Track 6

Tonight I’m going to see, in my opinion, the best troubadour in the Uk (Who gives a shit about those Libertines losers? Or that dude from Razorlight? Or Richard Blackwood?) Jamie T is a musician that inspired me to move down to London and not be afraid of the big smoke. Along with the Rakes they didn’t paint the city as glorious or too seedy, just what it is. A dilapidated monster of city. Full of transplants and misfits thrown together with the mega rich and the mega poor, I don’t know anyone that isn’t one of the two.

The first track I ever heard was his cover of the Billy Bragg classic “A New England”. These lyrics are timeless.

“I was 21 years when I wrote this song, I’m 22 now but I won’t be for long.

People as when you will grow up to be a man when the girls I loved at school are already pushing prams.

And I loved you then as I loved you still, though I put you on a pedestal they put you on the pill.”

I may not be so keen on the new stuff but he is from the footage I have seen a great performer and I can’t wait. It also marks the start of the ridiculous amount of gigs I am going to this week.