About Me
ghostboy : seemed to be in a heavily serious mood. I feel small was a stark song about the lowest of times and posed the highest question Can I go to Heaven? As someone said in their last postcard from the other side, Im doing fine in Heaven but its hell of a warm here. Fallen Down is another solitary sounding song allowing a great deal of angst and fear or isolation to spill out, well better out than in. Gary closes his set with the heartfelt What are you gonna do now? Another broken relationship, digging in the long knife and twisting it just a bit. There is high degree of straightforward regret and recrimination in Garys material that is makes for difficult listening but the honesty is refreshing. ghostboy : 'I Feel Small' is a song about praying for freedom. Gary 's got a great voice and this song really brings out its color. It's a song searching for answers to the big questions. Gary's next song, ' A Man with Tears on his Eyes musically floats along and again we're struck by his voice that crack through with great heart felt lyrics 'What are You Gonna do' is a song of regret yet upbeat in it's musical approach, with some great up tempo strumming. ghostboy : Gary seemed quite nervous and gave us three songs sung from three different notebooks, obviously a prolific writer. Falling Down Again" was, I think, another song about being chucked or possibly about being drunk as it featured the line "do you remember anything at all?" His second reminded me of The Who in places and, like many I've seen at OOTB over the last couple of years, I was thinking how good this song would sound if played by a full band. Gary's closer, "The Man with Tears In His Eyes" was a song he'd just finished writing and it sounded not too bad for being so hot off the presses... ghostboy : Gary Ghostboys opening shots came in the form of Too Many People. Hislovely Ovation guitar sounded crisp and bright. Im really quite jealous. I got a lovely sense of The Charlatans peeping over his shoulder as he wrote this song, but Im not sure of Tim Burgess opinion on asking Where you going with that gun?. But then, hes indie-tastic and so is probably immune to bullets anyway. Both his first and second numbers were new, untested songs a feat that takes a great deal of courage, but is always greeted with warmth and giddiness by the friendly (soon to be migrating) Waverley crowd. The world then took a distinctly biblical turn, as we were reliably told that Hell has frozen over, the Angels won the war. Good-o. What with the Devil being laid to rest and all, one would expect quite a skippy, happy song. But no. Minor chords rang through, calling to break down the walls. Its like someone had been eating a melon. And then sadly caught the colic. Returning to familiar ground for the third song, he rather caught us all off-guard by letting loose a surprisingly sprightly, upbeat number. The strumming patterns were squished and stretched, and then left to spring back like a rubber band.
