Comments on: David Thomas Broughton // LIVE // Union Chapel // 01.06.10

By: corina breukel

corina breukel — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:22:09 +0000

I did not manage to see this performance,but as a follower(sort of middle-aged,btw :-)!) of DTB’s permormances, i suspect this is a fair one. Never an easy listen,ever changing and to my mind, performance art disguised as music,which never fails to enchant and entrance me,but mostly, make me smile!

By: Will Rees

Will Rees — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:33:38 +0000

“the key demographic seemed to be that of the middle-aged ‘folk traditionalist’, here to see headline act The Unthanks, and no doubt shocked and appalled at what this young cad was daring to do to their precious folk values”

Or perhaps they’d paid £15 to see The Unthanks and just though DTB was crap? Or perhaps for them the feedback was just ABOVE the volume threshold of being physical painful to listen to?

(presumably you could identify the folk traditionalists by their clogs and beards?)

Perhaps the precious values of 18-25 year indie-pop fans of say Broadcast 2000 could be tested next time?

I wish I’d been there, still waiting and looking forward to seeing DTB and The Unthanks for the first time, and when i do i’ll be hoping to be on the guestlist too.

By: Sam Saunders

Sam Saunders — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:04:36 +0000

Thanks for that Greg. It’s good to hear that David is still pushing things and getting strong reactions. I’m not sure how or when the middle-aged members of the audience became “folk traditionalists” – I think our few A.L. Lloyd hardliners left town in about 1964, so to be middle aged now they must have been in nappies at the time! Sadly, the unimaginative and the insensitive are distributed across all generations and all genres. But, with luck, one or two will drift into another of David’s gigs and become aware of something they had never experienced before.

I think I was still just about middle-aged when I first saw David Thomas Broughton – in 2003 – when he was exploring this kind of thing for the first time. He was good then – he is going from strength to strength by the sound of it.

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