Promotional and concert details (posters/Stageplan, etc) are at the bottom of this page

Reviews/interviews, etc.



This is a recording of Radio Vltava's Cajovna programme from November 2009, in which I featured and was interviewed by Mike Kyselka, who was doing an edition of the programme dedicated to music from New Orleans. I played a few songs (including Easy Train with Mike on harp). It was a lot of fun, especially the "Bill Graham" questions at the end!



This was an interview I did in summer with Hana Lukasova for TopZine.cz for the build-up to the United Islands festival.
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Chomutovsky Denik Promotional article 04/2010
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"Charismatic [...] with a roughened voice and fantastic solos...an exceptional combination of folk, blues and rock traditions"
Prazsky Denik 05/09/08
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"A musician without equal"
Nord-Littoral 24/07/08
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"There are moments when all the thunder of orchestras and rock groups can't come close to what one singer and a guitar can do. case in point: Justin Lavash"
Prague 25/04/07
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Read review on www.praguepost.com


"Played guitar like it was a whole orchestra, with a full sound and huge energy"
Nymbursky Denik 15/09/08
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See this article at nymbursky.denik.cz



"This tall, wiry Brit [...] can’t be pigeonholed. He plays his guitar forcefully, his voice, toughened by singing at all kinds of gigs [...], comes from the heart."
FolkTime.CZ review 01/11/07
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Michal Senbauer on JL in kritizujeme.cz
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Tomas Pohl interview for Folktime.cz, December 2007
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On the left is a YouTube video of me on Czech Television's Babylon programme from 2007. Please excuse my terrible Czech. It has got better since then, honestly! The dog puts in quite a strong performance, though!