It's a decidedly odd thing to watch a guy sit a few feet away from you in a small room and play the song which, more than any other probably, got you really, properly, interested in this whole new music thing in the first place. I had this experience on Wednesday at a gig in Farringdon by Fi-Lo Beddow ('folk-poet and pioneer', says his card), otherwise known as the frontman of The Bluetones Mark Morriss.
In particular it's odd when there are people standing off to the side who have a chance to listen to this amazing, moving piece of music and yet talk constantly, and when even the faithful present (and there still are some!) are much more into the older stuff played. But that's ok, because even half hearing an acoustic Keep The Home Fires Burning felt like a privilege to me. I can still remember the first time that I heard it, watching Top Of The Pops on a tiny old TV, with a couple of dents in the screen, in the corner of the room. And it still sounded almost as amazing as it did to me then, which is as much of a compliment as I could pay it, really.
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