Jesse Dayton

Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton | December 4, 2022 | Whisky A Go Go | Hollywood, CA

With reports that around only 30 folk had attended his Manchester show two days earlier, there was some concern that the numbers for this Jesse Dayton performance in the East End of London would also prove on the low side, so it was somewhat reassuring to see increasing numbers of people wandering downstairs

The Jesse Dayton Trio + Norton Money, The Lexington, London, 5th September 2018

“It might get loud in here,” Jesse Dayton's opening words on arriving on stage for this hotly anticipated gig. He wasn't kidding.

Two iconic American musicians visited Manchester on 5th June, of the type that don’t often pass this way. Unfortunately an audience didn’t; about 30 people from a city-region of three million showed up, which makes me wonder, as I’ve pondered before here, what is wrong with the place.

Jesse Dayton is a man who has paid his dues. He’s been a working musician for most of his life, and he’s showing no signs of slowing down.

Many artists don’t truly understand how to open a show. Jesse Dayton gets it. Opening for fellow Austinites Reckless Kelly Friday at the State Theatre in Falls Church, he knew what he had to do.