He started off his set with a stellar rendition of "Clown Towne." Jamie's voice is so powerful and haunting, and it was especially more pronounced in this setting. After the song, Jamie said a little bit about AK Press' program of donating books to prisoners and a story about how he used to live in the very complex AK Press' office is located. The story was something about him riding a bike in circles while really drunk. It was entertaining, as only Jamie can tell it.
More songs were played including "Fabulous Muscles" which seems like a different song when played with an electric guitar. He ended his set with a very, very unique cover of The Smith's "Asleep". Before he played the song, he credited Johnny Marr as being the "greatest guitar player" ever. A fitting compliment from one great musician to another.
If you haven't seen Jamie play by himself, do yourself a favour and do so. And be prepared to get mesmerized.
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what you don't know: Ian gets into a lot of shows "on the list-style" cos he writes for this mesh mag. very seldom does he not. He did not ask to get on the list for this AK press/prison literacy project show; actually he dropped a few extra bucks in the donations box. alls I gotta say is how fucking lucky am I to have such a good guy as a friend?? SO lucky.
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