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Duke Special /////// 08/05/06 /////// The Joiners
Went down the Joiners tonight with my good friend
andy balls who had recommended the aforementioned musical for my
consideration. I would've gone down anyways mehtinks since my good
stateside friend Thomas Truax was supporting. Twas good to catch up
with him, think this'll have been the 7th time I've seen him in three
years, he is a dude. The turnout was not so great tonight
unfortunately, but it made the gig even more intimate... and gave
Thomas a bigger canvas on which to paint his masterful lunacy. He's
played the tune 'full moon over wowtown' each time I've seen him play,
he plays it entirely acoustically, nothing plugged which gives him the
freedom to jump off stage and run around the venue whilst playing, last
time he ran outside and harassed the door man. Tonight, since there was
few people present he jumped off stage and ran, inviting the audience
to follow, into the female water closet, there he conducted a verse of
the song before slipping off elsewhere. I'd not been in the girls
toilets before tonight, luckily there were no girls to be found as he
entered.
I didn't know what to expect from the headliners. But what i found was
amazing, I absolutely loved them. Just two guys, Duke Special and
Temperance Societ Chip Bailey (who was the coolest dude). Duke played
the piano, gramophone player and analogue radio, Chip played the drums,
accordian-esque thing and a modified walking stick complete with bell
and horn. The sound was beautiful, Duke aka Pete, sings, with an
unashamed Irish accent, really warming happy lo-fi poetic tunes that
are difficult to categorise. I would thouroughly recommend this to
anyone!
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