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kap · Joined: 08 Feb 2011 Posts: 62

What an outfit(s).

Tickets for H&H are now available via Bristol ticket shop for 13th April. You were lucky to see Vic Chestnutt in 2009, I hadn't really tuned into his work before his death, silly really as one of my good friends is a huge fan, too much music too little time to work through it, I was so grateful for people like John Peel and the guys on Mixing It who did a lot of initial vetting - who are people listening to now in their absence?

I really like the intimacy of the smaller venues as some of the larger options in Bristol are hopeless acoustically, physically or spiritually, there was a time when all the best gigs seemed to be taking place at the Cube, Polish Club and Seymour's - are the guys who were organising these bookings still around? Initially feels as though you have just entered a space that belongs to someone else for something else unless of course you have been before. This reminds me of a working men's club in Hull where the students used to go for Sunday lunch(the only day when students and locals were able to mix without bloodshed). During the course of the afternoon it would bizarrely metamophize from dodgy music set to bingo to strip show. Of course the students never raised their eyes from their newspapers or pints during that bit.

jefflewis · Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 1486

Yeah, I remember really liking the Polish Club in Bristol! Haven't played there in years... didn't know if it was still existing.

jack fe · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 865

The Comus show last night was fantastic. They played the whole of First Utterance and sounded perfect. It was so true to the sound of the album, which I'm not usually that interested in, but for an album that sounds like First Utterance...
The audience was super into it (and big) and the Incredible String Band movie beforehand was a really nice touch.

Hearing Drip Drip, Diana and Song To Comus live was really incredible. I'd never seen any pictures of the members before, their voices are so specific it was a little strange putting faces and bodies to them.
I hope they make it over to the USA eventually.
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jefflewis · Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 1486

wow, cool!
sounds like a great night.

CrackyMcCrackerson · Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 145 Location: Kansas

jefflewis · Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 1486

SO glad you like it!
I think I've listened to that Fuzzy Felt Folk album more than most things I've gotten in the last few years, I never get tired of it, it just gets better and better!

Another compilation of early 70s British psychedelic/weird folk stuff that had a big effect on me is "Gather in the Mushrooms", I forget if I've ever mentioned that one on this board before. It has some tracks I already knew from other albums (like Comus and a few others) but there are some songs on "Gather in the Mushrooms" that are from artists I've still never heard of anywhere else and it's an incredible and creepy and beautiful album of material (if you like that sort of thing)!

CrackyMcCrackerson · Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 145 Location: Kansas

Thanks, Jeff! On the hunt for it!