Review:
'FISH, PAT/ SEWELL, MATT/ WOOLEY, JOE'
'London, Camden, Constitution Pub, 30th August 201'
- Genre: 'Folk'
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Yes time to see the good old Jazz Butcher once more this time both he and Joe Wooley are promoting last years "Now That's What I Call Northampton Vol #1" on Grass Roots records and available from www.nowthatswhaticallnorthampton.com. Pat is also warming up for next weeks show at the 100 club with the Television Personalities at the much delayed and moved Creation records celebration night and screening of the film Upside Down: the creation records story.
The evening starts in the beer garden with a good chat among Pat and tonight's other act MATT SEWELL and several of the usual suspects (myself included) before we all went downstairs for Pat's first set, even if he'd have preferred to stay in the garden to play.
This is the totally acoustic set and Pat is sitting picking away at his guitar getting us going once the hat has gone round. He did a very cool version of Beautiful Mind that seemed to be bathed in both pathos and a touch of bile towards the holder of said beautiful mind. He then did an Only Ones Cover that I ought to know the name of but didn't manage to identify. Shame on me.
I do know the Warren Zevon tune he did, Play It All Night Long, which sounded great but was missing a great Southern Rock mocking background, but we can't have everything. In any case as he followed it with a Peter Blegvad tune (Gold The Lonliest Of Metals) which is a great tune. All the while the normal banter was going back and forth, so I have another blank gap for a song title on my notes I'm afraid. I do recall the first set closed with a very good version of Shirley Maclaine and Like Pat many of us still have a thing for good old Shirley.
After a quick change over during which Matt Sewell admitted not having a capo or a guitar strap with him, he was soon treating us to some nice lovelorn tunes and a Roy Harper cover that sounded pretty good to me as a none too big a fan of Roy's music. For those of us not in the know, Matt is from the band The New Moon and plays regularly in and around Oxford. He also admitted stealing the riff to one tune off the Jazz Butcher which was fine by most of us in the audience.
After another very short changeover the club's host and compere JOE WOOLEY of Circulus fame took his seat and opened his set with one of his tunes that's on the NTWICN CD Come Back Baby which is of course about losing your loved one to someone else and begging her to come back. That was followed by Prelude in D Minor - not sure whose Prelude it was - but it was very nicely picked by Joe. He then did a cover of Josh White's You Don't Know my mind which was pretty cool and he followed it with Angie before closing his set with Worlds In A Tangle also off the CD. Let's face it: who could argue that the world is indeed currently in a bit of a tangle?
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Now it was time for Pats second set that opened with another unidentified flying song. I should have just asked him for the setlist!! Still he continued with the great Black Raoul: a song that should be in everyone's collection. A great tune due for release no time soon unfortunately. Pat then got all wistful on The Last Of The Gentleman Adventurers that led into a Quality People which was slowed down to a pace that suggested that the Quality people were all doing Morphine this week. That would figure as Sister Death was up next and got one of the biggest cheers of the night from the now packed crowd.
Pat then started to play a riff and blimey if he didn't throw in a great version of Patti Smith's Free Money at us that he then said was actually meant to be Elephant Song. Instead, he followed it with that, so we had two songs with very similar tunes. He encored with a cool version of Big Star's September Gurls which was a cool finish to the night.
By the time I had had a chat and smoke in the beer garden with Pat and friends I was staggering back to the train and home. I may have been having a little trouble seeing straight, but it had been a very good night out.
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author: simonovitch
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