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Jackdaw with Crowbar live at the OL Night Out This is what you would know if you'd been there...

Jackdaw with Crowbar live at the OL Night Out

This is what you would know if you'd been there...

by LamontPaul, Founder & Publisher
first published: April, 2025

approximate reading time: minutes

WOW!WOW!WOW! would be underegging this particular pud

Jackdaw with CrowbarJACKDAW with CROWBAR
at the OUTSIDELEFT NIGHT OUT
DJ Sets from Prehistoric Man and DJ Dom
1000 TRADES on the Park,
Bearwood
Saturday April 5th at 8pm til 11pm

I guess anything less than beginning with a WOW!WOW!WOW! would be underegging this particular pud. Jackdaw with Crowbar at The OUTSIDELEFT Night Out was an incredible affair from start to finish.

Everything begins in the bar of the 1000 Trades on the Park when DJ Dom and Prehistoric man let loose, tag teaming the decks. The volume and excitement just went up and up from the get go. I don't think anyone danced on the tables though until... The Wu Tang Clan... But our particular Outsideleft fever took over the whole ground floor of Lightwoods House just like, you might be thinking it was how we planned it.

Jackdaw with Crowbar were 80s Peel favorites and his imprimatur still means a whole heck of a lot judging from the folks crowded into Lightwoods House. I didn't know everyone, but the day after the release of their new LP, Fliss from the Nightingales was there, Jez from the Birmingham Music Archive, DJ Fuzzy Felt came in from Wales and Lynn said she closed up her Rock and Roll Brewhouse early to make it over; Dadbod leader, Brandon from New Jersey was the final component of the cavalcade of stars. Of course tons of Night Out regulars too. It was a altogether a thrilling night. Jackdaw with Crowbar

Jackdaw are the most joyous band to behold. Entertaining, polemical, subtle and noisy. Adam sort of confronts the crowd and engages them head on, with theatrically deranged dancing and multiple costume changes throughout the show, all produced from a well traveled suitcase at the base of the mic stand.  Paulina, their onstage artist draws the audience back in, Tim, guarded by a bead curtain and a vintage Hondo guitar pushes the right buttons at the right times and pushes the sounds and songs along. Aitch, drummer with the Selecter and percussionist here, interweaves beautiful subtle layers to the sonic mayhem that just matter so much. Oh Wow! Oh Wow! Oh Wow!

OUTSIDELEFT NIGHT OUT, Saturday May 10th
The Outsideleft Night Out returns on Saturday, May 10th, featuring Bearwood based, Ancient Champion, who haven't to my knowledge played in Bearwood before. A sort of home town show then. It's going to be fun. Or something... We'll see. [more info here]

image of AC

LamontPaul
Founder & Publisher

Publisher, Lamontpaul founded outsideleft with Alarcon in 2004 and is hanging on, saying, "I don't know how to stop this, exactly."

Lamontpaul portrait by John Kilduff painted during an episode of John's TV Show, Let's Paint TV


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