Mr Hudson & The Library
by Chris. Average Reading Time: less than a minute.
Absolutely ruddy brilliant!
My favourite album of the year, and live were all that I hoped they would be.
The venue was KOKO which is a great old-school theatre style place. Really suited to the scale and intimacy of the set.
A mashup of lounge jazz and hip-hop (with some steel-band thrown in the mix) what could be a self-concious mish-mash comes across as vital and pretty cool. Posh boy Ben Hudson has the charisma and musical chops to carry off his slightly magpie musical vision.
In his mind, Ben Hudson is Dre producing Bowie, but he’s more like Cole Porter remixed by Mike Skinner, or Chet Baker haunting the grooves of Sway. #
Stand out tracks: Upon the heath, On the streets where you live, Ask the DJ
Links: Official site
I totally agree with you. They were amazing live. Through rumour has it Hudson ain’t so posh, he’s from the rough part of Brum, but is smart and went to Oxford where he learnt how to talk ‘proper”! The bass player Maps is posher by all accounts, and went to Cambridge. What a smart bunch of musos eh?!