A retrospective gig reviewlet!
Just like the poster says, Thursday September the 27th saw a gentle little evening soiree of music at the Royal Oak freehouse, a real ale local on Bath’s Lower Bristol Road. Put on by B.A.R.F. and friends (the city’s friendly neighbourhood anarchist collective), with sound graciously supplied by the fine folks at Pitchfork Rebellion, the night was set to raise funds for the Mutineer, of all things. But enough of all that guff.
Proceedings were opened with the quirky poetry of humble, behatted Jesse Perrett, who charmed and amused the intimate gathering, and acted as compere throughout. He was quickly followed by the antifolk antics of Karly Hobo: one man, one guitar, and street punk poet rantings about skipping, life and love. Next up was Stratford’s (ex-King Blues) Perkie (not Perky, as mis-spelt on the poster!), a punky folky pianist type, who sings slow, personal, haunting songs – kinda in the style of Tracey Curtis, but not like she’s five – and wears massive granny glasses!
The night was finished up by Bristol’s Clayton Blizzard, folk-rap virtuoso and maybe lyrical genius; between almost hitting it big, he sings songs about songs, being poor, the whereabouts of God, American foreign policy and economics – which is actually nowhere near as boring as it sounds. Between the confidence of his stage presence and the technical ability of his vocal delivery, he had the audience soon eating out of his hand (not literally), and finished up with crowd-pleaser ‘Winning A Raffle, Losing The War’.
But anyway, that’s quite enough brown-nosing for one article.
Keep an eye out for future gigs – you’ll hear it here last!
