about where you are and what has happened to you. And you make it very simple and you make
it groove. The poetry in the blues is very biting. hah! Ijust got a taste for the metaphors and the sights and the visions that you see.‘
One of those gigs. at a hip Irish cafe-bar in New York in August last year. was the basis for the Live At Sin-é EP. A disappointment by his standards. but a stormer by most other people’s. Sin-é was
‘I wanted to really learn, you know, that learning that you want to get for yourself, so I
just obsessed about how to do it and I would write it down, write it
the sound one young man with a Telecaster makes when he‘s standing in the corner of a bar blowing minds. playing anything from his own material to songs by US hardcore band Bad Brains to Judy Garland to Cocteau Twins.
Did his audiences get offon all these different things being thrown at them? Didn’t they get restless?
‘No. not at all. because it would depend on I what would come before and what would come after. ’cause it was all about the show. The shows are like dreaming. and dreams will grab anything they can to show you the movie.’
What about your dreams. Jeff? Do they inspire many of these songs?
‘Of course.‘ he says. ‘Sure. But . . . mostly. my dreams help my life.’
Jeff Buckley plays La Belle Ange/e. lirlinhurg/z on Tue 30.
down, how to do it . . .’
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BOOTHBY GRAFFOE on Tues 30 Aug (9.15pm).
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THE RIGHT SIZE
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ME VERNON on Wed 31 Aug (12.1Sam).
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SEAN LOCK & BILL BAILEY Two tickets for the price of one to see their hit comedy ROCK on Thurs 1 Sept (9.45pm).
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A QUICK BROWN FOX Two tickets for the price of one to see A QUICK BROWN FOX on Thurs 1 Sept (6.40pm).
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The List 26 August—8 September I99413