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Noosa recording studio JamPot needs your help

January 14, 20253 min read

Can you help save this Sunshine Coast music institution and help fund co-owner Tom Johnson’s brain cancer treatment? Donate to Tom’s GoFund me here: https://www.gofundme.com.

Noosaville recording studio JamPot Studios is being forced to close after 13 years and the owners are looking for a new space.

JamPot, which has recorded music for the likes of local legends such as Pricey (ex-The Chats, pictured), will cease trading on January 18 and is unavailable for lease from February 1.

Co-owners Tom Johnson (main picture) and Ian Kerley were both cab drivers when they opened the studio.

It doubled as a place to jam for their aptly named band Fare Evaders.

An institution and favourite to many locals, the building, where JamPot operates, requires major refurbishments.

It comes as a major blow to the business, which only recently added a new rehearsal room and top-notch equipment.

And since May, Tom has been fighting the cruelest battle of all – receiving treatment for a brain tumour.

“Born after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), we have survived Covid lockdowns, and I have personally survived Stage 4 renal cancer that metastasised in my lungs and brain.”

Tom and Ian can apply to lease a unit from the building’s new owners when the refurbishments are complete in six months, however their future remains unclear.

If you can help JamPot find a temporary or permanent space reach out via email: contact@jampotstudios.com.au.

JamPot co-owner’s personal cancer battle

As JamPot searches for a new studio space, co-owner Tom faces more life-saving brain cancer treatment.

“During band rehearsal, my left side of my body gave way to an unknown brain tumour, leaving me instantly unable to play the drums,” he says.

Tom received life-saving steroid treatment and radiation surgery last year.

And while he says he’s winning this battle, the costs between Tom’s business and medical care are mounting.

Picture: Tom and cabbie mate Ian (pictured) built the music business from scratch. Ian had a health scare of his own receiving a kidney transplant in 2018.

“This December I was told my entire building my business will have to vacate to demolish the building.

“It’s a custom-built recording studio in Noosaville, built from nothing to become an integral part of the music community for the past 12.5 years.

“I have to find a new premises to continue, and the rebuild and construction costs are too high on such a short notice among everything else.

“Thank you to everyone for putting up with my manic panic of possibility losing my mind or body. Any help would be greatly appreciated and used to continue the fight.

“I am hopeful to survive this major upset.”

Donate to Tom Johnson’s brain cancer treatment: https://www.gofundme.com.

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