Work Builds Castles Out of Sand

Recorded on 31/10/2025

J Warren Jones was born in Leeds in the early 70s and lived in Wakefield for most of his life. Travelling extensively in his late teens and early twenties and working in the gambling trade for 20 years before starting Mrs Atha’s café in Leeds in 2012. A fresh start doing something to make people happy rather than the morally corrupt world of gambling. He ran the popular café for 12 years, serving the city centre and surviving a global pandemic, before finally closing it's doors earlier this year.

Warren in his own words is, "now attempting to be a professional musician" and by the sounds of his single debut solo single Daylight Robbery he's certainly got the chops!

It's worth listening to the episode just to hear it.

You can find J Warren Jones at:

https://www.instagram.com/jwarrenjones/

https://www.facebook.com/warrenjonesmusic/

YEP article about the story of the single:

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/people/leeds-mrs-atha-new-song-5369235

And you can buy the singe at

https://open.spotify.com/track/7iGpkmpot30QHyYxBTcqaS?si=7fe159720c6943e2

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/daylight-robbery/1843158215?i=1843158217

The Lianne mentioned in the episode was Lianne Marie Mease from Butterflumped you can check out her WHP interview here:

https://the-working-hours-podca.captivate.fm/episode/lianne-marie-mease