![]() The intimate gigs down the 100 Club are over. One who is reluctant to rap beyond the minimum with this larger, more impersonal attendance. One who isn’t completely comfortable when he can’t eyeball everyone in the room. It does mean, however, that we get a different Wilko. The Empire was properly packed with punters who had turned out to celebrate the survival of this one-off cult hero. Wilko is playing to bigger crowds these days. This inventive rhythm section adds so much to the vibrancy of the overall sound.īut it is clear that some things have changed. The interplay between Watt Roy and sticksman Dylan Howe was joyful. Tonight ‘Everybody’s Carrying A Gun’ was stretched out and slowed down to showcase the full range of the guitar-meister’s dextrous chops and change ups. Wilko has always been a master of pace and tempo. The performance, as ever, was hallmarked by moves that Wilko should have copyrighted long ago: telecaster machine-gunning the crowd manic, wild eyed-staring into the mid-distance and jerky strutting of the stage led by that angular jawline. A proto-punk classic featuring the immortal couplet ‘I’m gonna get some concrete mix/And fill your back door up with bricks/And you better be there waiting/When I get my business fixed’. ![]() Then ‘Roxette’, missing from the setlist last time I saw the band, was dusted down and given a frenetic airing, pulsed along on Norman Watt Roy’s immense bass groove. Show opener, ‘All Through The City’ and ‘The More I Give’ disappeared in a barrage of barbed riffage. Three short, sharp shocks from the monochrome Feelgood’s debut ‘Down By The Jetty’ were spat out in quick time. ‘If You Want Me, You Got Me’ from ‘Barbed Wire Blues’ was just such a gem and the excellent ‘Keep On Loving You’, originally from his 2003 album ‘Going Back Home’ has had a new lease of life since its inclusion on the 2014 album of the same name with Roger Daltrey. That still left room for a couple of surprises tonight. Picking up right where he left off.Īlthough Johnson’s sets vary for each tour, the tracks are pulled from a finite pool of tried and trusted Dr Feelgood, solo and blues covers. And so a 3kg tumour was cut from Wilko’s nether regions (is this too much information?). Then a fan in Japan who also happened to be a world expert in this vile disease, said ‘You should be dead by now’, or words to that effect, ‘therefore this must be a rare but operable variant’. Diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in 2013, Wilko had publicly embraced his fate. That’s ‘comeback’ in the Lazarus sense of the word. He’s currently two months into a year-long jaunt entitled ‘Still Kickin’ – the comeback tour. Wilko is touring relentlessly, just like he always did. You could be forgiven for thinking that nothing has changed. Articles discussing events in musician's lives are subject to mod discretion.Ĭome share some music in the official /r/music plug.Share the post "Gig review: WILKO JOHNSON – Shepherds Bush Empire, London, 26 April 2015" No links to unauthorized music leaks or promotion of piracyĭiscussions and Articles should be directly relevant to music, music technology, or the music business itselfĪrticles / Tweets discussing statements by musicians not relevant to their work are not allowed. For help with identifying a song, use /r/tipofmytongue or /r/namethatsong.Įxceptions are made for exclusive releases or tracks not available on an artist's official channel. No /r/ifyoulikeblank, /r/tipofmytongue, or request-style postsįor recommendations of new artists similar to those you already like, use /r/ifyoulikeblank. You can select your flair beneath your link after posting. Submitters: For original music, use the " I Made This" flair. Well known tracks will be removed at mod discretion. Saturdays are for fresh and original musicĭedicated to underground artists, your original compositions, and new releases by known artists. Bad discussion posts are subject to removal on any day. If your post is "low effort" or looks like just another way of posting streaming music, then it will be removed. If you have an interesting story behind the music, you can add this in the comments or as self-post text.įriday is for interesting discussions, not streaming music. No artist reposts for 30 days if the previous post broke 100 points Optional additional text may only be included after this part of the title. Follow us on twitter for AMA announcements and a selection of top links.Īll submissions of streaming songs and albums must follow this format or will be removed.Are you a musician? Read our guide to promoting your music.
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