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REVIEWS
Here are some reviews taken from music review websites:
Review of the brand new album LOQUACIOUS, LOQUACIOUS, LOQUACIOUS:
'Loquacious, Loquacious, Loquacious' is a real pleasure palace of contemporary music; great, no, sensational musicianship and fantastically clever observational, everyday humour all rolled into one beautifully crafted package. It's a real buzz of pure aural bliss, a superbly conceived, brilliantly performed ride of modern sounds and clever poetic comic ramblings.
'Loquacious, Loquacious, Loquacious' is an album of highs and even higher highs, a work of splendour and even more splendid splendour! Love it, just love it!! From http://www.toxicpete.co.uk/
Review of the single ONLY FOOTBALL CAN TRULY BREAK YOUR HEART:
"1. Only Football Can Truly Break Your Heart
“That last minute goal off a wicked deflection, that horrid feeling of utter dejection, and when you see the joy in the away fan’s section, it’s hard to take, it’s hard”
2. The Day The World Stopped Working (Anthony Teasdale Remix)
“The butcher minced about the floor, the baker was off iz cake and a pressure salesman had been sold down the river, by a Samaritan on the make”
3. We Are Here To Help (’Live’ At Pacific Rd Theatre, Birkenhead)
“The walls have ears, the hills have eyes, the mouth of the river it speaks no lies, the foot of the stairs, the head of the queue, the finger of fate is pointing at you”
Since I’m in the 1% of heterosexual English males that would have to really get worked up to even frown about football, never mind get my heart broken by it, Jegsy Dodd’s new single doesn’t entirely work for me. But if football is your lifeblood, you’re gonna absolutely love it.
The first B-side is a remix of ‘The Day The World Stopped Working’, which had to one of the best tracks from Jegsy Dodd’s last album. The amount of lyrical puns he manages to squeeze into a few minutes is truly astounding. He should be the Poet-Laureate for tracks like this. The Remix isn’t significantly different, it’s slightly more laid-back but then the original sounded fairly hypnotically wasted. The brilliant live version of ‘We Are Here To Help’ cranks up the Funk for a thrilling Happy Mondays sound. Anything with a line like “The most serene scene I’ve ever seen is a scene from Mr. Bean” has got to be good."
From http://stopme.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/jegsy-dodd-only-football-can-truly-break-your-heart-cd-single/
Reviews of the first album WAKE UP AND SMELL THE OFFY:
"Bloody hell! Jegsy finally makes another album after nearly 20 years and it's brilliant! Together with his mate Rob he has assimilated much contemporary music, discarded some of the more dreadful bits and delivered an acid-tongued symposium on exactly what is wrong with this sceptic isle... step forward, "Grumpy Old Men" and the so-truthful-it-hurts "Birkenhead (Revisited"). His pure comedy side has not been neglected either, as attested by "Pete Marsh". And "The Day The World Stopped Working" is as puntastic as can be imagined. Those who fondly remember The Sons Of Harry Cross may find the musical setting somewhat disconcerting, but trust me, it's an album which rewards repeated listens. Second only to his contemporary Nigel Blackwell, surely the next poet laureate."
From www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review/1573
"A humorous, witty and most of all musically eclectic slice of Scouse lunacy from the man formerly behind the Sons Of Harry Cross, a spiritual brother to Frank Sidebottom, Ted Chippington and Half Man Half Biscuit. Covering styles from country to hard rock to ambient electro, but always with that same wry Northern humour (as evinced by titles such as 'Birkenhead Revisited' 'Pete Marsh, Where've You Been All My Life' 'Giro Day' 'Born To Be Mild' and 'Poetry Doesn't Rhyme') Could this man be a genius? Possibly"
From the Freak Emporium website
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