A particularly bad photo of a particularly good band; Jonny there.
I went to see Jonny playing recently. They are a band who, you may or may not know, feature Euros Childs who was in Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Norman Blake who is in Teenage Fanclub. Together they have a made a lot of brilliant music and have been touring a little while, first as just a duo, and now as a full band. I’d only caught them briefly at Green Man festival a few years back, so the gig at London’s Borderline was very exciting to see. What’s obvious is how much Blake and Childs obviously love playing music together; all mistakes are taken in good humour from the band and audience, and almost add to the whole gig. They play songs from their debut album, single Candyfloss sounding particularly good, and Cave Dance benefits from Stephen Black bringing out his saxophone. The support artist for the evening plays in the band too, Laura J Martin joining in on some powerful flute action.
It’s almost like Jonny in HD, the sound is clear, and the onstage banter is the best I’ve heard at a gig in a long long time. Mostly because it’s not forced.
Their songs are joyous, melodic bursts of rock n roll, their love of 60′s bands shining through and their respective years in Gorky’s and the Fannies making their songwriting skills so instant and masterful.
The night finishes on a song each by Teenage Fanclub and Gorky’s, so I leave whistling Heywood Lane, a highlight from the Barafundle album.
They play the Lake Stage at Latitude in July.I went to see Jonny playing recently. They are a band who, you may or may not know, feature Euros Childs who was in Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Norman Blake who is in Teenage Fanclub. Together they have a made a lot of brilliant music and have been touring a little while, first as just a duo, and now as a full band. I’d only caught them briefly at Green Man festival a few years back, so the gig at London’s Borderline was very exciting to see. What’s obvious is how much Blake and Childs obviously love playing music together; all mistakes are taken in good humour from the band and audience, and almost add to the whole gig. They play songs from their debut album, single Candyfloss sounding particularly good, and Cave Dance benefits from Stephen Black bringing out his saxophone. The support artist for the evening plays in the band too, Laura J Martin joining in on some powerful flute action.
It’s almost like Jonny in HD, the sound is clear, and the onstage banter is the best I’ve heard at a gig in a long long time. Mostly because it’s not forced.
Their songs are joyous, melodic bursts of rock n roll, their love of 60′s bands shining through and their respective years in Gorky’s and the Fannies making their songwriting skills so instant and masterful.
The night finishes on a song each by Teenage Fanclub and Gorky’s, so I leave whistling Heywood Lane, a highlight from the Barafundle album.
They play the Lake Stage at Latitude in July.