Very fortunately I'm going to see Jakko play a house concert next weekend, along with Theo Travis, I hope he will bring some copies along so that I can get one from him. Perhaps the most judicious thing to do would be to grab a. Copy this week and take it along with me. I very much look forward to meeting with them both too.
I too am going to that house concert next weekend. I’m also hoping I can get a signed copy there too. Really looking forward to forward to seeing them.
Fabulous, are you at the afternoon or evening gathering? I’m the latter.Originally Posted by Stumpybunker66
I’m very envious of the house concert - let us know how it goes.
I hope he doesn't spend too much time developing his "ultimate cunt" theory towards his ex-father in law or settle his chops with his family..
This doesn't sound very much music-centered
But step away from the tales from the trenches of late 20th and early 21st century rock’n’roll, theatre and alternative comedy, and you uncover:
- The harrowing stories of his adoptive parents’ lives during World War II
- Discovering his adoptive father had fought on both sides of that war
- His birth mother’s fame as a successful singer in Ireland
- Jakko finding and meeting his birth mother and self-proclaimed ‘white supremacist’ step-siblings
- How a lonely, despondent adopted child ended up working and playing with his childhood heroes
This is a book about origins, identity and who we become. It’s about a kid who found solace in music when the very sense of who he was left him floundering. It is about how his journey to discover his family allowed him to reflect on who he could have been had he not been given away at birth.
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Well, I don't think there's a written law that says memoirs of musicians should only focus on music. Jakko has an very strange history which has partly formed his musical identity too, so it's logical his family-stuff is one of the threads in this autobiography. But don't worry, music and theater are in the majority in this 370+ pages book.Jakko is a very good storyteller.
I’m at the afternoon performance
^^^ Enjoy, but a shame not to meet another PE contributor.
Geoff has confirmed that Jakko is bringing copies to sell / sign
B.t.w., if you like surprises I can recommend to jump over the four photo-sections while reading, because some of those photographs reveal meetings and events you'll read further on in the book.
So just popping in to recount last nights fun… It was a thoroughly enjoyable performance from two excellent musicians. Theo kicked off with a handful of solo flute pieces, before Jakko joined to play some duets. They played Moonchild in tribute to the late Pete Sinfield and also a lovely cover of Peter Blegvad’s How Beautiful You Are, before breaking for a little signing session, at which I had the opportunity to chat a little with each of them and pick up a copy of Jakko’s book. The second set commenced with Jakko reading a few moving extracts and playing more songs in duet with Theo, including Robert Wyatt’s God Song and Richard Sinclair’s Dissociation from Nine Feet Underground. He also played a few of his solo songs, one related to a passage from his book about his late adoptive mother. Time passed quickly and they finished with Traffic’s Forty Thousand Headmen. It was a different but excellent evening.
Wow, sounds like a great show! Thanks for the review.
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