Last night I went to see J.Spaceman on his Acoustic Mainlines tour, at Brighton’s newly refurbished Komedia. The tour is described thus:
The dates will showcase some of the songs from the forthcoming Spiritualized album as well as tracks from the Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized catalogues and songs from other artists. He will be accompanied on all dates by a string quartet, gospel singers and [Spiritualized guitarist] Doggen on Fender Rhodes.
And it was fabulous. I’ve seen Spiritualized twice, in all their noisy feedback glory, but stripped down to its essentials, Jason Pierce’s music absolutely stands up to scrutiny: his are beautiful, touching songs of love, loss and damage. And he has a fantastic voice to go with them – not powerful or sophisticated, but utterly soulful. As a longtime Spacemen 3 fan, it was wonderful to hear Walking with Jesus (which got one of the biggest cheers from an enthralled, responive crowd), but the new stuff sounds great too (especially Old Flame) and oldies like Cool Waves and Stop Your Crying were simply gorgeous.
The group played for an hour and half, getting through an impressive set list. They were seated the whole time, which meant even a six-footer like me couldn’t really see much; still the sound was good and the music fantastic. A great night.
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Colly wrote:
Fantastic. The Agenzia boys booked him for a festival opening, which took place in St Mary’s Church, which is massive. Full acoustic line-up. 400+ people. Beautiful.
Highlights? “Ladies and Gentlemen…” morphing into “Can’t Help Falling In Love With You”, “The Straight and the Narrow”, Spacemen 3 track “Hey man”, and erm, well… everything really.
It is amazing just how religious the lyrics sound in a church. The poor vicar looked all excited until Jason threw in a few swear words…
Marcus wrote:
Wooo dude. So envious. Not seen Spritualized since the “Ladies and Gentlemen” tour (they were wonderful then too).
Got to get me to more gigs, man.