Jeffrey Lewis hitchedhiked his way into Dublin town last night to play an excellent show in Crawdaddy. Jeffrey is known for his blunt voice, direct lyrics and for his humorous comics. I wasn’t too enamoured with Jeff before last night’s show, I heard ‘Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song’ and ‘The Last Time I did Acid I went Insane’ before and was impressed, but quickly forgot about him. But he won me over last night with his amusing and seemingly ramshackle performance backed by his brother Jack and a great drummer. He sang punkier versions of songs off the album‘It’s The Ones Who’ve Cracked That The Light Shines Through’ , as well as doing acappellas to PowerPoint presentations of his comic drawings. Highlight of the night was The Complete History of Communism Part 3 , a lecture in which Jeffrey charted the rise and fall of the Russia in the early 20th century, while still managing to be funny and insightful. Another highlight was ‘Shoot the head, Kill the Ghoul’. Take a listen to that song and another song ‘Alphabet’ off the aforemented Cracked Album.
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Jeffrey Lewis – If you Shoot the Head you Kill the Ghoul
In other News, Broken Social Scene will be playing in Dublin again in Vicar Street on 18th May. Tickets are priced from €24.50 to €27.50 which is almost twice the price of the TBMC gig but still it’ll be worth it! Looks like tickets are selling fast for this one, so be quick. Thanks to Kev for the heads up.
In other Mp3 Blogs this week – My Kentucky Blog has a new Ghostface and MF Doom track and Analog Giant has the new DJ Shadow mixtape , ‘Funky Skunk’.
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You can do some revision, with video of him busking History of Communism parts 1 & 2 here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7905345605926782170&q=punk
You can do some revision, with video of him busking History of Communism parts 1 & 2 here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7905345605926782170&q=punk
Great minds think alike (or have similar taste in music?) We’re heading to see that show at McHugh’s in Belfast tonight. I’ve only been introduced to Jeffrey Lewis in the past coupla weeks, but from I’ve heard and your review, it sounds like it’ll be dead fun. Looking forward to it…
Great minds think alike (or have similar taste in music?) We’re heading to see that show at McHugh’s in Belfast tonight. I’ve only been introduced to Jeffrey Lewis in the past coupla weeks, but from I’ve heard and your review, it sounds like it’ll be dead fun. Looking forward to it…
enda – Repect for the video link. Most entertaining!
tuggers – Enjoy yourself, you must be my evil twin..
enda – Repect for the video link. Most entertaining!
tuggers – Enjoy yourself, you must be my evil twin..
Cheers for the tip, Niall.
Cheers for the tip, Niall.
Alright man, its co pretending to be donal pretending to be mike pretending to be peter walshe… you are now a forest bear…
Alright man, its co pretending to be donal pretending to be mike pretending to be peter walshe… you are now a forest bear…
There also is an MP3 of hilarious (and long) in-studio Jeffrey performance of “The Complete History of Punk on the Lower East Side, 1950-1975” on freeform station WFMU’s Beware of the Blog site…
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/mp3s/index.html
you’ll have to scroll down a bit or do a search. Also recommended and posted to the site about the same time: Japanese punk band The Emeralds doing ‘Talk About Love’ which is brilliant and crazy.
There also is an MP3 of hilarious (and long) in-studio Jeffrey performance of “The Complete History of Punk on the Lower East Side, 1950-1975” on freeform station WFMU’s Beware of the Blog site…
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/mp3s/index.html
you’ll have to scroll down a bit or do a search. Also recommended and posted to the site about the same time: Japanese punk band The Emeralds doing ‘Talk About Love’ which is brilliant and crazy.