JOHN E VISTIC EXPERIENCE
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The Band

Bobby B - The Horn
Dan Clibery - Drums / Percussion
Geoffry G - The Horn
Joff Lowson - Banjo, Guitars
JOHN E VISTIC - SINGER, SONGWRITER
Mark Lectic - Bass / Bvox
Slide Hambidge - Slide and Electric Guitars

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'Always on the outside of whatever side there was - when they asked why it had to be that way, 'well', he answered 'just because''------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------JEV is an award winning song writer (IMA 2005, Times 2001). The JEVE have played massive gigs at Glastonbury, Trowbridge, Shambala Festivals, Moles Club, Mr Wolfs, the Camden 'circuit' as well as supports with The Alabama 3 and Athlete. Their favourite new band is The Debretts.-------------------------------------------------------- MOLES CLUB REVIEW:
The John E Vistic Experience
24 February 2007

'John the Revelator' the opening number is older and stranger than your Great Great Grannie in her Glory Hole - and a statement of intent. Odd for a moment that an outfit with so much great original material should kick off with a trad. song, even if it is the primaeval blues, but on reflection it makes sense - it plunges us immediately into a mythic America that is barely anything like the contemporary demesne of the Robber Barons over the Atlantic actually is. Normally I'd be frothing at the mouth about Mid-Atlantic mindsets (not to mention voices) but this particular bunch of skinny white boys in black hats who somehow ended up in Bristol have pulled it off, as well as, say, the Alabama 3 and their fellow-travellers, and, which is harder, without resorting to comedy.

Another difficult trick pulled off with style (and no comedy) is the integration of the banjo into a band with big guitars; plenty have tried and the poor banjo man ends up looking like the idiot cousin along for the ride through no fault of their own. OK, Mr Joff here does play one of those big twangy semi-acoustics some of the time, but you can't have too many of them in a band like this, especially when the main instrumentalist spends most of his too cool to break sweat energy on the slide variety. And this is even the pared-down version of the band.

Great songs, did I say that? Great choruses you can roar or moan along to and imagine coming out of a radio on a road movie. There are touches of Shane McGowan I hadn't caught before, and that's all to the good; another man in love with a myth, a different myth, too, the end of Austerity when Rock'n'Roll came, the sound that happened when the electric guitars got to the wrong side of the tracks.

A quick word for the support band Debretts, she's a one-off, worth keeping an eye on, but this was JEV's night and what Moles is absolutely best for: a great band with a great big sound in a sweaty cellar, one of the best nights I've had down here in I don't know how long. One day you're all going to have wished you'd been here. Darnit, there's even a song in that idea.

---------------------------------------------------------------The John E Vistic Experience ------------------------ Guardians of Rock N Roll------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------




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