20 Days of Electricity #3

20 things that helped Lawless and the House of Electricity into the world:

Two Musicians

I absolutely love this snap from the Forbidden Planet launch with Roddy McDevitt, poet-actor-artist-flaneur and musical accomplice. Roddy and I met back in open mic sessions in the 1990s, at Bunjies Folk Cellar, the Troubadour and the Unlaced Plimsoll club. We found ourselves in the cast of Ken Campbell’s 24-epic production of Neil Oram’s The Warp, in which I often had the pleasure of accompanying Roddy’s speech as Billy McGuinness, King of the Gypsies.

Who could I request, at short notice, both to accompany the musical elements in my launch and to lend a hand with our improvised cabaret of characters? Roddy threw himself into both roles.

At my Portsmouth event, it was Mr Jamie West who stepped up to take on the new double bass, giving us warm renditions of his own song Richness, my Victorian Diagnoses Song, and that infamous earworm Ooh The Victorians. Jamie will be musicking at Dark Songs and Day of the Dead, besides running the Harting Roundhouse and gigging with Jamie and the Jets.

Find him at jamiewestguitar.com performing such gems as Therapist, Pop Song and God is 7:



“The songs sounded great,” commented one friend. They were certainly musical, melodious, and intermittently moronic. More of these musical mountebankeries here:

Thanks to you both.

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