Ryan Martin John

After touring the Eyre Peninsula as part of Guitar Festival 2021 & 2022 Ryan Martin John and Alana Jagt are bringing a very special set to Sound City Pt Lincoln to celebrate both their recent album releases - Ryan's debut album 'Goodness Gracious Graceless' hot off the press April 2023 and Alana's debut album 'Goodbye Grotebollen' also hot off the heels of 2022. Both artists will be playing an intimate duo set, both accompanied by renowned guitarist Tom Kneebone. Expect an intimate night gilded with stories and guitar interplay. Ryan Martin John Wandering through the deserted sonic dreamscape of 70’s Laurel Canyon, Ryan Martin John is an introvert with a deep love of songwriting and pondering. Folky with a notable country flair, Ryan’s sonic spectrum ranges from a dynamic, intimate hush when solo to a harmony-gilded, guitar-laden fanfare when playing with his full band. Taking after artists As well as a songwriter, Ryan is an award winning recording engineer and has solely shaped all of his studio releases thus far. After a string of singles teasing the later half of 2022, Ryan finally debut’s his first full length album ‘Goodness Gracious Graceless’ in 2023. Led by the triumphantly twangy lead single ‘INFJ’, Ryan and his band will be celebrating the debut LP on the road with his band in tow featuring the much acclaimed lineup of Kyrie Anderson (drums), Tom Kneebone (guitar), Dylan Paul (bass) & Dave McEvoy (keys). Alana Jagt Born and raised on South Australia’s Iron Triangle, Jagt cut her teeth as a teen playing keys and singing harmonies in her parents’ ramshackle blues band. At seventeen she skipped to the capital and established a song-writing outlet as one half of folk-duo Buffalo Boyfriend. But the songs quickly outgrew the folk harmony outlet, and with the 2017 release of her solo debut Wilderness, Jagt steadily built a dedicated audience in her own right–one that has followed her from beloved little Adelaide venues like the Grace Emily to performances at Adelaide Guitar Festival, and supporting artists the likes of Abbe May and Mick Thomas nationally. Goodbye Grotebollen is the long-awaited full-length album released October 2022. After a string of delays, including her parents' house burning down, the album came to light. Sifting through mountains of cold black slush where the house used to be, Jagt discovered a charred, discoloured photograph depicting a cake of mysterious origins. "Turns out, my parents once worked in a tulip bulb sorting factory in Holland for a bit," she says. "When they were due to leave they brought in this farewell cake to enjoy with the other workers. Grote bollen translates to 'big bulbs'... there could be a Dutch pun happening there, I'm not exactly sure, but I eventually came to think of these songs as my bulbs and now I'm saying goodbye to them." The LP features the gammut of Alana's strength and whimsy characteristic of her uncanny songwriting abilities to blur the lines that typically would separate the worlds of traditional flavoured folk ballads, and driving alt country rock.