This show at the Lexington is part of the launch weekend for Under The Bridge Volume 2 the Sarah records Alumni compilation album released on Skepwax records on Friday the 5th.
I arrived at the Lexington just as the opening act The Hit Parade (Julian Henry solo) was saying thank you and good night to a good round of applause. Sorry I couldn't get to the Lexington before 8pm to see him play.
Mystic Village are Robert Cooksey from the Sea Urchin's current 4-piece band who opened with We Won't Be Afraid that had a nice gentle lilt to it as the bands Djembe player tapped out a cool rhythm pattern. Sailing Down A Rainbow River had a delightful flute solo from Jobe. Something More had some very intricate guitar playing from Robert.
They then made the crowd very happy with a nice laid-back version of The Sea Urchins classic Everglade, before Robert invited us to look Through My Window so you could gaze at his long flowing locks while hearing how the keyboards and mandolin wove the tune together.
Well Always Be One had some nice flute floating over the restrained Djembe, before we reached the eye section, that opened With Open Eyes that I'd like to hear a few more times to really get what Robert was singing about. That led into Open Your Eyes a message that more people need to hear than the audience that was at the Lexington.
After The Djembe player had introduced the band they played People that asked a good few questions on the state of things. When The Sky is Golden floated on a pillowy flute part before they closed with the chanted Aye Aye Aye Aye that was the most energetic song in an otherwise nicely laid-back set.
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Surprisingly the audience had thinned out a bit before Michael Hiscock from the Field Mice came on with his new trio The Gentle Spring and unlike Saturday nights headliners at The Lexington he wasn't about to Hula hoop to any of his songs. They opened with I Love You Dearly that was a gorgeous love song with sparse keyboards from Emilie.
I'm guessing the next song was Sugar Town that Michael introduced as being about an optimistic pessimist, it was slight yet compelling. I'm Touched was full of nice sentiments as well as some cool interplay between the band.
The next song was about watching a film that was nice and laid back. Then Michael switched to bass and Emilie sang about Chestnut Trees in a nicely downbeat kind of way. Michael then sang about Blue Skies in a way that made them sound like a bad thing, like he wanted more grey skies.
Emilie then sang about what happened Last Week as Michaels gentle bass line drove the song on, they then did a duet about Fever if my notes are to be believed.as this gentle lilting music felt like a perfect Sunday evening comedown my notes seem to make less and less sense so all I can say is the last three songs were very lovely to listen to and this was a nice gentle end to the week.
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