Jake Essex

Jake Essex is a singer from Essex. The music is the golden era: Elvis, Bobby Darin, Dion, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Willie Nelson, Frank Sinatra. The songs people still know every word to. He grew up on them. His nan had the records on in the house. They stuck.

He does not hide behind a jumpsuit or a script. He sings as himself, in a tuxedo, and the aim on every song is the same: hit the note. High energy, continuous flow, no dead air. He talks between the songs, he knows the stories behind the records, and he does not stand there waiting for the track to finish.

The night has a shape. It opens in the 50s and 60s — Darin, Dion, Holly, Cash, Orbison, the songs that built the era — and it finishes with Elvis, from the raw early years through to the Vegas power. On a three-hour night you get the full arc. On a two-hour night the era comes first and Elvis closes it. Either way it ends on a high.

He brings his own PA. He is self-contained. £10 million public liability, PAT-tested kit, invoiced through Jake Essex Music Ltd. Clubs, pubs, functions and private bookings across Essex, London and Kent. People book him back because nobody sits still.

If you have seen a hundred tribute acts who look the part and miss the note, this is the other way round. Book the date if you want the proof.