The summer evenings are rapidly giving way to autumn and with a slight chill in the air Jak The Lad, complete with with colds and stomach complaints, came down to the Quay to help send off the summer with a fond farewell and in doing so put in a noteworthy performance. Now if Mossy continues to refer to his audience "tumbleweed" or "one man and his dog" I , for one, will have to start name calling back. Admittedly the crowd was a little sparse at the start of the evening but let's face it a rework of an epic Jagger/Richards composition renamed Jumping Jack Something or Other is probably best witnessed by very few. That said these chaps are not averse to sending themselves up, a regular let's party and sod the consequences band.
Turning out thumping renditions of Free, Bad Company, Chuck Berry, Georgia Satellites, Thin Lizzy and more classics JTL soon had the gathering crowd dancing in the street, Mossy heatedly working up the audience with his Chuck Berry impersonation and disappearing into the crowd to do a rather entertaining version of The Twist (hope your hand soon gets better!). Now while all this may sound a trifle frivalous you cannot take it away from these guys, they are excellent musicians who happen to have a good time doing what they are good at which is covering old standards to a very high level, fuelled only by Day Nurse and Immodium, how things have changed in the rock'n'roll world recently!
The evening came by way of three sets. The first, due mainly to technical problems and amnesia, is probably best left to the imagination.The second gave us some fine renditions of AOR and particularly good versions of Tom Petty's 'Won't Back Down' and Georgia Satellite's 'Keep Your Hands to Yourself', and finished off with Green Days' 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams'.The final set produced some ground breaking versions of Beatles numbers done in a manner suggesting the Ramones on moggadon. An extremely emotional 'Don't Believe a Word' followed, and they closed the evening with a raucous 'New Orleans'. Once again another great evening's entertainment . Thanks lads.
Review by: Trev Faulkner
(courtesy of Mr. Kyps web-site) |
