The Fenland Gent

I’m going to try and do this every week.

I was going to try to make this a chart of only new stuff – but on reflection that’s daft so now it’s a chart of stuff that I’ve stumbled across, and liked. Most of the stuff has come from recommendations via twitter ( @rob_fitzpatrick, @HughesTLOBF, @moonbolt and @liveon35mm are proving mighty fruitful), some of it has come from the music press, some has come from gig I’ve been to and some of the stuff is just there due to random thoughts and the like.

This is a screenshot – clicking on it will take you to Spotify where you can hear the top 19 songs.

The reason why there are only 19 is because song number 20 is not yet released. It’s “Give Up The Ghost” by Thom Yorke and I’ve already put on it my blog elsewhere. I love it. Here it is again.

This was one of those gigs I couldn’t stop thinking about the next day.

The strange thing was that it was one of the new songs “Give Up The Ghost” that really got under my skin. Someone recorded it at the gig and has put it on YouTube (This is easily the best quality clip recorded from a crowd I’ve ever seen – the same person has recorded quite a lot of the gig and has put the clips up at YouTube. Good work them).
The song has a false start but both the song and the crowd’s reaction at the end was electrifying.

I don’t get to see people this good playing at venues this small very often and as such it was excellent stuff.

(I can’t review gigs for toffee. I end up sounding like Paul Whitehouse from the Fast Show. “Brilliant” “Brilliant” etc. This was a great gig and saying it was a great gig sort of covers that. I do have opinions about Thom Yorke’s world view and his politics and I do wonder why I like his music so much when I share so little of his outlook on the world. I do worry about stuff like that – but only a little bit now I’m a parent).