I played a gig a few weeks back at Bohemian Jukebox supporting The Voluntary Butler Scheme, who I’ve talked about before - but also on the bill was another solo performer called Superman Revenge Squad. From Croydon.

He has a nice guitar style which I think is pretty and Malcolm Middletonesque, and he picks out nice notes behind the melodies and lots of open strings to make nice full use of the guitar.

Best of all he went into streams of poetrywords from time to time too while the guitar dropped out a touch - which is always something which bands don’t seem to do much, or indeed enough. Maybe because writing humorous and meaningful lyrics are a forgotten art but it really adds so much if done properly. I still remember the smile I had on my face seeing The Courtesy Group doing poetry the first time I saw them.

I loved his song about how Dexy’s back catalogue became overlooked the day they wrote Come On Eileen (I have a similar ABBA gripe), one called ‘When Everyone’s Dead’ about getting into grunge, and of course Idiot Food (which you download from his website along with loads of other free music… woo! Go online free music revolution!)

I had a nice chat with him about some of the Birmingham bands of yore like Jameson and The Starries, before the gig too - which was good, and a bit suprising especially as he wasn’t in Birmingham at the time!

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