Venue: The Slaughtered Lamb, London EC1V
I arrived at the pub by taxi, just as Jonny and Lucy were taking the stage (late night librarian again...) so I was feeling pretty pleased with how that worked out. It took a while to find P and L in the gloom of the basement room, but with it's small stage, comfy sofas and intimate atmosphere the venue seemed perfect for this type of show. Extra points for stocking Brooklyn Lager and Blue Moon too.
This was the sort of gig you could just settle back and enjoy, Jonny and Lucy being such genial and unassuming characters and their beautiful and mournful music lulling the audience into a rapt silence punctuated by genuine laughter at the banter and enthusiastic applause for the songs. I was especially pleased not to have been held up en route as the second song was one of my favourites "Letters to Lenore", which really epitomises Jonny's songwriting - a mixture of heartbreak and wry humour. As well as playing all the songs from The North Farm Sessions, we were also treated to some new ones, called, I think, "Green Leaved Trees" and "Disease" (as well as one just introduced as 'A new song. Miserable'). Other highlights included "Dixon Street" which was written as part of a tenancy agreement on a rather dubious sounding flat in Gateshead (I think the pair met at Newcastle University) and another which involved Lucy playing the saw. I was also amused to learn that the drink in question in the lovely "Lullaby" was really Buckfast but was changed to rose to sound classier!
All in all a lovely evening. This pair are just so likeable and talented and I am really pleased to be seeing them again (with Martin Simpson and Alasdair Roberts) on 23rd September at the Bishopsgate Institute.
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| Terrible photo taken with my phone... |
Link to website: http://www.jonnyandlucy.com/
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