Jona Lewie Tickets

About Jona Lewie

Born John Lewis, Jona Lewie cut his teeth as a blues and boogie-woogie pianist on the London club scene of the late 1960s, and even played piano for the great Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup in the studio. He had his first taste of chart success with Sussex blues band Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts. Recording under the cheeky alias Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs, the band took Lewie's song "Seaside Shuffle" to number two in the UK in 1972.

In 1977 Lewie signed to the trailblazing Stiff Records, where he became the label's longest-serving artist. His big breakthrough came in 1980, when the wry synth-pop of "You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties" reached the UK top 20. Before the year was out, "Stop The Cavalry" had climbed to number three. The anti-war song, carried by a stirring brass band, won him an Ivor Novello Award and has been a festive fixture ever since. "Louise (We Get It Right)" followed in 1981 and reached number two in Australia, and an IKEA advert sent "Kitchen At Parties" back into the UK charts in 2010.