Jamie T

Cuthbert and the Nightwalkers took to the Gaelic Club stage, a place they should be as comfy in as their own lounge rooms, because they've played there so many times. They danced and sung about life and how it is to see things in that specific self-aware but overly sensitive indie way.

By contrast, Jamie T is punk. Close observation of his behaviour has led to the following list of factors contributing to this classification:

He is fond of sticking two fingers up in the V sign.
He doesn’t do things just because they are expected of him.
He swears.
He sweats.
He wears offensive clothes - his T-shirt on this occasion said ‘Thrush Metal’ accompanied by pictures of body parts usually covered.
He thinks of women as sex objects, that move occasionally. Tonight, he sang a little jingle about getting into a girl’s pants.
He plays guitar like it is an extension of his…
His look is distinctly ratty.
He openly asks for weed, “The whole next song is about weed. If you don’t have any, give us some of that stuff Michael Jackson was on. Stuff strong enough to knock out a baby elephant.” A crowd member yelled in reply, to which Jamie replied, “Sorry, I can’t hear you mate. Your mouth is full of shit.”
He asks that he doesn’t have to pay for weed.

Some un-punk things:
He likes sunny weather. “Hey Sydney, the weather’s pretty shit! This song goes out to all my friends in London who are freezing their balls off.”
He lacks tats and piercings.
He will not disclose the original song writer for fear of being sued.

Jamie T was good at being bad. Not playing badly, there is of course, a big difference. He was joined by The Pacemakers, and together they played a mixture of old, not so old, new, and not so new stuff. His latest album Kings & Queens is doing the rounds and featured a bit on this occasion. Mr T played all of his most popular songs including ‘Chaka Demus’, ‘Sticks n Stones’, ‘If You Got The Money’ and ‘Shiela’, which were received with decent imitated cockney.

Towards the end of the show, Jamie got a “baldy with glasses” to come on stage and dance, but not before the guest managed to get a selfy with Jamie and shake the guitarist’s hand, like they were on wall street. Jamie dedicated an acoustic track to “all the little pricks who used to tell people to be quiet” - meaning people he was in bands with. This is a musician who believes that people are out trying to have a good time and it just seems rude if the band asks for a bit of hush, hush.

Despite being badass, Jamie T was truly stoked and humbled that “people on the other side of the world” would come out to support him. Jamie T is playing a string of Aussie dates, let’s hope he gets some good weather, or there’s no telling what he might do…

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