Author: Tim Cumming
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O’Hooley & Tidow |
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No Masters |
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January/2021 |
One of British folk’s best-loved dynamic duos (and now with a baby son attached), O’Hooley and Tidow marked ten years together in 2019. This warm, engaging concert at St George’s in Bristol was a celebration of that decade and the six albums they’ve released in that time, and it just snuck under the wire before the first COVID-19 lockdown in March. Now that we’re plunged into a second winter lockdown, hearing the happy collective noise of an audience is at times almost as affecting as hearing the duo’s always-engaging performances.
Their set drew on songs that tell stories about people, events and beers that have affected the duo in a deep and moving way, including the story of Anne Lister, the model for Gentleman Jack, Sally Wainwright’s hugely successful HBO/BBC series, and Elliot Smith’s ‘Between the Bars’, from their excellent drinking album, Summat’s Brewin’. There’s Kathryn Williams’ ‘Small Big Love’, written for the couple’s wedding day, choice cuts from their albums The Hum, Shadows and The Fragile, and a new song in ‘Woman in Space’, a celebration of women who fought oppression, whether that’s Malala Yousafzai or Rosa Parks.
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