‘CELEBRATE WHAT IT IS TO BE YOUNG’
Jape put on a great show to launch the new album, Oceans Of Frequency, at the Button Factory on Saturday last. Support on the night came from Goodtime, and Moths, who warmed up the crowd with well-received sets.
Aired live, the recent release ‘Lying On A Deathbed’ was funny and touching in equal measure, the lyric, ‘yous are all a pack of w*nkers down the back’ aimed no doubt at the minority of chattering folk at the rear of the venue. A four-to-the-floor, ‘Strike Me Down’ picked up the tempo again before the Richie proclaimed: ‘it’s great to be alive!’; fittingly, when Jape followed with ‘The Oldest Mind’, the song’s refrain of ‘celebrate what it is to be young’ encapsulated the playful and exuberant spirit of a great gig.
Photos: Alessio Michelini