This had everything I could want from a gig. Virtuoso performances, wonderful tunes and songs, and madcap humour.
Pound is a harmonica genius, and not far behind that on the melodeon. Butterworth is the consummate accompanist, on guitar and stomp, as well as being a quality vocalist. It was a set of variety. Trad material in the main, but not as you'v eheard it before. New tunes, mixtures of fast, slow, and more fast. Tunes from England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, Spain… Improvisations that made you wonder how many different variations on a simple melody line could there possibly be? Plus songs from Jenn’s upcoming solo album, with sympathetic backing, and solos, from harmonica.
And very funny, very unpredictable, and solidly on the left of politics. What’s not to like?
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