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Hebden Trades Club: Jimi Goodwin

By John Deehan
john.deehan@jpress.co.uk Twitter@john_deehan

Going Out Goodwin takes ight

Watching a gig in Hebden Bridge could be considered a surreal experience.
In a time when bigger is nearly always seen as better, walking the cobbled streets to a venue nestled away in the corner of the countryside is a refreshing antidote to musics obsession with the amboyance. Place Jimi Goodwin within that setting and the intimacy wraps its arms around you. Its a fitting setting as well for the Doves frontman, who has taken the platinum-selling band o the arena treadmill for now and is flying solo. His debut album Odludek is due out on March 24th and the Hebden Bridge Trades Club gig is a prelude to a slot supporting Elbow ing minute of electronic house ripping up the How To Hold A Smaller Gig textbook. It wasnt a setlist entirely exclusive to new material. Doves favourites Snowden and Lost Souls were welcomed into the fold like old friends and despite a few calls for Space Face and The Ceder Room, it was a crowd more than happy to bask in the unknown. The wonderful Oh! Whiskey has been receiving airplay for some time now and if ever an artist has combined the warm and uplifting with the stone cold depressing its Jimi Goodwin. Oh! Whiskey eortlessly pulls o the trick; with the folky acoustic and delicate harmonica carrying its booze blues sentiment before morphing into an upbeat medley-driven stomp midway through. Not even a snapped string could deter Jimi

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on their upcoming UK tour. The thunderous Terracotta Warrior, opener on the album, set the tone for a night of eclectic brilliance and exemplary musicianship. New track Didsbury Girl could have been taken straight from Doves Greatest Hits while Live Like A River harked back to the days of Sub Sub; its open-

from powering through, calling the moment he was nally handed another acoustic the nights Spinal Tap moment dwarves dancing around a miniature Stonehenge and spontaneously combusting drummers seemingly in store for future shows. Jimi was in high spirits

throughout the gig, joking with the crowd and praising the venue for its warmth and character. The beautifully haunting The Ghost of The Empties only added to the warmth before Panic Tree, a heart-warming carnivalesque fairground-like romp and Last Broadcast

brought the curtain down. Jimi recently put the eclectic nature of his new record down to him schizophrenically devouring music. The 200-plus crammed into Hebden Bridge Trades Club left Tuesday night ravenously awaiting its March release.

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