Nigel Mazlyn Jones - his songs and guitar work

I had the ideal chance to talk to him again and we have stayed friends ever since. By a strange coincidence Arthur Brown, most famous for his hit Fire, was also appearing on the Avalon Stage, and I had met him back in Cardiff around the same time as I had first met Nigel.

I had a chat with Arthur too and he remembered me as well from all those years back. It was one of those memorable and magical moments in time.

That is the strange thing here too that just because of a hit single every one knows who Arthur Brown is but Nigel was never on that road. He may be obscure to many but that does not steal away his genius!

Nigel Mazlyn Jones is a singer-songwriter and very innovative guitar player, and I mean innovative, who manages to coax all sorts of sounds out of the instrument, and in so doing amazes and enchants his audiences. Not surprisingly Nigel has been very highly acclaimed and has very many loyal fans.

Nigel comes from Dudley in England originally but as a young man he went over to Jersey where he worked at Gerald Durrell's zoo helping to look after the great apes. He has a real passion for nature and the environment and this is reflected in his songs and music.

After his time in Jersey, Nigel moved to Cornwall and embarked on his career as a singer and musician. He has released various albums with the latest of these being Planet for $ale that came out in 2007.

On it Nigel asks: “Planet for $ale in need of renovation, who’ll give us two pence for a dead old globe” and “Why are the rich so bloody greedy, Why are governments so corrupt right to the core?”

He then provides an answer with the lyrics: “It needs a change of thinking, if we’re to go on living, bringing up our children on this planet green and blue, yes it needs a change of living, to keep the garden beautiful, we’re only the caretakers, and we’re only passing through”.

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