"Itinerant gypsy-folk-punk-mariachi-acoustic splendidness" from Wide Eyed Order, above, were followed by Smokey Bastard, below, "a mixture of seven English punks, folkies and bewildered musicians", though they numbered eight tonight, as did Wide Eyed Order. Both bands were not so much squashed in the corner of The Birds Nest pub in Deptford, as piled high into it. The former's brass section reminded us of early Dexys Midnight Runners. The latter had us feeling nostalgic for mid-eighties folky punkers such as The Pogues and The Men They Couldn't Hang.. Both had the place bouncing and jumping (two very different things, bouncing and jumping. Jumping is the more controlled of the two. That's why in atheletics, for example, there is a triple jump, but not a triple bounce).
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