Career
Beans on Toast has released seven studio albums, traditionally releasing a new record each year on 1 December, McAllister"s birthday. Embarking on the folk music scene in 2005, Beans on Toast opened Glastonbury Festival and has done so every year since. This success prompted him to support Kate Nash at London"s Hammersmith Apollo in 2008.
After much anticipation, he finally released his debut 50-track double album Standing On A Chair in 2009.
Along with Ian Grimble, Beans on Toast produced 2012 follow-up Writing On The Wall. The greater exposure, coupled with Jay"s humble nature and quirky stage presence, began to draw a loyal fanbase.
Beans on Toast"s third album, Trying to tell the Truth, was released in 2011 and produced by Frank Turner, with Beans on Toast going on to be the support act for Turner’s sold out Wembley Arena show in April 2012. This led to his fourth studio album, Fishing for a Thank You.
During this period, Beans on Toast also headlined a sold-out Scala show in Kings Cross, London, which was captured and released as the ‘Live at Scala’ album in 2013.
The fifth album, Giving Everything, was released on 1 December 2013 and made it into the top ten of the iTunes’ Singer-Songwriter Charts. In 2014, Beans on Toast performed to a crowd of over 100,000 in one week while opening Frank Turner’s United Kingdom stadium tour. In the same year, he embarked upon his first American tour, playing headline shows as well as several dates with Irish-American punk band Flogging Molly.
A limited edition 10” was released in the United Kingdom entitled Best of Toast Pressed On A Vinyl for Record Store Day 2014 in April.
This led to a sixth studio album, The Grand Scheme of Things, followed by a United Kingdom tour. Throughout 2015, Beans on Toast toured the United Kingdom and United States of America, as well as playing one-off shows in Amsterdam, Germany, and South America.
He kicked off the year touring America before returning to the United Kingdom for an "Office the Road" tour, visiting smaller venues in the United Kingdom. Beans on Toast also toured during the festival season, appearing at YNOT Festival, Boomtown and Glastonbury Festival, amongst others In December 2015, Beans on Toast released a seventh album, Rolling Up A Hill, recorded in Kansas with Truckstop Honeymoon.
A tour is planned to celebrate the album"s release.