Now this really surprised me today. José González was one of the headline acts at Moseley Folk Festival in 2008 and to be honest I thought he was shit. He just sat there hunched over his guitar meandering away at his tunes. Between songs he took ages to tune his guitar and did not engage with the audience at all at any point during the so-called performance. I will admit that I had had a couple of tankards of ale, but felt justified in heckling “Buy a guitar tuner”. We gave him about five songs before all agreeing that he was over-rated and went for a curry instead.
This evening, I was doing that internet thing of distractly following links more and more tangential from the original thing I’d been looking for, when I came across an interesting video on the Graffiti Research Labs site. The track on it was lovely and fitted the video perfectly. There was no credit but on firing up the rather clever Midomi on my iPhone(an app that identifies music by hearing it) imagine my surprise to find it was by the previously dismissed José González. Think I might need to go back and have another listen.
So go check out the video I was talking about. It is quite nice.
The photo is one of mine. Reminds me I need to get the rest of the photos from Moseley Folk Festival processed and uploaded.
Tuna Day 