That Music List: LIST 227

Hello once again,

Another mixed bag for this third List since we returned, and a small portion dedicated to acts already on my will-see-in-2018 list (Field Music, Belle and Sebastian) or else recently seen (Alasdair Roberts, Diet Cig, The Lovely Eggs; the last-named heroically determined the show must go on, despite the Unity Works in Wakefield's sudden demise only days before they were due to play it). How self-absorbed of me...

The cuckoo in the nest for some of you in this List will be a track from the soundtrack of the original cast recording of Everybody's Talking About Jamie, all the more so when you learn that the thing was written by Dan Gillespie Sells, the guy out of The Feeling. If, however, there's been a funnier, smarter, more on-point musical created so far this decade, I'm yet to see it, and how lucky were we in Sheffield to have enjoyed the world premiere run before it transferred to London.

If only Gillespie Sells imbued the music from his day job with quite the same lyrical sass and, well, feeling. And if only the pop charts still worked in the same way they did around the time of musicals such as Chess, whereby tracks from the soundtrack would become monster hits months before the parent musical was released. There are a few tracks in ...Jamie which in another era would have enjoyed the same crossover as the likes of I Know Him So Well or One Night in Bangkok. Ah well.

J xx

THE LOVELY EGGS - I Shouldn't HaveSaid That (2017)

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – I’ll Be YourPilot (2017)

YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS – Ode to Booker T(1979)

CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG – DeadlyValentine (2017)

THE ALL SEEING I – Starson Sunday (1999)

ALASDAIR ROBERTS - Pangs (2017)

ALASDAIR ROBERTS – I Had a Little Boat(2003)

DIET CIG - Barf Day (2017)

FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS –The Night (1972)

WHITE TOWN – Your Woman 1917 (2017)

MAZZY STAR – Into Dust(1993)