7 Ep 4 ~ Dylan Earl

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Dylan Earl sits down with CloudwatcherUno to talk all things music and everything in between. We start off by talking about how the AMA UK music week had been cancelled resulting in Dylan and many artists from the United States, Canada and Europe not being able to fly to London and perform live in front of a live audience. It may be 2022 but it still feels a lot like 2020 is still trying for a third roll of the dice when it comes to gigs and events being postponed or cancelled outright.

The many faces of Dylan Earl

Some of Dylan’s last great memories were in 2018, as the last couple of years has been a blur. Dylan was supposed to be at Black Deer Fest in 2021 but that was cancelled as well. Dylan was the only American artist who took the risk of flying into the UK when the restrictions meant you had to isolate for 10 days. In the end Dylan was left without the festival and it was only through the help of friends (Stevie Smith) that he was able to do a few gigs with Judy Blank.

Dylan Earl in action.

Dylan was there to perform with Judy Blank Judy Blank | Official website who he had collaborated previously on “Throwing Lines“. Dylan’s philosophy in dealing with disappointment is the same way he deals when Arkansas Razorbacks Football snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. We talk about how gigs and festivals desperately are trying to come back such as Tennessee Fields Festival where the first band that I saw was Morganway HOME | morganway , which was the last band I saw pre Covid.

Dylan loves nothing more than to perform in front of a live audience wherever they may be in the world.

Covid and politics features heavily early on our discussion as we lament the fact that we had and still have the most inept and useless self serving politicians in charge with the resulting outcome of the loss of many lives. Thankfully it’s not all doom and gloom Dylan tells the story of how he met Judy Blank and then formed a partnership which has resulted in some damn fine songs. The pair met at Graham Weber and House Of Songs Graham Weber | The House of Songs Songwriter Summit Camps where songwriters from all over the world come to grow, create and develop as artists, writers and musicians. Tanya Tucker, Glen Campbell, Elles Bailey were all influences upon Dylan at the retreat.

Judy Blank and Dylan Earl

Dylan cannot praise Judy Blank high enough as a true lyrical genius and master of her song writing craft. Seemingly Judy can create melodies out of the atmosphere and together the duo created a solid gold country and western hit “Never Said A Word“.

“Never Said A Word” by Judy Blank and Dylan Earl

Many more collaborations have been with the very distant kinship Dylan has with his ‘cousin’ Nick Shoulders and friendship with his ‘uncle’ Willi Carlisle. The trio have a long deep friendship which has only been strengthened when Nick and Willi returned back from their wanderings from New Orleans and being on the road. Being around each other pushes Dylan and his brothers in arms to produce phenomenal storytelling and music with the result that all of their respective careers are going stellar.

“If I Could Only Fly” by Nick Shoulders, Dylan Earl and Willi Carlisle

Dylan is working with Western AF in filming and producing an Arkansas documentary and the Delta area which is where Johnny Cash comes from.

There’s been a history of the outcasts, loners and weirdo’s breaking down the fences that gatekeepers have put up around country music and that all are welcome to this beautiful genre of music.

Dylan is working on his next album ” I Saw The Arkansas” and this will also be the first track released from this new album. In the album will be the track “Buddy” and reflects the touring experience and life led by both Dylan and Willi.

Click below to hear the podcast from CloudwatcherUno featuring Dylan Earl. Also streaming on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Podcast Addict or wherever you listen to your podcasts.