Unkle Bob – (Friendly Sounds)
According to the received wisdom, actors should avoid working with children and animals, and musicians should avoid forming acoustic acts.
Bugger the received wisdom, at least if you’re a musician, and follow the lead of Glasgow’s Unkle Bob: three years too late for The New Acoustic Movement™ and busy spearheading a new one all their own.
Class will out, and, the odd Sting moment aside (‘Route 69’), class is here, in five pairs of hands that sift the bruised melancholy of the pre-fame Turin Brakes through a Coldplay filter and embroider it with vocals – courtesy of Rick Webster – that make you ache for the toilet-circuit days of Gomez.
Gillian Nash
