For a moment it really does feel like you’re watching your mate’s band down the pub
The classical musicians were, as one would expect, note-perfect and indistinguishable from the recorded score.
A record so groundbreaking, so innovative that it should have pushed EE to superstardom at home and abroad,
It’s something of a change for Beans this time around as the Essex Troubadour is joined in the studio by the Beans On Toast Band
And when Spitfires keep it simple, catchy, and chock full of sharp hooks and big choruses, they’re a force to be reckoned with.
As a day, it’s wonderful, as a headline comeback show it’s as close to perfection as you’re likely going to get
It still retains that authentic DIY ambience that reflects a record clearly obsessed and sweated over to get the hooks just right.
An incredible day with a lineup the likes of which might never share a stage again, I hope you were there
Possibly the only musician out there who ably straddles the fine line between classical and popular music









