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| Love Will Tear Us Apart Again |
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| Holy Moshpits! |
October and November - why do all the folk acts come to Brighton in a row? Fantastic but pricy!
June Tabor and the Oyster Band played at St George's, Kemptown. Lovely band. Lovely venue. Together they do not work.
We've seen June with Imagined Village, and always seen OB at jump-up-and-move places before, and this, their Reunion Tour, was a really dancey set... but no where to jig, let alone make big swings. Almost as though, if the audience came to their first tour 21 years ago, by now they would be in their dotage. Well maybe we are but we can still bop to the stunning crash-bang-wallop that is Freedom & Rain Revisited Ragged Kingdom
Bellowhead at the Corn Exchange - even stunning-ier! That's the way to do it... dance, dance, dance.
Two hours after the doors opened, the mighty 11 piece we'd all come to see hit the stage and all was well... the opening bars of Jordan, invitations to join in choruses, jumping in unison, wow...
So how come the JT&OB management got it sooo wrong? Same audience, judging by the number of grey heads, Towersey Tshirts and ability to pay-a-lot-of-money. Average age was 45+, a lot of free bus passes.
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| ...six fiddlers jumping... |
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| Jon Boden imploring... |
