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Mick Shoulder (bass), Emma Fisk (violin), Giles Strong
(guitar) and James Birkett (guitar).
(Review by Jerry)
Even when the
main door jams and can’t be fixed there’s always a welcome (and a biblical
abundance of pizza!) in Crook. 80+ of us (more than there were printed tickets
for!) trooped through the back door and settled down for a great return visit
by Djangologie. Two latecomers were
literally locked out when the back door clashed shut – but they were swiftly
admitted when their plight was spotted: in Crook, there is a welcome even for
the tardy (and pizza and CD’s)!
I mention CD’s because Mick did, repeatedly:
sartorially elegant like an extra from The
Godfather, he warned that no-one would leave without a CD so it looked like
we might have a lock-IN as well. Not necessary, as it happened – no-one wanted
to leave at the end, never mind during the performance. And he DID sell lots of
CD’s, though I'm sure this was down to the quality of the music rather than the
threads (or
threats)!
The set-list
featured a mix of “nice old tunes” (Reinhardt, Archibald Joyce), more recent
tunes (Winterstein’s Hunn O Pani Naschella– still can’t
find a translation for that –and Jovanovic’s Gelem Gelem for example) and an even more recent
composition by Thomas Dutronc who is, according to Emma, “gorgeous”! No
surprise really (showing my age here!) as his mother was Francoise Hardy, and
who DIDN’T have a crush on her??? Interspersed with these were great originals
musically chronicling the “mainstays” of Mick’s life – “dogs and failed
romance”! It’ll make a great biopic one day, for sure! Some (Feuille
d’Automne, Dans Mon Endroit Tranquille, Beautiful Till 3 for example) were
already old friends from yomping up and down the M1 where Djangologie’s CD is
required listening (go easy on us, Mick, we’ve already bought it!) Others were completely new to us such as Song
for Izumi dedicated to another gorgeously inspiring (to Mick, this
time) musician / actress, Izumi Yukimura. That’s a long way from the till in
Morrison’s, but beautiful too!
Amazing solos
all round inspired the audience (just as last year) to noisy approval; I had
two good bottled ales, ate too much pizza AND won a raffle prize. I will
treasure the memory of Emma Fisk sneezing in the middle of J’Attendrai without
missing a beat (don’t see that every day!) and I’ll be first on the
waiting-list when this superb band get round to a second CD! That’d be an offer
I can’t refuse!
Jerry
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And if you were locked out you can catch the band on Monday night in Jesmond at the Cherry Tree Restaurant on Osborne Road.
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