The G-Man was with us on our Spacejunk Mission and it was a pleasure to catch his seriously frenetic, no-holds-barred-bat-guano-insane bracket in tonights Jagermeister band comp at the annandale hotel! Read on for pics and vids (note, this AIN'T Blues! You were warned)
The Lonely Few has been an ongoing project featuring three very different musicians - the G-Man has a history in the Blues, Dave has a history in folk (his song Ghosts, also recorded by the G-Man is a true classic aussie folk song) and Hamid the Invisible Iranian Drummer (Soz Hamid, I couldn't get close enough to get a shot from the floor!) has a....um....history of....um.... being Iranian. He's also jammed with Paul, me and the boys from the Motherboard Blues in the Basement of Raquels (its a long story)
So tonight was a chance to see a live crowd react to the music of The Lonely Few. There were cries of 'More', 'encore', 'Where did I park my car' and other noises.
Dressed in his best Demagogue outfit, the G-Man played things with strings, electronica from the 1970's and sang through a bullhorn. Bob Log step back, TLF are staking out the High Ground in Avant Garde Musical oddities - and in the words of Hunter S Thompson, when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Without further ado, take a tour through the sights and sounds (apols for the crappy phone cam mike mike and phone cam shake but hey, I stood pretty still for 4 whole minutes there and standing beside the PA speaker I can tell you, that was not an easy task)
My fave TLF song - the machines of men part 1...or is it part 2...ARGH! I get so confused
Go Dave!
Somewhere back there is Hamid...soz dude. bright lights.
The Chef Who Wants To Die (part 1 or 2? TLF's first release!)
The G-Man. Far out!
WHO NEEDS A MIKE!!
And finally, for desert, the song 'Fast Food' (cam probs here, someone kept calling me on my camera lol)
To hear the songs properly, check'em out on myspace at www.myspace.com/thelonelyfew
and if you're as keen on obscure analogue inspired sounds as we are, buy one of their cassettes!
Well done guys, that was an amazingly powerful set. The audience went nuts, The Lonely Few were already nuts so everything was consistent.
What a great night.