Soho Revue Bar - 13th May

Set List

Waterfalls- Taken from the very beautiful album 'The Butterfly Observations'

Fireflies - Fan favourite Fireflies it's always great to hear.

Alexandra Hill – First of the new songs, sure to become a favourite.

Silent Whispers - Another debut performance taken from Jake's number one Ep SXY.

Careless Whisper – The first of Jake’s covers, went down really well with the crowd, move over George Michael.

Back For Good – Another firm favourite with the crowd and also Jake.

Already Gone – Another first live performance taken from the forthcoming album 'The Butterfly Observations' a very moving and beautiful song, I hope he sings again.

From the outside the Revue Bar doesn’t look big but it has a tardis effect with an old cinema feel and numerous stairs, it was my first visit to this venue and I wasn’t disappointed, the room was very dark with a large stage slightly raised from the dance floor. The seating was in different levels and imitated old fashioned booths, in red leather with little black tables and big round globe lights on each, the bar ran along the whole of the back wall with more standing space in front of it, mostly I noticed it had a great atmosphere despite the fact the seating layout gave a certain privacy to its customers.

Wearing black shirt, jeans and grey tie Jake sang seven songs in total to a full bar, it had been almost a year since I last saw Jake perform live and I had forgotten just how good he was, starting with the very beautiful ballad Waterfalls and then onto the much loved Fireflies both songs coming from his forthcoming album ‘The Butterfly Observations’.

Written about one of Jakes favourite London views newcomer ‘Alexandra Hill’ was a great song and I’m sure will become a popular addition to Jakes set, as if this wasn’t enough next was another first, taken from Jake’s indiestore number one EP, SXY was the simplistic but emotive ‘Silent Whispers'.

I was in for a treat next when Jake did an absolutely fantastic cover version of George Michael’s ‘Careless Whisper’ one of my all time favourite songs I was totally blown away by this and so were the crowd, who began to clap and cheer and then sing along with Jake, who kept the mood going by following up with the very popular Take That song ‘Back for Good’, by this point the crowd were really hyped and there singing grew louder.

Finishing his set with another debut song, Jake sang the very heartfelt and poignant ‘Already Gone’, he gave a flawless and emotional performance to a now quiet audience. Combined with an amazing vocal performance his great sense of humour and of course some incredible songs it was without a doubt that Jake would and was well received.

JANUARY – Jake joined fellow singer/songwriters David Sneddon & Chris Townsend on a mini tour dubbed The Myspace Lads Tour’ gigging in Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol & London releasing his ’Live Sessions Ep’ to coincide with the tour.
The Ep reached the very respectable position of No.3 in the first week of it’s release at the beginning of January in the 7digital indiestore chart and remained in the chart for a staggering 11 weeks, 7digital indiestore also choose to feature Jake and the Live Sessions Ep in the last week of January.

FEBRUARY– A much quieter month, Jake still released two demos to his myspace page for us to hear, ’Chemical World’ and then ’26th Frame’ (both can be heard on the Reverbnation player on the main page), although very different from each other both songs have much darker lyrics to what I have come to expect from him but still keeps the intensity and emotions he incorporates into all his music.

MARCH – Saw the launch of the Jake Hook Fan Page which has followed Jake's career closely ever since, and with his help has made that page probably the most informative of his career on the web.

APRIL – Jake took a well earned break this month, before releasing ’Hidden’, ’Angry Man’and ’Shuttle Boy’ as demos onto his myspace player.

MAY 15th Jake releases ’Shuttle Boy’ as a free download
MAY18th - A re-entry for the superb ’Live Sessions’ Ep peaking at number 5 and re-entering the chart on no less than four more occasions was just one of Jakes achievements this month, with the demo release of the very sexy and provocative ’Wanna’
MAY 31st -Jake announced a six week challenge, his intention to write, record and distribute a brand new ep ’SXY’.

JUNE 6th - Jake performed with his band at the fabulous Cobden Club in London, performing six songs in all, check out the videos of some of his performance on the main page.

JULY 2nd – The first official single from the SXY ep ’Wanna’ was released on download, three weeks after its release and its fantastic run in the top 3 of the 7digital indiestore chart Wanna crept the final two places on the 24th July to the number one spot giving Jake his first 7digital indiestore number one.

AUGUST 6th – Released on the 6th the ep ’SXY included seven brand new tracks and the number one 7digital indiestore hit ’Wanna’.
The Jake Hook Fan Page became Jakes official UK fan page this month.
SEPTEMBER 10th - SXY is finally released on download and was the weeks fastest seller peaking at number 2 and dominating the position for most of the week.
SEPTEMBER 15th - SXY makes it two in a row for Jake, becoming the second consecutive number one for Jake in the 7digital indiestore chart.
SEPTEMBER 17th - Jake joins James Max on national radio Talksport, to chat about his music and other stuff. (Iinterview can be found on the fan page or itunes)

OCTOBER 20th – Breast cancer awareness month and Jake joined fellow LoneBoy artist Beryl Marsden for a charity gig in Chiswick, London.
This month also saw the launch of the Jake Hook Fan Page (Italy) run by the lovely Ally.
Jake also joined up with west end star Jason Nolan for a bit of songwriting together.

OCTOBER 29th - The SXY ep makes a re-entry into the digital chart.

NOVEMBER- Saw the launch of the Jake Hook Fan Club, Canada, run by Melissa and the Jake Hook Fan Page (Canada) run by Kristi (both can be found in the Top Friends).
Also the announcement of a christmas single from Jake although we were yet to know what and when.
Nominated as the Myspace Music Registry artist of the month, up against stiff competition from the US, Jake came a respectable fourth with only 9 votes separating him from the winner.

DECEMBER - New songs Anticipating and If It Seems released in demo stage onto Jakes myspace player, both songs different and more loved up for Jake but both fantastic.
Also this month we were pleased to announce the Jake Hoo